Taylor Swift is outwardly recounting her transient fling with Matty Healy on The Tortured Poets Department with “But Daddy I Love Him” most probably taking intention at fan criticism.
“I’ll let you know one thing presently / I’d relatively burn my whole life down / than listen to one extra 2d of all this bitching and moaning,” Swift, 34, sings on the track, which dropped on Friday, April 19. “I’ll inform you one thing about my good name / It’s mine alone to disgrace / I don’t care to these types of vipers wearing faded get dressed groaning.”
Swift and Healy, 35, had been first linked in 2014, nearly 9 years sooner than they were in reality concerned. Swift and the 1975 frontman in brief dated between April and May 2023. By that June, Us confirmed that their romance had fizzled out as a supply famous they have been “never severe.” (Several months later, Swift started seeing now-boyfriend Travis Kelce.)
Throughout Swift and Healy’s fleeting relationship, several of diehard fanatics criticized her for courting the British singer, regardless of his many past controversies. In January 2023, Healy mocked Swift’s good friend Ice Spice’s heritage and admitted to masturbating to images of brutalized women right through a radio interview. He eventually apologized to Ice Spice, 24, but didn’t remorseful about his remarks.
“Nobody is sitting there at night time slumped at their pc, and their boyfriend comes over and is going, ‘What’s incorrect, darling?’ and they cross, ‘It’s just this thing with Matty Healy.’ That doesn’t happen,” Healy informed The New Yorker in May 2023. “If it does, you’re both deluded or you are, sorry, a liar. You’re both lying that you are harm, or you’re slightly mental for being harm. It’s just other people going, ‘Oh, there’s a foul factor over there, let me get as as regards to it as possible so you'll be able to see how just right I am.’ And I roughly want them to try this, as a result of they’re demonstrating one thing so base level.”
Swift never publicly addressed her romance with Healy, his controversies or the fan backlash seemingly till writing “But Daddy I Love Him.”
“God save essentially the most judgmental creeps / who say they would like what’s best possible for me / sanctimoniously appearing soliloquies I’ll by no means see,” Swift sings. “Thinking they may be able to trade the beat of my heart when he touches me / and counteract the chemistry.”
She provides, “Undo the loss of life of me / you ain’t gotta pray for me / He’s my wild boy and I’m his wild child.”
Swift apparently refers to the critics as “Sara” and “Hannah.”
“I just discovered those folks best elevate you to cage you,” the Grammy winner sings. “Saras and Hannahs in their Sunday highest / Clutching their pearls sighing, ‘What a mess.’ I just learned those folks try and save you / because they hate you.”
In any other section, Swift sings about her parents, Scott and Andrea Swift, in the end approving of her “But Daddy I Love Him” muse.
“There’s a large number of other people on the town I bestow upon my fakest smiles / Scandal does humorous things to satisfaction but brings enthusiasts closer,” she croons. “When the heat died down, went to my folks / and so they came to visit / All the only moms are still maintaining out / but f—okay ‘em, it’s over.”
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The song identify has previously been presumed by means of fans to take inspiration from The Little Mermaid, the usage of the line Ariel tells her father after he disapproves of her feelings for human Prince Eric. Swift used the word to call out the haters.
“Screaming, ‘But Daddy I love him, I’m having his baby,’” she sings within the refrain. “No, I’m not but you will have to see your faces / I’m looking to floor it through the fences / No I’m not coming to my senses/ I realize it’s crazy but / he’s the one who I need.”
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