Question to songwriters/lyricists about singing about exes...

Say you write a song about someone while you are in a relationship with them, but then you break up.

How hard is it to keep singing it-do you take it off of your subsequent playlists? Do you have to distance yourself emotionally from the material to get through? Or does singing it bring a sort of catharsis for you? Or is worrying about whether the lyrics are still personally meaningful to you or not utterly beside the point of making and playing music?

I’ve been able to totally separate the two. They are my songs, not hers.

Some artists compose insanely popular songs about their exes by way of working their way through all of the crap they endured and in doing so let the entire world know they were screwing Warren Beatty.

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( Or so we are led to believe. )

In her case, I would guess she wrote it AFTER the relationship(s??) had ended but we have no way of knowing.