Kapranos had bought a box of junk with a skeleton at an auction to use as studio decorations, and during the recording of this song, they experimented using femur bones for a "clicky sort of sound".

[3] Although it, therefore, did not fulfill its expectations before its physical release, it became the band's second longest lasting single (after "Do You Want To") in the UK Top 100, remaining there for ten weeks.

Recently the song's intro was used in an episode of the TV show, Fringe, titled "Unleashed"[4] and a part of the chorus was used during a party scene in the 2009 movie Sorority Row.

[5] The vinyl release of "No You Girls" features a slightly retouched version of the original "Lucid Dreams" called the "Mike Frazer Mix".

The music video itself, directed by Nima Nourizadeh, features various girls with large dresses dancing around the band while they perform the track, as well as machines spitting out papers with the word "NO" written on them.