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Olivia Rodrigo considered changing the title of her song Teenage Dream because it's so well associated with Katy Perry.
The Good 4 U singer revealed that she and her team thought about changing the title of the song, which appears on her new album Guts, because Teenage Dream is synonymous with the Firework singer.
"We thought about changing the name," she admitted to Rolling Stone, claiming that the identical titles were simply a coincidence. "If someone looks up 'Teenage Dream' on Spotify, there's no way in heck that my song's going to pull up first."
Katy told the publication that she doesn't mind Olivia using the same title as her 2010 pop anthem.
"It's nice to see it resonating through the years to different age groups," she stated. "She's a craftswoman. It's like when (the TV show) Fleabag really made a huge impression on people. She's writing about all of our inner thoughts, outward things that we would never say."
While Katy's pop smash deals with a romance, Olivia's Teenage Dream is a ballad in which she imagines the day she's no longer the ingénue.
"I grew up in this weird environment where everyone praised me for being talented for my age, and it's about me facing this pressure of making a sophomore record while also facing this pressure of wondering if people would still think that I was cool even when I wasn't a 17-year-old girl writing songs anymore," the 20-year-old explained.
Elsewhere in the interview, Katy revealed that she offered to mentor Olivia when they first met.
"I put my hands on her shoulders and was like, 'Listen, I'm here. Whatever you need.' Because I know exactly what these pop girlies are going through, and when I was growing up, no one really did that for me," she recalled.
The Good 4 U singer revealed that she and her team thought about changing the title of the song, which appears on her new album Guts, because Teenage Dream is synonymous with the Firework singer.
"We thought about changing the name," she admitted to Rolling Stone, claiming that the identical titles were simply a coincidence. "If someone looks up 'Teenage Dream' on Spotify, there's no way in heck that my song's going to pull up first."
Katy told the publication that she doesn't mind Olivia using the same title as her 2010 pop anthem.
"It's nice to see it resonating through the years to different age groups," she stated. "She's a craftswoman. It's like when (the TV show) Fleabag really made a huge impression on people. She's writing about all of our inner thoughts, outward things that we would never say."
While Katy's pop smash deals with a romance, Olivia's Teenage Dream is a ballad in which she imagines the day she's no longer the ingénue.
"I grew up in this weird environment where everyone praised me for being talented for my age, and it's about me facing this pressure of making a sophomore record while also facing this pressure of wondering if people would still think that I was cool even when I wasn't a 17-year-old girl writing songs anymore," the 20-year-old explained.
Elsewhere in the interview, Katy revealed that she offered to mentor Olivia when they first met.
"I put my hands on her shoulders and was like, 'Listen, I'm here. Whatever you need.' Because I know exactly what these pop girlies are going through, and when I was growing up, no one really did that for me," she recalled.