- Olivia Rodrigo said she was "manifesting" her song "Vampire" since she was young.
- She told Phoebe Bridgers that her mom found vampire drawings from when she was 4 years old.
Olivia Rodrigo's No. 1 hit single "Vampire" hit the airwaves on June 30, but the pop star said she thinks she's been "manifesting" the song since she was a young child.
In conversation with Phoebe Bridgers for Interview Magazine, conducted just hours after the song was released, the pair discussed "Vampire" and its immediate success. They even touched on their favorite vampire movies, agreeing that "Twilight" is an "impeccable work of cinema," as Rodrigo put it.
She added that she's been "obsessed with it since I was so young."
"My mom found all of these drawings of vampires that I did when I was literally 4 years old," Rodrigo admitted. "I'm like, 'God, I was manifesting this from such a young age.'"
Bridgers replied that she loves "when the aesthetics of your life kind of work themselves into an album cycle."
Indeed, the music video for "Vampire" appears to contain several references to the "Twilight" film series, which underscore the song's themes of love, manipulation, and regret.
Rodrigo carefully selected "Vampire" as the lead single from her sophomore album "Guts," which will be released on Friday.
She previously revealed that people in her life were skeptical about the song's hyper-specific lyrics, particularly the accusation that her ex-boyfriend is a "fame-fucker."
"I played it for a few people, and they're like, 'That's really unrelatable. You can't write songs about that,'" she told Bridgers. "I think you have to be wary about writing songs about fame. A lot of the time people don't want to hear about that."
"But fame is more accessible than it has ever been," she continued. "Everyone is yearning for some sort of internet virality, and there's so much social climbing and lust for fame in the world that doesn't have anything to do with living in LA or New York. It's just prevalent in our generation."
Fans have theorized that Zack Bia may have inspired the power ballad.
Last year, Rodrigo was spotted out and about with Bia, an occasional DJ and former nightclub promoter, best known for rubbing elbows with stars like Drake and Madison Beer. She was 19 at the time, while he was 25. They reportedly split after six months of dating.
Several lyrics in the song point to its muse being an older man and social climber. Bridgers, who has tackled a similar relationship dynamic in songs like "Motion Sickness" and "Letter to an Old Poet," praised Rodrigo for ignoring the speculation during her songwriting process.
"The media attention and the scrutiny of your social life didn't stop you from writing this cutting song, which fucking rocks," she told Rodrigo, who thanked her for the compliment.
"I really boiled my problems down and I'm like, 'Oh, they're just 19-year-old, 20-year-old problems in a different environment,'" Rodrigo said. "If you speak honestly about any experience, then someone is going to find truth in it."