In her latest studio album “The Tortured Poets Department”, Taylor Swift introduced to music lovers a composition titled “But Daddy I Love Him”. 

Initially, the audience speculated that the song was inspired by the line ” But daddy I love him ” (roughly translated as ” but dad, I love him already “) of the mermaid Ariel in the animated film. Disney, when she confessed to her father that she had a crush on Prince Eric. However, it seemed that was not the case. 

In fact, “but daddy I love him ” is a sentence that Taylor Swift once said to her father during an argument about the guy she was dating. This was revealed by the female singer herself through an interview in 2008, when sharing about the 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 of the hit “Love Story” from the record “Fearless”. 

“ I remember shouting something like ‘but dad, I love him’ (but dad I love him) and then running into the room and slamming the door. After that, I sat down on the floor and started composing the song ‘Love Story,'” Taylor Swift shared. 

Many years later, ” but daddy I love him ” is no longer an angry statement but has become the inspiration for Taylor Swift to compose another complete song and bring it to the album “The Tortured Poets Department”. . Many people humorously said that it seemed that Taylor Swift intentionally revealed “But Daddy I Love Him” ​​16 years ago but no one knew. 

On the other hand, “But Daddy I Love Him” ​​was also added by Taylor Swift to the official setlist of “The Era Tour”. The song has earned more than 145 million streams on the Spotify platform and is one of the most listened to tracks on the record “The Tortured Poets Department”.