Kiss With A Fist

Florence + the Machine is the recording name of former Camberwell Art School student Florence Welch and her backing band. She left Camberwell after a year and a half to pursue her professional music career. This sexually charged number was written when Welch was hanging out with art college dropouts. She told The Sunday Times: "It's about giving as good as you get."

"Kiss With A Fist" was Florence + the Machine's debut single, released in 2008 ahead of their first album, Lungs. It got some attention in their native UK, where it went to #51, but in America there were few radio stations bold enough to play it. The group's next single, "Dog Days Are Over," was a breakthrough, establishing the band in many territories. Florence was just 22 at the time and brought a lot of intensity to her songs. Over the next few years a lot happened in her life and her music reflected that, but no matter what, her songs always packed a punch.

Despite the lyrics appearing to be about a feuding couple smashing plates over each other's heads and setting fire to the bed, Welch denied this is a song about domestic violence. She told The Independent June 27, 2009: "It's just a silly rhyme I thought up when I was 18!"