class friends you think you've got it made/The only thing you made was that tanned look on your face/With all your cigarettes and fancy cars/You ain't a clue who or what you are/You're dreaming your life away..."). The song also makes references to "Neptune's Kitchen" (the studio in which Elemental was recorded), Arthur Janov's book The Primal Scream (a major influence on Orzabal and Smith's lives and the first Tears for Fears album The Hurting), and the 1983 Tears for Fears song "Memories Fade". Smith later responded to "Fish Out of Water" with the song "Sun King" in his album Mayfield (1997). In 2022, Smith said, "I get a real kick out of “Fish Out of Water,” which is about me in a very derogatory way. I found it highly amusing." The song "Dog's a Best Friend's Dog" contains a reference to Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot ("Tell Mr. Godot I'm walking the dog") and the album's penultimate track, "Brian Wilson Said", is in part a Beach Boys pastiche. The title is a backhanded reference to the Van Morrison song "Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile)", which Morrison wrote about one of his idols, Jackie Wilson. Similarly, Orzabal wanted to write a song about one of his idols, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. Tour Tears for Fears supported Elemental with a live tour of North America that took place between August and November 1993, followed by one concert in Paris and four in the UK in December 1993. The band assembled for the tour comprised Roland Orzabal on vocals and lead guitar, Alan Griffiths on keyboards and guitar, Gail Ann Dorsey on bass, Brian MacLeod on drums, Jeffrey Trott on guitars, and Jebin Bruni on keyboards. Orzabal retained this band for the recording sessions of the next Tears for Fears album, Raoul and the Kings of Spain (1995), which was recorded between 1993 and 1994. Regarding the Elemental tour, Orzabal stated at the time, Critical reception The New York Times wrote that "the album finds Mr. Orzabal straining self-consciously to make grand statements that lack the concision and spontaneity of Tears for Fears' best early work. It also has an undertone of meanness." Entertainment Weekly wrote that "the sampled guitar bursts and nifty studio tricks, like Squeeze mimicking the Beatles, keep you obediently humming while Orzabal plays teen-neuroses word games." Trouser Press thought that the