Naïve (song)

"Naïve" is a song by British indie rock band the Kooks. It was released on 27 March 2006 as the fourth single from their debut studio album, Inside In/Inside Out (2006). "Naïve" charted at number five on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the UK's 19th-best-selling single of 2006 and earning a sextuple platinum certification from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) in 2025. The song also reached number 15 in Flanders and New Zealand as well as number 22 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. It placed at number 87 in Triple J's Hottest 100 of the Past 20 Years, being one of a few songs to debut in the countdown without having made a yearly list beforehand. Lead singer Luke Pritchard wrote "Naive" when he was a teenager. As he told The Guardian: "[I wrote it] when I was 15 or 16 – before we had the band – but I didn't like it. I was quite a paranoid, unconfident kid and I had a relationship with someone who was getting into a world that I didn't understand. The song is about the fear of someone doing something bad to you. The lyrics are real in some ways, but I was too young to have actually experienced that situation, so it was more me projecting my teenage fears.