Just read the article.

Why would any thinking person be surprised by the response? We ALL know that "perception is reality".

Effective communication is one of the single most difficult skills to master. Ensuring that your audience is hearing what you're saying instead of what they want you to say is a great challenge.

Add to that the ambiguity inherent in poetry and song writing and you have a recipe for misunderstanding.

No, this does not surprise me at all.

Oh, and for what it's worth, on reading the first 2 lines I thought it was about lesbianism too. Even by the end of the first verse I still wasn't certain it wasn't, even though the concept of jealousy had by then been introduced.

Personally I think the word choices were very poor from an effective communications perspective, UNLESS, despite claims to the contrary, they actually wanted the lesbian overtones to have traction.

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