You Had An Animal’s Grin

Heloise and the Savoir Faire “Po’ T” – At the start of this song, Heloise stumbles upon a familiar face from her past, and goes on to reminisce about a night of escalating sexual tension from back when she was a somewhat rebellious 17 year old, and he was a gun-toting southern roughneck who answered to the name “Po’ T.” The arrangement carries us through her shifting levels of nervousness and excitement, starting us out on shaky footing when she re-introduces herself to him, and moving on to approximate her thrill at revisiting the good times she had running with this lascivious bad boy. Clearly, much of that thrill came from feeling a bit in over her head, and that comes across in the music — even at the song’s boldest moments, she sounds like she’s trying hard just to keep up with herself, much less this dude. That said, the real tension in the song resides in the present tense, but it’s all left to the imagination — like, where did she run into Po’ T as an adult? Obviously, she has changed a lot, but what is he like now? Does he retain any of his sexual appeal? Has she thought about him much at all in the time since she was a teenager? Does he remember her? (Click here to buy it from Yep Roc.)