‘Christmas Wrapping’ songwriter praises Olivia Rodrigo’s “homage” festive single and Robbie Williams wades in on comparisons

The songwriter for ‘Christmas Wrapping’ has praised Olivia Rodrigo for making a “homage” to the song on her new festive single, while Robbie Williams has spoken about the comparisons to one of his tracks. READ MORE: Olivia Rodrigo – ‘You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love’ review: a bittersweet, cinematic odyssey from a generational talent Rodrigo dropped ‘Take Me Home (4 Christmas)’ as her first festive single last week, and it arrived with a star-studded music video that saw her team up with Sex And The City‘s Cynthia Nixon and SNL‘s Ben Marshall. Upon its release, the track immediately drew comparisons to the 1981 track from The Waitresses, ‘Christmas Wrapping’. The band’s songwriter and guitarist Christopher Butler has now shared a post on Facebook addressing the similarities and revealing that the pop star reached out to him ahead of the song being released. “About two months ago, I received a weird email from someone claiming to be “Olivia Rodrigo”. It was filled w/ Waitresses gush, and just had to be fake,” he wrote. “Said she’d written a Christmas song, and invited me to hear it. I didn’t know who OR was, so I did a deep dig. Wow…what a career.” He then recalled getting ...