Taylor Swift is the absolute best when it comes to playing the big game. For the latest proof, just look at one of the fan favorites from her latest album, Department of Tormented Poets“But dad I love him.”
The title was originally thought to be a winking nod to a line spoken by Ariel in the classic 1989 Disney cartoon The little Mermaid, in which the smitten mermaid gave up her voice to be with Prince Eric. But as it turns out, the movie — which came out the same year Swift, now 34, was born — wasn't the inspiration for the song after all.
In a reappearance Popsugar clip from 2008, Swift described a fight with her father Scott that arose after the then-19-year-old singer was apparently dating a man her parents didn't care about. “This song, I wrote it right after my one epic teenage tantrum of my entire life,” Swift said in the clip. “And I remember screaming something like, 'But Dad, I love him!' And running out and into my room and slamming the door and then I sat on the floor and I wrote this song.”
The song she was referring to was “Love Story” from her second studio LP in 2008 Fearless. On the current European leg of her Eras tour, “But Daddy” is among the new songs Swift added to the revamped setlist.
Watch the resurfaced clip of Swift detailing the origins of “But Daddy I Love Him” below.
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