Perfect 10 (song)

"Perfect 10" is a song by The Beautiful South, released in 1998 as the first single from their sixth studio album, Quench. It reached number two on the UK Singles Chart and is the band's last top-ten single to date. It received a Gold certification from the British Phonographic Industry in 2013 for shipments of more than 400,000 copies.

Analysis

The verses of the song - sung alternately by Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott - are made up of a series of innuendos using clothing sizes and penis length to illustrate a loving relationship between two people who don't conform to modern stereotypes of physical perfection. The male vocal shows that although his partner is a little on the large side ("but she wears a 12"), she isFRIDAY: If Overbay makes the team he would earn $1.25MM plus up to $250K in performance bonuses, Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com reports (on Twitter).

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