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“Chaise Longue” by Wet Leg
From the album Wet Leg (2022)
“Chaise Longue” by Wet Leg appears on 29 radio countdowns from 17 stations between 2021 and 2026. It was first released in 2022 on the album Wet Leg. Its best result is #1 on The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound, and it was voted number one on four countdowns in total. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #21 alternative song of 2021 and #33 of the '20s.
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"Chaise Longue" was the first thing most people ever heard from Wet Leg: the English duo's debut single, out on Domino in June 2021, and later the calling card of their self-titled 2022 album. Rhian Teasdale wrote it in a single day in 2019, sitting on an actual chaise longue that belonged to Hester Chambers's grandfather, and the finished song credits Teasdale, Chambers and Joshua Mobaraki.
It's post-punk with a raised eyebrow. A skeletal drum beat and bass line set up shop, Teasdale delivers her lines in a bone-dry deadpan, a borrowed scrap of Mean Girls dialogue gets deployed with a wink, and the guitar barges in late. Jon McMullen produced and Alan Moulder mixed. It blew up online, Teasdale directed the video herself, and it went on to take the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 471 | KEXP | KEXP Top Songs of the Last 50 Years (1972-2022) | 491 |
| 2022 | 2 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Colorado Sound Songs of All Time | 1055 |
| 2023 | 310 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of All Time | 909 |
| 2024 | 86 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century | 1055 |
| 2024 | 244 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
| 2024 | 78 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 1 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
| 2025 | 16 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century | 909 |
| 2025 | 81 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
| 2025 | 34 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Mood Booster Songs | 800 |
| 2026 | 1 | The Colorado Sound | The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs You Discovered on The Colorado Sound | 1055 |
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