Olivia Rodrigo slams backlash over her babydoll dresses: ‘Really disturbing’

Olivia Rodrigo won’t fto critics dress her down.

The “good 4 u” singer, 23, called nan online sermon complete her babydoll dresses “really disturbing” successful a clip from nan New York Times’ “Popcast,” pointing retired that nan group sexualizing a afloat covered dress are nan ones pinch nan problem.

“I didn’t deliberation that I looked sexy successful that astatine all. I was like, this is truthful cool. I consciousness for illustration I look for illustration Kathleen Hanna aliases Courtney Love, each these group who are my heroes,” Rodrigo said, citing nan ’90s riot grrrl musicians whose babydoll-and-combat-boot azygous she’s channeled passim her caller era.

“I conscionable deliberation it shows really we really normalize pedophilia successful our culture,” she added.

The contention ignited aft Rodrigo wore a powder-blue Chloé ensemble pinch bloomers successful her “Drop Dead” euphony video and performed successful a floral Génération78 apical repurposed arsenic a babydoll minidress astatine Spotify’s Billions Club Live performance successful Barcelona earlier this month.

Clips circulated online of nan popular prima crawling crossed nan shape and revealing her ruffled bloomers while performing her deed “Brutal,” a opus that reckons, successful part, pinch our culture’s exploitation of teenage girls.

X users were speedy to telephone it “pedo bait” and opportunity nan outfit “looks for illustration she’s cosplaying arsenic a kid.” Others invoked nan Epstein files and “Lolita,” nan arguable 1955 caller astir a middle-aged man’s obsession pinch a pre-teen girl.

The Grammy victor pointed retired nan double modular betwixt nan dress and acold much revealing on-stage outfits. “I’ve been connected shape successful a sparkly bra and small shorts, which is my right, that’s fun, I felt cool and comfortable successful that,” she said. “And that wasn’t inappropriate, but maine afloat covered up successful a dress that group deemed to beryllium childlike was inappropriate.”

“I conscionable deliberation if we commencement dressing successful a measurement that’s like, ‘I don’t want immoderate f—king freak to deliberation that I’m sexy for illustration a baby’ aliases immoderate crazy point for illustration that, I deliberation it’s losing nan crippled a small bit,” she continued.

Some defenders person questioned whether nan outrage is moreover genuine. Rolling Stone noted nan backlash echoes caller bot-driven smear campaigns against Taylor Swift and Chappell Roan, though nary coordinated onslaught connected Rodrigo has been confirmed.

Her 3rd album, “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So successful Love,” drops June 12, pinch her 65-date Unraveled Tour kicking disconnected Sept. 25.