Used to Be My Girl

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"Used to Be My Girl"
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Single by Brian McKnight
from the album Ten
Released 2006
Format Digital Download, CD Single
Recorded 2006
Genre R&B
Length 4:41
Label Warner Bros Records
Writer(s) Brian McKnight
Producer(s) Tim & Bob
Brian McKnight singles chronology
"Find Myself In You"
(2006)
"Used to Be My Girl"
(2006)

Used to Be My Girl is a single by Brian McKnight released in 2006. It was produced by Tim & Bob, not to be confused with the single by The O'Jays, of the same name.

The song, as McKnight states in the beginning, "is not another love song". Instead, the song's lyrics expresses a sense of dismay at one man's seemingly excessive pride in himself because of his apparently attractive girlfriend, who McKnight used to be with. McKnight seems to try to offer advice on the past relationship between the two, since the woman hasn't told her new boyfriend. He does not want the girl's new boyfriend to be mad at him when she mentions him. Apparently the girl cannot get over him, judging from her demeanor whenever she and her boyfriend are together in Brian's presence, and is still holding her feelings for him away from her new man; "She's still thinkin' 'bout me, And I'll tell you why, She couldn't even hold her head up when you walked by."