Songfacts®:

• This song is named after the TV presenter Davina McCall. The first host of Big Brother, she famously greeted contestants evicted from the TV show's house by saying, "I'm coming to get you."
  
  Wet Leg lead vocalist Rhian Teasdale said the inspiration came while watching the show with her partner. "It made me think of watching Big Brother as a teenager, she told the Guardian. "And how iconic she was, and that catchphrase: 'I'm coming to get you.'"
• Wet Leg open "Davina McCall" with a knowing nod to the presenter's catchphrase.
  
  I'll be your Davina, I'm coming to get you
  Fetch you from the station, never gonna let you go
  
  Davina McCall said the line not to confront, but as a symbol of protection for the evictees as they returned into the real world. In the song, Rhian Teasdale uses the catchphrase as a gesture of rescue and warmth, wanting to meet her partner, pick them up from the station, and promise continual care.
• The connection between band and presenter is mutual. When Wet Leg was just starting out, McCall attended one of their shows wearing a Wet Leg T-shirt and tagged them on social media.
• The song departs from Wet Leg's typically irreverent style. If "Chaise Longue" was all cheeky seduction and side-eye, then "Davina McCall" is its heart-on-sleeve cousin, a pure, romantic song about devotion and longing. Teasdale was surprised by how it emerged.
  
  "That song is such an intense gooey love song - it has the same feeling for me of a diary entry. It's a memento of a feeling, I don't want to access all these feelings, like every night because that would be too much for me emotionally, but it is really nice to be able to capture an emotion," she explained to Mojo magazine. "Sometimes I find when I'm talking and trying to get my words out, what I say is not exactly what I mean. So I'm happy that those songs exist and they're accurate to the way I'm feeling."
• Rhian Teasdale wrote the song about her non-binary partner, whose name she keeps private. The couple met in Portugal in late 2021 at Wet Leg's first concert outside the UK. Teasdale described the moment as "love at first sight," explaining: "It was just an energy. It was just like: Oh. Ohhh! Because of course I wasn't looking for love, in any capacity, at all. But that's what they say, isn't it? It always comes when you least expect it."
• "Davina McCall" began with a melody written by guitarist Hester Chambers, which was later developed by bassist Ellis Durand. It was then completed with the lyrics and vocal melody from Teasdale.
• The animated video was directed by stop-motion wizard Chris Hopewell (Radiohead's "Burn The Witch," Run the Jewels' "Walking In The Snow"). It's pure Wes Anderson meets Isle of Wight whimsy, showing the band as clay dolls on a quest to retrieve stolen feathers from goblins.