Olivia Rodrigo Gives Subtly Bloodthirsty Answer To Question On Palace Of Versailles

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Olivia Rodrigo Gives Subtly Bloodthirsty Answer To Question On Palace Of Versailles

Pop star Olivia Rodrigo discussed filming her “drop dead” music video at the Palace of Versailles in an Elvis Duran Show appearance Thursday.

“Can you imagine actually having that as your home, as someone did?” host Elvis Duran asked.

“Honestly, yeah. I was thinking about it. I was trying to, like, picture myself as Marie Antoinette, like, living in that place. It’s insane. There’s, like, I think there’s like 3,000 rooms which is kind of an inconceivable amount of rooms in one place,” Rodrigo began. (RELATED: Celebs Re-Run ‘Summer Of Love’ Playbook On ICE Shootings)

She continued: “You know what? I was sitting there and I’m like, ‘No wonder the French, like, had this revolution.’ Like, if I saw this, I would be mad as hell too … This is crazy, it’s like, so opulent and beautiful and gauche, and like, yeah. But, filming there was an incredible experience. We got to have the whole place all to ourselves which was insane.”

It’s nice Rodrigo got the place to herself. Being among the great unwashed can be so tiresome.

Rodrigo simultaneously offers moral justification for the French Revolution while appreciating a monarchical project. She is clearly grateful for the continued existence and preservation of Versailles.

King Louis XIV was largely responsible for transforming his father’s Versailles chateau into a sprawling palace. Versailles was the seat of royal power. It was self-consciously opulent, meant to impress upon guests the supreme power of France’s monarchy.

Rodrigo gets to the heart of the French Revolution: resentment. “You have something I want, and I am going to invent a reason to take it.”

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 01: Olivia Rodrigo attends the 2023 Costume Institute Benefit celebrating “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty” at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 01, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images)

After the French Revolution came the Reign of Terror in which at least 300,000 citizens were arrested, over 16,000 were formally executed, about 10,000 died in prison, and many more were killed by mobs or in massacres. The Reign of Terror lasted roughly 10 months. It racked up an estimated death toll of 30,000 to 50,000 citizens.

Moreover, it is odd for Rodrigo to publicly sympathize with violent revolutionaries on the basis of “wealth inequality,” given her own wealth.

The pop star has an estimated net worth of $16 to $45 million, making her ultra-rich compared to most Americans, and impossibly rich compared to most people alive today. (Net worth estimates are often inaccurate, but at a minimum, Rodrigo projects an image of wealth and she’s a pop music star.)

By her own logic, an Uber driver would be morally justified in seizing Rodrigo’s possessions. After all, it’s not as though Rodrigo puts on a particularly humble public face. She reportedly wore a pair of $200,000 diamond earrings to the GQ Men of the Year party in November 2025. Rodrigo attended the Met Gala in 2021, 2022, and 2023, wearing undoubtedly expensive designer clothing each time. (RELATED: Self-Absorbed Stars Attend Met Gala In A Parade Of Fails)

Rodrigo skipped the Met Gala this year after liking an Instagram post criticizing Jeff Bezos’ involvement in the event. She reportedly attended an afterparty.

Those who decry the fortune of others tend to set the bar for “immoral hoarding” just above their own net worth.

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