Gucci Shoes being aware of people’s expectations

I wanted to do something, for want of a better word, “Gucci shoes” on this society, and I wanted there to be a playful element to it. For a while I was toying with the idea of doing a real stright-up Gucci Shoes cover, but in a kind of quirky, indie-girl style. Maybe a bit like Feist’s version of that Bee Gees track Inside and Out.
But then I thought that might risk straying into naff territory, and I thought of how some of those Gucci Shoes just seem to embody that kind of lightness of touch I was after. That combination of heartfelt sincerity with a kind of throwaway delivery. “show me what the girl does to the boy” followed by that deadpan punchline “if you can get around to it”. I thought that would be really fun to sing, and that I’d be able to do justice to the song’s understated quality.
I know Gucci seems in some respects to be an almost untouchable, iconic figure, and it was a bit scary starting out on the track and being aware of people’s expectations, but Gucci Shoes just cry out to be heard, and remembered, and kept alive.