Robbie Williams发帖力挺Olivia Rodrigo圣诞新歌 被14岁女儿笑称在蹭热度
英国歌手 Robbie Williams（52岁）11月11日在 Instagram 发了一篇长帖，讲述自己与14岁女儿 Teddy 的一段视频通话。他的新歌争议帖先在网上引发猜测，他向女儿解释自己没有在与 Olivia Rodrigo 争吵，女儿听完却回了一句：他这是在蹭热度（clout chasing）。Williams 把这段对话原样写进帖子，自嘲说这是他多年来最成功的一次蹭热度。在此之前的11月9日，他已发帖公开力挺 Rodrigo，称网友指其圣诞新歌抄袭他2012年歌曲《Candy》的说法站不住脚，他本人根本不在乎，也不会追究。
争议源于 Rodrigo 的第一首圣诞单曲《take me home (4 christmas)》。据 Far Out 报道，这首歌11月6日发布后获得好评，也有听众指出它的旋律与 Williams 2012年的热门歌曲《Candy》以及 The Waitresses 1981年的节日歌曲《Christmas Wrapping》相似。《Christmas Wrapping》的作者 Chris Butler 此前对《Variety》表示，Rodrigo 早在约两个月前就给他发过邮件、请他提前试听，他听后觉得这首歌很好、会成为热门，他也不会追究。Rodrigo 本人截至11月11日尚未公开回应这场讨论，Tyla 表示已联系她的代表求置评。
Williams 说，经纪团队告诉他网上有人在议论两首歌相似，他便在11月7日在 X 上只写了一句「圣诞快乐 @oliviarodrigo x」，本意是开个玩笑、轻轻推一下话题，没想到粉丝分不清这是挑衅、玩笑还是声援。到了11月9日，他在 Instagram 发长帖正式表态：歌曲之间出现相似，有些指控可以理解、有些完全有理，但大多数在他看来不成立，因为音符与和弦就那么多，写着写着难免走到别人走过的地方。他写道，他喜欢 Rodrigo，在他看来她只是无意间碰到了他某首歌的一段回声，而他根本不在乎。他还说，保护作品与把每一段似曾相识的旋律都当成中彩票的机会是两回事，这类追索已经变得像追着救护车揽案子，令他反感。
11月11日的帖子接着讲了女儿的反应。Williams 在视频通话里告诉 Teddy，网上有人说 Rodrigo 的新歌有一部分听起来像爸爸的歌，Teddy 立刻拿起另一台设备搜索，随后问他：爸爸，你为什么在跟 Olivia Rodrigo 争吵？Williams 向她解释，根本没有争吵、从来没有，他第二天就会发一篇夸 Rodrigo 的帖子。Teddy 安静了一会儿，然后说她知道爸爸在做什么，Olivia 也会知道。Williams 问她自己在做什么，她答：蹭热度。
Williams 在帖子里连声自嘲：被自己疼爱了14年、一心想让她刮目相看的长女指控蹭热度，言下之意是 Rodrigo 有热度、而他正缺。他说自己原以为两人是同行，如今看来分工已经不同：Olivia 做音乐，他追 Olivia。他确认那篇夸 Rodrigo 的帖子已经如约发出，内容温暖、大方、真诚，并打趣说按女儿对他行业地位的评估，这大概是他多年来最成功的一次蹭热度。帖子最后他对 Teddy 写道：爸爸马上要在 Melbourne 一座5万人的体育场演出，这对你大概毫无意义，爱你的爸爸。粉丝在评论区接话说，十几岁的女儿就是这样让父母瞬间清醒，还有人夸 Teddy 做得好、让她爸爸保持谦逊。
Robbie Williams Defends Olivia Rodrigo's Christmas Song, and His 14-Year-Old Daughter Calls It Clout Chasing
British singer Robbie Williams, 52, posted a long message on Instagram on November 11 recounting a video call with his 14-year-old daughter, Teddy. After his posts about a song dispute drew speculation online, he explained to his daughter that he was not beefing with Olivia Rodrigo. She listened, then told him what he was doing was clout chasing. Williams wrote the exchange into the post and joked that, by her assessment, it was probably the most successful piece of clout chasing he had done in years. Two days earlier, on November 9, he had already defended Rodrigo in a post, saying claims that her new Christmas song copied his 2012 song "Candy" did not hold up, that he could not care less and that he would not pursue the matter.
The dispute began with Rodrigo's first Christmas single, "take me home (4 christmas)." According to Far Out, the song, released on November 6, drew praise, but some listeners pointed to melodic similarities with Williams' 2012 hit "Candy" and with "Christmas Wrapping," The Waitresses' 1981 festive song. Chris Butler, who wrote "Christmas Wrapping," previously told Variety that Rodrigo had emailed him about two months earlier and invited him to hear the song early; he said it was great and going to be a smash, and that he would not go after her. Rodrigo herself had not publicly responded to the discussion as of November 11, and Tyla said it had contacted her representative for comment.
Williams said his management had told him there was chatter online about similarities between one of his songs and one of Rodrigo's, so on November 7 he posted a single line on X, "Happy Christmas @oliviarodrigo x," intending a bit of gentle mischief to stir online debate. Fans could not tell whether it was a call-out, a joke or a defense. On November 9 he set out his position in a long Instagram post: some claims of songs sounding alike he could understand, some were justified, but most, he wrote, were nonsense, because there are only so many notes and chords, and only so many ways of putting them together before a writer inevitably lands somewhere somebody else has been. He wrote that he loves Rodrigo and that, to him, she may have accidentally stumbled across a musical echo of his in one of her new songs, and he could not care less. Protecting a work, he added, is different from treating every vaguely familiar sequence of notes as a winning lottery ticket, and he called that kind of pursuit ambulance chasing and disgusting.
The November 11 post then told his daughter's side. On the video call, Williams told Teddy that the internet was saying part of Rodrigo's new song sounded like one of Daddy's. Teddy immediately picked up another device and started searching, then asked, visibly distressed, why he was beefing with Olivia Rodrigo. Williams explained that there was no beef and there had never been any beef, and that a complimentary post about Rodrigo would go up the next day. Teddy went quiet, then said she knew what he was doing, and Olivia would know too. When he asked what he was doing, she answered: clout chasing.
Williams turned the moment on himself in the post: his firstborn, the child he had loved and spent fourteen years trying to impress, had accused him of clout chasing, which suggested Rodrigo had the clout and he was in need of some. He said he had thought they were colleagues, but apparently the roles had changed: Olivia makes music, and he chases Olivia. He confirmed the promised post about Rodrigo had gone up, warm, generous and entirely sincere, and joked that, judging by his daughter's assessment of his standing in the music industry, it was probably the most successful piece of clout chasing he had done in years. He signed off to Teddy by noting he was about to play to 50,000 people in a stadium in Melbourne, which he appreciated meant absolutely nothing to her. Fans replied in the comments that teenage daughters have a way of humbling their parents, and praised Teddy for keeping her father grounded.
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