Technically, Rodrigo’s first single was the 2019 Disney release “All I Want,” a ballad looking back on flawed relationships, which she wrote herself and performed in character as Nini. On it, she played Nini, a girl who wrote love songs and posted them on Instagram. In 2019, Rodrigo got the lead on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, a project as meta and recursive as Rodrigo’s own career. “It wasn’t even a consideration for Olivia.” “We explained that you only get one chance in life to go to high school and have those experiences,” says Jennifer. When it ended, her parents underscored that she didn’t have to continue on the Hollywood path. “It was immediately like, ‘Olivia’s my best friend.’ ” Bizaardvark ran for three seasons. “I don’t even remember a time when we were getting to know each other,” Hu told me. Rodrigo and Hu were cast as the leads, playing a duo of young musical vloggers making it big.
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She met Madison Hu, the best friend who now attends Columbia, at a chemistry read for the TV show Bizaardvark they were strangers, but the producers asked, after they did their scene, how long the two of them had been friends. Soon after, she entered the Disney machine. Then, shortly before Christmas, Rodrigo booked a starring role in an American Girl doll movie, playing a telegenic tween who wins MasterChef Junior. “I have no idea why I was like, ‘This is what I want to do.’ ” For about every 50 auditions she went on, she might book one small role.” The family eventually imposed a deadline: At Christmas, the year Rodrigo was 12, the auditions would stop. “Olivia had a strong sense of perseverance as a kid,” says her mother, Jennifer, “especially when it came to acting. She begged her parents to bring her to auditions in the city for commercials, hand-modeling gigs, anything-a five-hour drive that they would often make after school.
I was always super motivated to do things.” For a while, she insisted she was going to become an Olympic gymnast-she had a Gabby Douglas poster on her wall. “I would get a microphone from the Dollar Tree and make up songs about being lost in the grocery store,” Rodrigo says. Rodrigo’s parents, laid-back and (they’d be the first to tell you this, she says) not at all creative, found themselves with a guided missile toward Hollywood on their hands. “He’s introducing me to all the bands he went to see when he was my age.” A few weeks ago, they went to see Depeche Mode, too.
“I’m going to see them in two weeks with my dad,” she tells me.
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Her paternal family is Filipino, as my family is, and in A-1 Records, we joke about the more-or-less accurate ethnic stereotype about Filipinos: We all know how to sing.
Rodrigo, a bubbly and precocious go-getter, embraced the vibes, going to the county fair to see Weezer for her first concert on YouTube, you can watch her at eight years old, singing “Home Sweet Home” by Mötley Crüe in a local talent competition. Her mom was a teacher, her dad a therapist, and their musical taste leaned toward grunge, rock, and alternative: No Doubt, the White Stripes, ’80s metal, riot grrrl.
Rodrigo was born in Riverside County, in Southern California, the year that Taylor Swift moved to Nashville to become a country star. Rodrigo describes her new music as being “about figuring stuff out, about failures and successes and making mistakes.” opposite: Miu Miu turtleneck sweater and briefs.
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