Wet Dream

Album: Wet Leg (2022)
Charted: 74
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Songfacts®:

  • Rhian Teasdale directs many of her lyrics on Wet Leg's eponymous debut album towards former boyfriends. This song is about an ex who sent her intrusive texts after she appeared in his wet dreams.
  • The chorus references an Instagram account called beam_me_up_softboi.

    Beam me up
    Count me in
    Three, two, one
    Let's begin
    Here we go


    Beam_me_up_softboi is filled with posts and screenshots by and about "softbois," a less masculine boy who is in touch with his emotions. Often outfitted in pastels or egirl type clothes, softbois are into art and culture. Genuinely kind, but master manipulators, they use their tender traits as currency to pick up girls.

    Teasdale portrays her ex in this song as a softboi. "It's got a little bit of my own personal breakup injected into it," she told Apple Music. "This particular person would message me since we'd broken up being like, 'Oh, I had a dream about you. I dreamt that we were married,' even though it was definitely over. So I guess that's why I decided to set it within a dream: It was kind of making fun of this particular message that would keep coming through to me."
  • Teasdale's ex shows his artistic good taste when he propositions her with a night in with "Buffalo '66 on DVD." Buffalo '66 is a comedy crime drama starring Vincent Gallo and Christine Ricci.
  • Teasdale and her Wet Leg bandmate Hester Chambers wrote "Wet Dream" with their session and touring synth player, Joshua Omead Mobaraki. Dan Carey (Bloc Party, Fontaines DC) produced the song in London.
  • Wet Leg released "Wet Dream" as a single on September 28, 2021. It entered the UK singles chart the following July, in part because of their triumphant Glastonbury appearance. They sent "Wet Dream" to alternative radio in the United States on April 19, 2022.
  • Teasdale directed the surreal video. It sees the Wet Leg duo larking about in fields with enormous red lobster claws for hands.

Comments: 1

  • Andy Burton from West YorkshireI'm sure there's a radio edit of this song which changes some of the lyrics around, i.e. "windscreen" for "wet dream" & "you with yourself" for "touching yourself"?
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