"I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" is a song by English rock band Arctic Monkeys released on 15 October 2005, through Domino Recording Company. The song was the band's first single from their debut studio album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006). Written by lead singer Alex Turner and produced by Jim Abbiss, "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor" is a garage rock, indie rock, and post-punk track. It debuted at number one on the UK Singles Chart on 23 October 2005, and remains one of the band's best-known songs in the UK. Arctic Monkeys performed the track at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics. The song was ranked at number 7 on NMEs list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Mike Smith, who signed them to EMI Publishing, claimed that with the release of this track, “Arctic Monkeys created a model that’s absolutely dominant today, The fact that you’re clicking on music to listen to as you did with them – they heralded what we’ve come to live in now.” Composition and lyrics The song was recorded three times with different producers, the first version with Alan Smyth, and another with James Ford and Rich Costey, before landing on Abiss' version. The line "Your name isn't Rio, but I don't care for sand" is a reference to Duran Duran's song "Rio", the song also references Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Single artwork The single cover features a young girl, wearing a trainee badge, working the cash register at a supermarket, and has the song title and the name of the band, overimposed in white inside of two black rectangles. The girl in the picture, named Jesse May Cuffe, was discovered by Liverpool's design company, Juno, at a bar. Cuffe, at the time 16, was chosen for the shoot, which took place at a SPAR in Liverpool. She wore a fake uniform, and was constantly mistaken for a store worker by the clients. Music video The video is a live recording of the band playing the song in a studio with a small audience watching with both the video and audio taken live. Alex Turner introduces the band and the song and asks viewers not to "believe the hype". The video was shot using three Ikegami 3-tube colour television cameras from the 1980s to give it a more aged