From the album Aint It Such a Bitch - Single
This is a revenge fantasy set to pop hooks, turning an ex's regret into fuel. Baby Nova flips the power dynamic completely, transforming from someone looked down on into someone whose happiness is unbearable to watch. The real twist is not that she moved on, but that his downgrade proves she was never the problem.
Gaps in my teeth and my box-dyed hair / With my sister's ID and a doe eyed stare
Nova lists details someone used to make her feel small, reclaiming them as origin story instead of shame. She was young and scrappy, and he mistook that for easy to discard.
You wore a real big wig and you pulled up a chair / I must've looked so small to you way up there
The high horse image cuts both ways. He thought he had the power, but looking down on someone just makes the fall steeper when positions reverse.
And now I'm on top so I guess I'mma switch / Like a dominatrix I said, 'Boy, sit down'
Nova does not just claim power. She sexualizes it, throwing his condescension back at him in language that makes him the one being controlled. The dominatrix line is not subtle, and that is the point.
Oh, you thought you found better? / Well, you should've thought twice / Missin' all my special, you were busy bein' right
The greener grass he chased turned out to be a drought. Nova pins his failure on arrogance, the need to win arguments instead of appreciating what he had.
All that greener grass you've been smoking just don't hit
The weed metaphor lands perfectly. His upgrade is not just disappointing, it is a bad high that leaves him worse off than before. She knows it, and now he does too.
The bitch is not that she is happy. The bitch is that he has to watch it happen while his supposed upgrade crumbles. Nova does not need closure, she needs him to feel exactly how wrong he was.