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Olivia Rodrigo is backmost with her latest gut-wrenching opus “Vampire,” and fans are going into overdrive with theories of who it could beryllium about. Since the merchandise of her debut album, SOUR, successful 2021, Olivia has been successful 2 nationalist relationships with Zack Bia and Adam Faze. Fans person recovered lyrics successful “Vampire” that could constituent to either of these gentlemen.
One enactment successful peculiar points to the song’s taxable being older than Olivia herself. “Went for me, not for her, ’cause girls your property cognize better,” Olivia sings successful the 2nd verse. Both Zack and Adam are older than her. Another lyric — “You lone travel retired astatine night” — appears to constituent to Zack, who works arsenic a DJ and often has gigs successful the nighttime. She besides references a timeline of “six months” successful the lyrics — “Six months of torture” — which is astir however agelong she was publically linked to Zack (February until August 2022). Her narration with Adam, meanwhile, lasted astir 7 months.
It’s astir apt harmless to accidental that 1 idiosyncratic who this opus is NOT about, though, is Olivia’s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series co-star, Joshua Bassett. Olivia has already done her just stock of penning lyrics astir Josh, arsenic it’s been speculated that most of SOUR was astir him and their breakup. Take a heavy dive into Olivia’s narration past below:
Ethan Wacker
Ethan Wacker astatine the Radio Disney Music Awards connected June 22, 2018 (Photo: Rob Latour/Shutterstock)
Olivia’s archetypal superior fellow was actor Ethan Wacker, 21. They met connected the Disney Channel drama bid Bizaardvark, wherever Olivia played Paige Olvera and Ethan played Bernie Schotz. The co-stars officially started dating successful July 2018, but they waited six much months until they made the romance Instagram official. “Happy 6 months! You are the greatest,” Ethan wrote alongside a since-deleted photograph of the brace from January 2019. Olivia and Ethan continued dating until August 2019, erstwhile fans noticed that they wiped footage of each different disconnected their IG pages.
However, the exes are inactive connected bully terms. When Ethan revealed helium got accepted into Vanderbilt University successful May 2020, Olivia congratulated her ex-boyfriend connected her Instagram Stories. “Ahhhh I’m truthful proud! He’s the best!” she said astatine the time, according to reports. Plus, aft “Driver’s License” was released, Ethan denied rumors floating around connected TikTok that the opus was astir their relationship. “Nope, I treated her well,” helium wrote connected TikTok.
Joshua Bassett
Olivia Rodrigo & Joshua Bassett successful ‘High School Musical: The Musical — The Series’ (Photo: Walt Disney Pictures/Kobal/Shutterstock)
The Olivia-Joshua narration was a large popular civilization infinitesimal successful 2021. The pair, who co-starred successful Disney+’s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series as Nini and Ricky, respectively, were linked successful a supposed emotion triangle involving chap Disney darling Sabrina Carpenter, 24. Although they ne'er confirmed that they were successful a relationship, the lyrics to “Driver’s License” and different songs from SOUR led to large instrumentality speculation.
Olivia and Joshua archetypal met erstwhile they were formed in HSMTMTS successful 2019. In July 2020, helium released the opus “Anyone Else,” which helium said was astir falling for idiosyncratic who was unavailable. Although helium ne'er confirmed that Olivia was the taxable of the song, fans were definite that it was astir her. Olivia added substance to that occurrence successful her 2021 way “Driver’s License,” erstwhile she sang, “I conjecture you didn’t mean what you wrote successful that opus astir me.”
Summer 2020 is besides erstwhile Joshua was archetypal spotted retired with Sabrina. Weeks later, Olivia hinted that things had gone southbound successful her rumored narration with Josh, arsenic she posted a TikTok astir “failed relationships.” In “Driver’s License,” she seemed to hint that the romance ended due to the fact that of Sabrina. “You’re astir apt with that blonde girl, who ever made maine doubt, she’s truthful overmuch older than me, she’s everything I’m insecure about,” Olivia sings. Not lone Sabrina blonde, but she’s besides 4 years older than Olivia. Meanwhile, Joshua showed enactment to Olivia erstwhile she released the track, calling it a “great song” connected his Instagram Story.
Olivia, of course, was asked astir the taxable of the opus successful interviews, but she refused to sanction names. “I wholly recognize people’s curiosity with specifics of who the song’s astir and what it’s about,” she admitted to Billboard. “But, to me, that’s truly the slightest important portion of the song. It’s resonating with radical due to the fact that of however affectional it is and I deliberation everything other is not important.” In a March 2021 interrogation with Radio.Com, she besides insisted that she “doesn’t know” Sabrina astatine all. “I deliberation we’ve met erstwhile oregon doubly successful passing,” Olivia shared. “But I’ve ne'er had a speech with her.”
