Olivia Rodrigo‘s latest album, ‘Guts’, is out, and it’s all the hype right now. Filled with her signature journal-like lyrics, some depicting heartbreak, some depicting her personal life and insecurities, the album has been received positively by critics and fans.
One song from the album is getting a lot of attention. Besides being a lyrical masterpiece, the song might be a hint to Olivia’s closeted sexuality. Here’s what the song means and who it’s for.
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Olivia Rodrigo Sings About A Girl Called Lacy
The fourth song on her new album is an emotional ballad about adoring, envying, and obsessing over another woman.
She describes a “dazzling starlet, Bardot reincarnate” in the lines, describing her as having “skin like puff pastry” and “eyes white as daisies.” She later continues, “Ooh, I care, I care, I care / Like perfume that you wear, I linger all the time / Watching, hidden in plain sight / And ooh, I try, I try, I try / But it takes over my life, I see you everywhere / The sweetest torture one could bear.” referring to Lacy, whom she can’t help but think about.
In the last few words of her song, she perfectly expresses her feelings: “Lacy, oh, Lacy / I just loathe you lately / And I despise my jealous eyes and how hard they fell for you / Yeah, I despise my rotten mind and how much it worships you.”
This isn’t the first time she has written about enviously admiring another woman. In her debut album ‘Sour’, she sang about a “blonde girl,” saying, “She’s everything I’m insecure about.” It later surfaced that the line might be a jab at Sabrina Carpenter, who went on to date Joshua Bassett, who was a big inspiration in a lot of the songs for ‘Sour’.
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What Is Lacy About?
Rodrigo refers to Lacy as a “starlet” in these lyrics and compares her appearance to Brigitte Bardot, one of the most well-known and stunning models of the 1950s and 1960s. She sings about the agony that comes with loving ‘Lacy’.
However, it’s not clear if Lacy is a fictional person or someone who actually inspired Olivia to write the song. Or it might also be that she wrote the song from someone else’s point of view, as her idol Taylor Swift and her friend Conan Gray have frequently done.
Fans on social media had a different take on the song. Many viewed it as a coming-out song, while others just saw it as envious admiration.
lacy by olivia rodridgo is for every girl that had to go through doomed homoerotic toxic friendship
— eve ! (@rcurringdream) September 7, 2023
as a bisexual woman, olivia rodrigo's lacy is what i feel towards women… obsessing over them to the point of confusion: do i wanna be her, or do i wanna be with her?
— a (@maryoddrey) September 8, 2023
Some even speculated that it might be about Taylor Swift.
LACY is heavenly and it's absolutely about Taylor Swift. Idolizing Taylor was a nightmare dressed like a daydream. She is just too popular. Olivia couldn't stand the constant media scrutiny and comparisons anymore pic.twitter.com/cLfNs97WPR
— cassius 🩵 (@timmyswift13) September 7, 2023
While many called it a coming out song.
olivia rodrigo coming out with her song “lacy” was not on my bucket list but i’m so here for it pic.twitter.com/aAMjQpCLVC
— 🙂 (@hairpindreams) September 7, 2023
this olivia lacy situation genuinely makes me sick like imagine coming out at 20 with singing about a girl and how you feel guilty for liking said girl and people going out of their way trying to make it NOT gay as if there’s something wrong with it?? we’re going backwards
— astrid fell down the rabbit hole (@gardnsbabylon) September 7, 2023
Meanwhile, many others had to say that Sabrina Carpenter might be the inspiration behind ‘Lacy’.
okay not to be weird but lacy is definitely abt sabrina the hints are so obvious the brigitte comparison the s ring from the lyrics video missing in only that song and every s in the video being in bold olivia my girl it's that serious huh 😭
— el 🦋 is making the bed (@casualenjoyr) September 10, 2023
Someone said Lacy is about Olivia Rodrigo being into girls. And someone else said it’s about Sabrina Carpenter. Now I’m convinced Olivia Rodrigo is into Sabrina Carpenter 😂
— Caitlyn Wallace (@CaitlynWallaceR) September 8, 2023
Rodrigo hasn’t yet spoken about any of the meanings behind her songs, yet.
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