The Good Wife

Album: Kissproof World (2000)
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  • Wiedlin, who plays guitar in The Go-Go's, wrote this song with producer Joe Hardy. Says Wiedlin: "I love the song 'The Good Wife.' Another song about me: I think I was 12 years into a marriage at that time, and I tried really hard to be a good wife, and just had come to the conclusion that I just couldn't do it. A lot of times, I think, at the end of a relationship you do become sort of disillusioned with the idea of forever love and romance, and marriage itself. And that song kind of addresses it. It's kind of a self-loathing song, too, because it's like, 'I'm just a piece of crap who can't keep it together.' (laughs) But I really like that song, because it really represents what I was going through at the time." (Check out our interview with Jane Wiedlin.)

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