Do You Want To

Wooooo I'm the first one to comment, go me!! Ahem, anywho..... I love this song, it's the first release from their second album. It makes me wanna dance :)

C'mon people, Franz's has so many gay references in many of their songs, but these ones are pretty loud and clear. To me, it sounds like he's singing to a guy who's wanted to hook up with him for a while ("Do you wanna go where i've never let you before"). The whole "he's a friend and he's so proud of you" is a bit confusing however, my best guess is that he's talking about having a threesome.."he's a friend, and and I blew him before you") Transmission Party? - best guess is bodily fluid transmissions. "Your friends are all so arty" - gay men are stereotypically thought of as "arty"

• some of this may be a long shot, but it's the only thing that relativley makes sense to me. Anyone else have something better?

transmission party is maybe a nod to joy division?

For everyone saying they are gay, they are not. Two are married to women(Nick and Paul), Bob is straight, and one of the songs on the album "Eleanor Put Your Boots Back On" is about Alex's ex-girlfriend. Before the first album was released Alex was also dating a female textile maker.

Now, as for the song, it is what Alex heard at a party in the Transmission Art Gallery, the entire song is about girls offering sex for Alex, so I don't think they are gay. Like "he's a friend and he's so proud of you" would refer to their boyfriends being proud of Alex, and "your famous friend well I blew him before you" could refer to them saying that it's okay if he has sex with them, they have had sex with famous people before, despite the fact that they have boyfriends. I took this from Alex Kapranos himself, he never mentions anybody's names in the song to protect their identities from their boyfriends.

What a nice guy.

Its about a party Alex went to at the art school in Glasgow at the end of their UK tour in 2004, it describes the atmosphere of the party and the things people shouted in his ear at the party. Naturally he got steaming, went home and wrote down things people told him. The next day he wrote the song as its based on that night and what people said to him. It captures the atmosphere of a Glaswegian party.

Funny how the homophobic person says the song is about God.

Alex could easily be bi. Not that it matters. Saying he's bi shouldn't offend anyone.

This song is about how Alex was at a party in Glasgow and these girls were shouting suggestive things in his ear and he wrote them down and then he wrote the song the next day. Its not gay, its just written in the perspective of the girls.

Why don't people do research on this stuff, instead of assuming you know the whole story and thinking they're gay. If they were, fine, big deal, I like alot of gay and bisexual artists. But they're either all married or they have girlfriends.

What the heck is this song about? Apart from the 'I'm gonna make somebody love me' stuff. What the heck is with the arty friends and transmisson party?

C'mon people, Franz's has so many gay references in many of their songs, but these ones are pretty loud and clear. To me, it sounds like he's singing to a guy who's wanted to hook up with him for a while ("Do you wanna go where i've never let you before"). The whole "he's a friend and he's so proud of you" is a bit confusing however, my best guess is that he's talking about having a threesome.."he's a friend, and and I blew him before you") Transmission Party? - best guess is bodily fluid transmissions. "Your friends are all so arty" - gay men are stereotypically thought of as "arty"

• some of this may be a long shot, but it's the only thing that relativley makes sense to me. Anyone else have something better?

I thought this was all just stuff Kapranos had heard while clubbing, pieced together and all that. I like the gay idea though, because that's pretty sexy.

I think Franz has done better, so I'm just hoping this doesn't set the tone for the album. I'll make the same comparison I did to Weezer's "Beverly Hills" and that's that this song is pretty good compared to what else is out there, but the band can do even better.