Synopsis

The video follows the song's uneasy romantic situation through a brisk, performance-led presentation. The band's energetic playing is intercut with scenes that reflect the narrator's confusion over pursuing a seventeen-year-old girl while also seeing a thirty-one-year-old woman. His friends' disapproval and the awkward implications of the younger relationship hang over the story, giving the otherwise exuberant indie-rock presentation an uncomfortable comic edge. The repeated "take her back" refrain becomes both advice from others and the narrator's attempt to settle on the safer choice.

Factoids & Trivia

• "Take Her Back" was released as the fifth single from The Pigeon Detectives' debut album, "Wait For Me," on August 13, 2007.

• The single reached No. 20 on the UK Singles Chart, giving the band a third consecutive UK Top 20 single.

• The song's central dilemma is unusually explicit for a guitar-pop single: the narrator is twenty-two, attracted to a seventeen-year-old, and tries to redirect himself toward a thirty-one-year-old woman.

• The track was produced by Will Jackson at Soundworks Studios and mixed by Cenzo Townshend at Olympic Studios in London.

• The single's physical releases included live recordings made at Leeds Town Hall in May 2007, linking the release to the band's strong reputation as a live act.

• The band performed "Take Her Back" on Jo Whiley's BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge on August 14, 2007, one day after the single's release.