Världens bästa låt

Idolerna sjunger "världens bästa låt" i kväll.

Här är min, och av en ren händelse Marinas världens bästa låt också. Den finaste sången av duon vars musik förde oss samman för nio år sedan.

Being boring har till och med en egen sajt dedikerad till sig. Väl värd ett besök.



Behavior opens with the tour de force of Being boring. After a sweeping instrumental fanfare, foreshadowing the cinematic scope of the album, the song builds around a quote from Zelda Fitzgerald about the Twenties literary crowd, “We were never feeling bored, because we were never being boring.” Tennant and Lowe cover a lot of ground in the next few minutes, zeroing in on friendship, solidarity, celebration, and loss while implicitly defending the antic, bohemian lifestyle of happier times. The freewheeling Seventies are fondly recalled with musical allusions to Eurodisco (appropriately, the ubiquitous German disco engineer and producer Harold Faltermeyer produced Behavior). Fast forward to the present, with the world forever altered: “All the people I was kissing / Some are here and some are missing / In the 1990’s.”

Parke Puterbaugh, Stereo Review, 1991.