Co-written with Mitski, whom MUNA met at a festival, No Idea “toys with the gap between perception and projection, the clarity and confinement that come with claiming a label.” A sexily building anthem, the song sees the songwriter tease their partner with a promise of things to come. They describe...
[Verse 1]
I think you think I'm like a virgin
Not in a Biblical sense
You think I'm nervous and uncertain
Because I'm waiting
[Pre-Chorus]
You seem like such a good thing, a good thing
I know that good things take time
I keep it so clean, so clean
But baby in the back of my mind
[Chorus]
You have no idea
You have no idea
The things I think about you when you aren't here
You have no idea
You have no idea
But when you find out it's all you're gonna hear ringing in your ears
[Post-Chorus]
Ooh-hoo, hoo
I'll be ringing in your ears
Ooh-hoo, hoo
[Verse 2]
There is a ring around my finger
Left when I pulled it from my lips
You see me unfolding a napkin
You see me give it a kiss
[Chorus]
You have no idea
You have no idea
The things I think about you when you aren't here
You have no idea
You have no idea
But when you find out it's all you're gonna hear ringing in your ears
[Post-Chorus]
Ooh-hoo, hoo
I'll be ringing in your ears
Ooh-hoo, hoo
[Bridge]
You think I'm such a good thing, a good thing
(You have no idea)
You think I'm such a good thing, a good thing
(You have no idea)
[Outro]
The things I think about you
When you find out it's all you're gonna hear
So tell me when you want to
Come and find out, I'll be ringing in your—
No Idea was written by Mitski & Naomi McPherson & Josette Maskin & Katie Gavin.
No Idea was produced by MUNA.
‘No Idea’ started at the top of 2020. At the time we were toying with the idea of the third record being an alternative reimagining of the past wherein we were the biggest boy band in the late ‘90s and early 2000s. But we are ourselves, and gay, we cast ourselves into that canon. I think of 'No Idea...