"Saturday Night" is a song performed by Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 singer Sandi Thom

Sandi Thom

Alexandria "Sandi" Thom is a Scottish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She became widely known in 2006 after a series of webcasts and the success of the single "I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker ".-1984–2004: Early life:Thom was born in Banff, Aberdeenshire...

. It was released as the second single of Thoms second album The Pink & The Lily

The Pink & The Lily

The Pink & The Lily is the second studio album by the Scottish singer Sandi Thom, released in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland on 26 May 2008 by RCA Records. The album had been released on iTunes on 24 May 2008...

and her fifth single overall. The song was named as "Single of the Week" by Radio 2 and received extensive airplay on the station. It was released on August 25, 2008. It is a download release for the UK market only. A planned CD single format release was abandoned. Despite numerous promotional appearances on television, radio and press interviews the single failed to enter the UK Top 100 on its release.

Story Behind The Song

Thom said inspiration for the song came from a conversation with her manager telling her that she could not go out partying every night whilst on tour because she had to be more professional
and that the original lyrics for Saturday Night, mentioned drugs, but her record company insisted they were changed before release,

Music video

There was no official music video produced. She created a homemade video for the song . A version of this video featuring fan photographs was mounted by Sandi's management on her official YouTube channel but it was removed by YouTube because it contained scenes of an offensive and law-breaking nature. It has been suggested by some that this video was deliberately created to stir up controversy as a publicity stunt for the single.