Here's how Ethel Kennedy inspired this Taylor Swift song from 2012

There is an interesting connection between the late Ethel Kennedy and Taylor Swift’s music.

Swift — who once dated Conor Kennedy, the grandson of Ethel and the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy — drew inspiration from the couple for her 2012 song “Starlight,” according to an article in The Wall Street Journal at the time.

Swift came up with the song after seeing an old photograph of the couple

“I just kind of wrote that song from that place, not really knowing how they met or anything like that,” Swift told the Journal.

“Starlight” appeared on Swift’s fourth studio album “Red,” which topped the Billboard 200 chart and has been certified seven times platinum by the RIAA.

Speaking about the song, Swift said she drew inspiration mainly from the 1950s and ‘60s. However, she went as far back as the 1940s, when she found a picture of the Kennedys dancing when they were about 17.

“That was kind of what that song was about,” Swift told the Journal.

She added that Kennedy’s daughter Rory attended one of Swift’s shows shortly after the song came out.

“I told her about the song and she was like, ‘you have to meet my mom. She would love to meet you,’” Swift said.

Ethel Kennedy died Thursday morning, a week after she was hospitalized after suffering a stroke in her sleep, her grandson Joe Kennedy III announced.

The widow, 96, the sister-in-law of President John F. Kennedy, Ethel Kennedy died from complications related to the stroke, the former congressman wrote in an X post.

“Along with a lifetime’s work in social justice and human rights, our mother leaves behind nine children, 34 grandchildren, and 24 great-grandchildren, along with numerous nieces and nephews, all of whom love her dearly,” Joe Kennedy wrote.

A “devout Catholic and a daily communicant,” Ethel Kennedy “is reunited with the love of her life, our father, Robert F. Kennedy,” Joe Kennedy’s post read.

Married in 1950, Ethel and Robert Kennedy had 11 children, including former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Her husband served as John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson’s attorney general before he chose to run for president in 1968. He was assassinated in Los Angeles that year, after winning the California Democratic presidential primary.

Ethel Kennedy had remained involved in the decades since, working on human rights campaigns and founding the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation. “Please keep her in your hearts and prayers,” Joe Kennedy II said at the end of his post.