Official music video for Pet Shop Boys - Go West (2003 Digital Remaster).
LGBT is a genre?
hahaha, it shows up as a tag in the genius source
I don’t think it is a genre, it was meant to be taken as a tag that applies to the song.
Thanks for pointing that out, maybe others may have a different opinion!
Edit: forgot genius link, moved both quotes between seperators and added genius source
A cover of the 1979 Village People song “Go West”, about young gay men heading west to San Francisco.
The Pet Shop Boys version was released in 1993, not long after the breakup of the Soviet Union. The video makes allusions to Soviet iconography, with the implication that the chorus is referring to the capitalist West rather than San Francisco.
https://genius.com/Pet-shop-boys-go-west-lyrics
Neil has said of this track, “We tried to bring out the elegiac quality of a utopia that couldn’t be realized.” It was Chris’s idea to cover this Village People semi-classic from 1979. Neil was reluctant at first, but he soon warmed to the idea and later conceded that, as usual, Chris’s idea for a remake—not to mention its conceptual underpinning, which was also apparently his idea—was right on target. They performed it live well before a studio version was ever released, having done so in 1992 at The Haçienda nightclub in Manchester for an AIDS charity benefit, where they had been asked to perform by Derek Jarman.
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So successful was Pet Shop Boys’ 1993 cover of Go West that Village People’s original version is largely considered a footnote. Originally released in 1979, after the disco troupe’s mega-hit YMCA and its almost-as-successful follow-up, In The Navy, Go West signalled a sudden cooling in the five-piece’s chart fortunes when it failed to break the US Top 40 and stalled at No.15 in the UK. As the title track of their fourth studio album, Go West’s relative commercial misfire wasn’t quite enough to stall the momentum building around their first feature film, 1980’s Can’t Stop The Music, but the writing was already on the wall. “Disco Sucks” became the mantra of a wider backlash, and Village People would soon be ostracised as the US turned to AOR and the UK got swept up in new wave and the emerging synth-pop revolution.
https://www.thisisdig.com/feature/go-west-pet-shop-boys-song-story/
Go West is a popular song by the British synthpop duo, Pet Shop Boys. Released in 1993, it quickly became one of their most recognizable hits and is often associated with themes of hope, liberation, and optimism. Inspired by the original version recorded by the Village People in 1979, Pet Shop Boys reimagined the song with their unique style and added their own touch to its meaning.
https://oldtimemusic.com/the-meaning-behind-the-song-go-west-by-pet-shop-boys/
When you first listen to the song, the lyrics may seem simple and straightforward. It talks about an idealized place where the sun shines and the people are friendly. “Go West, life is peaceful there. Go West, lots of open air. Go West, to begin life new.” It’s an invitation to leave behind the troubles of the present and embark on a journey to a better place.
https://oldtimemusic.com/w2/the-meaning-behind-the-song-go-west-by-pet-shop-boys/
