The musical drama of Olivia Rodrigo and Joshua Bassett, explained

There is a potential love triangle simmering at East View High School. Actress Olivia Rodrigo, who plays Nini Salazar-Roberts at the original Disney + show High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, released a new single this morning, entitled “Driver’s license”, along with a video clip. The song quickly sparked rumors about the details of his relationship with her HSMTMTS co-star Joshua Bassett. The song features some very sharp lyrics, which some fans believe is about Bassett and a certain blonde singer-actress, and now teenagers and pre-teens are nervous. For those of us who graduated from high school before 2008, we will give you a summary.

Rodrigo and Bassett, whose characters date in the series, had on-screen chemistry and an off-screen closeness that sparked rumors about an IRL relationship. In August, Rodrigo posted a TikTok with the caption “And that about failed relationships”, with “All I Want” by HSMTMTS soundtrack, which Rodrigo wrote and sang in the series about Bassett’s character, Ricky. On the new track, “Driver’s License”, Rodrigo laments the end of a relationship while driving through the streets after taking out his license (again, she is 17) and also mentions: “I think you didn’t mean what you wrote in that song about me ”that fans are assuming is about Bassett, who released two singles,“ Common Sense ”and“ Anyone Else, ”last year.

Now wait – that’s not all, folks. This is where Sabrina Carpenter – the 21-year-old singer and actress who played Maya Hart on the Disney series Girl Meets World – makes it look great. There are also rumors that Bassett and Carpenter started dating after Rodrigo and Bassett broke up in 2020. Although they haven’t publicly stated this either, the two were seen together and appeared in each other’s TikToks, most recently, where they reenacted one scene of The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl. In “Driver’s License”, Rodrigo refers to a “blonde girl” who is “much older than [her]. ”Carpenter is actually blonde and four years older than Rodrigo.

Rodrigo announced the release of “Driver’s License” on January 4 and, an hour later, Bassett announced the release of his next single, entitled “Lie Lie Lie”, which will be released on January 14. in upcoming posts, calling it “weird” and “trying to steal Olivia’s thunder”. They connected a poorly lit image of him in a car to the video clip that Rodrigo released today with “Driver’s License”. Fans also realized that while many cast members from HSMTMTS, including Julia Lester, Joe Serafini, Larry Saperstein, Sofia Wylie and Dara Reneé, enthusiastically commented on Rodrigo’s post, only one, Serafini, commented on Bassett’s post. Do they know more about the drama that is yet to unfold? With the second season coming up, we hope the power of music and a dance number can fix some hearts in HSMTMTS set.