Oliver Anthony had rather a lot to get off his chest on his new track, “Scornful Girl,” which finds the singer-songwriter venting about his divorce.
If the lyrics of the June-released track are to be taken as autobiographical, Anthony implies that his spouse is shaking him down for cash amid authorized proceedings following the dissolution of their marriage. The Virginia resident has saved his private life out of the general public eye, however it’s recognized that he had a spouse and youngsters when he first blew up in 2023 with “Wealthy Males North of Richmond.”
“The court docket says 50/50, however the math don’t appear proper with a scornful girl,” Anthony belts on the fiddle-heavy monitor. “She will be able to have all the cash, and so they can hold all the celebrity/ I’d return to being broke as a joke if I might simply get a break from the ache.”
The scorching monitor arguably speaks for itself, however on a latest episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the podcaster — who had Anthony as a guest on his present in 2024 — shared his model of the story behind “Scornful Girl.” “I’ll inform you guys what occurred,” Rogan stated on the present. “Oliver Anthony has no cash. He’s poor, he’s promoting farm tools. He places this track on YouTube, he’s a f–king celebrity. He doesn’t know what to do, he freaks out. He asks me for recommendation.”
The comic went on to elucidate how he urged Anthony to not “signal something with anyone.”
“I’m going, ‘You’re unbiased, you’re already there,’” Rogan continued. “‘You already made it.’ Reduce to: He begins making hundreds of thousands of {dollars}, doing arenas. The spouse divorces him, she desires all the things. She desires greater than half. She desires all the cash he’s going to be making sooner or later, ’trigger she was with him when he was broke. He’s simply tortured, desires to die. And he writes this track.”
Rogan’s remarks got here simply earlier than the discharge of “Scornful Girl,” which Anthony despatched to him earlier than it dropped. In a video shared to the musician’s Instagram, the podcaster additionally praises the monitor forward of its launch on a special episode of JRE, saying, “That’s what I’m speaking about … in the course of all this honey honey sugar s–t, there’s nonetheless Oliver Anthony.”
It’s been almost two years since Anthony went from unknown to Billboard Hot 100-topping artist in a matter of days. After a video of him performing his independently launched single “Wealthy Males North of Richmond” went mega viral, the ballad debuted at No. 1 on the singles chart, making him the first artist to ever achieve this with out having appeared on it beforehand.
Take heed to “Scornful Girl” beneath.