 Elvis Costelio has defended pop star Olivia Rodrigo after she was accused of lifting one of his guitar riffs, Brutal, a track on Rodrigo's number one album is based around a punk chord sequence that also featured in Costelio's 1978 hit Pump It. But when a Twitter user said Rodrigo's song was pretty much a direct lift, Costelio replied and said that this was fine with him. It is how rock and roll works he continued. Take the broken pieces of another thrill and make a brand new toy, he said. And that's what I did as in him himself. The veteran singer-songwriter also included hashtag referencing Bob Dylan's 1965 classic subterranean homesick blues which inspired Pump It Up. And Chuck Berry's 1956 single Too Much Monkey Business which influenced the Dylan song. Costelio's relaxed reaction comes despite a surge in music copyright cases in recent years.