| "Television Romance" | ||||
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| Single by Pale Waves | ||||
| from the album My Mind Makes Noises | ||||
| Released | 16 August 2017 | |||
| Recorded | 2017 | |||
| Genre | Indie pop | |||
| Length | 3:25 | |||
| Label | Dirty Hit | |||
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| "Television Romance" on YouTube | ||||
"Television Romance" is a song by the English indie pop band Pale Waves, released on 16 August 2017 to promote their debut album, My Mind Makes Noises (2018). The song, written by Heather Baron-Gracie and Ciara Doran and produced by Matty Healy and George Daniel of the 1975, was inspired by an incident in which Baron-Gracie had to bluntly rebuff a hopeful suitor who was oblivious to her disinterest. The band also released a video for the song; directed by Healy and Samuel Burgess-Johnson, it features the band performing the song in a Manchester flat.
On 10 November 2017, "Television Romance" was re-released with the band's "There's a Honey" as a double A-side single by Dirty Hit. The single received largely positive reviews from music critics, with many applauding the band's sound and the song's catchiness (although some criticism was aimed at the song's similarity to the band's previous single, "There's a Honey"). At the end of 2017, Marie Claire named the single one of the best songs of the year, and upon its release as a physical single, "Television Romance" debuted at number 83 on the Scottish Singles Chart and at number 2 on the UK Vinyl Singles and UK Singles Sales Charts.