Grace Kelly Lyrics

[Bridge]
Say what you want to satisfy yourself, hey
But you only want what everybody else says you should want
You want


[Chorus]
I could be brown, I could be blue
I could be violet sky
I could be hurtful, I could be purple
I could be anything you like
Gotta be green, gotta be mean
Gotta be everything more
Why don't you like me? Why don't you like me?
Walk out the door
I could be brown, I could be blue
I could be violet sky
I could be hurtful, I could be purple
I could be anything you like
Gotta be green, gotta be mean
Gotta be everything more
Why don't you like me? Why don't you like me?
Walk out the door

[Post-Chorus]
Ooh, oh

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Genius Annotation

“Grace Kelly” is a genre-defying pop song about being yourself. It’s named for Hollywood legend Grace Kelly—this opening dialogue is based off her 1954 film The Country Girl. The song was a breakthrough hit for Mika, a genre-defying singer born in Beirut and raised in Paris and London.

Despite the tune’s perky vibe, Mika wasn’t a happy camper when he wrote this song. He had been trying for years to land a record deal, but labels kept turning him down. He told BBC: “The indie scene thought I was too melody-based and I was rejected by the commercial scene because I was too strange.”

The final straw came when one label executive told him he’d never sell any records. Mika: “I went home and I was so angry. I thought I was going to get signed.“

“I wrote out the song saying, ‘I can be any color you want, what the hell do you want me to be?’”

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What did MIKA say about "Grace Kelly"?
Genius Answer

Grace Kelly was written after these musicians were trying to mold me into what I should be. I was really angry and so I wrote the song and mailed them the lyrics. They didn’t call me back, but two years later it’s come full circle.“
—MIKA says in an interview on BBC.

Credits
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Background Vocals
Keyboards
Recorded At
Rocket Carousel Studio, Sunset Sound Studios (Los Angeles)
Release Date
January 8, 2007
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