![]() Naomi Cowan: Well, thankfully, that wasn’t a club-bopping song, so I don’t think it’s… somewhere I would… it’s not a song I would hear other than, like, you know, like the music video playing on TV or something like that, you know? It’s one of those songs that they play at the end of a party when you’re trying to get everybody to go home. Melissa: Do you remember the first time you heard that song after the breakup? Naomi Cowan: So, for sure, I couldn’t listen to that album or that song. Like everybody knew we were toge- I just didn’t like that part of it, that felt way more dishonoring. It was like just the blatant disrespect more than, so him wanting to go in another direction. Once you go to like similar high schools in the same neighborhood, you know? So I think that part was more painful to me. Cause it’s also embarrassing, right? I grew up in a very small town, so everybody knows everybody. But at the same time it was, it still was hurtful to know that that was happening behind my back. Melissa: You’re almost making me feel glad, grateful for the guy who dumped me because I was a virgin. Sometimes I was hurt, but then I had a great time at that party cause I was like, “Well, pressure’s off of me.” ![]() I think for me, I was actually kind of grateful because I do have this very strange ability to let things go. And I found someone who wants to go there with me.” That’s really what was going on, to be honest, cause I just wasn’t ready with him. And so, I think for him, he really should have just said, “Hey, listen, like I want to take this next step. ![]() It was during the time in our lives where a lot of people were becoming more and more sexually active and whatever, right? So I know for a fact that I remember when he and I were dating, I wasn’t ready. But I definitely wouldn’t be able to listen to that again after that song again after that. And he did end up being in a relationship with the girl he was cheating on me with.Ĭourtney: Wow. And then I think that was his way of trying to tell me too, that he was cheating on me. Right? So…Ĭourtney: She’s unbelievably beautiful, talented, a genius. cheating the whole time.Ĭourtney: That whole album is about him cheating on and breaking up with Chilli from TLC. And when I listen to it, the song is saying like, I have to let this relationship burn. You know, like, “Hey, this song is really where I’m at right now,” or something weird like that. His friends, my friends - we were getting ready and I just remember like him sending me a message. And I knew all of us, like everyone was gonna be there at the same party, meaning my boyfriend was gonna be there. My friends and I were, we were all going out to a party. I’ll never forget it because two things were happening. It was the first person I called my boyfriend. ![]() It was a very serious relationship for me at the time. Naomi Cowan: There’s a song called “Let It Burn” and it was on this album that he had called Confessions. Melissa: Naomi, I understand that you have a song that has been completely ruined for you by an ex, and I was wondering if you could tell us what that was and then we will do our best to commiserate. I am a singer, songwriter, and creative from Jamaica, and I love to make music and I love to perform it. Melissa: Welcome to Songs My Ex Ruined, the show where we talk about songs that have been ruined by our exes. In her 30s.Ġ8:20: How Naomi’s love life influences her songwriting.ġ3:38: When Naomi realized she was ready to find love again and immediately gets ghosted. If you’re feeling bummed out about love, Courtney suggested listening to Carly Simon’s “Coming Around Again.”Ġ0:35: The story of this on-again/off-again relationship and Usher, who notoriously wrote an album about cheating on and breaking up with his then-girlfriend Chilli from TLC.Ġ4:35: And what happened when Naomi got back together with that guy.Ġ6:14: Courtney’s story of when she got dumped by a song. She also just released a holiday song, her take on “ Santa Claus Do You Ever Come to the Ghetto? ” with her mom, Carlene.Ĭourtney has endless breakup mixes, this is one on Spotify partly inspired by the guy who dumped her with a Blur song. Stream Naomi Cowan’s Star Girl EP and the Star Girl mixtape presented by Walshy Fire and Major Lazer. Once someone sends you Usher’s “Burn” as a statement of where they’re at in the relationship, all you can do is let it burn. Yes, she is the daughter of reggae greats Carlene Davis and Tommy Cowan. But have you ever had someone break up with you and announce they were cheating, all using a song? That’s what happened to Jamaican artist Naomi Cowan. Those high school breakups can be a real shock to the system.
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