Olivia Rodrigo addresses 'weird' backlash over her babydoll dresses

Olivia Rodrigo has finally addressed the online criticism surrounding her recent choice to wear a babydoll dress.

For those unversed, the American singer donned a babydoll dress in her Drop Dead music video and at her recent Spotify Billions Club Live concert.

“That’s been making me so upset,” Olivia told Popcast. “Not even for me. People can say whatever they want. What’s really disturbing is I have worn outfits that are maybe revealing on stage. I’ve been on stage in a sparkly br* and little shorts, which is my right, that’s fun, I felt cool and comfortable in that."

"And like that wasn’t inappropriate, but me fully covered up in a dress that people deemed to be childlike was inappropriate," she continued.

The 32-year-old songstress further said, "it shows how we really normalize pedophilia in our culture. Also it’s just this rhetoric we’re fed as girls since we’re so little, which is, don’t wear that because then a man is going to sexualize your body and it’s your fault. It’s so weird.”

She went on to say that “I didn’t think that I looked se*y in that at all." I was like, this is so cool. I feel I look like Kathleen Hanna or Courtney Love, all these people who are my heroes, and I felt cool and comfortable in it. "

"I just think if we start dressing in a way that’s like, ‘I don’t want some f–king freak to think that I’m sexy like a baby’ or some crazy thing like that, I think it’s losing the plot a little bit. I’m just very protective of younger women, girls, and I don’t ever want them to be fed that rhetoric," added Olivia.