Sex crime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

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Sex crime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
Eurythmics
publication October 1984
length 3:57
Genre (s) Synth pop
Author (s) Dave Stewart , Annie Lennox
album 1984 (For the Love of Big Brother)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Sex crime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
  DE 3 12/10/1984 (16 weeks)
  CH 6th December 16, 1984 (12 weeks)
  UK 4th 11/03/1984 (15 weeks)
  US 81 11/24/1984 (4 weeks)

Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four) is a synth-pop song can the British pop - duo Eurythmics . It is on the soundtrack of the 1984 film . The single release of the song received silver status in the UK for more than 200,000 units sold.

Music and lyrics

Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four) is a fast dance song. It is based on a synthesizer melody, which is mixed with samples . Annie Lennox's singing is alienated with the help of a vocoder . Sexcrime is a term from the Newspeak , the modified variant of used by Orwell in his novel English language . The word is misleadingly for love (by the government of Oceania for offense crime , German : offense ) was declared.

publication

The song was first released on the 1984 album (For the Love of Big Brother) in a 3:57 minute version. The album version was released as a single in November, with I Did It Just the Same on the B-side . A maxi single with a 7:55 minute version was also released. In 1985, Virgin Records released a maxi CD that contained a 6:35 minute maxi version of Julia in addition to the long version of Sexcrime . In 1988, all the remixes released on record in 1984 were also released on CD.

While the single became a commercial success in Europe, it failed to live up to expectations in the US market as most major radio stations refused to play the song because of its "disreputable content".

Cover versions

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ release date
  2. ↑ Charts DE Charts CH Charts UK Charts US
  3. ^ A b Bryony Sutherland, Lucy Ellis: Annie Lennox: The Biography . Omnibus Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-7119-9192-7 , pp. 233 .
  4. ^ Sutherland / Ellis: Annie Lennox: The Biography , p. 236.