| Hit Song | |
| Cover: | Hit Song artwork.jpeg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Custard |
| Album: | Loverama |
| Genre: | Pop, rock |
| Length: | 9:19 |
| Label: | rooArt |
| Producer: | Magoo |
| Prev Title: | Girls Like That (Don't Go For Guys Like Us) |
| Prev Year: | 1998 |
| Next Title: | Ringo (I Feel Like) |
| Next Year: | 1999 |
"Hit Song" is a song by Custard, released as the second single from the band's fifth album, Loverama. It reached No. 60 on the Australian ARIA singles chart,[1] and No. 83 on the 1999 Hottest 100.[2]
McCormack said, "The record companies are always keen for that radio-friendly, unit-shifting smash hit. And that is their job I guess. So I basically quoted all the things I'd heard them say to us and other people. Like you have to have a hit song -- you need a chorus and the verse and then the other chorus and it just seemed like a formula. So I thought that if they want a hit song I will just write exactly what they want and I guess they thought I was being too cynical and ironic but I was just trying to give them what they wanted. I gave them exactly what they asked for. And they said 'Thank you very much'."[3]