Did Taco Bell Create A Pink Baja Blast In Honor Of Olivia Rodrigo?

I’m coming to you live from the Javits Center in New York City with late-breaking beverage news: Mountain Dew Baja Blast may become pink sometime next week. No, really: Pink Baja Blast may become available at a very specific location in a little over a week.

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Here’s the skinny, folks: This story is firmly in the “rumored, unconfirmed, seems likely” category, which means I can’t promise anything–hence the key bolded words above. That said, if I’ve learned anything in my occasionally pop-star-related journalism experience, it’s that these girlies are right more often than not. (I learned about the Selena Gomez OREO cookies from her rabid Twitter fanbase long before OREO made any official announcements.)

On Saturday, August 29th, Olivia Rodrigo is hosting the first Daisy Chain Fields music festival in Irvine, California. Olivia Rodrigo is a longtime fan of not only Taco Bell but specifically Taco Bell’s crowning achievement in beverage collaboration: Mountain Dew Baja Blast. (Earlier this year, she said her “dream” method for fans to experience her newest album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, was to listen to it top to bottom in a car full of friends while enjoying a Baja Blast.) According to the internet, these facts are about to come together in a major way.

Where did this Pink Baja Blast rumor come from?

Earlier today, Olivia Rodrigo Twitter absolutely blew up with a “leak” that her upcoming women-focused music festival would also feature the debut of a “You Seem Pretty Pink For A Baja Blast” specialty drink. Since many of those tweets featured an AI-generated image of said Pink Baja Blast laden with typos and visual inconsistencies, plenty of people (including me) instinctively wrote it off as fake slop. (For transparency, the mockup seen in the graphic at the top of this page was made using Photoshop with no AI whatsoever.)

That said, a second image floating around certainly looks like a real screenshot from Daisy Chain Fields’ website, which led me to a few other clues suggesting this leak has some legitimacy.

What evidence is there to suggest this Pink Baja Blast is real?

Let’s dig into this piece by piece. The leaks stated that this alleged Pink Baja Blast was revealed as part of the description for a Taco Bell Live Más Café pop-up posted on the “Beyond The Music” page of the Daisy Chain Fields website. An alleged screenshot of the Taco Bell pop-up details visually match the other pop-ups currently visible on that page. That isn’t a smoking gun in and of itself, but it does take a little finagling to fake something like that.

Here’s the real juicy stuff. At the bottom of the Daisy Chain Fields website, seven companies are listed as “Partners”: Athleta, Brooks, Depop, Etsy, Lego, Verizon, and Taco Bell. On the “Beyond The Music” page of the same website, only six of those companies are listed as hosting some sort of pop-up experiences at the one-day event. As you could probably assume, Taco Bell is the only company listed under “Partners” that does not have a pop-up listed on the “Beyond The Music” page at this time. That feels like a strange oversight… unless Taco Bell’s pop-up was removed from the website because it wasn’t supposed to be revealed just yet.

That’s where this story leaves us for now. If Pink Baja Blast does turn out to be true, it should be revealed sometime in the next week. If I hear anything else about this developing story, I’ll circle back with an update. Stay tuned to Sporked for all your alternatively-colored-soda news.