I'm Too Sexy

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"I'm Too Sexy"
Single by Right Said Fred
B-side(s)	"I'm Too Sexy" (Spanish version)
Released	1991
Length	2:50
Label	Charisma
Writer(s)	Fred Fairbrass, Richard Fairbrass, Rob Manzoli
Chart positions
#1 (U.S. Pop, Australia, New Zealand) #2 (UK) #20 (Netherlands)
Right Said Fred singles chronology
	I'm Too Sexy (1991)	Don't Talk Just Kiss (1992)

"I'm Too Sexy" is the best-known song by the British trio Right Said Fred. The single topped the American charts for three weeks in early 1992, after having peaked at #2 for six weeks in the band's home country the previous year.

[edit] Song

An uptempo novelty hit, "I'm Too Sexy" is sung from the point of view of the boyfriend of a self-satisfied female fashion model. The song's lyrics express the singer's frustration in his girlfriend's confidence that her personal level of sexiness makes her too sexy for numerous things. The song's instrumental break is based on the guitar riff in the Jimi Hendrix song "Third Stone from the Sun".^{[citation needed]}

The band would be a one hit wonder in the United States, its only other charting U.S. single languishing at #76. However, "I'm Too Sexy" was just the act's first of several hits on the British charts, including the #1 single Deeply Dippy.

MC Hammer once did a version of this song.

Crazy Frog has a remake version of this song on their second album which was released in June 2006.

The song has also appeared in a variety of motion pictures, including Married... With Children and the motion picture Encino Man from the same year.

In the DVD and VHS extras of the movie Shrek 2, the character Prince Charming sings this song for "Far, Far Away Idol".

A remake, by the Tastemakers, of the original hit will be re-released in April 2007 with a new video featuring the band.

The song itself was rated #49 on "Run for Your Life! Its the 50 Worst Songs Ever!" by Blender.

Daz did a parody of the song called "I'm too sexy for my whites" and they renamed the band "White said Fred"

[edit] "I'm too sexy" for ...

The following is a list, in lyrical order, of the things for which the model considers herself to be too sexy:

• His love ("love's going to leave me")
• His shirt ("so sexy it hurts")
• Milan, New York, and Japan
• Your party ("No way I'm disco dancing.")
• His car ("too sexy by far")
• His hat ("what d'you think about that?")
• His cat ("poor pussycat")
• The song itself ("and I'm too sexy for this song", at which point the song abruptly ends)

Preceded by "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" by George Michael and Elton John

Billboard Hot 100 number one single February 8, 1992- February 22, 1992

Succeeded by "To Be with You" by Mr. Big