The third out of four songs titled after names in Bossanova was originally about a girl called Alison. However, as Black Francis stated in an interview with Q on September, 1990, Elvis Costello already had a song called “Alison”.

That’s pretty much the same reason Francis changed the name of “Velouria” from the original “Victoria”. But instead of changing the name, he decided to change the subject, and the song was rewritten to be about the Jazz pianist Mose Allison.