{"id":474236,"date":"2026-05-30T05:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/474236\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T05:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T05:30:11","slug":"olivia-rodrigo-slams-babydoll-disses-says-it-normalizes-pedophilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/474236\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Rodrigo slams babydoll disses, says it normalizes pedophilia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Some are calling the controversy over Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s<\/a> recent outfit choices babydoll-dress-gate, Olivia Rodrigo calls it \u201cweird.\u201d <\/p>\n

The dress debacle kicked up in early May when Rodrigo released the music video for \u201cDrop Dead,<\/a>\u201d in which she runs through the Palace of Versailles wearing a pink-and-blue ruffled babydoll set while singing about the intensity of a crush. Then on May 8, she wore a cottage-core pink-and-white floral babydoll dress with knee-high Dr. Martens during a live performance in Barcelona.<\/p>\n

Rodrigo was drawing from subversive feminist and punk fashion of yore, but internet critics were quick to slam the \u201cdeja vu\u201d singer, saying the ensemble was sexualizing child-like imagery. In an hour-and-a-half interview with the New York Times Popcast<\/a> that dropped on Thursday, Rodrigo staunchly defended the dress and called the criticism disturbing. <\/p>\n

\u201cI have worn outfits that are maybe revealing on stage, like I\u2019ve been on stage in a sparkly bra and little shorts \u2014 which is my right \u2014 that\u2019s fun,\u201d she said. \u201cI felt cool and comfortable in that, and that wasn\u2019t inappropriate, but me fully covered up in a dress that people deemed to be, like, childlike was inappropriate, and I think it shows how we really normalize pedophilia in our culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodrigo further decried the criticism as rhetoric that girls are fed from a young age, \u201cwhich is \u2018don\u2019t wear that, because then a man is going to sexualize your body, and it\u2019s your fault\u2019 \u2014 it\u2019s so weird.\u201d <\/p>\n

Rodrigo said she didn\u2019t think she looked \u201csexy\u201d in the babydoll dress; she was going for a cool look \u00e0 la Kathleen Hannah or like Courtney Love<\/a>, musicians whom the pop star said are her heroes. Love appeared to defend Rodrigo<\/a> on social media by resharing posts defending the singer-songwriter in since-expired Instagram stories. <\/p>\n

\u201cI just think if we start dressing in a way that\u2019s like, \u2018Oh, I don\u2019t want some f\u2014 freak to think that I am sexy like a baby\u2019 or some crazy thing like that, I think it\u2019s losing the plot a little bit,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m very protective of younger women and girls, and I don\u2019t ever want them to be fed that rhetoric. You shouldn\u2019t be responsible for some guy sexualizing you in a way that was never your intention.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodrigo\u2019s third studio album, \u201cYou Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,\u201d which features hit singles \u201cDrop Dead\u201d and \u201cThe Cure,\u201d will be released June 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some are calling the controversy over Olivia Rodrigo\u2019s recent outfit choices babydoll-dress-gate, Olivia Rodrigo calls it \u201cweird.\u201d The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[204635,4096,321,40225,26639,204633,204636,93,204638,25029,61,60,22573,15735,204634,84549,204637,4714,15722],"class_list":["post-474236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-babydoll","tag-barcelona","tag-celebrities","tag-courtney-love","tag-criticism","tag-dress-debacle","tag-early-may","tag-entertainment","tag-freak","tag-girl","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-musician","tag-olivia-rodrigo","tag-pedophilia","tag-punk","tag-rhetoric","tag-stage","tag-way"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}