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Album: Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart? (2014)
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Songfacts®:

  • The third single off the Anybody Wanna Buy a Heart? album is a touching ballad, which finds a vulnerable Michelle singing about a relationship going awry. The whole LP was inspired by a lover who left the songstress because he was having a baby with another woman. Her heart was broken hence the album title. "You can have your heart broken so many times," she told The Boombox, "you want God to buy your heart."
  • Lyrically, Michelle seems similarities between her self and Taylor Swift, who is famous for writing songs about the men in her life. "I'm the black Taylor Swift," she declared to The Boombox. "If I can't write a song about you, I'm not going to date you. I always write about who I am dating."

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