Olivia Rodrigo is on fire these days. The singer and songwriter's hit song "Good 4 U" has stayed steady on the charts and in TikToks acrosss the globe.
When the song was first released, fans noticed a striking similarity between it and the band Paramore's hit "Misery Business."
"Look, these are tricky things and anyone who’s ever written a song knows that you rip something off inadvertently, and it makes it to tape, and then it’s released and then there’s a lawsuit," he shared. "It’s a natural thing for it to happen, and sometimes it gets ugly and sometimes it’s warranted that people take legal action. Sometimes it’s not warranted that people take legal action. And I think there’s definitely become more of a gray area that’s reared its ugly head these days."
He also made a comparison to the "Blurred Lines" lawsuit that Robin Thicke and Pharrell were part of.
"That ‘Blurred Lines’ case was a landmark case that kind of changed the game," he said. "Without giving an opinion on what I think as far as how that one turned out, I do think that we should probably meet this with a little more compassion and understanding and try to find a way…all this calling out, it’s like, music is a creative thing and I just hate to see it crushed."
As a tenured musician, he asked people to give Olivia the benefit of the doubt and let her express her creativity however she wants.
"When you take someone who’s a newer artist and she’s doing things that kind of emulate the ones from generations removed, I don’t know how bad that is," he said. "I think it’s kind of a cool thing to introduce a whole generation of young people to different musical ideas."
If it's Adam Levine approved, then it's good for us!