Two days in a row and I am, it seems, once more in the minority – for I like The Kid’s A Looker. I mean, it’s not great – but then again, it is a rather obscure track, a digital only download of a radio session available to people buying a single that already been released 24 years earlier. Taking it for what it is, just a little throwaway gift from the vaults, I enjoy it. It’s a humorous enough little jab and the shallowness of popular culture and, I feel, could have benefitted from the full studio treatment – perhaps this would have swayed some of the naysayers?
I assumed that the la la’s and da, da’s – essentially the only words of the chorus, was a little jab at the disposable subjects of the song - Morrissey is quoting them, quoting what they have to say of worth, which is... nothing. A throwaway chorus for throwaway people?
This video is a little more interesting to watch...