
Alongside other hits, “deja vu” and “good 4 u,” Olivia relayed the turmoil of her heartbreak to us with all the unfiltered angst, pettiness, and shocking maturity of her seventeen-year-old self. So when Olivia finally released her highly-anticipated debut album SOUR on May 21, her popularity, if it was even possible, skyrocketed even further. The single became so popular that Saturday Night Live even did a sketch about it, riffing on the song’s unprecedented popularity and near-universal emotional appeal. In just four days, “drivers license” began to break records it was the longest-running number-one for a debut single, and the Spotify record for most single-day streams for a non-holiday song, making Olivia the youngest artist in history to top the Billboard Hot 100 internationally. The viral gossip surrounding the song only fueled more streams.

The rumors, which neither HSM:TM:TS star immediately addressed, attracted legions of people across generations to her song.

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Almost immediately, fans began speculating about the song’s subject: Olivia’s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series co-star, Joshua Bassett, who had allegedly begun dating another Disney actress, Sabrina Carpenter. When Olivia Rodrigo released her single “drivers license” on January 8th, 2021, the internet exploded.
