I had this song stuck in my head for many many years! I saw it on much music television in the late 90's I think! I tried looking it up but could never find it! Yet, it would always pop up back into my head. I found it and listened to the song and video for the first time today!!! Many flash bang, back to the whack inferno. It's the song Go West by The Pet Shop Boys! I never knew it was The Pet Shop Boys!! Here is the video - classic to now, pertinent to our times today I thought re-hearing and watching it!
Very nice extended mix!
I am so excited at finding this song I almost don't know what to say! It helped me figure out today's genre of Vaporwave!! This video is certainly a pre-cursor to Vapor!! Also it helps me again think back to a younger age, which I seem to be doing allot lately. Synchronicity and memory has been guiding me. I believe I am getting these signs to be ready to more fully tell my or a story!
Hearing this song is also easing my mind on the Bronification of Machismo politics!! I feel I understand the culture and can read it like a book! The authoritarian regimes and corporations mythology weaken the top pop cultural characters to be weak and decadent, boys pretending to be girls. You see memes of Trump and Putin in S&M gear and remember that us and them is S&M and it's a sissyneck move poloticians and corporations make to continue death and destruction in the name of bliss and happyness. When really the top 10 percent strip the bottom 90 whenever a downturn in economy happens. Where getting fucked meanwhile they blame homosexuals. So painfully obvious how sissyneck political characters have become in the age of sensationalism.
The song really made my day today! I feel normal! Ultra normal even!! The song represents the slap happy grind of going to school, watching t.v. and being brainwashed!! Sickening sap like disney cartoons take away your tender feelings for other beings, you fall in love with the cartoon notions and pretend they are real. Send the whole world to cartoon detox rehab I say!! You go to church and they preach about death and guilt yet have a glazed out begging happy look in their eyes... begging you to agree with them. Just like t.v. ads begging for your money. Begging for you to believe in them. Just become a passive consumer while we take your body and mind.
Perfect tune for our times I'm telling you. All these years later. There is a reason I am hearing it again for the first time now!! I feel my friendships healed with my young friends! I feel the past healed when I was in junior and senior high healed! I understand vaporwave!!! This song pushed me over the edge! I'm thinking I could possibly do an industrial version and maybe pay Uncle Al $10,000 dollars to remix it!
My mom was a schizophrenic who pumped a bunch of symbolism in my head. Maybe that's why the song and video has pull. She taught me not to be brainwashed or assimilated. I did a good job mom.
