Olivia Rodrigo once wrote a song with a crude British phrase that was lost on Americans.
The 23-year-old pop star – who released her latest album You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love on Friday (12.06.26) – hilariously revealed those who listened to it thought “bloody a**hole” was a medical condition, not a mean person.
Joining Capital Breakfast for A Very British Day Out at the pub with Jordan North, she spilled: “I wrote this song about someone that I didn’t like, and I was actually trying to be British. And I wrote ‘he’s a bloody a**hole’.
“Everyone listened to it and they aren’t British, so they literally thought ‘bloody a**hole?’ Like something surgically or medically was going on.”
The American singer has a soft spot for the UK.
Olivia has made no secret of her love of British cuisine – including dippy eggs – and recently revealed she consumed three sticky toffee puddings ahead of her Glastonbury set.
She said: “I stayed at this [hotel] that had the best sticky toffee pudding, and I was like, ‘You know what? I gotta do it’.
“If the toffee’s really hot and the ice cream melts on top, it’s really good.”
She loves dippy eggs and soldiers (toast) so much; her friends buy her egg cups.
Olivia said: “My favourite thing is dipping soldiers into an egg.
“I got really obsessed with it. My friends even bought me different egg cups from all over the world.”
Olivia’s new album features a Brit, with Robert Smith of The Cure featuring on the track What’s Wrong With Me.
Revealing her favourite songs on the album, she said: “I think The Cure is my favourite song. I love the last song Cigarette Smoke a lot. I really love Purple. Oh, and I love Honeybee.”
