\u2018acbdefu\u2019 singer GAYLE reveals support from Olivia Rodrigo amid comparisons Instagram: Gayle\/Olivia RodrigoPopular singer \u2018GAYLE\u2019 went viral on TikTok with her angry break-up song \u2018abcdefu,\u2019 and has revealed that Olivia Rodrigo reached out to her amid listeners comparing her song to Rodrigo\u2019s \u2018Good 4 u.\u2019 Chart-topping musician Olivia Rodrigo is no stranger to TikTok\u2019s ability to help songs go viral. The short-form video platform helped the singer\u2019s popularity explode with her songs \u2018Drivers License\u2019 and \u2018Good 4 u,\u2019 earning her earn Entertainer of the Year in 2021. Singer GAYLE similarly went viral on TikTok as her song \u2018abcdefu\u2019 began taking over the platform with millions of videos being made using her track. In the midst of this, many listeners compared GAYLE\u2019s song to Rodrigo\u2019s hit \u2018Good 4 u,\u2019 bringing up the worry that Olivia Rodrigo might get mad at her for \u201ccopying\u201d the song. During an interview with Audacy Music for their \u201cAudacy Check-In\u201d series, GAYLE revealed that she has actually received support from the \u2018Good 4 u\u2019 singer. GAYLE reveals support from Olivia Rodrigo amid \u2018Good 4 u\u2019 comparisons When interview host Julia Lepidi asked the viral artist if anyone she looks up to had reached out to her after the song went viral, GAYLE revealed that Olivia Rodrigo had actually sent her a DM via Instagram. \u201cI feel like being a young female artist with my first song having an \u2018x angrier\u2018 version, people compare the two of us as artists,\u201d she revealed. \u201cI\u2019ve always heard comparisons between \u2018Good 4 u\u2019 and \u2018abcdefu,\u2019 and everyone felt the need to make the two songs compete against each other.\u201d She went on to detail her conversation with Rodrigo, saying, \u201cI was just very happy to have that moment of the two of us coming together. [We said to each other] I support what you do, we can both be great in our own ways. People are gonna feel the need to compare and compete.\u201d GAYLE also explained that the two singers agreed to \u201cdo great things\u201d with their music before ending their interaction together. \u2018acbdefu\u2019 was created by GAYLE after she posted a video asking for her fans to give her ideas for a song. The chosen comment ended up saying \u201cmake a break up song using the alphabet,\u201d and the viral hit was created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2018acbdefu\u2019 singer GAYLE reveals support from Olivia Rodrigo amid comparisons Instagram: Gayle\/Olivia RodrigoPopular singer \u2018GAYLE\u2019 went viral on TikTok with her angry break-up song \u2018abcdefu,\u2019 and has revealed that Olivia Rodrigo reached out to her amid listeners comparing her song to Rodrigo\u2019s \u2018Good 4 u.\u2019 Chart-topping musician Olivia Rodrigo is no stranger to TikTok\u2019s ability […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}