Spin Doctors "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" was released in 1992 as the lead single from their 1991 debut album
Pocket Full of Kryptonite."
It reached #17 on the Billboard Hot 100, #12 on the Mainstream Top 40, and #2 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks.
Many people thought the song was written about lead singer, Chris Barron's ex-girlfriend because they had broken up just weeks before he introduced the song to the band, but it is actually about Barron's step mother.
Barron's step mother was a huge negative part of his life. He had to drop out of Bennington College in Vermont, where he was studying ceramics, when she spent his tuition money on (according to Chris) "a Ferrari Dino and a lynx and a mink and a couple dozen Saks Fifth Avenue suits."
The song "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" is Barron's way of saying he is happy she left the family. "There is an irony to the fact that my stepmom used to tell me that I would be a guitar-playing janitor and that I would live in the basement of the high school and 'play guitar for the rats,'" Barron told Songfacts. "They say success is the best revenge, and I certainly savored the irony that she was so unkind to me in regards to my future and my career, and that my future and career were assured by a song that I wrote about her."
Spin Doctors "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" 1992
