Adam Levine defends Olivia Rodrigo amid Paramore \u2018Good 4 U\u2019 songwriting drama YouTube: Jimmy Kimmel Live \/ Instagram: Olivia RodrigoMaroon 5 lead Adam Levine is stepping up to defend Olivia Rodrigo after the Disney star added two of Paramore\u2019s members as writers for her song \u2018Good 4 U.\u2019 Olivia Rodrigo broke the internet with the release of her viral breakup anthem \u2018Driver\u2019s License\u2019 earlier this year. Rodrigo, who first found fame as a Disney actress, has gone on to release her first album, \u2018SOUR,\u2019 to critical acclaim. However, once the album had time to simmer, it received a fair amount of criticism, with listeners comparing quite a few of her songs \u2014 and album artwork \u2014 to other artists. Among the comparisons are names like Courtney Love, with Hole\u2019s \u2018Live Through This\u2019 looking quite similar to SOUR\u2019s cover art, and Rina Sawayama, whose \u2018XS\u2019 video seems like a direct inspiration for Rodrigo\u2019s \u2018Brutal\u2019 music video. What\u2019s the drama with Paramore and Olivia Rodrigo? Now, the internet is in a tizzy after Paramore\u2019s Hayley Williams and Josh Farro were retroactively added as writers on Rodrigo\u2019s song \u2018Good 4 U\u2019 \u2014 meaning that she didn\u2019t add them until the song and album were already released. Paramore\u2019s \u2018Misery Business\u2019 has been popularly paired with \u2018Good 4 U\u2019 online, and it\u2019s no surprise, as the two sound fairly similar. According to Variety, a source closely involved with the proceedings claims the credit is an \u2018interpolation.\u2019 This basically means that a part of an older song was re-recorded and mixed into a newer track. The situation went largely under the radar until Williams uploaded an Instagram story commenting on the proceedings. Her post was taken from a screenshot of her publisher, who congratulated her and Ferro on their credits for \u2018Good 4 U.\u2019 \u201cOur publisher is wildin right now,\u201d Williams wrote. Adam Levine comments on the Paramore comparisons Now, Adam Levine is throwing his two cents into the fray \u2014 and he\u2019s of the opinion that new artists making big waves in music should be celebrated, not picked apart. \u201cI do think that we can meet this with a little more compassion and understanding,\u201d Levine said in an Instagram story. \u201cAll this calling out and s**t, like, music is a creative thing. I just hate to see it crushed by\u2026 you know.\u201d \u201cWhen you take someone who\u2019s a newer artist and she\u2019s doing things that kind of emulate the ones from generations removed, I don\u2019t know how bad that is. I think it\u2019s kind of a cool thing to introduce a whole generation of people to different musical ideas.\u201d For now, it looks like Levine\u2019s opinion has fans divided as more and more netizens weigh in on the backlash surrounding Rodrigo\u2019s musical success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Adam Levine defends Olivia Rodrigo amid Paramore \u2018Good 4 U\u2019 songwriting drama YouTube: Jimmy Kimmel Live \/ Instagram: Olivia RodrigoMaroon 5 lead Adam Levine is stepping up to defend Olivia Rodrigo after the Disney star added two of Paramore\u2019s members as writers for her song \u2018Good 4 U.\u2019 Olivia Rodrigo broke the internet with the […]<\/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-43448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43448","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=43448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}