"Devil's Got Your Boyfriend" by Tracy Bonham from the album Masts of Manhatta. 2010.
If you actually came back to hear the explanation on why this was song of the week, congrats on being such a dedicated reader! Thank you, really. Hopefully you're so interested because you enjoy my writing and/or music tastes. I mean, I suppose it's possible you just absolutely hated this song and wanted to know why on Earth I would pick it. Whatever YOUR reasonings for checking back, I'll give you MY reasonings (thoug abridged) for looking back upon the song. And yes, I did copy-and-paste this intro from the prior week's re-write. The explanations are different though, per below:
Well honestly, I think this song explains itself. It's a saucy, jazzy number telling that tell-tale insecurity every person has experience in a relationship before. The aptly named boyfriend so spoken of appears to be having an affair. Whether or not the Devil is a metaphor for evil and sin or just a nasty nickname for the "other woman" gets left up for interpretation. The interesting twist I'd say comes from who's telling of this love in the shadows: an outside party, likely friend of the spited girlfriend. In second person, full of "You"s and "Your"s. So if you, my faithful reader, are ever unfortunately in the same boat, it could sound as if Tracy Bonham is singing directly to you. Hopefully that's not the case... but at least there's a good song to shake your emotions out to, right? If you like it, you can actually pick it up for free at Amazon.com (at the time of writing), which, by the way, happens to be a great way to discover new sounds. Since this was my inlet to her work, I cannot tell you any more than those samples at Amazon can, so maybe you tell me if you've got something else good by her.
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