“It’s quite funny when people ask us what it means. We had no clue that it would connect with so many people”: How Wet Leg's breakout hit was created in “teenage sleepover mode” and written in a single day

Wet Leg.

Very few debut singles have launched a band’s career in the way Chaise Longue did for Isle Of Wight-formed indie rockers Wet Leg in 2021.

The lead track from their eponymous debut album of the following year combined suggestive lyrics, delivered mechanically in the form of deadpan spoken-word, with up-tempo rhythms played on bass and drums before the guitars come crashing in at the one-minute mark.