@MorwenEdelwhen 1:
surely it also depends upon what your 'take' on what is obviously a mans' song is, and on how you 'sell' it to your audience. Looking at the text it's a case of "I wish I was Single Again" meets "Billie Jean" with a hefty dose of prejudice and discrimination thrown in for good measure. On the surface, it's a 'black/white' story, but underneath it's representative for a world-wide problem. Whether Asian,native Australian, native American,jewish,moslem, christian etc. etc.,the basic story is the same, whether we're talking about the Caribbean, Australasia, Europe or wherever. The story/problem is well known in western Europe where immigrants with very conservative, almost tribal, backgrounds from Turkey and the arab countries are faced with modern, permissive, western society. However, the outcome over here is often much more serious- if she's lucky, the woman suffers serious GBH and is thrown out of the family/tribe, the worst case is a so-called 'honour murder'.(I will never understand why male/family honour depends so much upon the virginity of the daughters...)If the woman survives the GBH and the family rejection, she still has to face the possible/probable rejection by the lover and/or his family. If I were to sing a song like this then, irrespective of its origins, I would plug it as the best song I'd come across which illustrated the problems of discrimination and prejudice ( and male attitudes?) on a communal level. Otherwise- see SharonA.