"Buffalo Stance" is a very funky track with an anti-pimp message. On her website, Cherry says this song "is about sexual survival. It's not a feminist record - none of my songs are. But it's about female strength, female power, female attitude."
Cherry originally recorded "Buffalo Stance" for the B-side of Morgan McVey's 1986 single "Looking Good Diving." Morgan McVey was the pop duo of Cameron McVey and Jaime J. Morgan - Cameron was Neneh's boyfriend and eventually became her husband. He later produced All Saints and Sugababes and managed Massive Attack in their early days. Under the alias Booga Bear, he wrote much of the material that would comprise Raw Like Sushi. Three years later, Neneh Cherry began working on her first solo album. Among the songs was a version of "Buffalo Stance" that mutated, via a remix by Bomb The Bass's Tim Simeon, into an international hit.
The song title refers to "Buffalo," a hip fashion and style collective formed by Scotsman Ray Petri. Neneh Cherry first encountered them during a plane journey to Tokyo for a modeling job and the singer began a creative and personal relationship with one of the Buffalo crew, photographer and musician Cameron McVey, that continues to this day. Cherry told Uncut magazine: "Buffalo was obviously a reference to the Buffalo Collective. It never had anything to do with Malcolm McLaren's 'Buffalo Gals,' everybody gets mixed up. Buffalo is also a reference to being a survivor, to being headstrong, with horns on your head, to fence your way through the ups and downs of life."
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