[5] However, she revealed to Mike Adam in August 2017 that after doing charity work earlier that year, she felt rejuvenated and started creating music again, which eventually led to an album.
[6] In an interview with Elvis Duran during his morning radio program in August 2017, Lovato revealed that the track would be on its parent album, Tell Me You Love Me.
[13] Billboard listed "Daddy Issues" at number sixty for their 100 Best Songs of 2017, called it as a highlight of the album and described it as "all mysterious and smoky in the verses before exploding into a whopper of a chorus that stings and stabs".
[14] Upon reviewing its parent album, Mikael Wood of Los Angeles Times described the track as "unapologetically twisted", compared it to the lead single "Sorry Not Sorry" as "catchy and funny and sexy and daring".
[15] Jamieson Cox of Pitchfork compared the track to previous other recordings Lovato wrote about the relationship with her birth father, describing it as "remarkably frothy".