Country Singer Harper Grace Addresses Faking Engagement for New Single 'If Daddy Says No'
Harper Grace announced her engagement back in January… but it was all fake.
The 24-year-old country music singer used the announcement as the start of promo for her latest single “if daddy says no,” and continued with engagement photos and more before revealing it was all fake in mid-February.
Now, Harper is speaking out about faking the engagement and how it and the song helped her work through a real situation where her dad didn’t approve of her beau.
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“I’ve always been really close with my dad, and this certain relationship just did not honor me, and it really didn’t honor my dad,” she told Country Now. “They had zero respect for my father and his upbringing with me and him, literally just let alone being my dad. He was a wonderful dad, and this guy just was so disrespectful, and I was caught up in all of it. Luckily, I’m so grateful that my dad really did say no.”
She added that when the fake engagement idea came to her, she couldn’t help but go through with it.
“I think some people are probably going to think I’m crazy for faking my own engagement. But honestly, I got so into just the artistic take on it because the song means so much to me. I wanted to put myself in the position of how I thought it could have played out if I went that route,” Harper explained. “I had this reoccurring nightmare in the midst of the relationship with this guy where he would be down on one knee asking me to marry him, and I would freeze up and I wouldn’t know what to say. And that should have been my telltale sign a long time ago to peace out and leave. The Lord was probably speaking prophetically in my dream saying, get out.”
The music video, which you can see here, features her real-life dad, and her love interest is played by a close friend. She notes that she doesn’t want to downplay anyone’s real engagement, and the next time she posts about an engagement, it will be real.
“I don’t want to downplay anybody’s real engagement or anybody’s real call-off of an engagement or anyone’s real wedding…I want to be married, I want to be a wife, I want to be a mom,” the singer says. “I really, really desire a spouse one day. But with this song in particular, I was like, I want to play into this creative, vulnerable, artistic side as much as I possibly can, and what better way than to fake my engagement? So that’s what I did.”
While her engagement wasn’t real, this time, there have been several celebrities who have recently gotten engaged!