2009Released
8:02

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This song is a collaboration with the production team Xenomania, who are best known for their work with the British pop acts Girls Aloud and Sugababes.

CBC News asked Pet Shop Boy Chris Lowe what inspired the song's anti-materialistic message. He replied: "Neil (Tennant) wrote the lyrics, but unlike on the last album - where we actually almost had a manifesto of what we wanted it to be about - this time, we just wrote a lot of songs and they ended up being rather good pop songs. I think there's a general theme of love on the album. But also I think it was inevitable that there was going to be some financial collapse, because there was just so much greed and selfishness out there with all the city bonuses and all the rest of it, being constantly bombarded on television with images of wealth, particularly on MTV Cribs, and stuff like that. I think it's just really distasteful and vulgar and ends up leading to a horrible, must-have culture, and so this might have been subconscious, really; I think it definitely was a reaction against the materialism of the recent years."

This features a male chorus in a similar fashion to previous Pet Shop Boys singles "Go West" and "New York City Boy."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Love etc. - Gui Boratto Mix.
DKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
125BPM

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Parlophone UK
© 2009 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd
℗ 2009 Pet Shop Boys Partnership Ltd under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Ltd

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