Integral - Pet Shop Boys

[DudeAsInCool]

This cut is from their upcoming release - 'Fundamental'. Vain, Selfish and Lazy does a somewhat mixed review of the song - he believes the subject is iimportant, but that you can't dance to it :)

"there is, however, nothing either ambiguous or semi-articulate about the pet shop boys' "integral." the song is about the id card debate in the uk, which you can read about here and listen to here. neil sings, "everyone has their own number in the system that we operate under / we're moving to a situation where your lives exist as information"; he intones in an ominous voice, part big brother, part dalek, "one world, one life, one chance, one reason / all under one sky, unchanging, one season."

heady stuff, to be sure, but you can dance to it; "integral" is a reminder that, when they're not making dance music for people who don't dance, they're making music for people who do. "integral" is a bit like something from the ongoing disco series, only reined in for the charts by trevor horn's uncanny pop nous. ah! but this is where settembrini would interject : dance is an opiate; it distracts people from the message!

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Anything to raise awareness of the cause. Culture is always going to be powerful in influencing opinions - and people are really waking up to it. There is more and more questioning in the media and on TV about the direction we are heading.