Songfacts®:

• This is Babybird's (aka Stephen Jones) biggest hit and the track that he is best known for. However, the song, which many understood to be a besotted love song, is frequently misinterpreted. Jones told The Sheffield Telegraph November 5, 2009: "I can't tell people how to interpret the song, but the song's actually about male photographers who want to use women to sell things using sex."
• In an interview with The Guardian, Stephen Jones described the song as "very simple and lullaby-esque, a bit of an earworm." The lyrics, however, have a hidden bite.
  
  "The verses are quite barbed," Jones explained, "so I wanted to sweeten them with a chorus to suck people in." The band wasn't sold at first, but the record company loved it – "You're Gorgeous" was catchy gold!' Funny thing is, the song is actually a critique of objectification."
  
  I don't think a man can call himself a feminist," Jones continued, "but it's meant to be a feminist song. Growing up in the 1970s and '80s, you'd regularly see images of women photographed in bikinis draped over the bonnet of a Ford Capri. I wanted to flip that round and see how the male photographer would feel if he were lying over a car in a thong, to prove how gross it is. I still have people who write to me asking: 'Will you sing it at our wedding?' But in it I'm really saying: 'You're not gorgeous at all.'"
• Stephen Jones co-produced the song with Steve Power (Feeder, Robbie Williams). Their first attempt captured the band's raw live energy but lacked the unique touches Jones brought to his solo recordings.
  
  Power programmed a fresh instrumental track, then Jones laid down his vocals. This simpler approach resonated.
• Power reminisced about the song's chart success: "I can remember sitting in a flat in London listening to the chart countdown, thinking: 'It's not #5... it's not #4...' It went in at #3, in spite of how dark the lyrics are."
• "You're Gorgeous" shows up in the 2023 black comedy psychological thriller movie Saltburn. It also appears in these TV shows:
  
  The Split (Episode 1:6 - 2018)
  My Mad Fat Diary ("Alarm" - 2014)
  Down Dog ("All Men Are Evil", "Old Skin", "The Way You Are" - 2014)
  The Vicar Of Dibley ("Celebrity Vicar" - 1998)