Songfacts®:

• Here, Julia Jacklin describes the experience of a moviegoer. She reflects on the tendency of people to seek significance and shape their identity through consuming art, while the creators themselves may feel unheard and misunderstood in a society where profit often gets equated with success.
• A songwriting trip to an isolated property by the coast with no Wi-Fi but plenty of "pretentious" DVD's sparked Jacklin's thoughts.
  
  "I was really off art, for some reason," she recalled to Uncut magazine. "I'd just watched a DVD they had, and I was thinking about who gets to make Art, how we get the same perspectives over and over again. I'm under no impression I'm some sort of special genius. I know which area I take up in the music industry. People say music is so important - I'm like, 'Well, is it?' If it's so important, why is there never any budget for anything? I was questioning the limitations of art. I was grateful for that little trip, because it produced that song."
• Jacklin recorded "Moviegoer" for her third studio album, Pre Pleasure, at Mixart Studios and Planet Studios in Montreal. Canadian singer-songwriter Marcus Paquin, The Weather Station's bassist Ben Whiteley and guitarist Will Kidman backed her up. Paquin also co-produced the album with Jacklin.
  
  For "Moviegoer," another Weather Station musician, Karen Ng, played clarinet and Adam Kinner saxophone.