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“When You Wasn’t Famous” was the first single from The Streets’ third studio album The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living. Released on March 30, 2006, it went straight to number 8 in the UK and number 26 in Ireland. The song’s chorus is about how Mike Skinner finds it easier to have sexual relations with non-famous women now that he’s famous, but how things are just like they used to be when attempts to sleep with a similarly famous woman.
The song’s verses recount Skinner’s unsuccessful attempt to seduce a female pop star. The lyrics are purportedly autobiographical, but Skinner has never confirmed the identity of the pop star (who at one point is described “smoking crack”) in question. He has, however, categorically denied rumours that it is Cheryl Cole. or Rachel...
Read on...Song lines: ♪ It gets really easy to get girls ... It's all so easy you get a bit spoilt ... So when you try to pull a girl ♫
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