That's Not My Name

The Ting Tings are drummer Jules De Martino and singer-guitarist Katie White. The duo were originally in a band called Dear Eskimo together with a DJ called Simon Templeman. The trio signed to Mercury in 2004 only to find the people who liked them leave the label and they were subsequently dropped. This experience inspired the defiance of this song as White explained to Q magazine February 2008: "You feel like your career's over at 22 and you haven't even got a record out. It was like, you really are that forgettable unless you put your stamp on something."

This was originally released in 2007 as the Ting Tings first single as a limited edition 7-inch record. At that time the Ting Tings were with local label Switchflicker but soon came to the attention of bloggers and scenesters and the record labels were queuing up to sign them. After signing to Columbia, "Great DJ" was released as their major label debut single and this song about the battery-farm like mentality of major labels was re-released as it's follow-up.

Pop Justice asked Katie White if she realized straight away that this was a hit record. She replied: "I loved it straight away but I felt like my judgment had been screwed because we went through our old band [Dear Eskimo] and it all went wrong, so I thought 'what the hell do I know - I obviously don't have good ears'. But when we started playing it live it became quite electric and the hairs on my arms were standing up, and it felt like it had a lot of power behind it."