Zack Bia has heard all of the rumors and innuendo suggesting that ex-girlfriend Olivia Rodrigo‘s slashing GUTS single, “Vampire” is a couple of former real-life boyfriend, probably him. “I don’t assume it’s actually about me,” the DJ and Area Journey Recordings label co-founder advised GQ journal. “I feel the web simply ran with it.”
The 27-year-old who’s performing a pre-show DJ hype man for Drake’s present North American tour stated he believes “Vampire” might be a fictional composite character, which is another excuse he’s not sweating the heated rhetoric. “Look, I’m within the business so I understand how a track will get made,” stated Bia, “firmly denying” that the couple’s six month 2022 relationship was even worthy of such a lacerating breakup banger. “We frolicked, we’re each busy, and we ended up not furthering our relationship. There was by no means any drama, you recognize?”
With a refrain that features the lyrics: “I used to assume I used to be good/ However you made me look so naive/ The best way you bought me for components/ As you sunk your enamel into me, oh/ Bloodsucker, fame f–ker /Bleedin’ me dry like a goddamn vampire,” the monitor from Rodrigo, 20, pulls no punches in regards to the heartache attributable to… somebody.
It’s price noting that the track appears to recommend a dalliance with an older man (“Went for me and never her/ ‘Trigger ladies your age know higher”), and even hints at the time-frame in query (“Six months of torture you bought as some forbidden paradise.”) To be truthful, the web additionally thought “Vampire” is likely to be about one other older man, producer Adam Faze, who Rodrigo dated when she was 18; she was 19 when she dated Bia, from round April-August 2022.
GQ stated it spoke to an unnamed supply in Rodrigo’s songwriting camp about Bia’s suggestion that the songs wasn’t him and their response was “I don’t know if that’s precisely true.”
If it isn’t about him, why didn’t Bia — who was additionally reportedly the topic of the scathing 2019 Madison Beer track “Egocentric” — attempt to knock down all that TikTok hypothesis that he was the bloodsucker in query? “Any time I’ve been speculatively the topic of a track, or the main focus of a TikTok pattern, whether or not grounded in actuality or not, it’s like, it’s by no means been as much as me to handle it as a result of the dimensions of it’s so widespread,” Bia stated. “100 million individuals have heard this track. The one factor I can tackle is my very own life. I can management what my pals assume and the inventive output that I’ve and issues like that.”
Pondering of the track from a label exec perspective, Bia stated on the finish of the day, “Vampire” is simply plain, which is all that issues. “Look, the momentum of a track is so particular,” he stated. “I feel Olivia is a generational songwriter. I feel she’s a generational expertise. I’m at all times simply happy with her continued accomplishments.”
In reality, Bia stated he type of digs the monitor that debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Sizzling 100 in July; GUTS debuts on the high of the Billboard 200 album chart dated Sept. 23. “The track’s so massive and so superior,” he stated. “Look, a heartbreak track for {the summertime}, it’s an undefeated formulation.”
