Al has done numerous tunes examining "codependent enmeshment" (Google Pia Mellody) from different perspectives, including "Not the Doctor," "Precious Illusions," "You Owe Me Nothing in Return," "Fear of Bliss" and "Bent 4 U."
Dominance and submission (a.k.a. "control") issues are regular fair in her journal work. All of the mentioned tunes (and this one) smack of directly targeted messages to various intimates along the way, though "20/20" positively aches with regret for having expressed insecurity as perfectionistic insistence.
Al has shown herself to be =very= perfectionistically insistent =intra=personally, so it's probably no surprise that she may find herself to be thus =inter=personally.
Or, of course, she may simply be writing a commentary about what she sees others do. It wouldn't be the first time her work has been misunderstood to be autobiographical when it actually isn't. Coming on the heels of the Ryan Reynolds heartbreaker, however...
Al has done numerous tunes examining "codependent enmeshment" (Google Pia Mellody) from different perspectives, including "Not the Doctor," "Precious Illusions," "You Owe Me Nothing in Return," "Fear of Bliss" and "Bent 4 U."
Dominance and submission (a.k.a. "control") issues are regular fair in her journal work. All of the mentioned tunes (and this one) smack of directly targeted messages to various intimates along the way, though "20/20" positively aches with regret for having expressed insecurity as perfectionistic insistence.
Al has shown herself to be =very= perfectionistically insistent =intra=personally, so it's probably no surprise that she may find herself to be thus =inter=personally.
Or, of course, she may simply be writing a commentary about what she sees others do. It wouldn't be the first time her work has been misunderstood to be autobiographical when it actually isn't. Coming on the heels of the Ryan Reynolds heartbreaker, however...