Your Woman

"Your Woman"
Plain slipcase with opening
Single by White Town
from the album Women in Technology
B-side
  • "Give Me Some Pain"
  • "Theme for a Mid-Afternoon Game Show"
  • "Theme for a Late-Night Documentary About the Dangers of Drug Abuse"
Released13 January 1997 (1997-01-13)
Genre
Length4:20
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)White Town
White Town singles chronology
"All She Said"
(1991)
"Your Woman"
(1997)
"Undressed"
(1997)
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"Your Woman"
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Music video
"Your Woman" on YouTube

"Your Woman" is a song by British music producer White Town. It was originally released in the summer of 1996 on the US indie label Parasol Records as the lead track on the ">Abort, Retry, Fail?_" EP, where it picked up play on BBC Radio One. This resulted in a major label re-release of the EP in January 1997 by Chrysalis, Brilliant! and EMI Records. It became the lead single from his second album, Women in Technology (1997). It features a muted trumpet sample performed by Nat Gonella in the 1932 recording of "My Woman" by Lew Stone and his Monseigneur Band. The song peaked at No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart and also topped the charts of Iceland, Israel and Spain. It peaked within the top 10 of the charts in 12 other countries and reached No. 23 in the United States. The song's music video was filmed in black and white silent film style.

With male vocals sung from a female perspective, "Your Woman" became the first gender-reversal song to top the UK chart. In the booklet of their 1999 album 69 Love Songs, The Magnetic Fields' frontman Stephin Merritt described "Your Woman" as one of his "favourite pop songs of the last few years." In 2010, the song was named the 158th best track of the 1990s by Pitchfork.