Songfacts®:

• "She's In Parties" is either discussing the film industry or using the film industry as a metaphor to describe the '80s goth scene. The goth-scene metaphor can then be made a metaphor for life in general, meaning "She's In Parties" may achieve the exceedingly rare and highly esteemed musical triple-metaphor (which isn't actually a thing).
  
  The song's lyrics jump through images of film, from memorizing script dialogue to acting to the editing room. There's a woman at the center of the stories. She's about to be a big star. "She's in parties," meaning she's in fashionable, high-profile shindigs with celebrities. But, the song may be using this as a way to describe the hangers-on of the goth scene, those who wanted to fit in but never really embraced the ethos.
  
  The song can then be made more universal as a story about how people will pretend to be something they're not in order to fit into a scene.
• Bauhaus members Daniel Ash, David J (David John Haskins), and Peter Murphy all contributed to the lyrics. Ash told the story to Songfacts: "We traveled down the road in a tour bus or a car - we were all in the same area - and Dave had a pen and paper, and said, 'OK. Shoot out some words, shoot out some lines.' That's what we did."
• The term "it's in the can" means a project is completed and ready to fulfill its purpose. The saying originated from the movie industry, where the film would go into a container (a "can") when it was finished. So, it leads us full circle back to the same division in interpretation - is this song actually discussing the film industry or using it as a metaphor? It works both ways.
• The Canadian music-history radio show The Ongoing History of New Music covered this song on a 1998 episode titled What's the Big Deal About Bauhaus?
• Bauhaus first released the song as a single in 1983 and then included it as a track on their fourth studio album, Burning from the Inside.
• The Estonian musician Kerli covered this song on her 2007 self-titled EP.
• This was the last single Bauhaus released. The band split up in 1984, with Peter Murphy going solo and the other members forming Love And Rockets. Bauhaus reunited a few times and put out an album in 2008, but no singles were issued from it.
• In 2012, English metal group A Forest of Stars covered the song on their third studio album, A Shadowplay of Yesterdays.