The Concept

Blake wrote and sings it. It was the album's second single, released October 21, 1991 on Creation, with "What You Do to Me" (demo), "Long Hair", "Robot Love" and "Star Sign" on the B-sides, and reached 51 in the UK and 12 on the US alternative airplay chart. PopMatters read the lyric as a character study of a woman the narrator admires, cool and hip, a bit too much for her own good. Wikipedia reports Blake saying in 2015 that he wrote the words about twenty minutes before recording, aiming to write something with a narrative; we could not locate that interview. The Guardian's Martin Horsfield ranked it the band's second best, equal parts bubblegum and Big Star, and Pitchfork praised its coda and three-part harmonies. It appears prominently in the film Young Adult (2011). We found no video, covers, samples or setlist counts.