Songfacts®:

• This is a track from Rebound, an album named after a disco called Rebound in Athens, which Eleanor Friedberger visited. The club specializes in 1980s-themed electronica where all the punters do something called the "chicken dance" - a goth dance where everybody stands in a line moping back and forth.
  
  "It's not a joyful experience the chicken dance, it's very serious and somber," Friedberger told The Independent. "It's classic goth dancing and definitely doesn't involve dancing with partners."
• This song is partly about a Greek friend of Friedberger's.
  
  She could dream up a life with everything
  A man in Greece, a girlfriend in Italy
  It's everything
  
  Friedberger told Uncut: "There's a verse about a girl friend of mine in Greece who had a boyfriend in Greece and a girlfriend in Italy and she just wanted to have it all."
• Friedberger expanded on her Greek friend to Consequence of Sound:
  
  "She's an actress, and was really struggling with that situation. She wanted to have kids, but she wanted to have this really radical life being in an experimental theater group, and also imagined doing something more mainstream like being in movies. I really wanted to write a pop song about a really complicated subject, like wanting to have it all, and how that's ridiculous—and still something that we struggle with.
  
  That's kind of a lame way of saying it, but it came out of a conversation that I'd had with someone who said, 'If you want to be in a relationship, you have to compromise,' and me thinking and saying, 'F--- you, I'm not going to compromise.' And then having to deal with that. Women will relate to that, I hope."