The song's lyrics are about a spoiled girl who can rely on her parents' money to do whatever she wants. The song was rumored to be about the then-scandalous newspaper heiress Patty Hearst. In fact, the title character in the song is based on a spoiled heir to a fast-food chain who was an ex-boyfriend of his girlfriend, Sara Allen. "But you can't write, 'You're a rich boy' in a song, so I changed it to a girl,"