OLIVIA RODRIGO - NYT POPCAST 2026
Olivia's thoughts on artists speaking out politically:
"Honestly, I feel like I’m surrounded with people who are very like-minded. I really appreciate that. No one has ever been like “don’t do that.” I always say, I really try to stay educated on things like I make a conscious effort to try my very best. Because, I think that’s important for everyone. But I don’t know everything, I don’t… I couldn’t list a bunch of statistics about things, I’m not like a geopolitical scientist. But I am an artist and like what I do for my job is like this is how I feel and I present it to people. I think it would just be disingenuous to be like ‘I don’t feel heartbroken about what’s going on in Gaza. You know what I mean? As an artist I feel like that’s just what you do… and that’s my job. I feel weird taking credit because I always feel I could be doing more or saying more or stuff like that. Yeah, I think it’s just the job – I don’t even know if I would say it’s your responsibility to like… step up… I just think it’s like the same way that I talk about how I’m sad about a breakup on a song. It’s the same thing, it’s the same emotion. It’s just, like, expressed in a different medium." [click gifs for higher quality]
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