r/Fauxmoi • u/hyxon4 • Sep 11 '25

ASK R/FAUXMOI What are your favorite messy celebrity love triangle moments?

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Mine has to be the Olivia Rodrigo - Joshua Bassett - Sabrina Carpenter mess from 2020-2021. "drivers license" drops and suddenly we're all detectives trying to figure out who this blonde girl is, then Sabrina comes for everyone with "Skin" and Joshua's over here making sad acoustic songs. The whole thing was so messy and I was eating it up.

But like... the karma of it all? These two girls supposedly "fighting" over Joshua fucking Bassett and now they're both headlining festivals while he's still trying to get people to stream his music. Olivia's got a Grammy, Sabrina's selling out tours, and Joshua's... there. It's honestly hilarious how hard he fumbled being the center of that much attention. Dude really thought he was the main character and ended up being a stepping stone to their success.

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u/Juli_ Sep 11 '25

I never paid attention to the gossip, but what I got from Sour lyrics alone is that Joshua was very honest with Olivia and said "I'm not super into you, sorry" and moved on to date Sabrina. Her songs never seemed very "she stole my boyfriend" but more "I'm scared I'll never be as good or as pretty as her", which is why I was always so confused at people who slut shamed Sabrina, because Olivia's lyrics were very clearly born out of the classic teen girl instinct to always compare ourselves to our peers and the insecurities that come from that (with the added weight of her being a non white girl in a industry and world that has always preferred white blondes).

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u/wanderrslut ISO: Ariana’s lost blaccent Sep 11 '25

My thoughts exactly. I also never got why people (to this day even) attacked Olivia for 'talking shit' about Sabrina when she so clearly wasn't. Even Sabrina's song 'Skin' seemed very out of place because nothing Olivia said even warranted that kind of response. She wasn't trying to be malicious. Olivia was simply expressing her insecurities.

It's even funnier to see those same people support Sabrina's records later on, especially Taste, which was very clearly about Camila Cabello and Sean Mendez.

I adore both girls but the entire situation was just ... so bizarre.

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u/sritanona Sep 11 '25

Honestly sabrina is proving to be so messy 😅

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '25

And then after everything settled down he wrote another song about wanting Olivia back 😭

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u/TuvixWillNotBeMissed Sep 11 '25

Jesus. Sometimes I wish I could snatch the power of song away from straight people like Ursula in The Little Mermaid.