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“Fluorescent”

NT: The last song we wrote.

SP: We never sat together and worked on this.

CL: No, we were in Berlin, and you were in Los Angeles. And also we thought the album should have nine tracks.

SP: Yeah. I think that’s the thing—Electric started off as an idea to do a dance record, which became, “We’re doing a dance mini album,” which became, “We’ve done an album.”

NT: Yeah, exactly. It became the Pet Shop Boy’s 12th album. Which is not necessarily how it started. One morning I woke up and I had three emails from Chris with ideas for tracks he’d done at home, all of which I liked.

CL: It was called “Fluorescence”.

NT: “Fluorescence”. So I sent it back to Chris and said, “Why don’t we make this the ninth track on the album?” And then we did quite a lot of work on this: put the vocal on, turned it into a song, really.

CL: Then Stuart added this really great line which to me sounds like it was inspired by Visage.

SP: I think it reminded me of some of the things that came out on Trax records from Chicago. Yeah, it’s funny, it’s almost like you sort of set yourself free of that traditional intro/verse/bridge/chorus, and all of a sudden…

CL: Well, a lot of great dance music just has good bits, doesn’t it? It doesn’t bother with the rest, it just has good bits followed by good bits and it dispenses with anything boring that’s gonna get in the way, you know like…

SP: Like a bridge.

CL: Like a bridge!

NT: Originally, this had a whole load more lyrics and we thought we’d finished it, but we decided not to send it to you in case we changed our mind about it. And the following morning we came in and totally simplified it…

SP: Ah, okay.

NT: Cut at least half the lyrics out of it. And made it a bit more hookier. But “incandescent” survived.

CL: But also you want all these instrumental bits.

SP: There’s no point covering them all up.

NT: I can use the other lyrics in another song. Good, that’s “Fluorescent”. Bit new romantic, that.