 Genius Meanings
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Arctic Monkeys – She Looks Like Fun
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Alex Turner, speaking to Pitchfork:
It’s about the characters that people create in that virtual world[social media].
This song is about how in the modern information age
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Arctic Monkeys – She Looks Like Fun (Live)
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[Chorus: Cameron Avery] / (She looks like fun) / (She looks like fun) / (She looks like fun) / (She looks like) / [Verse 1: Alex Turner] / Smile like you've got a straw in
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Arctic Monkeys – Fluorescent Adolescent
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“Fluorescent Adolescent” is a track about getting older and finding out that life isn’t as fun as it used to be. It describes a woman who dreams of her youth while her current life
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Arctic Monkeys – No. 1 Party Anthem
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Ironically, the slowest track off of AM, “No. 1 Party Anthem,” pokes fun at waiting for an anthemic party song to feel the vibe. Some of the lyrics here were first used on Arctic
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Arctic Monkeys – The Ultracheese
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A smooth, slowdance-style ballad: detachment, both personal and societal, is explored in a number of ways across the album and “The Ultracheese” has Alex reminiscing about his past
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Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
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The breakout and first single by Arctic Monkeys, from their debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not.
It’s about seeing a girl in a mundane, everyday situation
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Arctic Monkeys – The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala
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This seductively basslined stroll, with a ringing, Marr-ish riff, was the perfect canvas for Turner to revel in his lip-licking love of words: “She flicks a red-hot revelation off
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Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (Live)
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[Verse 1] / Jesus in the day spa, filling out the information form / Mama got her hair done, just popping out to sing a protest song / I've been on a bender back to that prophetic
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Arctic Monkeys – Piledriver Waltz
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A song about heartbreak, “Piledriver Waltz” was originally written for the soundtrack of the movie Submarine, which features original songs written by Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex
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Arctic Monkeys – Star Treatment
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“Star Treatment” is the opener to the Arctic Monkeys' sixth studio album, co-produced by Alex Turner himself for the first time.
Turner personifies a washed up lead of the
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Arctic Monkeys – When the Sun Goes Down
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The second single from Arctic Monkeys' debut album is about prostitution around the studio they were recording in in Sheffield. It was a considerable commercial success, scoring
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NME (Ft. Alex Turner & Arctic Monkeys) – Arctic Monkeys - How We Wrote 'I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor'
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Alex Turner: / I did find like the lyrics for it like not long ago like scribbled on like a piece of paper, it was quite funny / Like find like the - / (Was there any different
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Arctic Monkeys – 505
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“505” is one of the songs that marks a turning point in Alex Turner’s songwriting, as he discovers new emotional depths.
The organ chords are the same as were used in Ennio
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Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
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The song uses conceptual and political imagery to give the listener a firsthand view of the “Casino” and its features.
A couple of months after the album’s release, the track was
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Arctic Monkeys – Knee Socks
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Perhaps the album’s best song is tucked away just before it ends. Everything about this track is sexy…from the bass drum and simple guitar riff as it opens, to the imagery conjured
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Arctic Monkeys – Despair in the Departure Lounge
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“Despair in the Departure Lounge” is Alex Turner’s lonely ode to missing someone traveling a lot, something he’s no doubt well-versed in as a musician who toured world-wide for
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Arctic Monkeys – Balaclava
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This song is about an affair. The woman is still on a relationship with another guy, hence the “before the hour is done”. And the cuckolding man is probably known by the cheaters
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Arctic Monkeys Are Funky & Disoriented On New Song “I Ain’t Quite Where I Think I Am”
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It’s the third single off ‘The Car,’ which drops Friday.
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Arctic Monkeys – Mardy Bum
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A song from Arctic Monkeys' 2006 album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not. It remains a fan favourite and helped popularise the Yorkshire word ‘mardy’, meaning sulky or
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Arctic Monkeys – Four Out of Five
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The song describes advertising for the titular Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino. Some parts read explicitly like an advert, inviting the listener to come and relax at Tranquility
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Arctic Monkeys – R U Mine?
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A single from Arctic Monkeys originally released in early 2012 for Record Store Day in the UK. “R U Mine?” was then re-recorded for their 2013 album AM.
The song delves into the
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Arctic Monkeys – Arabella
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A song about a space aged lover named Arabella serves as track four on the Arctic Monkeys' 5th album AM. It furthers the album’s motif of passion’s incessant pull, both for better
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Arctic Monkeys – Black Treacle
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“Black Treacle” is an intentionally vague song that hints at a story about a man in love with a drug addict. It is one of the more inscrutable songs on Suck It And See; Turner
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Arctic Monkeys – There'd Better Be a Mirrorball
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“There’d Better Be A Mirrorball” is the lead single and opening track from Arctic Monkeys' seventh studio album, The Car. The song resurrects the same jazz-inspired style featured
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Arctic Monkeys – Suck It and See
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“Suck It and See” is a song about having an almost unhealthy affection for someone (“Your love is like a studded leather headlock/Be cruel to me, ‘cause I’m a fool for you”). It’s
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