Tyler Hilton remembers that Taylor Swift plays him songs from her diary

Tyler Hilton was impressed by “Nerdy” Taylor swiftTalent, when they first met when she was a teenager – but she didn’t necessarily see how her extreme star came.

While on tour and promotion of his new children’s book, Hilton (41) spoke Us every week And his past with the now mega pop star came.

“I interviewed Country Magazine and they talked about this girl Taylor Swift, who just came out, which was like 15. I heard her song” Tim McGraw “and I was so. “It sounds so stupid, but you have to be brave enough to write lyrics like her on the first record. It’s just not something to think of a professional composer.” When you think Tim McGraw, I hope you think my favorite song. “I would just never use Tim McGraw to the song. It’s so cool. I said (magazine): “Oh, by the way, the little thing you did on that new girl Taylor Swift, I’m actually a big fan of her song. She’s such a good composer. … How many 15 years are good composers?”

It turned out that Swift, now 35, was a “big fan” of Hilton who traveled, played a guest One tree hill and appeared as Elvis in 2006 Take a walk along the line.

“I didn’t know, but she watched all my videos on YouTube, as if all the little parodies I did. Her manager reached out and was like,” Wait, this girl Taylor Swift is actually a big fan of Tyler. He scares you mentioned her in this magazine. “And I thought,” Oh, that’s so adorable, “” Hilton continued and explained that Swift’s manager invited him to her show in “Little Country Bar in South California”.

Hilton participated and Swift revealed that she was on stage “Missing You”. She asked him to perform with her that night in 2007.

“(Was) a very fifteen -year -old,” he said. “He literally turns me on stage and goes,” I didn’t want to ask you behind the scenes because I was afraid you would say no, but would you be in my next music video? “… So I ended up in Music video “Teardrops on my Guitar”. And then she was like, “Oh, I’m doing some show, would you like to open up for me?” And she was just growing and enlarging. ”

Hilton and Swift remained in touch when she found success with the release of her singles.

“I was just enchanted and her family. We approached, and when I moved to Nashville, they let me live on their boat and lived with them for a while when I first moved to Nashville,” he recalled. “They were just as if they were Swifts – like my buds – and their little teenage daughter was a fan. And I’m glad,” Aw, that’s so sweet. “And now she’s the biggest star in the world.”

Hilton was on the ship “for a few weeks” before he found an apartment.

“She played songs in her bedroom from her diary for her second record,” he told us. “She played me” White Horse “and it was crazy because I’m in her bedroom and I like,” Whoa, this girl is actually like a princess, fairy, unicorn. “It is not an act – in fact she had written songs like a fluffy diary and she is the nerd, you know what is so sweet about her and I think

Hilton admitted that “he couldn’t believe she had become as famous” as her.

“We all thought she was so adorable. It’s like a intolerant girl in high school will become famous, she’s so serious,” he said. “She likes:” Do you want to hear another song from my diary? “I’m glad” Oh, Ok. ” And everyone was really good, but it was like “that’s so fun.” ”

As Swifties know, the winner of Grammy has since released 11 studio albums. Hilton, on his role, dropped five of his own albums and his first children’s book, Daddy: Live in Concertis 8 April. He got an idea of ​​the book after he performed for his daughter Winnie, now 5, during the pandemic at home with his wife, director Megan Park.

“It didn’t matter that I was a professional musician. Like, if there was a book just about a father whose daughter thought,” Oh, my God, my dad is the biggest rock star in the world, “Hilton explained.” I could only be any random guy for her. And she was still like, “Oh, my God.” I thought it was the biggest thing.

Hilton and the park also share the son of Benny, born in 2024.

“(Writing songs and books is actually so similar. The song is a little harder, because you also have to do music and so on, but I feel like I could write a thousand children’s books,” Hilton added. “It wasn’t easy, but it seemed very natural to me. And don’t understand me badly, I have a lot of help … but the editing process was so fun.”

While Hilton “loves” songs, he noted that a lot of this process came from the place of “love” or “desire”.

“They help me work through sadness or other but children’s books, it’s like: Our. “It’s such a fun, refreshing world.”