Rodrigo is 20 now, and “Guts,” due in September, will be her second album.
And while “Drivers License” and its fallout became tabloid fodder, the public narrative wasn’t encoded into the song itself.
“Vampire” changes that.
On “Drivers License,” Rodrigo still saw the other woman as an enemy, or source of tension, but now on “Vampire,” she understands what the lines of allegiance truly are, marking an emergent feminist streak.
Here, she finds kinship with her ex’s other partners, and lambastes herself for thinking she ever was the exception: “Every girl I ever talked to told me you were bad, bad news/You called them crazy, God, I hate the way I called ’em crazy too.”
Persons:
Rodrigo, Bia, Mayer, Swift, John, ”, ” Rodrigo, lambastes
Locations:
Angeles