Zack Bia insists that Olivia Rodrigo’s scathing breakup music “Vampire” will not be about their short-lived romance.
“I don’t suppose it’s actually about me,” the DJ stated in an interview with GQ revealed Monday. “I feel the Web simply ran with it.”
Though lots of Rodrigo’s followers — and Bia’s former girlfriend Madison Beer — have been fast to hyperlink Bia to a number of the “Bitter” singer’s shady lyrics, he claims that their relationship merely wasn’t critical sufficient to put in writing songs about.
“We frolicked, we’re each busy, and we ended up not furthering our relationship,” he informed the outlet. “There was by no means any drama, you realize?”
Regardless of claiming the pair ended issues on good phrases, Bia says the music may very well be a couple of composite character quite than one particular particular person — which he may have helped create.
“Look, I’m within the business so I understand how a music will get made,” he defined, earlier than giving props to Rodrigo’s songwriting chops.
“The music’s so massive and so superior,” he continued. “Look, a heartbreak music for {the summertime}, it’s an undefeated formulation.”
The DJ — who additionally impressed Beer’s breakup music “Egocentric” — says he has come to phrases with the truth that he received’t have the ability to change most individuals’s minds about him on-line.
“Any time I’ve been speculatively the topic of a music, or the main focus of a TikTok development, whether or not grounded in actuality or not, it’s like, it’s by no means been as much as me to deal with it as a result of the dimensions of it’s so widespread,” he informed the outlet.
“100 million folks have heard this music. The one factor I can tackle is my very own life. I can management what my mates suppose and the inventive output that I’ve and issues like that.”
Though Bia is adamant that the hit music will not be about him, social media customers identified a number of lyrics that coincide with the pair’s romance — comparable to their seven-year age hole, the DJ’s lively nightlife and the timeline of their fling.
Originally of the music, Rodrigo refers back to the relationship as “six months of torture,” which is how lengthy her romance with Bia lasted.
Then within the second verse, she questions why an older man would wish to date somebody so younger earlier than realizing that “women your age know higher.”
Bia, 27, and Rodrigo, 20, have been first linked in February 2022 after a supply informed E! Information that they’d been “seeing one another.”
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“Zack [feels] that Olivia is absolutely all the way down to earth and he loves how low-key she is,” the insider informed the outlet. “It’s a superb steadiness between them.”
Nonetheless, issues fizzled out between the 2 simply over six months later.
The whirlwind romance got here on the heels of Rodrigo’s relationship with Adam Faze, who followers additionally suspected may have impressed “Vampire.”
In July 2021, Rodrigo and Faze, 26, confirmed they have been relationship by sharing a steamy kiss whereas out and about in Los Angeles.
But issues rapidly took a flip for the more severe and the pair finally ended their relationship by the beginning of 2023.
In truth, Rodrigo later minimize all digital ties to her ex by unfollowing each his private {and professional} accounts on Instagram.
And it appears like followers could by no means know which exes impressed which songs on Rodrigo’s new album because the Grammy winner just lately informed “The Guardian” that she “by no means need[s] to say who any of my songs are about.”
“I’ve by no means accomplished that earlier than in my profession and possibly received’t,” she informed the outlet. “I feel it’s higher to not pigeonhole a music to being about this one factor.”
