Jack & Jill Party
Pet Shop Boys
(Parlophone)
Reported Wednesday, July 21 2004
Courtesy of Jonty_Adderley @ www.skrufff.com
Though his biggest hit U Spin Me Round is nowadays a staple of bar mitzvahs, weddings and funerals and his extensive facial surgery brings to mind Michael Jackson, Dead Or Alive singer Pete Burns remains curiously and defiantly cool and his performance on the Pet Shop Boys new single is likely to boost his standing even further.
Catchy, camp, and distinctly retro electro sounding, the music builds around a simple but effective synth-line punctuated with classic heart-tugging PSBs chords, while Pete Burns tells his tale of attending a 'Jack and Jill party'. Simple and immediate, the track's already proving popular with electro-disco-tech DJs like Mark Moore and is presumably picking up plays at Nag, Nag, Nag, the London basement club where Neil Tennant recruited Pete Burns after bumping into him last year.
According to the accompanying press release, Jack and Jill party' is American slang for either a party attended by both gay men and women or a man in a simultaneous relationship with a man and woman, though Skrufff's New York party expert Larry Tee told us this week he's never actually heard of the term before. Whatever, Jack and Jill Party' is an interesting melodic quality disco song that suggests both the Pet Shop Boys and Pete Burns have been partying somewhere good in the last 12 months.
Jack & Jill Party is out now on Olde English (and is available ONLY via the Pet Shop Boys website- click below).
http://www.petshopboys.co.uk
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