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She's Actual Size

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song nameShe's Actual Size
artistThey Might Be Giants
releasesApollo 18
year1992
first playedFeb. 1, 1992 (387 known performances)
run time2:05
sung byJohn Flansburgh, John Linnell

Trivia/Info

  • This song was apparently inspired by the band's 1990 Flood tour, during which they spent a lot of time driving around looking in rearview mirrors and at the phrase 'objects may appear larger than actual size' that appears on it. Flansburgh: "There's a country western song that talks about seeing someone going away in a rearview mirror. I thought that was a really succinct way of talking about leaving somebody behind. It turned into kind of a brag song about a woman who leaves everyone behind by the virtue for being super cool, so happening that they're intimidating." (XS Magazine, April 1, 1992)
  • "This song is about scale, and sexuality, and, uh...relationships." - John Flansburgh, Feb. 10, 1992
  • "When I listen to 'She's Actual Size', I would be lying if I said that it didn't make me a little disappointed, because the later performance versions of it have so much more spirit than the recorded version. It was very tentative at the (recording) time because it was just finished. [...] It's not so much the arrangement, but the confidence we have when we perform the song. It's frustrating to hear the "definitive" version of the song - I think it's a solid song - to be a timid performance. - John Flansburgh in an interview with Consumable Online, 1994
  • During the band's later live performances of this song, Flansburgh and Dan Hickey would usually stop in the middle to perform the now-famous "Dial-a-Drum-Solo" skit. You can hear a version of it on Dial-A-Song: 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants.

Song Themes

Cities, Language, Mind Control, Hypnotism, Money, New York City, Religion, Supernatural, Shapes, Size, Talking, Not Singing, Transportation

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