The song came from an idea that Jones and Mick Jagger had "when you are famous, and having to be as perfect for your partner as you are as a performer"; one of the pair did one line and the other followed.

[3] The video cost $250,000,[4] and featured Jones wearing a huge black and white skirt hand-painted by artist and the assistant director Keith Haring in Paris.

[5][3] The video follows Jones going through the processes of "self-healing and beautification", including acupuncture, mud and milk baths, waxing, and a "nightmare psychotherapy session", in order to be "perfect".

[6] Haring also appears in the video, captured when painting black patterns on a white 60-foot skirt that Jones wears while standing on a platform.

[3] She claims that because she was in every shot, she had to have her makeup frequently reapplied in an adjacent room, and upon returning to the studio, "they [Capitol] would be shooting something or having the cast change clothes.