"Mirror, Mirror," Diana Ross (1982)
Proof that good songs don't have to make sense
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What is “Mirror, Mirror” about? I’ve listened to it several times in a row, and I’m still unsure. At first it seems that Diana Ross is singing about an actual mirror — perhaps magical — that has promised her Snow White-style fantasies of love. When these fantasies don’t come true, Diana expresses her frustration th…