“Razzamatazz” by Pulp

"Razzmatazz" was Pulp's parting shot for Gift Records, a stand-alone single from early 1993 that belonged to no album, though American copies of His 'n' Hers tacked it on at the very end. Back then it only scraped to number 80 in the UK.

Jarvis Cocker wrote the words about a girlfriend from his college days, and his narrator spends the song sneering at the woman who dumped him for the drab little life she's settled into. Cocker later admitted it wasn't very flattering, and he was embarrassed when he ran into her years on and she worked out it was about her, though they ended up laughing it off. He never thought of the lyrics as seedy, just deadpan, down to earth and true to life. Critics have been kind to it since, and it keeps turning up on compilations.

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