In an interview with Melody Maker magazine, keyboard player Pete Wiggs said that he considers the song "potentially brilliant" but "a bit of a failure"; he feels that the band "stuck too rigidly to our folk idea".

He also adds that they only chose Spanish guitar so that they could go to Spain for the video [1] The cover art for the single features photographs of swimming tigers, presumably in reference to the album title.

"[2] In his weekly UK chart commentary, James Masterton wrote, "Something really has gone wrong when a band like Saint Etienne make a string of such beautiful records and yet have still to have a really big hit."

[7] Stephen Dalton from NME named it Sherbed-Coated Single of the Week, writing that "it sounds less like the Hector's House theme at an under-fives rave — the standard Saints formula — than a sleek modern update of Abba's "Fernando", all Spanish guitar flurries and ill-fated lovers mooching around exotic locations.

Go la-la with the Saints as their latest dip into the pop palette comes up with a Spanish sunset yellow that rattles your castanets and perks up your paella with a saucy salsa beat.