When You Wasn't Famous
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| Single by The Streets | ||||||||||
| from the album The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living | ||||||||||
| Released | March 30, 2006 | |||||||||
| Format | CD single Digital download |
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| Genre | UK Garage | |||||||||
| Length | 3:18 | |||||||||
| Label | 679 | |||||||||
| Writer(s) | Mike Skinner | |||||||||
| Producer | Mike Skinner | |||||||||
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"When You Wasn't Famous" was the first single from The Streets' third studio album The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living. Released on March 30, 2006, it went straight to number 8 in the UK and number 26 in Ireland. The song is about how Mike Skinner finds it easier to have sexual relations with non-famous women now that he's famous, but how things are just like they used to be when attempts to sleep with a similarly famous woman. It thought that the song refers to a real fling with a female presenter or pop star with lines like "Considering the amount of prang you've done, you looked amazing on CD:UK" and a reference to MTV's children's appeal.[1]
The reference to the television show CD:UK in the song is quite notable because the show was axed just two days after "When You Wasn't Famous"' release.
The B-side of the 7" was a cover of the track by Bromheads Jacket.
[edit] References
- ^ The Word, Issue 39, May 2006
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