OLIVIA Rodrigo became an international singing sensation following the release of her debut album, Sour.

Some fans have since accused the singer of writing songs about her beef with Disney Channel alum Sabrina Carpenter, and now they want to know what happened between the stars.

Olivia Rodrigo and Sabrina Carpenter beef explained
Before the release of Sour, Rodrigo released her debut single, Driver’s License, and fans quickly assumed that it was about her rumored relationship with her High School Musical: The Musical: The Series co-star Joshua Bassett, who was reportedly in a relationship with Carpenter.

“And you’re probably with that blonde girl / Who always made me doubt / She’s so much older than me / She’s everything I’m insecure about,” Rodrigo sings in her song, seemingly hinting at Carpenter’s hair color and their three-year age gap.

In the teaser track, Rodrigo used “brunette” instead of “blonde,” adding to fans’ suspicion, according to Us Weekly.

She also threw shade at Bassett in the song, singing: “I just can’t imagine how you could be so OK now that I’m gone / Guess you didn’t mean what you wrote in that song about me,” about his song Anyone Else, which was released six months before Driver’s License.

While most fans assumed the song was about Carpenter, Rodrigo has yet to confirm their speculation.

“I totally understand people’s curiosity with the specifics of who the song’s about and what it’s about, but to me, that’s really the least important part of the song,” she told Billboard in January 2021.

“It’s resonating with people because of how emotional it is, and I think everything else is not important.”

At first, Carpenter avoided the drama, but as Rodrigo’s fans attacked her online, she hit back with her song.

“You been telling your side/ So I’ll be telling mine,” Carpenter sang at the beginning of the 2022 hit single Skin.

She added: “You’re telling it how you see it/ Like truth is whatever you decide/ Some people will believe it/ And some will read in between the lines/You’re putting me in the spotlight/ But I’ve been under it all my life.”

While fans might believe that the song is exclusively about Rodrigo, Carpenter explained in a since-deleted Instagram post that it “isn’t calling out one single person.”

“I wasn’t bothered by a few lines in a (magnificent) song and wrote a diss track about it,” Carpenter clarified via PEOPLE.

“I was at a tipping point in my life for countless reasons. So I was inspired to do what I usually do to cope, write something that I wish I could have told myself in the past.”

“The song isn’t calling out one single person,” she added.

“Some lines address a specific situation, while other lines address plenty of other experiences I’ve had this past year.”

However, a few months later, Carpenter appeared to address the drama again in another single, titled: because i liked a boy.

“Now I’m a homewrecker; I’m a slut/ I got death threats filling up semi trucks/ Tell me who I am, guess I don’t have a choice/ All because I liked/I’m a hot topic on your tongue/I’m a rebound gettin’ ’round stealin’ from the young/ Tell me who I am, guess I don’t have a choice/
All because I liked a boy,” she sang in the song.

During an interview with Rolling Stone, Carpenter explained the inspiration for that song, revealing that it “came from a really real place in [her] life.”

“It was very therapeutic to write that song from hindsight and being like, ‘Wow, one thing leads to another, and things can really get out of hand,'” Carpenter explained.

“Just being able to own it at the end of the day and not let it determine who you are.”

“People can say whatever they want to say, but I was lucky to be able to verbalize an experience that some people have been through,” she added.

“Hopefully, it has helped them get through their experience with a little bit more strength and understanding. If I can do that, then I don’t have regrets.”

At this time, Rodrigo has not addressed Carpenter’s latest song.

Did Joshua Bassett and Sabrina Carpenter date?
Over the years, Carpenter has often kept details of her personal life out of the spotlight.

To date, her only confirmed relationship was with fellow Disney alum Bradley Steven Perry, who starred in Good Luck Charlie, Mighty Med, and Lab Rats: Elite Force, among other productions.

After their relationship ended in 2015, Carpenter kept a low profile but was back in the headlines after rumors started, claiming she was dating Bassett.

The pair sparked these dating rumors in the summer of 2020, but a relationship has never been confirmed.

At the time, they were seen together in Los Angeles at a Black Lives Matter protest and later showed off matching Sharkboy and Lavagirl costumes for Halloween.

A relationship between Bassett and Rodrigo has also never been confirmed, but fans speculate it occurred in 2019.