“A Certain Romance” is the last song on Arctic Monkeys first album, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, released in 2006. NME described it as “a strangely even-handed song, in which Alex Turner starts out scorning local townies then appears to absolve them at the end of the song,” and named it the 10th best track of the decade.

The song is also a metaphor for the music industry, offering coded commentary on the state of the industry during the mid-2000s.