Pet Shop Boys Community

Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but are there any fans out there that feel they cannot reveal their passion for the PSB's music without being ridiculed or labelled? I've had to sometimes avoid the subject to avoid p**s taking etc! (BTW I'm a hetrosexual married man who just happens to think that their music is fantastic and have done sice 1986!)

Ridicule is nothing to be scared of.

It has never happened to me, the only thing I get is people saying that they thought PSB stopped making records a long time ago.

my brother and girlfriend find it funny I like them. its always in good fun though.

as I've said before though,the few times I play them for other people I refer to them as the PSB rather than the cringeworthy petshopboys.

I leave it vague as if they are some new hip underground group.

I'm also a married man with wife and kids and have loved their music since 1986, some people give you funny looks when I say I like them but my wife also likes them and we go to many of their concerts together.
PSB are still with todays music and have done many styles although I'm a little uncomfortable when they make songs like "homosexuality", "I'm in love with a married man" & "the truck driver"; but I think that these songs are fantastic and the music is so cool.
Most people that know me knows I like them anyway....who cares

I thrive on ridicule.

popfreak wrote:Ridicule is nothing to be scared of.

Brilliant!

If only it were true.


StevePSB

I never hide it, but yes, I do hear people thinking, sorry, I'll rephrase that, saying, that they think the pet shop boys are sh*t. I mean they don't even know there's no 'the' before pet shop boys! I have to ignore it though, becasue actually it does upset me, which is a bit sad probably, but hey! (BTW, I'm also a straight bloke, who' s liked them since Suburbia)

Pet Shop Girl wrote:It has never happened to me, the only thing I get is people saying that they thought PSB stopped making records a long time ago.

And also are they still going and oh they did Go West.

Welcome to my world.

I am Very carefull who I tell About my interest in PSB.
Oz is not tolerant the way UK and Europe is.
I think even the US has moved on more than we have.
It is not helped by the Boys not being a bleep on the radar here for a decade.

Not being so well, I asked some of my friends to go to the PSB concert with me.
Their reaction was to burst into laughter.

And we should not have to explain our sexuality. If I do that, I feel I
am running from the bullies and abandoning my friends.

So I will stand and fight.
Was It Worth It ?
Yes a better world is worth fighting for.

I think there is growing recognition of Neil and Chris's acomplishments.
So I will keep evangilising PSB. Neil and Chris please do another great
album or two, so that the world will realise we were right.

But if they do a video in drag (a'la Robbie), I'm out'a Here.
That's the deal.

If you feel worried by the reaction of people when discussing musical tastes, bear in mind that they probably feel exactly the same way about a band that you consider to beneath contempt. Coldplay, Keane, The Killers, The Smiths, U2, Dildo et al are a few examples that spring to mind. Go on the offensive and shoot down their musical gods.

I had very often felt like that when I was a teenager. Not actually ashamed, really, but attacked and missunderstood by others. The typical silly coments like "oh, they're gay, aren't they?". However, that changed as I met more open minded people with a "wider pop culture".

When I first got into PSB, way back in late 1987 when I was 8 years old, it was kind of OK to like them. My friends knew I liked them and I remember quite a few of my classmates had both 'Actually' and 'Introspective'.

However, that all changed around 1990. I remember that when 'Behaviour' was released everyone started saying how crap they were and the 'gay' thing around PSB started up (until then it had been secondary in their image). It was about that time that my love of PSB became a big secret, and largely remains that until this day. I guess it would have been crazy for me to admit liking PSB whilst I was at school. I was at an English all boys boarding public school. To start playing a PSB record there would have been like putting a target on your forehead.

So PSB became a secret love of mine. I am now 28 and have no problem with admiting who I am and what I like and don't like. However, perhaps just out of habit, I never tell anyone I like PSB. I quite like the fact that they are this separate, secret world that i know about and very few of the people around me have any idea who they really are let alone how many amazing records they have made.

A few of years back, around the time of Release, I had been dating this girl for about eighteen months and I thought it was time I told her about my secret stash of PSB CD's. She had a really bad reaction to it, said they were crap and then took the piss out of me for liking them. She thought she was too cool to even be associated with anything related to PSB. Needless to say, that relationship didn't last much longer and I have vowed never to even tell a girlfriend about them again

There's nothing wrong with keeping your interest in PSB a secret. In some ways it makes it better as you are not always having to defend them or trying to convince less sophisticated or ignorant people that they are infact one of the best songwriting duo's this country has ever produced. It's everyone else's loss. PSB are, and will remain, one of my biggest secrets

I never cared what others say about my musical taste.
I'm proud of being a PSB fan

I thrive on ridicule.

The best way to be, Blueswan.


If it comes up in conversation, I always relish telling people about the music I love as people usually do a double-take when I throw their name in with all the other bands and artists I like.

Its very easy to defend PSB as their music speaks volumes anyway, not to mention their output and diversity puts most other bands to shame, its just that people are conditioned to react in a certain way to them. So its actually a nice little challenge pointing out to people just how good PSB are.