Though elements of the Juliette Barnes character began in with a similar narrative to Taylor Swift, including the young starlet needing Auto-tune to fix her vocals, and being the young upstart who upstages legends, the character became much more complex over time, including being upstaged herself at one point by the younger reality star Layla Grant. Instead of symbolizing a specific real life counterpart in Nashville, Scarlett O’Connor symbolizes the hundreds, maybe thousands of Nashville musicians living in the shadows of the stars, sometimes receiving big breaks, sometimes sinking right back into obscurity, and most importantly, battling their own psychological hangups with stardom, and attempting to balance musical passion with personal life, love, and artistry.