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In the end, he decided to reply to her email – and posted the text to his Facebook profile.

“If you really are you, thanks for contacting me. And your comments are really sweet, and very flattering,” he said.

“They’re really sweet and flattering… even if you AREN’T you.

“If you really are Olivia Rodrigo: I like you, I like your music. I like the arrangements especially. Soft-loud-soft, etc. And that your recordings sound like people are playing on them.

He continued: “I like that your lyrics are intense, real, and poetic. I like that you “got” my songwriting, and that you like our band.”

Butler also accepted the invitation to hear Rodrigo’s Christmas song, and told his followers: “Her song was/is great.

“It’s going to be a smash, maybe even that elusive Christmas number one contest they have every year in the UK.”

Although the song is indebted to the Waitresses’ new wave and post-punk sound, Butler does not receive a writing credit on Take Me Home (4 Christmas) as it neither samples nor interpolates any of his music.

Posting on social media, Rodrigo said it was written last summer with her longtime collaborator Dan Nigro, and Amy Allen, who has previously contributed to songs by Harry Styles, Sabrina Carpenter and Tate McCrae.

Meanwhile, the Christmas jumper-tastic video, external follows the single’s storyline, with SNL star Ben Marshall playing her feckless boyfriend, and Nixon starring as her prospective mother-in-law.