A saw it as a comedienne spoofing a cute song like the ones Shelley Fabares and Annette Funcicello did in the sixties.
I don't think she ever treated her (surprisingly successful) music career as a joke. She was aiming, as with all her records for evoking a nostalgic sound, and the song posted is a pretty faithful cover of Kirsty MacColl's (Her labelmate on stiff) original. Listening to them recently, she made some pretty good pop records
