Do these people actually believe what they say?
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Olivia Rodrigo knows the impact she has on fans of color, revealing in a new Q&A that she herself once believed only white girls could be recognized as true pop stars.
When "Saturday Night Live" star Bowen Yang asked the "Brutal" singer how her Filipino American background factors into how she approaches her career, she said it's "something incredible to think about."
"I sometimes get DMs from little girls being like, 'I've never seen someone who looked like me in your position.' And I'm literally going to cry, like, just thinking about it," Rodrigo, 18, said in the V Magazine feature.
"I feel like I grew up never seeing that. Also, it was always like, 'Pop star,' that's a white girl."
These days, however, Rodrigo is grateful that the music biz no longer forces artists to be confined by certain genres at least not to the extent that she witnessed growing up.