100 Greatest Songs of 20’s So Far #20 Wet Leg – Chaise Longue

Released: 2021

Ah, the algorithm. You can try to fight it, but despite that fact that you’ll never meet it, that it makes some totally weird decisions and that you can never admit in public that it clued you in to something, it’s there, watching you like an omnipresent voyeur.

Who knows what choice preceded Chaise Longue before it popped up into the kabesa, but once heard, there it lodged, immovable. Some people were onto it early, some came late, but it really didn’t matter because as the Summer closed out in 2021, with all our newly refound personal freedoms now back, it became the earworm from which there was no escape.

Written by Rhian Teasdale and Hesther Chambers during a jam session and with a twinkling eye, it was in turn both more and less sophisticated than it first seemed, the adolescent lyrics married to a scuzzy, funked up and espresso sized glug of indie pop. By the time the leaves were falling you were either loving the tune, hating the tune, or loving it in private but hating it in public. The algorithm knew the real truth though. It always does.