"davina mccall" by Wet Leg // Song Review

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Wet Leg's "davina mccall" blends sweet sincerity with clever pop‑culture references, capturing the personality and unique voice they bring to indie rock. With this track, they lean into a more heartfelt and emotionally open style of writing than the cheekier, more sarcastic lyricism they often gravitate toward.

The song is shaped around a Big Brother reference and is named after the show's former host, Davina McCall and her iconic catchphrase from when someone was voted off the show. "I'll be your Davina, I'm coming to get you, fetch you from the station, never gonna let you go," lead singer Rhian Teasdale sings in the opening lines of the song. "It's that kind of love".

"It's a really soppy love song," she added about the inspiration behind the song in an interview with The Gaurdian. "Me and my partner were watching Big Brother, and I know she isn't presenting the new one, but it made me think of watching Big Brother as a teenager, and how iconic she was, and that catchphrase: 'I'm coming to get you.'" The ode to Davina is especially full‑circle, considering they grew up as fans of her work and now she's been a self‑proclaimed fan of the band for years too. The sweet, mutual connection makes the reference even more meaningful. 

Across the rest of the song there are so many really strikingly beautiful lyrics, which is something that defined the entirety of Wet Leg's 2025 sophomore album Moisturizer. It has so many cute and clever moments, but also tends to be so reflective of the small, ordinary moments that accumulate into something so much bigger - in life, love, and the relationships that define them. 

"Dream about us taking holidays together, we won't even care if we get shitty weather, oh-oh, 'cause you're like the sun" and "You know that I would do anything for you, it's like a dream come true, every day is spent trying to say something to make you smile" are two lyrics from "davina mccall" that capture that notion so beautifully. 

The writing is unabashedly in love, unafraid of being overly romantic or overly affectionate, and it feels so true to their artistic style and emotional intuition. There's also a subtlety to the way their love is expressed too; it's so warm and earnest in a way that is so rare to find captured in a song like this. "I'd go to hell and back just to spend an hour with you, just say and I'll come through, it's kinda cold on Earth anyway when you're not around," is another lyrical highlight. 

"That song is such an intense gooey love song - it has the same feeling for me of a diary entry. It's a memento of a feeling, I don't want to access all these feelings, like every night because that would be too much for me emotionally, but it is really nice to be able to capture an emotion," Rhian said in an interview with Mojo Magazine. "Sometimes I find when I'm talking and trying to get my words out, what I say is not exactly what I mean. So I'm happy that those songs exist and they're accurate to the way I'm feeling."



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Photo Credit: Alice Backham, Domino, Wet Leg


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