"Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth" is a song by American rock band the Dandy Warhols. It was released on June 16, 1997, as the first single from their second studio album, ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down, and charted in four countries.
As documented in the film Dig!, the song is dedicated to the band the Brian Jonestown Massacre, friends and rivals of the Dandy Warhols, who in turn dedicated their own track "Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth" to them. Frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor revealed in an interview that the song is also about his girlfriend. He said, "There is nothing fucking playful about coming home from your first tour ever, and discovering that your girlfriend of four years has become â in one week â a fucking heroin addict."
The song is known for its refrain "I never thought you'd be a because heroin is so ". Because of this, the song has often been erroneously titled "Heroin Is So Passé", and the song was later subtitled with this in some markets.
"Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth" was released in 1997 as the first single from ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down. It peaked at number 13 on the UK Singles Chart and number 31 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.
The music video for the song, directed by David LaChapelle, features the group "playing among a troupe of dancing syringes" and was called an "arch, playful, taboo-shredding hoot" by Mojo.
All tracks were written and composed by Courtney Taylor-Taylor except where indicated.
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UK 7-inch single
Australian CD single