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“R U Mine?” is a single from Arctic Monkeys originally released in early 2012 for Record Store Day in the UK. It was then re-recorded for their 2013 album AM.
The song delves into the relationship between casual flirtation and addictive lust, with Alex describing himself as just a “puppet” for her, completely under her control and compulsively begging for her affection.
The song was released as a digital download in the UK on 27 February 2012 and debuted at #23 on the UK Singles Chart, the band's highest charting single since "Crying Lightning" reached #12 in 2009.
The official video was filmed by Aaron Brown and Ben Chappell of Focus Creeps and features former Sex Pistol and current DJ Steve Jones can be seen introducing the song during his KROQ show while the band lip-syncing the song in a car.
"There’s a few references for people to pick up on in there—‘Some Velvet Morning’, Tracy Island. Those references are just me being a smartarse. The song, not to get too heavy, is about that uncertainty that comes with love sometimes. Wondering where you are with it all. That’s the undertone for the tune, but I threw in a Thunderbirds reference too. Just because.
That particular bit is like the thing Lil Wayne and Drake do. We’ve been listening to a lot of their stuff recently. I like that thing they do where they talk about something backwards, so they talk about it but then say what it actually is on the next line. It’s hard to explain but I guess it’s a little nod to that idea. So I say, ‘I’m a puppet on a string’, just before mentioning Tracy Island. That’s what it’s about—uncertainty."
— Alex Turner, NME
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