This was the first Amy Winehouse song I ever heard, and I was hooked! It's just SO sultry! I love how the intro music almost takes you to an exotic fantasy world... but then Amy sends you plummeting back down to gritty Earth with her amazingly candid lyrics! I love the way some of her lyrics are almost conversational and reflective of real interactions she's had in her life, and I love her sharp tongue even more!
I'm probably way too polite to ever speak to any lover of mine that way, current OR ex, ('cause I'm Canadian, and some stereotypes exist for a reason), but I just love the way she is so unabashed (and sometimes insulting) in her attitudes towards her male companions, in this song and a few others ('Stronger Than Me' being the most prominent example I can think of right now). She had some real brass balls, I tells ya.
All that being said, there is still a small glimmer of compassion here. Yes, she is looking down on him a little bit for being such a "chick" and not being able to enjoy a bit of ex-sex without getting all sentimental ("The only time I hold your hand is to get the angle right" is a genius line), but she also acknowledges that she probably shouldn't be doing this and feels bad about it, because she knows it hurts him. It sounds like she has been hooking up with him post-breakup for a while now, and while he has always been up-front about the fact that being with her physically makes him ache to be with her again, she just can't bring herself to reciprocate those feelings ("Wish I could say it breaks my heart"...)
Still, she continues to give him false hope because she has an itch and he's the most readily-available guy to scratch it. She doesn't want him back, but she can't be bothered to put herself out there and go through all the initial anxiety and uncertainty of a new relationship, so she takes the easier route of going back to something easily attainable and familiar to satisfy her sexual needs.
This was the first Amy Winehouse song I ever heard, and I was hooked! It's just SO sultry! I love how the intro music almost takes you to an exotic fantasy world... but then Amy sends you plummeting back down to gritty Earth with her amazingly candid lyrics! I love the way some of her lyrics are almost conversational and reflective of real interactions she's had in her life, and I love her sharp tongue even more!
I'm probably way too polite to ever speak to any lover of mine that way, current OR ex, ('cause I'm Canadian, and some stereotypes exist for a reason), but I just love the way she is so unabashed (and sometimes insulting) in her attitudes towards her male companions, in this song and a few others ('Stronger Than Me' being the most prominent example I can think of right now). She had some real brass balls, I tells ya.
All that being said, there is still a small glimmer of compassion here. Yes, she is looking down on him a little bit for being such a "chick" and not being able to enjoy a bit of ex-sex without getting all sentimental ("The only time I hold your hand is to get the angle right" is a genius line), but she also acknowledges that she probably shouldn't be doing this and feels bad about it, because she knows it hurts him. It sounds like she has been hooking up with him post-breakup for a while now, and while he has always been up-front about the fact that being with her physically makes him ache to be with her again, she just can't bring herself to reciprocate those feelings ("Wish I could say it breaks my heart"...)
Still, she continues to give him false hope because she has an itch and he's the most readily-available guy to scratch it. She doesn't want him back, but she can't be bothered to put herself out there and go through all the initial anxiety and uncertainty of a new relationship, so she takes the easier route of going back to something easily attainable and familiar to satisfy her sexual needs.