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Is sad that they are tagged as a "gay group" now, when the first three albums were simply two nerds doing insanely catchy, state-of-the-art, electronic pop that
by pvaldes 3y ago
Is sad that they are tagged as a "gay group" now, when the first three albums were simply two nerds doing insanely catchy, state-of-the-art, electronic pop that everybody loved. This ruins the experience a little probably.
- jstarfish 3y ago> Is sad that they are tagged as a "gay group" now, [...] This ruins the experience a little probably. It's not so tragic. Being into a "gay group" in the 90s gave one the ability to signal a common interest while retaining deniability.
- fortran77 3y agoAnd what's wrong with being a "gay group"? Why is that "a shame?" I mean, you don't get any gayer than this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IXuRCeQKOg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IXuRCeQKOg I've seen both Liza and the Boys in concert (and I've seen Follies!) but sadly not at the same time.
- pvaldes 3y agoIs not a shame (currently, in the 80's it was a different history), but you can reduce your scope and alienate part of your potential audience. Pet Shop Boys often write deceptively simple lyrics with a lot of hidden context. Without webs like this page, most of the context, can fly over the radar for non gay people, and the same song, referenced locations etc, will mean also different things to non UK people. Kings Cross is just a song about a train station, Right? If you force the context as gay by default, some songs turn much more clear, but also smaller, less universal, and less accessible to non gay people. But we talk also about a group that have strong links with computers and nerd life. Computer graphics in the Liberation video for example were notable for a 90's videoclip. nobody was doing that in pop. They even appear in the Tetris film