It is about Frank's feelings about some very specific women. He's referring to the proud students of UMass Amherst which was not far from his high school. Despite being perceived by the rest of society as intelligent and cultured intellectuals they are anything but "tame." The future doctors, CEOs, and lawyers walk around primped, permed, and prettied up, some who admittedly "could be sexy" or "interesting" except they go out to the bars get sloppily drunk, treat the people around them rudely, and by the end of the night "fall on their face in those bad shoes."
He eventually shared this in an interview when he admitted many of our songs have no direct reference to sex.
"That song is just about all these f--kin' stupid ass students that live around this neighborhood. Man, oh man, they are the rudest motherf--kers in the world. They're all f--kin' rich, which is fine, I don't care, I wish I was totally rich, but they supposedly come from an upper middle-class background, they're educated, and they're going to private universities, and they are the rudest, most uncouth, most disrespectful people I've ever met on the face of the Earth! Law students are the worst f--kin' vermin in the world! These girls around here, what's wrong with them? They keep perming their hair! And they wear awful clothing and act awful. I hate to put them down because I don't like putting people down, but they're awful! They could be sexy but they're not. They could be interesting people but they keep stuffing their faces with mozzarella sticks and buffalo wings and getting totally drunk every night and shaking their asses all over Commonwealth Avenue!" ~ Black Francis
It is about Frank's feelings about some very specific women. He's referring to the proud students of UMass Amherst which was not far from his high school. Despite being perceived by the rest of society as intelligent and cultured intellectuals they are anything but "tame." The future doctors, CEOs, and lawyers walk around primped, permed, and prettied up, some who admittedly "could be sexy" or "interesting" except they go out to the bars get sloppily drunk, treat the people around them rudely, and by the end of the night "fall on their face in those bad shoes."
He eventually shared this in an interview when he admitted many of our songs have no direct reference to sex. "That song is just about all these f--kin' stupid ass students that live around this neighborhood. Man, oh man, they are the rudest motherf--kers in the world. They're all f--kin' rich, which is fine, I don't care, I wish I was totally rich, but they supposedly come from an upper middle-class background, they're educated, and they're going to private universities, and they are the rudest, most uncouth, most disrespectful people I've ever met on the face of the Earth! Law students are the worst f--kin' vermin in the world! These girls around here, what's wrong with them? They keep perming their hair! And they wear awful clothing and act awful. I hate to put them down because I don't like putting people down, but they're awful! They could be sexy but they're not. They could be interesting people but they keep stuffing their faces with mozzarella sticks and buffalo wings and getting totally drunk every night and shaking their asses all over Commonwealth Avenue!" ~ Black Francis