The Pet Shop Boys took to a London stage to present the new album they will release next April 26. Is called “Nonetheless” and is the duo’s 15th album.
The album produced by James Ford It will consist of 10 songs, the first of which “Loneliness” can now be heard online accompanied with a music video that came out in January of this year.
In these new songs by the band you can see both ballads and the “dance” music that represents the artists so much, to celebrate “the unique and diverse emotions that make us human.” They have assured that, at Ford’s request, they had to change the arrangements of their songs because “sometimes they were a little complicated” but still They will consist of electronic touches, orchestras and they have even dared to try rap.
In the interview at the event, conducted by “The Guardian” in addition to the album, they also talked about different topics. Taylor Swift was one of them. Neil Tennant (singer of the duo) expressed that he pays attention, unlike the band’s keyboardist Chris Lowe, to current pop music. Tennant says he’s fascinated by Swift being “so popular and so big,” but wonders where her “well-known songs” are. “She has a great voice, and the productions are beautiful, but melodically… I mean, where’s her Billie Jean?”
The interview was also characterized by the nostalgia that both feel for the 80s, saying that perhaps it was “the last period of musical creativity.”
Recently too They talked about another singer in the current music industry: Drake. The Canadian singer sang, almost identically, one of the phrases from the song “West End Girls” by Pet Shop Boys in one of his songs. Drake’s lyrics said: “And it’s 6, our town a dead end world/ East End boy and West End girls” and the duo’s: “In a West End town, a dead end world/ The East End boys and West End girls.”
The group responded to the singer on the social network X (formerly Twitter) saying: “It’s surprising to hear Drake singing the chorus of “West End Girls” on the song “All The Parties” from his new album. No credit given or permission sought.”
