Elvis Costello praises Taylor Swift: "I think we'll all be working for her eventually"

In a new interview with Best Fit, Costello spoke about Olivia Rodrigo's Sour album credits, which includes Taylor Swift, Hayley Williams and more, "It’s not my speed and I don't see it that way in this instance," Costello said. "Who knows? This young woman may have a huge career, or she may just make one record."

Costello continued, "When people were like "Taylor Swift will be here today, gone tomorrow," I thought, are you really sure about that? I think we'll all be working for her eventually. She's smart and she knows what she's doing. She can write and sing, and people love it. What's the matter with that?"

He also spoke about defending Olivia Rodrigo after she was accused of plagiarising "Pump it Up" with her song "Brutal", "I think if you took a shape of melody that was so obviously a bad gloss of somebody else's, you would have a case. But that particular thing seemed to be a common language shared by a bunch of songs, and I could give you the continuity of songs, and you know what it is I'm sure, traced back to Chuck Berry and probably beyond that, through Bob Dylan to me."

Costello added, "What about U2’s "Get On Your Boots"? Not a huge hit I have to say, but Dylan actually said to me as a joke one day when I happened to go to his show, "How could U2 do that to your song? How did they take your song like that?" And I said, "Well, I think you're making fun of me now. That's a joke, I guess", because obviously he must know that I stole that delivery of "Pump it Up" from his song in the same way."