Disco Lies
| Disco Lies | |
|---|---|
| Moby | |
| publication | March 14, 2008 |
| length | 3:23 |
| Genre (s) | Disco , pop |
| Author (s) | Moby |
| Producer (s) | Moby |
| Label | Mute |
| album | Last night |
Disco Lies is a song by the American musician Moby from 2008. The first single of his eighth studio album Last Night was written and produced by the artist himself.
Music and lyrics
Disco Lies is, as the title of the song suggests, a disco - Pop -Song defined by a pounding beat and both fast electronic as well as slow, to string instruments resembling synthesizer is characterized. The song has a conventional verse-chorus structure, the second half being identical in both stanzas and an additional third time being heard. Shayna Steele takes over the vocals, which she gives particularly powerfully to the best in the chorus. In terms of content, the song revolves around a failed love affair that failed because the feelings that the partner seemed to harbor for the first-person narrator were just lying.
Music video
The music video for Disco Lies is a criticism of meat consumption and was released in two versions. At the beginning of the clip, a chick is shown watching how several dead chickens are cut up with a knife for preparation . Ten years passed and the chick from the opening scene was now depicted as an anthropomorphic rooster wearing a hat , jacket and walking stick . He notices a store belonging to the fast food chain MFC (a reference to Kentucky Fried Chicken ) and storms inside. He attacks a cook who is supposed to tell him where the man who is responsible is. He points to a door behind which a man who looks very much like Colonel Sanders is celebrating with two half-naked women and eating chicken. When the rooster enters the room, he is intercepted by bodyguards , who he overpowers, however, by pecking out one of their eyes . In the meantime, Sanders has fled the restaurant, but is overtaken by the tap. He has flashbacks of the atrocities he witnessed as a chick and kills the man with a cleaver . At the end you can see how he is now sitting in the restaurant with the two women, but instead of eating chicken he eats the slaughtered Sanders and laughs. Throughout the video there are intercuts to the singer performing the song in a discotheque .
Since the uncensored version of the clip shows several peaks of violence, there is a second, defused variant. At the beginning, for example, it is not clear what is happening to the dead chickens, in the eye-pecking scene all cuts to the torn out visual organ are missing and in the killing of Sanders there is no splashing blood. The ending is also different: in the regular version the rooster sits in front of a large platter with clearly visible severed limbs over which he is pouring sauce , in the censored version it is a box from which a bloodless hand peeks out and from which he has glasses of the dead.
criticism
Disco Lies received mixed to positive reviews. There was agreement that the song perfectly captured the musical style of past decades, with the perception of which epoch the song was imitating from the 70s to the 90s . However, it was increasingly noted that the song does not meet everyone's taste, that all modern elements are missing and that it depends on whether you meet it on the dance floor, where it is "unstoppable". Nevertheless, it was received as one of the highlights of the mixed album Last Night .
success
Disco Lies was only a commercial success in a few European countries. Besides Germany and Switzerland , where it reached places 8 and 10, it only emerged as a top ten hit in Belgium , where it climbed to number 4 in Flanders . In Austria it came in 21st place; in the musician's home country, it could not prove itself in the charts.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Album credits. Accessed August 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Mention of the singing voice. Accessed August 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Lyrics. Accessed August 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Uncensored music video. Accessed August 25, 2019 .
- ↑ sectional report. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Terrorverlag criticism. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Pitchfork review of the album. Accessed August 25, 2019 .
- ^ Laut.de review of the album. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
- ↑ BBC review of the album. Accessed August 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Charts. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .