Taylor Swift Recalls Screaming “But Daddy I Love Him” During Teenage “Tantrum” in Resurfaced Clip

Taylor Swift foreshadowed her song “But Daddy I Love Him” some 16 years before it came out.

In a resurfaced interview with Popsugar from 2008, the singer explained how her banger “Love Story” came about.

“This song, I wrote it right after my one epic teenage tantrum that I ever threw in my whole life,” she said. “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 [it].”

“Love Story,” from the album Fearless, contained the lyrics, “That you were Romeo, you were throwin’ pebbles / And my daddy said, ‘Stay away from Juliet,'” among others directly referencing parental disapproval.
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The 2024 track “But Daddy I Love Him” (from The Tortured Poets Department) contains echoes of “Love Story” in that it’s also about a forbidden love of sorts—but this time the disapproval seemed to come from Swift’s fans rather than from her dad.

See lyrics such as: “Soon enough, the elders had convened / Down at the city hall / ‘Stay away from her'”

While Swifties thought this song was about their fave’s ex Harry Styles before it came out (because of a T-shirt he once wore bearing the words “but Daddy I love him”), the widely accepted narrative now is that it’s about her fans disapproving of her fling with controversial musician Matty Healy circa May 2023.