{"id":699913,"date":"2021-08-30T13:51:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T17:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=699913"},"modified":"2021-08-30T13:51:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T17:51:24","slug":"singer-olivia-rodrigo-claims-she-grew-up-thinking-only-white-girls-could-be-pop-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/singer-olivia-rodrigo-claims-she-grew-up-thinking-only-white-girls-could-be-pop-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer Olivia Rodrigo Claims She Grew Up Thinking Only White Girls Could Be Pop Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsinger-olivia-rodrigo-claims-she-grew-up-thinking-only-white-girls-could-be-pop-stars%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=699913&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1322565330-scaled-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Though singers like Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey, and Beyonce have topped the charts for decades, 18-year-old pop star Olivia Rodrigo says she once thought only white girls could find success in the music business.<\/p>\n<p>The former Disney actress, who recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-admin-turns-to-disney-actress-olivia-rodrigo-to-promote-vaccine\">helped<\/a> the Biden Administration promote its Covid vaccination campaign, told <a href=\"https:\/\/vmagazine.com\/article\/v132-its-olivia-rodrigos-world\/\">V Magazine<\/a> that, as a child, she believed \u201cpop star\u201d was synonymous with being white.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI sometimes get DMs from little girls being like, \u2018I\u2019ve never seen someone who looked like me in your position,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m literally going to cry, like, just thinking about it. I feel like I grew up never seeing that. Also, it was always like, \u2018Pop star,\u2019 that\u2019s a white girl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rodrigo\u2019s assertion that she grew up not seeing minority singers is strange given that, in 2003, the year she was born, nearly all the women on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/year-end\/2003\/hot-100-songs\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a> list were minorities, including Nelly Furtado, Shakira, Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, and Rihanna. The one female group in the top 20, the Pussycat Dolls, was fronted by Nicole Scherzinger, who is, like Rodrigo\u2019s, of mixed Filipino descent.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, only one of the female solo artists in the top 20 that year\u2014Natasha Bedingfield\u2014was white.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the year that Rodrigo became a teenager, <em>none<\/em> of the women in the top 20 of the Billboard top 100 list were \u201cwhite,\u201d unless you count Bebe Rexha (whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from the former Yugoslavia), Dua Lipa (who is an Albanian Muslim) or Ariana Grande (whose parents are both Italian). The rest\u2014Camila Cabello, Cardi B, and Ella Mai\u2014were all Hispanic or black.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time Rodrigo has spoken out on race or implied she believes systemic racism is an issue in American cultural institutions.<\/p>\n<p>In May, she told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nylon.com\/entertainment\/olivia-rodrigo-sour-disney-lyrics\">Nylon<\/a> she believes the American public makes unfair comparisons between Asian-Americans and African-Americans. Speaking about the riots following George Floyd\u2019s death at the hands of police officer Derek Chauvin, Rodrigo said:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"16\">\n<p><em>During that time I learned a lot about \u201cthe model minority myth.\u201d It\u2019s something that I heard in Asian communities around me, which is this untrue idea that, \u201cOh, well, we\u2019re Asian people and immigrants and we\u2019re doing fine. Why can\u2019t other disenfranchised groups be like us?\u201d It is complete BS, when you consider the hundreds of years of institutionalized, internalized racism that they had to overcome. That was a big thing I learned about and educated myself on during the Black Lives Matter movement after the murder of George Floyd. It\u2019s something I\u2019m constantly still reminding myself of, and educating myself on, and I\u2019ll never stop.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ironically, Rodrigo has herself come under fire for racial insensitivity. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/non-black-celebrities-olivia-rodrigo-blaccent-appropriation-135706807.html\">Yahoo<\/a> reported in early August, the young singer was featured in a mash-up of non-black stars using \u201cblaccent\u201d\u2014that is, speaking in what is perceived to be African-American vernacular. Fans accused her of cultural appropriation. Rodrigo has not yet addressed the controversy.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though singers like Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey, and Beyonce have topped the charts for decades, 18-year-old pop star Olivia Rodrigo says she once thought only white &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}