Wet Dream Lyrics - Wet Leg

Song Facts:

• Genre: Indie Rock, Alternative Rock


• Lyricist: Wet Leg


• Composers: Wet Leg


• Soundtrack: Featured in the soundtrack for "How to Date Billy Walsh"

Artist Info:

Wet Leg is a British indie rock band from the UK. The duo consists of Rhian Tejsondale and Hester Chambers. Natives of the Island of Wight, Wet Leg emerged from nowhere to catch the eyes of the independent music press with a very poised, fully formed concoction of post-punk and indie pop. Their music usually contains sharp guitar riffs and humanly felt lyrics, all delivered with so much humor and a laid-back style that can easily mislead you from the often incisive observation about personal relationships and societal expectations. Wet Leg has been praised for his or her new example of indie rock and the duo's penchant to write songs as sharp while they are irreverent, above the ordinary while actually still grounded in real life.

Annotations and Meaning:

"Wet Dream" by Wet Leg is a jumpy, winking look at the realms of fantasy and desire with a playful edge. The song opens with a series of commands ("Beam me up, Count me in, Three, two, one, Let's begin") that set an active and inviting tone, "insinuating a sense of journey or adventure about to be embarked upon." The repetition of these lines throughout the track works as a rhythmic anchor, giving the chant-like quality and able to increase the catchiness.
The lyrics take on a nearly dreamy kind of situation wherein the singer runs into someone dreaming about her ("I was in your wet dream, Driving in my car"). This is the kind of imagery that is both startling and whimsical—meant to be a picture of a surreal and slightly ridiculous encounter. References to the movie "Buffalo '66" and unusual actions like "licking the windscreen" infuse the song with a quirky, cinematic quality that aligns with the band's flair for blending the mundane with the bizarre.
The chorus then questions the appropriateness of the fantasizer's thoughts: "What makes you think you're good enough / To think about me when you're touching yourself?," hence introducing a theme of empowerment and assertion. It really challenges the listener's expectation and inverts the traditional storyline of objectification, thereby offering the protagonist a round of power and control.