Miriam by Norah Jones Song Info
Lyrically, Little Broken Hearts details the phases of a bitter break-up and this song finds an angry Jones confronting the other woman who lured her man to cheat. The spooky track is one of several songs on the album that contains darker material than Jones has done before. "Obviously I care a little bit about what people think, but I try not to," she told Exclaim! Magazine "I feel pretty secure in who I think I am and what I know I do. It's not like I do anything crazily different [on Little Broken Hearts], just a couple of songs were a little mean. It's not like I'm such a bad girl. I'm an adult. I'm not a little kid... It's not like I'm pulling one over on people. I am a nice person." "'Miriam' is one of those songs people react very differently to," Jones explained in the Spotify commentary for the album. "Some people laugh, some people think that it's funny. Some people think it's scary and creepy and disturbing. I like that it's kind of creepy. It's supposed to be. We really milked that element of it in the recording process because musically it sounds just as creepy as the words are."
