A radio version in Japan exists in which the same lyrics are replaced with "let's do an edit, do a radio edit". In the censored version of the song, the words "nuclear" and "war" (in the line "let's start a war, start a nuclear war") are cut out and a whip lash sound is used instead. (The actual lyric is "She's just the girl, she's just the girl, the girl you want".) Location unknown:St.According to Spencer/Valentine, the idea for the song came up from incorrectly hearing the lyrics of DEVO's " Girl U Want" as "it's just a girl, it's just a girl at a gay bar" while the song was playing in a very loud nightclub. Fell in Love with a Band: The Story of The White Stripes.
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The song is also featured in films Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The video features taxidermy and a glowing codpiece." In other media Writing for The Village Voice, Amy Phillips said, "The two men shout declarations of affection to each other over a sizzling Saturday Night Fever groove, and the sax sounds as if it's being played by someone with a long, luscious mullet. It was also featured in The Pitchfork 500. That good." The song is listed at number 234 on the best songs of the 2000s by Pitchfork Media. NME's Piers Martin wrote " rustle up the sort of pop-party thrash which sounds like the idiot half-brother to The Rapture’s ' House Of Jealous Lovers'. The New York Times called the song "catchier than anything on the radio by the White Stripes." The Guardian called it "insanely catchy", though "the archetypal comic novelty single." Josh Tyrangiel with Time magazine also praised the track. The later album and single version was produced by British music producers, Damien Mendis and Stuart Bradbury-who also created club mixes under the name of Soulchild. They were forced to drop this name following legal pressure from the Bristol trip hop collective of the same name.
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The song was originally recorded in early 2000, when the band was under the name The Wildbunch. O'Leary and not White, although music critics suspected this name was a pseudonym for White. Members of the band have claimed in interviews that the singer was an auto mechanic named John S. Jack White of the White Stripes, a fellow Detroit native, performed the secondary lead vocals on the track.