Your Woman

For the album by Sunshine Anderson, or its title track, see Your Woman (album). For the South Korean television series, see Your Lady.

"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)
Audio sample
"Your Woman"
Music video
"Your Woman" on YouTube

"Your Woman" is a song by British music producer White Town. It was released in January 1997 by Chrysalis, Brilliant! and EMI Records as the lead single from his second album, Women in Technology (1997). It features a muted trumpet line taken from a 1932 recording of "My Woman" by Lew Stone and his Monseigneur Band.[1][2] 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.[3] 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."[4] In 2010, the song was named the 158th best track of the 1990s by Pitchfork.[5]

  1. ^ "Your Woman by White Town - Songfacts". www.songfacts.com. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  2. ^ Jefferson, J'na (30 March 2020). "White Town's Jyoti Mishra on Dua Lipa Lifting 'Your Woman' Hook For 'Love Again': 'There's Magic in Old Samples'". Billboard. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  3. ^ Jones, Alan (1 February 1997). "The Official UK Charts". Music Week. p. 13.
  4. ^ Ewing, Tom (15 January 2000). "An Interview With White Town's Jyoti Mishra". Freaky Trigger. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  5. ^ "The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s: 200-151 - Page 5". Pitchfork. 30 August 2010. Retrieved 24 January 2020.