Cover Image: By Motown/Tamla Records-photographer-James Kriegsmann, New York (Billboard page 13) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Did the Motown artists that sang about infidelity ever actually get cheated on?
I get it. You break up with someone and you go through different levels of sadness. But with infidelity it isn’t just levels. There is an edge to that type of break-up.
A break-up caused by infidelity requires…stages.
This post describes 7: shock, denial, obsession, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.
The Motown artists seem to have never gone through any of those…or maybe they just got stuck in denial.
Take “I’d Rather Go Blind” by Etta James for example:
I would rather, I would rather go blind boy
Than to see you, walk away from me, child, oh, oooh
So you see I love you so much
That I don’t want to watch you leave me baby
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