The other day I noticed that every single one of the songs—save for one—on the list of my most played songs on TIDAL was by the Go-Betweens. The #1 most listened to song, however, was “Chaise Longue” by Wet Leg. Believe me when I tell you that I have listened to this song 100s and 100s of times since it came out three months ago. It’s been streamed over three million times and I’m pretty sure my tallied plays alone account for 2-3% of that worldwide total.

This morning, as I was walking the dog and blasting “Chaise Longue” into my ears on repeat for 45 minutes—you think I’m kidding, I’m not kidding—I wondered HOW it would be possible for Wet Leg to follow up on this, their first and so far only song? Topping it seemed unlikely, but could they even come up with something nearly as good as?

My conclusion was “Gosh, I really hope so.”

As luck would have it, I didn’t have to wait long to find out, as their new single “Wet Dream” came out yesterday and it is an absolute humdinger and every bit as infectious as its predecessor. Rhian Teasdale, Wet Leg’s lead vocalist/visionary revealed that the song’s inspiration was, um, autobiographical:

“‘Wet Dream’ is a breakup song; it came about when one of my exes went through a stage of texting me after we’d broken up telling me that ‘he had a dream about me’.”

Extra points for the Buffalo 66 reference!

Wet Leg (Teasdale and Hester Chambers) are going to be playing live all over Europe this fall. A proper tour will take place in 2022.  The video below—which calls to mind the 1970 Czech art film Valerie and Her Week of Wonders and Bjork—was directed by Rhian Teasdale.

Wet Leg. They’re going to be fucking huge.
 

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Song of the Summer: Wet Leg’s ‘Chaise Longue’ is catchier than the Delta variant