Joshua Bassett explains why he couldn\u2019t respond to Olivia Rodrigo drama Instagram: oliviarodrigo \/ YouTube: Zach Sang ShowActor and singer Joshua Bassett has explained why he couldn\u2019t fully respond to the drama that unfolded after Olivia Rodrigo released her hit song \u2018Drivers License\u2019 back in January 2021. Olivia Rodrigo has been one of the biggest rising stars of the past year. While she was initially known for starring in the series \u2018High School Musical: The Musical: The Series,\u2019 the release of her song \u2018Drivers License\u2019 marked the beginning of her career as an artist. The power ballad\u2019s emotional lyrics had fans praising Rodrigo\u2019s talent, but many were also fixated on figuring out the story behind the lyrics. Many theorized the song was about Olivia\u2019s HSM co-star Joshua Bassett, which led to a flood of hate towards the actor. Bassett, who is a singer himself, released his song Crisis in early December, which appeared to allude to the drama that happened at the start of the year. Lyrics included lines such as: \u201cAnd if you get to tell your truth, then so do I \/And it\u2019s cool if you want me to play the bad guy \/ But don\u2019t you dare act like I didn\u2019t love you \/ Don\u2019t go thinkin\u2019 that I didn\u2019t hurt, too.\u201d Now, in an interview with Zach Sang, Joshua has explained why he\u2019s stayed quiet about the specifics of his side of the situation. \u201cThe hardest thing in this last year has just been biting my tongue, and sort of trying to protect the people that I love,\u201d he explained. On the release of his new songs, Bassett added: \u201cI cannot explain my side of the truth, or defend myself without having to expose other people , without having to then be like, \u2018well, this is actually what happened and here\u2019s why.\u2019 \u201cAnd so that was what was tough, is like, I don\u2019t want to do the same thing that\u2019s being done to me, that\u2019s not my goal, I\u2019m not trying to tit-for-tat. However, you cannot ignore this very vital part of the story and hope that everything goes your way, and pretend like there\u2019s not this other reality to it.\u201d After the release of his song earlier in December, the star asked fans to be respectful, and not send hate to others on his \u2018behalf.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joshua Bassett explains why he couldn\u2019t respond to Olivia Rodrigo drama Instagram: oliviarodrigo \/ YouTube: Zach Sang ShowActor and singer Joshua Bassett has explained why he couldn\u2019t fully respond to the drama that unfolded after Olivia Rodrigo released her hit song \u2018Drivers License\u2019 back in January 2021. Olivia Rodrigo has been one of the biggest […]<\/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-52393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52393","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=52393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}