“Dancing to Roxy and Bowie”: Reviewing the Pet Shop Boys, Nonetheless

[Patrick Bateman]

Fair play, bigboy, this is an accurate review, though I like Loneliness more than you seem to. Out of interest, how many listens was this based on?

[Nina]

Fair play, bigboy, this is an accurate review, though I like Loneliness more than you seem to. Out of interest, how many listens was this based on?

Oh, but I thought according to your Hellenic lord and mistress, this review was based on another magazine's.... that hadn't even been published at the time

[Patrick Bateman]

Oh, but I thought according to your Hellenic lord and mistress, this review was based on another magazine's.... that hadn't even been published at the time

As I said, credit where credit's due, it's a very accurate review. As I’ve only listened to the album once so far, I was interested in knowing how many plays your review was informed by.

[Nina]

It says nothing album his emotions

Journalists are not required to express emotions. Leave that to fans... on social media,

[Nina]

This is where I get sort of obsessive, but I'd suggest, putting together the shreds of information we have so far, that this is not quite the ballad-heavy album we'd been led to expect:

Loneliness - fairly upbeat disco stomper
Feel - ballad but with a beats-filled climax
Why am I dancing? - four-on-the-floor synth banger
New London Boy - electro hip-hop/mid-tempo
Dancing Star - upbeat dance pop
A new bohemia - piano / strings mid-tempo
The schlager hit parade - upbeat eurodisco
The secret of happiness - ballad
Bullet for Narcissus - House banger
Love is the Law - mid-tempo?

So, it looks more or less like it's '6 up, 4 down'.
Crude analysis, but wiles away another 15 minutes...

Depends what you class as a ballad. I don't think of Kings Cross or The End Of The World or A Red Letter Day or The Survivors or Here as traditional ballads.

As the review(s) pointed out, this new track is more Go West-like.