Is your muffin buttered?” sings Wet Leg's Rhian Teasdale on “Chaise Longue”. “Would you like us to assign someone to butter your muffin?“ Her tone is deadpan and unmistakably English, and if you didn't know any different, you might think she was in fact referring to dressing a sweet pastry. Not so. Here, Teasdale is referencing an iconic scene from the cult 2004 teen comedy Mean Girls, a film she and Wet Leg's lead guitarist Hester Chambers re-watched around the time they wrote the track. Not unlike Mean Girls, “Chaise Longue” is sprinkled with cheeky double entendres, making its lyrics feel like an inside joke between the band and its fans.
This sense of humour is core to the Wet Leg charm; so is the band's ability to spin coming-ofage awkwardness into whimsical verses. “,” sings Teasdale to an imaginary ex lover on “Ur Mum”, another track off Wet Leg's debut self-titled album, which reaches its crescendo when the singer lets out a
