Creativity Quote by Stephanie Mills

It lands like a blunt backstage confession: the romantic marketplace is rigged, and the “good man” is losing on branding. Coming from Stephanie Mills, a singer whose era of R&B and soul often staged love as both sanctuary and battlefield, the line reads less like social science and more like a hard-earned chorus sung after the third time you’ve watched someone pick chaos with a pretty smile.

The intent isn’t to indict all women as irrational so much as to call out the gap between stated desire and actual behavior. Mills uses the “good guy/bad boy” shorthand because it’s instantly legible pop mythology: stability versus thrill, reliability versus intensity. The subtext is about appetite and self-sabotage. “Good” can mean predictable, even emotionally safe to the point of boredom; “bad” can mean attention, risk, and the intoxicating feeling of being chosen by someone hard to pin down. That’s not moral weakness so much as a critique of how desire gets trained by insecurity, past hurt, and a culture that sells drama as proof of passion.

There’s also a defensive edge. “Most women don’t like good men” flips the usual script where men claim to be overlooked victims. Here, a woman artist is describing disappointment from the inside, suggesting that “I want a good guy” can function as self-image management while attraction quietly votes otherwise. It works because it’s impolite. It dares the listener to admit they’ve wanted what they knew was bad for them, then asks who benefits when instability gets romanticized as chemistry.