Pop singer Olivia Rodrigo said in a recent Q-and-A with Saturday Night Live actor Bowen Yang that she once believed only white girls could become pop stars.

“I feel like I grew up never seeing that,” she said of nonwhite stars. “Also, it was always like, ‘pop star,’ that’s a white girl,” Rodrigo said.

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