“Your Woman” by White Town

"Your Woman" first surfaced in 1996 as the lead track of White Town's >Abort, Retry, Fail?_ EP on the small American label Parasol, and once BBC Radio One started spinning it, Chrysalis and EMI put it back out in January 1997. It went on to lead off Women in Technology, the second White Town album, made by Jyoti Mishra, who produced it himself.

The hook is a muted trumpet lifted from Nat Gonella's playing on a 1932 recording of "My Woman" by Lew Stone and his Monseigneur Band, looped over a sly, twitchy groove, and Mishra sings the whole thing from a woman's point of view. That twist made it the first gender-flipped song to top the UK singles chart. Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields counted it among his favourite recent pop songs, and Pitchfork later placed it 158th among the best tracks of the 1990s.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.