Sweet About Me and complete the recording of "Sweet About Me". The song was co-written by Cilmi in collaboration with its producers Xenomania, who are critically acclaimed for their work with Girls Aloud, Sugababes and Kylie Minogue. "Sweet About Me" was written after Cilmi was pillaging a Parisian record store for inspiration. Cilmi was listening to early psychedelic music around the time when she wrote the song. Lyrically, Cilmi said that the song is saying, "We're all going to make mistakes, so we might as well have fun while we're making them." Cilmi explained "Sweet About Me" to Bob Henderson of "Gay Times",
Sweet About Me Be" episode of the NBC series "Lipstick Jungle" and in an episode of the VH1 reality television series "". There are two versions of the song: the album version and the radio edit. The first verse is cut in half in the radio edit and the song opens up with the lyrics: ""Oh, watching me hanging by a string this time"" followed by ""Oh, easily climax of a perfect lie"". In the album version, there is a repetition of the first line followed by the line: ""Don't, easily a smile worth a hundred lies""; the radio edit omits these two