Miss America

Actually I didn't understand the meaning of this song at all....can someone explain it to me, please??

It always annoys me when people "it's so obvious I'm not going to bother explaining." Why bother posting, then?

If it's "obviously" about America, per the title, I don't get it. America, as a country, sits in the shower and uses other people's phones? Or is it a pun on Miss (unmarried woman) America and "[I] miss [being in] America"? Either way, it still doesn't make sense.

I have aboslutely no idea of the actual meaning of this song although I suspect it somehow might be anti-american, but that is mainly due to the trend of the rest of MLIR (I think they were gonna call it Blur vs America of something)

Could Albarn just be saying he likes English girls better? It sounds like a man who is living in close vicinity with an American girl, and her tendencies (dress, manner, language) don't seem as pure or feminine as those of the girls he knows. The song sounds like he's reassuring a girl back home that she need not worry because he has no interest in the girl he has to be near. That's just what it sounds like to me, though.

i can honestly say Blur is my favorite band, hands. down. anything Damon Albarn does.. just golden

Me neither. o_o

The Michael at the start of the song was Coxon shouting, he was pissed recording his parts while everyone else left him to go see a pulp gig and as they returned they walked in with their producer Mike Smith (I think thats his name) and he shouted Michael at him =)

To add to Mattio, I don't believe it was Coxon - I believe it was actually Dave who was drunk when they made this song. They came back and found him pissed up, sitting underneath a table, banging a chairleg against it, and yes, he screamed out Michael!.

This is why there are no drums on the song and in the record sleeve where the song's contributions are mentioned, Dave is credited with being in a local pub.

The song is about how LAbam prefers English girls- feminine women of substance, intellect and worth hanging around after a shag As opposed to the title Miss American- which mouths off about American girls as trite, trivial, vain, superficial and non-feminine. Yes, it is about men males open preference to European girls versus Americans. Why? Yanks are obnoxious, opinionated (with no intellect to support their opinion), spoilt, entitlement-issued, immature, superficial, vulgar quasi-females. No you didn't beat Britain- it was British red coats fighting mainly ex-British settlers. Nothing American about it- and now under your own idiot 2-party dictatorship "Democracy"- you have less "liberties" and higher taxes than under "tyrant" King George. Enjoy the wiretaps.

this has got to be my 3rd favorite song from the album.....its obvious what hes talking about so im not gonna go there