Fuck Was I
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| "Fuck Was I" | ||||
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| Single by Jenny Owen Youngs | ||||
| from the album Batten the Hatches | ||||
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| Released | 2007 | |||
| Genre | Folk rock | |||
| Length | 3:30 | |||
| Label | Nettwerk | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Jenny Owen Youngs | |||
| Producer(s) | Dan Romer | |||
| Jenny Owen Youngs singles chronology | ||||
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| "Fuck Was I" on YouTube | ||||
"Fuck Was I" is a song by Jenny Owen Youngs, from her 2005 album Batten the Hatches. Its name refers to the phrase "What the fuck was I thinking?"[1]
Youngs wrote it "between (her) junior and senior years at SUNY Purchase".[2] She is accompanied by Dan Romer (organ) and Patrick Petty (cello).[3]
Spin called it a "stand-out"[4] — an opinion shared by Autostraddle, who also called it a "stirring anthem for the regretful".[5] MusicOMH considered it "rueful",[6] while LA Weekly described it as an "antilove song" that evinces Youngs' "unexpectedly wicked sense of humor".[1] Pop Matters described it as "attention-grabbing" and "charming at first", but faulted it for being "a little too self-conscious" with some lyrics that are "overwrought", judging that it was "an example of all that is both right and wrong with Batten the Hatches".[3]