Elvis Costello has defended the singer as she was accused of lifting his guitar riffs in her track “Brutal”.
Music He made an important point about music. Olivia Rodrigo has everyone belting out her songs this summer. With hits such as “drivers licence” off of her debut album Sour, the 18-year-old’s tunes are just soaring up the charts. But the “good 4 u” singer has recently found herself embroiled in a plagiarism dispute with Elvis Costello. Rodrigo’s song “Brutal” uses a chord sequence featured in Costello’s 1978 hit “Pump It Up,” a comparison which one Twitter user called “pretty much a direct lift”. What could have started some intense drama was actually met with a nonchalant response from the rockstar as he replied to the tweet, “This is fine by me.
