“You’re So Fucking Pretty' is a brutally honest confessional ballad that captures regrettesband's effortless transformation from teenage punks into pop powerhouses.
The candid track is lead singer Lydia Night’s love letter to an unrequited crush — a female friend who Night never truly explored her attraction to, to some regret. Dreamlike and sensual, the song crescendos into a swirl of reverb-laden piano chords as Night reflects on what might have been: “Your fingertips run down my spine/I think about it late at night, wishing you were mine,” she sings. “My younger heart was feeling blue/But now, when I look back I know exactly what I’d do.
“There’s something that never gets old to me about watching someone and sort of invading their space. I tried to play it very genuine — how I have interacted with my house when I’m alone and dealing with a lot of regret or anxiety,” Night explains. “We’ve never really done a video like that.” “I shared a lot about feeling really invalid calling myself bi or being part of any sort of queer community,” she says. “It’s sad to think about your younger self and think about how much fear stopped me from doing certain things — and also not only fear, but just, like, confusion. I was very confused about where those feelings were coming from.”
Despite the vulnerability that inspired “You’re So Fucking Pretty,” the track originally hid its emotional core behind the Regrettes’ signature upbeat, pop-driven sound. “What’s so funny is we wrote it as a very dancey song,” Night shares, stating that when the band played the original demo for producer Tim Pagnotta, he suggested a completely different approach. “He was very much like, ‘This song is kind of heartbreaking. We should make it feel pretty heartbreaking.