The song's lighter tone was a significant departure for the band; Cocker noted the song's composition as "the first time we'd written a proper pop song." Cocker recounted the band's initial reaction, "At first I thought it sounds like indie dance, which really put me off. But Mark Webber, who wasn't in the group at the time, said, 'That's the best song you've written', and everybody seemed to like it. It was goodbye to the long, dark midnight of the soul, the Eurodisco with gothic leanings or whatever, and more of the recognisable Pulp of today, I suppose."