 The lyric paraphrases Johnny Tillotson's 1962 single "Send Me the Pillow That You Dream On", and broadly references the 1964 comedy "Carry On Cleo" ("Oooh, I say").In the mainstream British music press, "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others" was mentioned in the context of "The Queen Is Dead".In the "NME", Adrian Thrills wrote, "As an album with humour never far from its surface, it is fitting that "The Queen Is Dead" should conclude with the clipped, undulating frivolity of 'Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others', a hypnotic musical travelogue that verges on the transcendental [...] Again, the Morrissey muse and Marr's musical setting collide marvellously, the track illuminated by some lovely slide guitar from the latter.