Neil  There's always some great line that seems very profound. In my notebook I had the idea for a song about electricity with the 'power to be' line.

Chris Another rap.

Neil  It's almost a rap album.

Chris It's a bit Madonna doing 'Erotica' and 'Justify My Love'.

Neil  I love the line: 'it's the greatest show with the best effects! since Disco Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes'. In the Seventies I always loved, by Disco Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes - whose name, unfortunately, was misspelled in the original BIlingual booklet but has been corrected here - their record 'Get Dancin". It ended with Disco Tex saying 'my chiffon is wet, my chiffon is wet'. This lyric is a monologue by a drag queen. She's talking to a boy in a bar after she's done her show in which she lip-syncs to a tape recorder with a couple of dancers: 'I take them on the road with my reel-to-reels! I'm an artist, honey-you know how that feels'. She's on this tour; playing gay clubs around America. And I think she is an artist. I've no idea why I wrote it.

Chris It's very atmospheric.

Neil  The organ sound on this is so sleazy. It's very funky for the Pet Shop Boys.

Chris Yes. I don't know how we did it.

Neil  We decided to break all of our rules.

Chris Oh yeah. We weren't allowed to do anything we normally do. So we started off with it being slow.

Neil  It's 96 beats per minute, I think.

Chris Whereas we'd normally do it over 120. And then we decided to only use sounds we wouldn't normally use. You just had to think of what you would do.. .and then not dolt.

Neil  We lost interest in that after a while, but that's how we started it.

Chris I wasn't allowed to have a string pad, but then I decided to put one in anyway. It's a bit influenced by the 2-Pac record, 'California Love'.

Neil  On the'.. electricity' line I think I sound like David Bowie. My voice sounds like it does on this track, very thick, because I had a very bad cold and I could sing a different way.