In a GQ interview published June 2021, Joshua addressed the expected emotion triangle. He revealed that “the hardest thing” has been “biting my tongue, successful a batch of ways, but the world is it’s benignant of similar a mislaid origin trying to speech astir immoderate of that stuff, and I garbage to provender into immoderate of the bulls***, truthful I conscionable don’t.” Joshua added, “[Everyone] is asking maine astir Sabrina and Olivia. Why don’t we absorption connected these women for who they are? Let’s absorption connected the creation that they’re making and however large they are alternatively of their narration to a boy.” In that aforesaid interview, Joshua came out arsenic a subordinate of the LGBTQ community. “Even if determination are consequences, I would overmuch alternatively woody with consequences and unrecorded my information than unrecorded successful fear,” helium said.
Meanwhile, Sabrina seemed to merchandise her ain opus astir the emotion triangle play successful Feb. 2021. “Maybe you didn’t mean it, possibly blonde was the lone rhyme,” she sang connected the opus “Skin.” This was seemingly a nonstop effect to Olivia’s lyric from “Driver’s License.”
Olivia and Josh reunite astatine the ‘HSMTMTS’ premiere. (MediaPunch/Shutterstock)
Unfortunately, each of the nationalist play took a toll connected immoderate relationship that Joshua and Olivia whitethorn person been capable to person astatine that time. In Dec. 2021, helium told GQ that helium hadn’t spoken to his erstwhile co-star since the merchandise of “Driver’s License.” He besides merchandise 3 breakup songs of his own, which fans deliberation are astir Olivia. “If you get to archer your truth, truthful bash I,” helium sang connected the way “Crisis.” “And it’s chill if you privation maine to play the atrocious guy, but don’t you situation enactment similar I didn’t emotion you.”
The 2 seemingly squashed their beef, though, erstwhile Olivia made a impermanent quality on play 3 of HSMTMTS. In July 2022, she and Josh adjacent reunited and posed for photos connected the reddish carpet to beforehand the show. Olivia besides seems to person buried the hatchet with Sabrina, arsenic they were photographed chatting astatine the Met Gala successful 2022.
Adam Faze
Olivia and Adam dated for immoderate of 2021. (Matt Baron/BEI/Shutterstock / Andrew H. Walker/Shutterstock)
Olivia’s adjacent nationalist narration was with Adam Faze, 26. The brace were archetypal spotted together at the premiere of Space Jam 2 at Six Flags Magic Mountain connected June 29, 2021. A root told E! at the time that Olivia brought Adam arsenic her positive 1 to the lawsuit and adjacent introduced him arsenic “her boyfriend.” In November 2021, they were seen packing connected PDA retired successful L.A. successful photos obtained by Page Six.
Sadly, Olivia and Adam are nary longer together. Their breakup was reported by galore outlets successful February 2022. A root told People that “they’ve been implicit for a spot now.” Olivia and Adam inactive haven’t publically discussed their short-lived romance.
Zack Bia
Zack and Olivia were linked from Feb. to August 2022. (JUSTIN LANE/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock / Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock)
Shortly aft quality of her divided with Adam was confirmed, Olivia was linked to DJ Zack Bia successful Feb. 2022. Although they weren’t spotted unneurotic until April, it’s been reported that Zack invited Olivia to ticker him DJ astatine a Super Bowl enactment 2 months prior. “They deed it disconnected and person been casually hanging out,” a root told E! News astatine the time.
The first photos of Olivia and Zack unneurotic surfaced successful April, erstwhile they were seen spending clip unneurotic successful New York City portion Olivia was successful municipality for her tour. In June 2022, PEOPLE confirmed that Olivia and Zack had been dating since the Super Bowl. “They truly similar each other,” the mag’s root claimed. However, erstwhile Zack was asked astir the rumors 1 time later, helium responded, “I person nary idea. I didn’t adjacent perceive that.”
By August 2022, reports surfaced that Olivia and Zack had breached up. “Their narration benignant of fizzled,” Us Weekly reported. “They were casually dating but haven’t spent clip unneurotic successful a while.”
Zack runs successful celebrated circles, and calls stars like Drake, Kendall Jenner and much friends. Before dating Olivia, helium was successful an on/off narration with Madison Beer. He was besides concisely linked to Madelyn Cline pursuing her divided from Chase Stokes.
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