Well I guess what they say is true

87. White Town - "Your Woman" (Chrysalis, 1997)

You know, Mr. White Town, it'd be more fun for me personally if you didn't break down these lyrics yourself and let me, A Critic, do it myself. Like a regular Artist, you know.

In all seriousness, "Your Woman" is a pop song so clever it's almost too cute to enjoy sometimes. What at first seems like a simple gender switch actually includes in its ambiguities a series of readings that could all be equally valid. Now, "...includes in its ambiguities a series of readings that could all be equally valid" basically applies to most text, I know, but, as Mr. Mishra begins to demonstrate in the link above, one of the fun (and almost too cute) things about "Your Woman" is how upfront and easy to fool around with its ambiguities (the gender of the narrator and whether it is the same as that of the singer, the number of narrators) are. Pop theory on a plate, this one is.

Plus the horn loop is killer.