I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
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I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor Lyrics
Stop makin' the eyes at me
I'll stop makin' the eyes at you
What it is that surprises me
Is that I don't really want you to
[Pre-Chorus]
And your shoulders are frozen (Cold as the night)
Oh, but you're an explosion (You're dynamite)
Your name isn't Rio, but I don't care for sand
And lighting the fuse might result in a bang, b-b-bang-oh
[Chorus]
I bet that you look good on the dancefloor
I don't know if you're lookin' for romance or
I don't know what you're lookin' for
I said, I bet that you look good on the dancefloor
Dancin' to electro-pop like a robot from 1984
Well, from 1984
[Verse 2]
I wish you'd stop ignorin' me
Because it's sending me to despair
Without a sound, yeah, you're calling me
And I don't think it's very fair
That your shoulders are frozen (Cold as the night)
Oh, but you're an explosion (You're dynamite)
Your name isn't Rio, but I don't care for sand
And lighting the fuse might result in a bang, b-b-bang-oh
[Chorus]
I bet that you look good on the dancefloor
I don't know if you're lookin' for romance or
I don't know what you're lookin' for
I said, I bet that you look good on the dancefloor
Dancin' to electro-pop like a robot from 1984
Well, from 1984
[Bridge]
And no, there in't no love, no
Montagues or Capulets
Just banging tunes and DJ sets and
Dirty dancefloors and dreams of naughtiness
[Chorus]
Well, I bet that you look good on the dancefloor
I don't know if you're lookin' for romance or
I don't know what you're lookin' for
I said, I bet that you look good on the dancefloor
Dancin' to electro-pop like a robot from 1984
Said, from 1984
About
The breakout and first single by Arctic Monkeys, from their debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not.
It’s about seeing a girl in a mundane, everyday situation and wondering what she might look like on a night out.
The song was released on October 17, 2005, selling over 120,000 UK copies on its first day of release alone.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
We had a program in England called The Old Grey Whistle Test, from the ‘70s and '80s. It was a live show that a lot of great bands played on. We all liked watching the program from DVD and then we just tried to recreate that. We were going to do it full-on and get the guy who used to introduce bands in the beginning, and go for that sort of thing – so that it looked like a British, '70s music show – use the same cameras they used to use and whatnot, go for an old look.
- Turner during an interview for Prefix Magazine.
Jessie May Cuffe, a then-16-year-old woman who was approached by Juno, a Liverpool-based design company. During an interview with Radio X, she described how she ended up on the cover for the single:
I had snuck out with my mates to Liverpool aged 16, we were in a bar called Bumper when the design company took a snap of me and asked for my contact details. I got a call to come in and meet the team and then I was asked to do the shoot with another girl – luckily the band picked my picture.