36D

36D is a song written by Paul Heaton and David Rotheray and performed by The Beautiful South. The song was originally found on the album 0898 Beautiful South and later appeared on two greatest hits compilations, 1994's Carry on up the Charts and 2007's Soup. As a single it reached #46 in the UK Singles Chart, spending two weeks in the Top 75 in 1992. The album version ran for 5 minutes 15 seconds.

The song starts as a ballard and it appears Heaton is singing fondly to a woman, telling her she doesn't have to make an effort with her looks for him to appreciate her. However as the more upbeat chorus comes in it becomes clear that the woman is the object of Heaton's scorn. The main cause of Heaton's disgust is that she uses her 36D breasts to have lots of meaningless sex and turns herself into sex object, and eventually a prostitute. Heaton is clearly unimpressed by her 36D, so what? and You cheapen and you nasty every woman in this land and Your picture's hanging pretty on the squaddie's walls, You're Steven's, Andy's, you're Iain's, you're Paul's shows his feelings perfectly.

The overtly sexual content of the song may be a reason it did not chart highly as a single as opposed to many of there other tongue in cheek, biting songs like Song For Whoever and Don't Marry Her.