B-Side Guys

Hull five-piece Poets Corner dissect financial manipulation within romantic relationships on “She’s Got You Now,” their follow-up to debut single “Over And Over.” The track operates as both personal testimony and broader examination of how economic control becomes tool for psychological dominance, delivered through post-punk arrangements that mirror the claustrophobic tension they’re documenting.

Recorded at Scunthorpe’s Woodley Moss Studios with producer Connor Haggarty, the song benefits from the band’s collective experience with partners who demand financial generosity while offering emotional stinginess in return. Their approach to this material avoids both victim mentality and bitter revenge fantasy, instead presenting economic abuse as systematic behavior worth recognizing and naming.

The band’s influences—Arctic Monkeys, The Stone Roses, Catfish and the Bottlemen—surface not as imitation but as framework for examining how working-class relationships often involve financial pressure that middle-class romance narratives ignore. Poets Corner understands that money becomes weapon when one partner uses scarcity to control the other’s choices.

Their observation about feeling like “people pleasers” while “hating yourself for giving your power away” captures something essential about how financial manipulation works—it forces victims to participate in their own diminishment. The line about having “broken wings” suggests someone whose capacity for escape has been systematically undermined rather than naturally limited.

“She’s Got You Now” succeeds because Poets Corner treats economic abuse as pattern worth documenting rather than personal failing worth hiding. Their decision to write about financial manipulation as their first song together suggests a band uninterested in romantic mythology that ignores material realities. The result feels both urgent and necessary.