Olivia Rodrigo responds to babydoll dress criticism: ‘It shows how we normalize pedophilia in our culture’ | Olivia Rodrigo
Olivia Rodrigo responded to controversy over the babydoll dress she wore while performing on stage in Spain.
The singer faced backlash online after wearing a short, puffy floral-print dress while performing her latest single, Drop Dead, at Barcelona’s Teatre Grec on May 8. She wears a similar style dress on the cover of her upcoming album.
“This makes me very sad,” Rodrigo said in an interview with the New York Times. pop release.
“What’s really disturbing is that I feel like I’m wearing very revealing clothes on stage. For example, I walked out on stage in a sparkly bra and little shorts, which is my right. It’s fun. I felt cool and comfortable in it. And it wasn’t ‘inappropriate,’ but I was completely covered up in a dress that people found childish.” it was unsuitable.
“I think it shows how we’ve really normalized pedophilia in our culture,” the singer added. “Also, this rhetoric that has been fed to us as girls since we were little is: ‘Don’t wear this because then a guy will sexualize your body and it’s your fault.’ It’s like, it’s so weird.”
Rodrigo will be promoting her upcoming third album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, on June 12. In a review of the album’s lead single, Drop Dead, the Guardian’s Laura Snapes praised the album’s “melody that will follow listeners’ brains all summer long.”
The singer noted that the babydoll dress was an iconic outfit for female punk stars of the ’90s. “I didn’t think I looked sexy in this outfit at all,” Rodrigo said. “I was like, ‘This is so cool. I feel like I look like Kathleen Hanna or Courtney Love,’ all these people are my heroes.”
Love when Rodrigo received backlash for his clothing choices sent Instagram stories supporting the singer.
Rodrigo said he explores lighter themes on the new album, which may surprise listeners familiar with ballads like Drivers License and Vampire and sultry songs like Good 4 U. “I was really excited to write about joy, love, and passion in a way I’ve never done before,” the singer said. in question to Cosmopolitan recently. “Most of my big songs are about being sad and angry and heartbroken.”
Last year Rodrigo headlined the Glastonbury festival in England. In October, he called out the White House for using his music in anti-immigration videos, calling it “racist, hateful propaganda.”
In the video for Rodrigo’s latest single, The Cure, she is seen wearing a pink nurse outfit while performing in a retro-decorated hospital. Ahead of the release of his new album, he recently announced that he will embark on a US tour in the autumn, with UK and European dates to follow early next year.
