In addition to its literal meaning, it comes from an album of songs composed when lang was in love with a married woman. I think she's also saying, I can't believe I've become this person who is so undone by another, and by love in general, that a simple smile can mean so much.
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It must have felt strange yet gratifying on some level for lang to be embraced in 1988 by Chatelaine magazine, then a bastion of mainstream straight female Canadian identity that she'd been trying to get away from. The background you give makes the song even more perfect, as no matter the sexuality of lang's married love interest, it must have been bemusing and confusing to find herself so attracted to a mainstream type of person with a lifestyle so unlike hers.
How perfectly "I can't explain why I become Miss Chatelaine" sums up how we're not as in control of...
@ac_arsenal ✅
It must have felt strange yet gratifying on some level for lang to be embraced in 1988 by Chatelaine magazine, then a bastion of mainstream straight female Canadian identity that she'd been trying to get away from. The background you give makes the song even more perfect, as no matter the sexuality of lang's married love interest, it must have been bemusing and confusing to find herself so attracted to a mainstream type of person with a lifestyle so unlike hers.
How perfectly "I can't explain why I become Miss Chatelaine" sums up how we're not as in control of ourselves and our identity when caught up in infatuation.
In addition to its literal meaning, it comes from an album of songs composed when lang was in love with a married woman. I think she's also saying, I can't believe I've become this person who is so undone by another, and by love in general, that a simple smile can mean so much.
@ac_arsenal ✅ It must have felt strange yet gratifying on some level for lang to be embraced in 1988 by Chatelaine magazine, then a bastion of mainstream straight female Canadian identity that she'd been trying to get away from. The background you give makes the song even more perfect, as no matter the sexuality of lang's married love interest, it must have been bemusing and confusing to find herself so attracted to a mainstream type of person with a lifestyle so unlike hers. How perfectly "I can't explain why I become Miss Chatelaine" sums up how we're not as in control of...
@ac_arsenal ✅ It must have felt strange yet gratifying on some level for lang to be embraced in 1988 by Chatelaine magazine, then a bastion of mainstream straight female Canadian identity that she'd been trying to get away from. The background you give makes the song even more perfect, as no matter the sexuality of lang's married love interest, it must have been bemusing and confusing to find herself so attracted to a mainstream type of person with a lifestyle so unlike hers. How perfectly "I can't explain why I become Miss Chatelaine" sums up how we're not as in control of ourselves and our identity when caught up in infatuation.
Plus Ben Mink was an amazing co-writer for her, wish they'd write another album together.
Plus Ben Mink was an amazing co-writer for her, wish they'd write another album together.
She refers to the song during a CBC interview when the album was celebrating its 25th anniversary. https://youtu.be/SuKfPqwitKk?feature=shared
She refers to the song during a CBC interview when the album was celebrating its 25th anniversary. https://youtu.be/SuKfPqwitKk?feature=shared