Olivia Rodrigo‘s stage attire is none of your business. In a preview of her chat with The New York Times‘ Popcast podcast — the full episode is due out on Thursday (May 28) morning — the 23-year-old singer was asked to respond to criticism of the babydoll-style dresses she wears on stage — as well as on her upcoming album’s cover — and Rodrigo made it clear that her sartorial choices are not the problem.
“That’s been making me so upset,” the singer said when co-host Joe Coscarelli asked her to respond to criticism from some about her performance fashion; she also wore a blue babydoll in the video “Drop Dead,” the first single from the album, and another for her Spotify Billions Club Live show. “Not even for me. People can say whatever they want. What’s really disturbing is I have worn outfits that are maybe revealing on stage,” she added, noting that she’s been on stage in an outfit she described as “a sparkly bra and little shorts.”
“Which is my right,” she said. “I felt cool and comfortable in that. And that wasn’t inappropriate, but me fully covered up in a dress that people deemed to be childlike was inappropriate?” The pod flashed an image of Rodrigo on stage recently in a floral babydoll-type dress that reached her upper thighs.
The singer then went on to castigate those who seek to judge female singers based on how they dress, pointing out that the problem is with how society normalizes the sexualized male gaze, while sending a contradictory message to girls. “I just think it really shows how we really normalize pedophilia in our culture,” she said. “And also it’s just this rhetoric that we’re fed as girls since we’re so little, which is, ‘don’t wear that because then a man is going to sexualize your body and it’s your fault.’ It’s so weird.”
For the record, Rodrigo said she didn’t feel like she looked “sexy at all” in that particular outfit, but rather just thought it was cool and made her feel like she was emulating some of her grunge godmother heroes, such as Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna and Hole’s Courtney Love. “I just think if we start dressing in a way that’s like, ‘I don’t want some f–king freak to think that I’m sexy like a baby’ or some crazy thing like that, I think it’s losing the plot a little bit,” said Rodrigo. “I’m just very protective of younger women, girls, and I don’t ever want them to be fed that rhetoric.”
And, as co-host Jon Caramanica added, protect those young women’s right to dress as they please as they grow up, with Rodrigo reiterating that women should not feel responsible for some man sexualizing them in a way that was never their intention.
Rodrigo is gearing up to release her third studio album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, which is due out on June 12.
Watch a preview of Rodrigo on Popcast below.
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