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“Stronger Than Me” tackles Winehouse’s back-and-forth experience with her early partner Chris Taylor. The two dated on and off before Winehouse came to the decision that Taylor simply wasn’t man enough for her, and that the roles in the relationship had quickly reversed.
The song stirred up some controversy due to its objectification of gender roles, with Winehouse insisting that her partner act manlier and tougher.
This version of the track includes a scatting intro to open the album, though the single edit of “Stronger Than Me” omits the introduction.
"I wrote [“Stronger Than Me} for a man that I was with at the time, who I wrote a lot of the songs about, and we had already split up a couple of times, and I really didn’t know why we were not supposed to be together. I mean, I know that if you break up with someone, when you get back together, it’s gonna be all the little things that annoyed you about them is gonna annoy you ten times more, but I didn’t understand why we weren’t supposed to be together. And then it just came to me one day how, "You should be stronger than me!” I’m the girl and you’re the boy. You’re seven years older than me, and you should really be someone for me to come to at the end of my day with my problems, not add to my problems at the end of the day. I guess I wrote “Stronger Than Me” when I realized he was a big girl."
– Winehouse via MTV Italia (2004).
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