Songfacts®:

• "Jennifer's Body" takes its name from the 2009 cult horror film of the same title, where Megan Fox's demonic cheerleader devours men both literally and metaphorically. The song also sinks its teeth into themes of obsession, possession, and all-consuming love. It ties in with the narrative of Moisturizer, an album that trades the snark and eyerolls of Wet Leg's eponymous debut for the delirium of a new romance.
• The five band members wrote the song during a writing retreat in an Airbnb in Southwold, Suffolk. Evenings were spent watching horror flicks, including Jennifer's Body, which clearly left its mark.
  
  "When you're writing music or creating anything," frontwoman Rhian Teasdale told Uncut magazine, "you're constantly taking cues and absorbing inspiration consciously or subconsciously... movies and music and book, it all goes in there and comes out one way or another."
• The queer subtext in the movie Jennifer's Body resonates with Teasdale since meeting her non-binary partner. "The first time I watched it, I would have been a straight teenager and was just like, 'Oh, this is a cute film,'" she told the Guardian in 2025. "It's so funny. I've been with my partner for three years now and I'm still having these epiphanies, literally daily."
• Moisturizer comprises 12 songs, produced by Dan Carey as with the debut album. The record generally steps away from the caustic put-downs of their first album and radiates romance.
  
  "These love songs are about them," Teasdale said. "I just found it so much more interesting and empowering to be writing love songs where I'm not lusting over a man, it feels a little bit different."
• The album's sequence tells a kind of emotional story: "Jennifer's Body" lands right after the nervous devotion of "Davina McCall" and before the tracks where Teasdale fully embraces romantic love.