Many fans believe that her song “But Daddy I Love Him” is inspired from — but the actual story is seemingly much more personal. In a 2008 resurfaced interview with , Swift, now 34, opened up about being at odds with her father, Scott, when she was dating someone her parents didn’t approve of. While recalling a particularly bad argument, she shared that she screamed the words, “ ,” before running off to write “Love Story,” a hit song off her second studio album, .
“This song, I wrote it right after my one epic teenage tantrum that I ever threw in my whole life,” Swift explained to the outlet in the . “And I remember screaming something, like, ‘But daddy, I love him!’ And running out and storming into my room and slamming the door and then I sat down on the floor and wrote this song.” “But daddy I love him” first became a famous phrase when it was said by Ariel in Disney’s 1989 classic.
It’s now also a standout track from Swift’s 2024 album, — and one of the songs the singer added to the section of her worldwide . Swift released in April. While some fans believed a majority of the record would be an ode to her six-year relationship with ex , many of the songs seemingly focused on The 1975’s , whom she dated following her split from Alwyn, 32.
Swift and Healy, 35, were first linked in 2014, nearly nine years before their brief fling. The duo sparked a romance in April 2023 but had called it quits by that June. While a source exclusively .
