“When we first started playing around Melbourne, electronic dance music was massive in Australia,” says Jet frontman Nic Cester. “To try and compete with that we wrote Are You Gonna Be My Girl so we had something women could dance to. We knew that if girls came to our shows, guys would follow.”
Growing up on a diet of AC/DC and Faces records, Cester, his brother Chris and their friend Cam Muncey had been in a band together since their early teens. Around 2002, …Girl was one of the fledgling Jet’s originals that would enable the band to leave behind the cover-versions circuit that had been their bread and butter.
