Wow not only are the Pet Shops marginally talented, they're also pseudo-intellectual simpletons. Or maybe they're just culturally ignorant and didn't understand Em's words. I dunno. The point is they took a line about an insane person "we should be together" and misinterpreted it as homophobia instead of being freaked out by a person who is obviously trying to symbolically become one with the object of his idol worship.
The West End girls have always made annoying, repetive and silly music but this was a new low and a sad attempt to reclaim their late Eighties fame. Em didn't even dignify it with a comeback song.
Erm, you seem to have completely missed the point. The "we should be together" part has nothing to do with homophobia, it's just a crafty reference to the song Stan to let the listener know the rap star in the song is Eminem. The part that mentions homophobia is about the general controversy of people accusing Eminem of having homophobic lyrics. If you'd actually bothered to find out about this song properly, you'd know that Neil Tennant has stated numerous times that he actually thinks Eminem is a good artist and believes Eminem's defence that in his "homophobic" lyrics,...
Erm, you seem to have completely missed the point. The "we should be together" part has nothing to do with homophobia, it's just a crafty reference to the song Stan to let the listener know the rap star in the song is Eminem. The part that mentions homophobia is about the general controversy of people accusing Eminem of having homophobic lyrics. If you'd actually bothered to find out about this song properly, you'd know that Neil Tennant has stated numerous times that he actually thinks Eminem is a good artist and believes Eminem's defence that in his "homophobic" lyrics, he is only playing characters who represent the ugliness of America. That's why he is playing a character in this song too. See the wikipedia article on this song for more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_I_Fell_in_Love_%28song%29
not really sure what West End Girls have to do with this...
not really sure what West End Girls have to do with this...
well for starters this was am affectionate parody i don't think that they actually hate Eminem or think he's a homophobe
they probably chose 'Stan' cause it was a pretty controversial song
well for starters this was am affectionate parody i don't think that they actually hate Eminem or think he's a homophobe
they probably chose 'Stan' cause it was a pretty controversial song
and what do you mean Eminem never replied
he replied
his reply had him and Dr.Dre run PSB over
and what do you mean Eminem never replied
he replied
his reply had him and Dr.Dre run PSB over
Wow not only are the Pet Shops marginally talented, they're also pseudo-intellectual simpletons. Or maybe they're just culturally ignorant and didn't understand Em's words. I dunno. The point is they took a line about an insane person "we should be together" and misinterpreted it as homophobia instead of being freaked out by a person who is obviously trying to symbolically become one with the object of his idol worship.
The West End girls have always made annoying, repetive and silly music but this was a new low and a sad attempt to reclaim their late Eighties fame. Em didn't even dignify it with a comeback song.
Erm, you seem to have completely missed the point. The "we should be together" part has nothing to do with homophobia, it's just a crafty reference to the song Stan to let the listener know the rap star in the song is Eminem. The part that mentions homophobia is about the general controversy of people accusing Eminem of having homophobic lyrics. If you'd actually bothered to find out about this song properly, you'd know that Neil Tennant has stated numerous times that he actually thinks Eminem is a good artist and believes Eminem's defence that in his "homophobic" lyrics,...
Erm, you seem to have completely missed the point. The "we should be together" part has nothing to do with homophobia, it's just a crafty reference to the song Stan to let the listener know the rap star in the song is Eminem. The part that mentions homophobia is about the general controversy of people accusing Eminem of having homophobic lyrics. If you'd actually bothered to find out about this song properly, you'd know that Neil Tennant has stated numerous times that he actually thinks Eminem is a good artist and believes Eminem's defence that in his "homophobic" lyrics, he is only playing characters who represent the ugliness of America. That's why he is playing a character in this song too. See the wikipedia article on this song for more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_I_Fell_in_Love_%28song%29
not really sure what West End Girls have to do with this...
not really sure what West End Girls have to do with this...
well for starters this was am affectionate parody i don't think that they actually hate Eminem or think he's a homophobe they probably chose 'Stan' cause it was a pretty controversial song
well for starters this was am affectionate parody i don't think that they actually hate Eminem or think he's a homophobe they probably chose 'Stan' cause it was a pretty controversial song
and what do you mean Eminem never replied he replied his reply had him and Dr.Dre run PSB over
and what do you mean Eminem never replied he replied his reply had him and Dr.Dre run PSB over