Unbreakable

Album: Milestone (2016)
Play Video

Songfacts®:

  • Chrisette Michelle first met Doug "Biggs" Ellison while in business school. The pair hit it off right away and he became her college sweetheart and manager. However, things turned sour to the point where Michele found herself suing Ellison and his label, Four Kings Production, after alleging that the company had embezzled money from her Def Jam contract.

    The pair reconnected as she recorded her Milestone album. Ellison dropped down to one knee, proposed, and Michele accepted. Their rekindled romance inspired this track. "I wrote this song to say to everybody who may have pulled us apart that our love is 'Unbreakable,'" she explained in a video. "Through all the thick and thin, we ended up back together again the way we were supposed to be."

    "Every once and a while I have regrets and I do wish we never broke up, wish that we were married a long time and we had figured this all out a while back," Michelle added. "But I think I might not have appreciated him for who he is if I had gotten engaged back then. I was young. So we're 'Unbreakable.'"

Comments: 1

  • Ww from Dallas, TexasI think it's:
    "You can keep on tryin'
    You can't break a diamond
    Our love will survive it
    Unbreakable love"
    And:
    "We rock
    rock solid, rock solid, like a stone, unbreakable, unbreakable
    To the top
    rock solid, rock solid, like a stone, unbreakable, unbreakable"
see more comments

Editor's Picks

Jello Biafra

Jello BiafraSongwriter Interviews

The former Dead Kennedys frontman on the past, present and future of the band, what music makes us "pliant and stupid," and what he learned from Alice Cooper.

Justin Timberlake

Justin TimberlakeFact or Fiction

Was Justin the first to be Punk'd by Ashton Kutcher? Did Britney really blame him for her meltdown? Did his bandmates think he was gay?

Black Sabbath

Black SabbathFact or Fiction

Dwarfs on stage with an oversize Stonehenge set? Dabbling in Satanism? Find out which Spinal Tap-moments were true for Black Sabbath.

Tony Banks of Genesis

Tony Banks of GenesisSongwriter Interviews

Genesis' key-man re-examines his solo career and the early days of music video.

Robert DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots

Robert DeLeo of Stone Temple PilotsSongwriter Interviews

Stone Temple Pilots bass player Robert DeLeo names the songs that have most connected with fans and tells the stories behind tracks from their Tiny Music album.

Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty

Rob Thomas of Matchbox TwentySongwriter Interviews

Rob Thomas on his Social Distance Sessions, co-starring with a camel, and his friendship with Carlos Santana.