Blur “She’s So High" Turns 25

25 years ago today, the boys in Blur - Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James, and Dave Rowntree - released their debut single, a fact which is almost certainly going to make a whole lot of Britpop fans feel really, really old.

Actually, when Blur released “She's So High,” which preceded their debut album, Leisure, by a full 10 months, Britpop wasn't even really a thing yet. No, if anything, Blur were much more of the Madchester movement, but unlike Candy Flip or Flowered Up - just to pull out two names at random, you understand - they managed to escape the movement with their musical credibility intact.

Unfortunately, the song only hit #48 on the UK Singles chart when it was originally released, so it wasn't what you'd call a smash hit, but it helped bring the band onto people's pop culture radar. As such, when Blur released their second single, “There's No Other Way,” in 1991, it made it into the UK top 10 and - gasp! - even hit #82 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Not that's there's anything wrong with “She's So High,” you understand: it remains a great pop song even now. More importantly, even though it was their first single, it's clearly nothing that Blur look back on with regret: when they put together their first-ever best-of collection a decade later, the band made absolutely sure that it was in the mix.