A viral internet song “I Have One Daughter” originated from a Tinder conversation.
The audio, which has over 120,000 uses on TikTok, follows a dialogue between two dating app users.
โYou have any kids?โ one Tinder user asks the other in the song.
โYes, I have one daughter. How about you?โ the other responds.
โHow many baby daddies do you have? If you donโt mind me asking,โ the first speaker returns, seemingly not realizing that one child can only have one biological father.
The miscommunication evolves throughout the pop song. Inspired by the track, creators are putting their own spin on the tune to depict strange dialogues.
For example, a paleontology volunteer posted a parody video of conversations she has with people who donโt think fossils are proof dinosaurs exist. Another creator shared a video reenacting questions she is commonly asked as a female engineer. Internet personality Trisha Paytas even stepped in with her version of the trend to explain why she doesnโt plan to have more kids.
Other creators have posted skits based on questions they are frequently asked to spread awareness on gaps in public information or missed social queues.
While the song has inspired thousands of users on the app, it was created by one person: Creator Luke Holloway (@lewky____).
Meet Luke Holloway: The musical mind behind โI Have One Daughterโ
TikTok creator Luke Holloway (@lewky____) created the song as part of an online series where he turns “terrible” Tinder conversations into music.
Holloway tells TODAY.com that he has over a decade of experience producing music and wanted to create a presence for himself on social media. The inspiration for his Tinder videos came from Gabriel Kahane, a composer who used to turn Craigslist posts into songs.
โIโd been trying on and off for years to put some funny stuff out on the internet,โ Holloway says. โItโs hard to actually stick to it, but last year, I thought โOkay, Iโm actually going to do it.โโ
The videos, such as his songs “Say Potato!” and “Do You Do Cocaine?” started to take off online. Many of his songs have gained millions of views, but his most popular track so far is โI Have One Daughter.” The original video, which is number 25 in his series of Tinder parodies, has over 31 million views on Instagram and over 17 million views on TikTok.
Holloway says he based the tune off a Tinder conversation sent to him by one of his followers. While some of his past videos have views in the millions, he did not expect that “I Have One Daughter” would go so viral.
โIt was just one of them on my list,โ Holloway says. โI just really didnโt think it would blow up the way it did.โ
The musician adds that watching other users relate the song to their own personal experiences has been rewarding.
โItโs been fun to see people take it and use it for their own personal issues, their own things, where they feel like they say something to somebody, but the other person is not understanding them,” Holloway says. โThat seems to be sort of the universal usage of it.โ
When it comes to his production process, Holloway says he aims to create a new Tinder song once a week.
He says the creation of โI Have One Daughterโ started with a beat that felt “right for the conversation.” From there, he found a chord progression he liked and came up with the song’s first line, then began “riffing” and eventually landed on the song’s melody. In the video, Holloway sings the lyrics and dresses up in costume.
For the song, which he says only took around two hours to write, Holloway took some inspiration from Adeleโs โSend My Love (To Your New Lover).โ
Holloway adds his songs are influenced by his theatrical background and that the “bones” of his internet songs are musical theater.
One day, Holloway says he would like to turn all his Tinder conversations into a live musical.
โTheater is dialogue,โ Holloway says. โThe songs are supposed to be, generally speaking, literal dialogue set to music. So thatโs exactly what Iโm doing in my songs.โ
