“I sometimes get DMs from little girls being like, ‘I’ve never seen someone who looked like me in your position,” she said. “And I’m literally going to cry, like, just thinking about it. I feel like I grew up never seeing that. Also, it was always like, ‘Pop star,’ that’s a white girl.”
Rodrigo’s assertion that she grew up not seeing minority singers is strange given that, in 2003, the year she was born, nearly all the women on the Billboard Hot 100 list were minorities, including Nelly Furtado, Shakira, Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, and Rihanna. The one female group in the top 20, the Pussycat Dolls, was fronted by Nicole Scherzinger, who is, like Rodrigo, of mixed Filipino descent.
In fact, only one of the female solo artists in the top 20 that year—Natasha Bedingfield—was white.
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Rodrigo’s assertion that she grew up not seeing minority singers is strange given that, in 2003, the year she was born, nearly all the women on the Billboard Hot 100 list were minorities, including Nelly Furtado, Shakira, Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, and Rihanna. The one female group in the top 20, the Pussycat Dolls, was fronted by Nicole Scherzinger, who is, like Rodrigo, of mixed Filipino descent.
In fact, only one of the female solo artists in the top 20 that year—Natasha Bedingfield—was white.
Singer Olivia Rodrigo Claims She Grew Up Thinking Only White Girls Could Be Pop Stars
Though singers like Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey, and Beyonce have topped the charts for decades, 18-year-old pop star Olivia Rodrigo says she once thought only white girls could find success in the music business. The former Disney actress, who recently helped...
