Cover art for If You Wanna by The Vaccines
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What did The Vaccines say about "If You Wanna"?
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Young says

“When we started, it was just a bit of fun. We were all a bit depressed. But a mate had a studio and we had a deal that we could go in and use it for free. I thought we were gonna stare at our feet and make 10 minutes of noise. That was the plan. We did If You Wanna and I sang the chorus as a joke, because it was cheesy, but everyone was: ‘That was fucking cool.’ That’s when we thought: why not be a pop band? I remember thinking: ‘Enough people are gonna like this that we’re gonna be able to headline the Barfly. This is a fucking great pop song.’”

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