Have Olivia Rodrigo And Sabrina Carpenter Made Up After That Love Triangle Drama With Joshua Bassett?

Cast your mind's back to 2021 when a relatively unknown artist name Olivia Rodrigo released her track 'drivers license' and people just couldn't get enough - not only because the song is an absolute bop (it really is), but also because of the love-triangle drama that surrounded it. The song instantly hit number one in the UK and US across all streaming platforms. In fact, Spotify’s Global Hits lead Becky Bass told Billboard it made history, breaking records with over 17million streams in one day.

The Taylor Swift-style song tells the story of Olivia’s first major heartbreak – and is approved by Taylor herself who wrote on Instagram how proud she was of her ‘baby’ – and fans believe is about Olivia's High School Musical: The Musical: The Series co-star and rumoured ex-boyfriend, Joshua Bassett.

What happened between Olivia Rodrigo and Joshua Bassett?

Olivia and Joshua were rumoured to be dating as they filmed their show from 2019-2020, but never went public with their relationship.

However, in August 2020 Olivia posted a TikTok eluding to their break-up - sharing a video where she was sat listening to a song she wrote for High School Musical called ‘All I Want’ with the caption ‘And that’s on failed relationships.’ The two stopped appearing on each other’s social media feeds around the same time.

One of the major reasons ‘drivers license’ went viral is because of fan theories about it (not to take away from how good it is, which is VERY).

TikTok theorises that in the song, Olivia is talking about Joshua dating fellow actor Sabrina Carpenter – the two were spotted eating out together shortly after the break-up rumours surfaced - when she says ‘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.’

Sabrina was 21 at the time, which let’s face it, when you're 17 (as Olivia was back then) seems like ‘so much’ older. Sabrina's ex-boyfriend Griffin Gluck has also shared the song on Instagram, calling it 'a bop'. Joshua has too by the way, but Olivia never reposted his praise to her story unlike every other High School Musical castmate....

Fans also point out that Joshua taught Olivia how to drive - something she confirmed on Snapchat last year, and that when Olivia sings ‘guess you didn’t mean what you wrote in that song about me’ she is likely referring to Joshua Bassett’s ‘Anyone Else’ – a love song he wrote on location during the first season of filming High School Musical.

But wait, the drama doesn’t end there because just weeks later, Joshua Bassett released his own new song called ‘Lie Lie Lie.’

Looking at the lyrics for Joshua Bassett’s ‘Lie Lie Lie’, it would be easy to conclude he’s accusing Olivia of well… lying about how their relationship went downhill. In fact, he confirmed on Instagram he wrote the song a while ago about an old friend of his that was talking behind his back.

Joshua's debut album was also supposed to contain a collaboration between him and Sabrina called 'We Both Know' but it was eventually left off the record and has never been released...

In July 2022 however, Joshua and Olivia seemingly confirmed that there was no longer any bad blood between them when they reunited on the red carpet for the third season of High School Musical - which Olivia made a brief cameo appearance in.

What happened between Olivia Rodrigo and Sabrina Carpenter?

In response to Olivia supposedly calling her out in 'drivers license', Sabrina released what many assumed to be her side of the story - a track called 'Skin'.

Jumping straight into it, the opening lyrics of the song read, 'Maybe we could've been friends/ If I met you in another life/ Maybe then we could pretend/ There's no gravity in the words we write/ Maybe you didn't mean it/ Maybe blonde was the only rhyme'. To us (and the internet) it seems pretty obvious that Sabrina is talking about Olivia and her track 'Driver's License'... Naturally rumours of a feud between the pair ensued.

Cut to 2025 though and it seems like Sabrina Carpenter and Olivia Rodrigo are over the drama because they were spotted catching up at the 2025 Grammy Awards on Sunday 2 February.

The brunette was filmed heading over to Sabrina's table to chat with the blonde - who was awarded her first two Grammys at the ceremony, for Pop Vocal Album and Pop Solo Performance. Olivia was accompanied by her actor boyfriend Louis Partridge (who you may recognise as Millie Bobby Brown's Enola Holmes co-star).

So whilst we may not be getting anymore beautifully crafted diss tracks about love triangles from Sabrina Carpenter and Olivia Rodrigo, we're now holding out hope for a collaboration. One that actually gets released this time!