We weren't signed when I wrote the track. Nobody knew who we were. We were playing pubs around Melbourne and no one was coming.
The catalyst for Are You Gonna Be My Girl was the Strokes releasing Last Nite. It was cool hearing another rock'n'roll band doing what we were doing.
Once that big riff kicks off, you're off... the first draft of the lyrics was quite negative. I'd had a bad experience at a nightclub.
When the song was released in 2003, the iPod was new and Apple wanted to use the track as part of its promotion. I've always wondered if it was connected.
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