Most famously, she just added a writer credit for the band Paramore on one of the songs after some online controversy.
People have claimed Olivia Rodrigo ripped off various artists and she’s been adding writing credits to some of her songs.
The album and the subsequent singles from the album have been followed by a wave of authorship controversies. It is very good.Īnd I encourage everybody to go listen to it. But the thing that kicked it off for me is that Olivia Rodrigo released an album called Sour. This is going to be a really fascinating conversation.Ĭharlie and I know each other - we’ve seen each other at events over the years - and I feel like we’ve been building up to a conversation like this. You’re also the host of Vulture’s music podcast, Switched on Pop. This transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.Ĭharlie Harding, you are a musician. We’ve collected all of the songs we discussed in playlists on Spotify and Apple Music, and you’ll find them embedded in the transcript below. There’s a little bit of everything in this one, including a surprise Michael Bolton controversy. What has always fascinated me about copyright law is that in the end, it’s just a bunch of made up rules about what bits of culture you can and cannot own.Ĭharlie and I listened to a bunch of songs that were the subject of legal action, and talked through it. And second, because you can actually trace all of this back to a single lawsuit from the Marvin Gaye estate over similarities between the song “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke, TI, and Pharrell Williams and “Got To Give It Up” by Marvin Gaye. First, because there’s a direct relationship between how artists and songwriters make money in the streaming era and this wave of pushing for credits on songs. I wanted to have Charlie on Decoder to talk about all this for two reasons. In July, she gave Taylor Swift a writing credit on a track called “deja vu,” and just recently Paramore got a credit on “good 4 u.” A lot of people made comparisons to the band Paramore.Īnd then, Olivia started handing out writing credits. People have said she ripped off Elvis Costello, although Elvis Costello disagreed. Courtney Love got mad about the cover art. But then something strange started happening: a lot of people started talking about similarities between Sour and work from other, older artists. Olivia, like any good, interesting young artist, has talked a lot about her influences as she’s promoted the album. Specifically, I wanted to understand why so many people keep coming for Olivia Rodrigo, an 18-year-old singer songwriter whose debut album Sour is one of the biggest hits of the year. I asked my friend Charlie Harding, one of the co-hosts, to come on Decoder and walk me through a particularly big change to the business of pop music that’s come about in the streaming era. Baby Lullaby Festival (103) Best Disney Songs 2020 (128) Billboard Baby Lullabies (125) Caspar Babypants (176) Cedarmont Kids (280) Dr.We are trying something a little different on this episode of Decoder - we’re doing a little crossover with one of my favorite podcasts, Switched on Pop, a show about how popular music is made.
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