"Chaise Longue" is the debut single by English rock duo

Wet Leg Wet Leg are an English indie rock band from the Isle of Wight, England, founded in 2019 by Rhian Teasdale (vocals, guitar) and Hester Chambers (guitar). The band also includes Josh Mobaraki (guitar, keyboards), Ellis Durand (bass) and Henry Ho ...

, released through

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on 15 June 2021 as the

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from their eponymous debut album (2022). The song went viral in 2021, having had millions of streams and video views, and it won the Grammy for

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at the

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Background and composition

The song was released on 15 June 2021. "Chaise Longue" has been described as a tongue-in-cheek

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song. The track starts with a minimalistic drum beat and bass line, with the vocals sung in a deadpan style and a guitar joining in later in the song. The lyric "Is your muffin buttered?/Would you like us to assign someone to butter your muffin?" is a direct quotation from the 2004 teen comedy ''

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''. It was written in 2019 in a single day by vocalist Rhian Teasdale while she was sitting on an actual

chaise longue A chaise longue (; , ) is an upholstered sofa in the shape of a chair that is long enough to support the legs of the sitter. In modern French, the term ''chaise longue'' refers to any long reclining chair, such as a deckchair. In English, ...

owned by guitarist Hester Chambers's grandfather. A music video, also directed by Teasdale, was released on the same day as the release of the single.

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