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Jul 21st 2023!⃝A bit against the grain here, after listening to this song a ton and how my own life has gone, I could see this being about loving a woman who is using you for attention and fighting those feelings. But I interpret it as competition. Maybe the singer and Michelle were friends and maybe there was a love triangle. Maybe when she’s stating “walk in the room, take off your coat, you look so nice, I’ve been so cold” maybe it’s about surviving an infidelity. Looking at your wayward partner, yearning for them to look at the singer as they look at Michelle, but also feeling disdain for the disloyalty and hurt. Maybe the singer was close to Michelle and it was a double-whammy of betrayal.
“You know just how to be cruel when you shake your hips that way, paint your lips that way/I don’t care what you say” I see that as Michelle making efforts to steal the singers partner and denying it. Maybe coming around more dressed up, nicer make up on, making moves, etc. and I think the singers life may have been peaceful until Michelle ruined her life with deceit, making her a monster from hell.
