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Ironically, the slowest track off of "AM", “No. 1 Party Anthem” pokes fun at waiting for an anthemic party song to feel the vibe. Some of the lyrics here were first used on Arctic Monkeys greatest hit, “Do I Wanna Know?” as Alex Turner commented:
"'Actually, I was looking through my old voice memos on my iPhone this morning, and I found a demo for “Do I Wanna Know?” that I’ve done, and it’s got the lyrics from “No. 1 Party Anthem” on it.'"
“No. 1 Party Anthem” is a bit of an outlier on this album, since it’s a ballad on an album of more upbeat tracks. Did you worry about how it was going to fit on this album?"
"'A little bit. I knew we wanted to have a couple of them types of tunes on there. You’ve got that, and you’ve got “Mad Sounds,” which comes after it, but it’s got a little bit of something else in there. There are others that are in major key on the record, but what connects it to the rest of them is the subject matter and the melody. I was trying to get away from melodies that stick on something, and it was one of the first melodies that meandered around a bit. You get that on “Do I Wanna Know?” and a couple others, as well, on the melody and the bridge. It’s almost kind of conversational more than melodic. It doesn’t seem to follow a formula. You don’t really know where the next line is going to move melodically, which is exciting for me.'"
—Alex Turner, Under the Radar
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