White Town is Jyoti Mishra, who sings and records dance music using synthesizers and samples. "Your Woman," which was a #1 hit in his native UK and charted all over the world, is by far his best-known song.
The trumpet riff that powers this song (which sounds a little like the Imperial March from Star Wars) was sampled from a 1932 song called "My Woman" by the British bandleader Lew Stone, who recorded it with his Monseigneur Band with Al Bowlly on vocals. Mishra heard it on the soundtrack to a BBC TV series called Pennies From Heaven. In the song "My Woman," the guy is hopelessly in love with a woman who has a heart of stone and treats him like dirt. The lyric was written by Bing Crosby, who recorded the original version earlier in 1932.
This is a breakup song, with the woman telling the man they're through. Mishra explained: "The lyrics are very nasty and, from a certain perspective, misogynist. I thought it might be an interesting twist to sample the spooky part and write a song around it that had different perspectives. The music was done fairly quickly - the lyrics took bloody ages!"
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