Pet Shop Boys – Give Stupidity A Chance (mp3 download)
Pet Shop Boys releases a new song titled “Give Stupidity A Chance.” On the upbeat track which is deeply ironic, calling for a world devoted to self-centredness and unencumbered by political correctness.
One lyric sung by Neil Tennant runs: “Intelligent people have had their say / It’s time for the foolish to show the way … We’ve had quite enough of experts and their dealings / Why face the facts when you can just feel the feelings?” This is a riff on Gove’s infamous statement ahead of the Brexit vote that “people in this country have had enough of experts”.
Pet Shop Boys haven’t been shy of politics in their career, which kicked off in 1984 with their No 1 single West End Girls. Their similarly ironic 1985 single Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money) satirised the self-interest of the Thatcher years, while their 1993 cover of Go West implicitly championed gay rights. They later lobbied David Cameron to pardon Alan Turing, the second world war hero who was prosecuted for his homosexuality in the 1950s.
Their 2006 song I’m With Stupid was a veiled attack on Tony Blair and George Bush, and the UK’s “special relationship” with the US. It included the lyric: “Is stupid really stupid or a different kind of smart? / Do we really have a relationship so special in your heart?”
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