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“Vocal”

NT: And then the last track, “Vocal”.

SP: So “Vocal” was probably one of the first demos, I think, when you started sending me stuff.

CL: Well this, this is absolutely so far removed from the demo, it’s a completely different record than it was.

NT: This was one of the first songs written for Elysium.

CL: It’s so uplifting, I just can’t get enough of this track. So much so, it’s in the show. It got added on the last day of rehearsals.

SP: It’s also, again, “V”, so alphabetically it was always going to be at the end if not the end, but it’s kind of good that it finishes off the record.

CL: Also it’s nice to end the album on such an optimistic note.

SP: Yeah. So this, so we had this, after the demo we worked on this in the studio, there was a sort of interim version, which I think we all liked, but it was just one of those situations where it wasn’t…

CL: It was neither one thing nor the other, was it? It was half-demo, and half-this, and the two weren’t joined together. And then on the day that the record had to be handed in, you delivered it in this form—we actually got it out the bag somehow, I don’t know.

SP: It was one of those classic cases of homework being due in the next morning so all of a sudden you’ve got to come up with a…

NT: Concentrate your mind, yeah.

SP: I think that works, that happens for a lot of people. The urgency makes you come up with the goods.

CL: I mean you don’t get many lyrics like, “aspirations for a better life are ordained,” on a lot of dance records.

NT: To me, I was thinking of that period of music like “Promised Land”, which Chris is particularly fond of.

CL: Particularly fond of? I’m obsessed with!

NT: And also I was, I have a mental picture of being on a dancefloor with friends around me, erm, probably from the early ’90s, which is when I sort of imagine this record. And that’s it.~

Pet Shop Boys’ Electric is out now. You can watch footage of the intimate Pet Shop Boys performance presented by Electronic Beats in Berlin last year below.