Chickfactor

I had my first kiss to this song.

To me this song encapsulates the melancholy associated with falling in love and then have to split and only having the memories to dwell on!!

this song rules the world!!

i always dreamed i'd have this song on my headphones if i went to new york. i'm going this month to help my sister move and the plan is coming to fruition. chickfactor is a pretty cool magazine. http://www.chickfactor.com

This is one of my most favorite songs ever. It's just about finding someone you can connect with. All these girls he meets that are pretty and cool and nice, but he just can't find the girl who he'll have a spark for.

I think he's talking about the temptation of touring on the road. The UK is "five hours behind" the USA's East Coast. He keeps meeting all these fascinating girls and hopes he can stay faithful to his gf back home, even though he seems very lonely.

Oh, Stevie. To me, this song is pretty much exactly how frontranger described it. It's about a "rockstar" who is always overseas and meeting girls who are fascinated by him but he can't quite understand why ("Look myself in the face/Don't know what you see/Am I playing in your movie?"). He has a girfriend in London but he's not that into her, really. He's lonely and wants to find the "one" but hasn't had all that much success yet. He's constantly faced with girls and, sure, they're nice enough but not what he's looking for and he almost finds it embarrassing and incomprehensible that they seem interested in him.

I've met Stevie several times (yes... serial stalker of the band, that's me) and he's one of the loveliest, friendliest and most charming people I've ever had the pleasure to speak to. I know for a fact that, were I a little older, I would have been one of those girls throwing myself at him. He certainly does have CHICKFACTOR.

This song is so much sadder than it first appears. I love it!

Holysocks is right this song is about the fanzine chickfactor. How do I know this? from the chickfactor interview with Stevie of Belle and Sebastian back issue #13. Plus these lyrics make it blindingly obvious:

Pretty girl says, "Hi

He meets the chickfactor interviewer for the first time

What's the worst job you've had? What do you read? What's driving you mad?"

All common interview questions.

You're in my magazine Are you talking to me? Chickfactor

Belle and Sebastian are featured in the magazine chickfactor.

the chickfactor magazine connection provides some sense to some lyrics, and a title, but as with so many of their songs, one looks often for the broader implications they refer to. It's straightforward in it's self-doubt regarding love and eternity, perfection, vanity, longing. It's always that simple subject looked at seriously.

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