Olivia Rodrigo‘s “Vampire” virtually had a really completely different sort of chew. In a TikTok video posted on Wednesday titled “dream crusher it’s”, Rodrigo and producer Dan Nigro are within the studio engaged on the primary single from the singer’s upcoming sophomore album, cooking up some fairly hilarious alternate lyrics for the observe’s radio edit.
Within the clip, Rodrigo and Nigro amuse themselves by changing the extra specific line a few “Bloodsucker, fame f—er/ Bleeding me dry like a goddamn vampire” with extra safe-for-work alternate options, together with “tree hugger,” “fame hunter,” “whale blubber,” “Mark Zucker,” “fame lover” and “garlic butter.” The sanitized radio model out now has her singing “Bloodsucker, dream crusher.” After a number of takes Nigro may be heard laughing on the proposed substitute phrases, with each shedding it on the point out of the Meta boss. It ends with Nigro confidently saying, “yeah, I feel one in all them will work.”
“Vampire” is the primary new music from Rodrigo since her 2021 debut, Bitter, which featured her Billboard Sizzling 100 No. 1 hits “Drivers License” and “Good 4 U,” in addition to “Deja Vu” and “Brutal.” The tune is slate to look on Rodrigo’s upcoming second album, GUTS, which is due out on Sept. 8.
As you would possibly anticipate, the search is on amongst followers for the identification of the vampiric protagonist within the tune, with Rodrigo having some enjoyable lately with the “who’s it about?” parlor video games her followers have been collaborating in. Simply days after the only dropped, Rodrigo, 20, hopped on TikTok to supply some blood purple herrings to her followers. Whereas pretending to sip blood from a faux hospital-grade “Kind A” blood bag whereas listening to the tune, Rodrigo paused and mentioned, “Wait, is that this f—ing play about us?,” whereas lip synching alongside to a scene from Euphoria.
Subsequent to her within the video was TikTok comic Jake Shane sporting a vampire cape and in addition ingesting faux blood, whom Rodrigo joked within the caption was really the topic of her new lyrics. “for everybody asking… vampire is about @Jake Shane,” she wrote. “I’m the vampire in query,” Shane confirmed within the feedback.
Take a look at the TikTok under.
