Many White Stripes songs from this era have a gritty blues feel, but "You're Pretty Good Looking (For a Girl)" is a throwback to pop songs of the '50s and '60s. It runs just 1:49 and finds frontman Jack White letting a girl know she can do better than the boys she's been dating. After all, she's pretty good looking... for a girl. White claims he didn't put too much thought into it. "I didn't sit down and figure it all out," he said. "I don't think it can be faked."
The line, "And this feeling's still gonna linger on until the year 2525 now," is a reference to the song "In the Year 2525," a #1 hit for Zager & Evans in 1969.
The song was used in 2002 movie The Hot Chick, starring Rob Schneider as a guy who switches bodies with a girl. This was the first time a White Stripes song was used in a movie, although it wasn't included on the soundtrack. The next movie with a White Stripes song was Napoleon Dynamite in 2004, which is about a jillion times better. Their song "We're Going To Be Friends" plays under the opening credits.
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