Olivia Rodrigo pays millions in royalties to Taylor Swift & Paramore amid \u2018copying\u2019 drama Instagram: oliviarodrigoPopular singer Olivia Rodrigo has reportedly already given up millions of dollars in royalties to Taylor Swift and Paramore after she gave them songwriting credit on songs from her \u2018Sour\u2019 album. While 18-year-old Olivia Rodrigo was originally best known for her role in \u2018High School Musical: The Musical: The Series,\u2019 she exploded in popularity at the start of 2021 when she released her song \u2018Drivers License.\u2019 The emotional song was a huge hit, and propelled Rodrigo into global fame \u2014 and she certainly wasn\u2019t a one-hit-wonder. She has since gone on to release her debut album \u2018Sour,\u2019 which has stormed through the charts with tracks like \u2018Good 4 U\u2019 and \u2018Deja Vu.\u2019 But after many people pointed out the large similarities between her song \u2018Good 4 U\u2019 and Paramore\u2019s \u2018Misery Business,\u2019 some accused the star of \u2018copying,\u2019 leading to her giving them songwriting credit. She also did this with Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, and St. Vincent for the song \u2018Deja Vu.\u2019 Now, a report from Billboard has claimed that the young star has given up millions in royalties due to adding the songwriting credits on her hugely popular tracks. The report claimed that Paramore\u2019s Hayley Williams and Joshua Farro could be receiving somewhere around $1.2 million. As for Swift, Billboard predicts that she\u2019s earned around $325,678 in royalties from \u2018Deja Vu,\u2019 with Antonoff estimated to be taking $260,542, and Clark taking $65,135. While some weren\u2019t happy with the star for \u2018copying\u2019 music, others have come out in full force to defend her. Maroon 5\u2019s Adam Levine said: \u201cI do think that we can probably meet this with a little more compassion and understanding,\u201d adding that he thinks \u201cit\u2019s kind of a cool thing to introduce a whole generation of people to different musical ideas.\u201d Despite the drama surrounding \u2018copying\u2019 claims, Rodrigo is certainly still doing very well career-wise, with the popularity of her album continuing to rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Olivia Rodrigo pays millions in royalties to Taylor Swift & Paramore amid \u2018copying\u2019 drama Instagram: oliviarodrigoPopular singer Olivia Rodrigo has reportedly already given up millions of dollars in royalties to Taylor Swift and Paramore after she gave them songwriting credit on songs from her \u2018Sour\u2019 album. While 18-year-old Olivia Rodrigo was originally best known for […]<\/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-56922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56922","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=56922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}