r/SipsTea • u/sco-go • 13d ago

Feels good man Hey there, is that Delilah?

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u/Rand0m_Spirit_Lover 13d ago edited 13d ago

Delilah is former professional distance/steeplechase runner Delilah DiCrescenzo.
She met the plain white T’s singer through a mutual friend, in like 2001 or so.
They were both from the Chicago area and he wrote the song when she went away to college (at Columbia in New York), they were never in a relationship though.
The woman on stage here is not Delilah

The actual Delilah:

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u/ri89rc20 12d ago

Yeah a good example of how people write songs. Everybody wanted to believe there was a great love, a story, that the song is "true".

In reality many songs are written because the girl has a name that works well, and a bout of fantasy, with maybe a kernel of reality.

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u/elheber 12d ago

Back in the geocities era of the internet, a pre-incel satire (?) website blew up when its owner came up with the now infamous Ladder Theory. One of the other popular theories on the site was about Für Elise, in which Beethoven would bring women to his home and convinced them to sleep with him by naming this unpublished song after them. No matter how hard he tried, however, one woman would not put out... Elise. So he doubled-down, officially published it as "Für Elise" and played it in his concerts.

Hey There Delilah would therefore be the Tom Higgenson's Für Elise.

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u/Relative-Relief-8816 11d ago

there was a great love

It just wasnt reciprocated. 

And this plummeted the lovesick man who was rejected to greatness.

Happens time and again. Just listen that Avril Lavigne song about the Skater Boy.

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u/ri89rc20 11d ago

Avril has stated a number of times that "Skater Boi" is just fictional, made up, based on a "what if".

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u/peach_dragon 12d ago

I just learned this about Toto's "Rosanna" (she was dating a member of Toto, but not the one who wrote the song). Bummed me out. At least she still has "In Your Eyes."

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u/Sufficient_Spray 12d ago

So
She claimed that the song “in your eyes” was about her. Peter Gabriel never said it was and still adamantly said it’s not about her. So I’m gonna believe the guy that wrote it.