Dangerous Muse Remind Me Of Early Pet Shop Boys

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Dangerous Muse Remind Me Of Early Pet Shop Boys

#1 Post by jaydc2 »

The new group Dangerous Muse remind me so much of Pet Shop Boys, I'm really psyched for the album in June. I'm getting into them the way I got into the Scissor Sisters early on, which is hard core obsession, sort of like Pet Shop Boys.

The first bars of the first single The Rejection reminds me of Why Don't We Live Together


Here is their web site:

http://www.dangerousmuse.com/index.html

And their MySpace page:

http://www.myspace.com/dangerousmuse

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#2 Post by ! »

I think they sound cheap!

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#3 Post by jaydc2 »

Yeah but they are way hot.

Here is an excerpt from an artciel on the in the latest Advocate, they even sound like early Pet Shop Boys interviews with the whole ambiguous sexuality thing and the way they met and became a group. They didn't meet in a record store, but it was close:

Rhythm and muse
Tom and Mike of hot dance duo Dangerous Muse talk about loving the ’80s, being “supersexual,” and the power of eyeliner

By Adam B. Vary

Excerpted from The Advocate, April 25, 2006

On a cool Saturday afternoon in a nondescript Hollywood photo studio, the members of Dangerous Muse—the new and impossibly pretty electronic dance-pop duo of Mike Furey and Tom Napack—prepare to shoot their first music video. It’s for their hit single “The Rejection,” which in November 2005 debuted at number 2 on the iTunes dance charts with practically zero promotion. As a skeleton crew preps the small, all-white set—an homage to cheap and simple early-’80s videos—vocalist and lyricist Mike, 23, consults with director Mike Korbic over the video’s female dancers’ outfits. Keyboardist and programmer Tom, 21, chills off to the side to a mix CD of dance music (Soft Cell, New Order) playing in the background, at one point quietly mimicking the chords to Madonna’s newest single, “Sorry,” on his trusty “keytar.”

Finally, the set in place, the proto–Robert Palmer black lace and stiletto outfits OK’d, Mike—sporting the requisite skintight low-rise jeans and loose-fitting black top—gets into place, the dancers strategically placed around him, waiting for the director’s cue. Korbic calls action, then for playback. The song’s

Depeche Mode–esque synth chirps pump through the speakers, and the women swarm Mike, clawing at his clothes and pulling him to the floor as he struggles to sing to the camera lyrics like “I’d like to like you like you like me / But I can’t, please understand.”

The meaning seems clear—a sexy gay boy trying his best to fend off rabid female suitors. “It can definitely be read that way, for sure,” Mike says with a smile the next day by the rooftop pool of a West Hollywood hotel. But he continues, “I would like to leave it up to the individual listening to the song. I wouldn’t want to limited it to any specific interpretation.”

Mike’s not being cagey. He and Tom are the product of a growing pansexual New York City nightlife they discovered while students at Fordham University in the Bronx, so much so that when asked they both avoid placing a definitive flag anywhere on the Kinsey scale of sexuality.

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jaydc2 wrote:Yeah but they are way hot.

Here is an excerpt from an artciel on the in the latest Advocate, they even sound like early Pet Shop Boys interviews with the whole ambiguous sexuality thing and the way they met and became a group. They didn't meet in a record store, but it was close:

Rhythm and muse
Tom and Mike of hot dance duo Dangerous Muse talk about loving the ’80s, being “supersexual,” and the power of eyeliner

By Adam B. Vary

Excerpted from The Advocate, April 25, 2006

On a cool Saturday afternoon in a nondescript Hollywood photo studio, the members of Dangerous Muse—the new and impossibly pretty electronic dance-pop duo of Mike Furey and Tom Napack—prepare to shoot their first music video. It’s for their hit single “The Rejection,” which in November 2005 debuted at number 2 on the iTunes dance charts with practically zero promotion. As a skeleton crew preps the small, all-white set—an homage to cheap and simple early-’80s videos—vocalist and lyricist Mike, 23, consults with director Mike Korbic over the video’s female dancers’ outfits. Keyboardist and programmer Tom, 21, chills off to the side to a mix CD of dance music (Soft Cell, New Order) playing in the background, at one point quietly mimicking the chords to Madonna’s newest single, “Sorry,” on his trusty “keytar.”

Finally, the set in place, the proto–Robert Palmer black lace and stiletto outfits OK’d, Mike—sporting the requisite skintight low-rise jeans and loose-fitting black top—gets into place, the dancers strategically placed around him, waiting for the director’s cue. Korbic calls action, then for playback. The song’s

Depeche Mode–esque synth chirps pump through the speakers, and the women swarm Mike, clawing at his clothes and pulling him to the floor as he struggles to sing to the camera lyrics like “I’d like to like you like you like me / But I can’t, please understand.”

The meaning seems clear—a sexy gay boy trying his best to fend off rabid female suitors. “It can definitely be read that way, for sure,” Mike says with a smile the next day by the rooftop pool of a West Hollywood hotel. But he continues, “I would like to leave it up to the individual listening to the song. I wouldn’t want to limited it to any specific interpretation.”

Mike’s not being cagey. He and Tom are the product of a growing pansexual New York City nightlife they discovered while students at Fordham University in the Bronx, so much so that when asked they both avoid placing a definitive flag anywhere on the Kinsey scale of sexuality.
Maybe, but I can't stand the singer's voice or the music so I'll give them a miss :wink:

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#5 Post by Sjòn »

That song in my space has a copied sample from i want a lover. I dont like the singer either...

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#6 Post by Pacific707 »

The sound is alright but the photos look like they are trying to hard to be cool

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