If you’ve been on TikTok at all in the last few days, even just for a quick ten-minute distraction scroll, I feel I can say with near certainty that you’ve heard Olivia Rodrigo’s new single, “drivers license.” It’s the first song the 17-year-old star of Disney+’s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series has released independently of the show, and it hits like a Fearless-era Taylor Swift song.
The level of teenage angst heard in “drivers license” is truly breathtaking; it’s about someone tearfully driving past their ex’s house, having finally obtained their driver’s license, but all for naught. (Sample lyrics: “You were so excited for me to finally drive up to your house / But today I drove through the suburbs, crying because you weren’t around.”) Already, Rodrigo has received pretty much the highest compliment you can get on TikTok — Charli D’Amelio posted a video of herself dancing to it.
Adding to the frenzy around the song, fans are theorizing that it’s actually about Rodrigo’s real-life ex-boyfriend and HSMTMTS co-star, Joshua Bassett. TikTok abounds with theories about the supposed love triangle between Rodrigo, Bassett, and Sabrina Carpenter, the blonde fellow Disney actress Bassett has lately been spotted with. (Another sample lyric: “You’re probably with that blonde girl who always made doubt.”) The level of intrigue here is high enough that people watched this entire badly soundtracked 26-minute video about the situation. So let’s unpack!
So Rodrigo and Bassett were dating?Rodrigo and Bassett never officially confirmed their relationship. They play on-again, off-again love interests Nini and Ricky on HSMTMTS, and their onscreen chemistry combined with flirty behavior in interviews ignited a popular fan theory that the two were secretly dating.
The timeline on their alleged relationship is unclear since it was never made public, but HSMTMTS filmed in the first half of 2019, and the two wrote a song together for the show. In March of 2020, Rodrigo shared a love song she wrote about someone with a “brown-eyed smile,” which fans have speculated is about Bassett:
And less than a month later, Rodrigo shared a gushing post to Instagram in support of Bassett’s single, “Common Sense”:
When did they break up (allegedly)?By May of 2020, fans noticed that the pair had stopped liking each other’s social-media posts. But July was when the drama really started to unfold. Rodrigo shared an Instagram post of herself singing an as-yet-unreleased breakup song called “White Flowers.” A few days later, she posted that she’d gotten her driver’s license: “so now I can drive around the suburbs alone and cry to I miss you I’m sorry like a true American!!!!!”
On July 16, Bassett premiered his song “Anyone Else” — a song that some have speculated is about Rodrigo — and this time, there was no gushing Instagram promo on her end. A few days later, in fact, she shared an early version of “drivers license” with a key difference: In this version, Rodrigo references an older brunette girl.
On August 15, Bassett was photographed having lunch with Girl Meets World star Sabrina Carpenter, who, yes, is blonde and is 21 years old (this will be relevant later). In October, they shared TikToks in which they wore matching couples’ costumes; he was Sharkboy, she was Lavagirl. Romantic!
Which brings us to “the blonde girl who always made me doubt.”As previously mentioned, in the official release of the song, Rodrigo slightly changed a lyric: “And you’re probably with that blonde girl / Who always made me doubt / She’s so much older than me / She’s everything I’m insecure about.” Fans are convinced those lines are about Carpenter; adding fuel to the flames of their speculation, Carpenter’s own ex-boyfriend posted the song on his Instagram story.
Bassett, for his part, has been liking posts about “drivers license,” and even posted in support of it on his Instagram story. But fans think he’s really just smiling through the pain:
Soon there will be more fodder for fan theories: Bassett’s upcoming single, “Lie Lie Lie,” drops January 14. Until then, please enjoy this TikToker doing the “Rake It Up” dance to “drivers license.”
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