Anti-National ID music video

http://www.petshopboys.co.uk/splash.html

The artist's description:

"Neil: The idea is that it’s sung from the point of view of the authoritarian New Labour-style government. “If you’ve done nothing wrong, you’ve got nothing to fear” is always used as a justification for ID cards. What we object to about ID cards is that they’re intelligent cards with a data strip that can link to a central database containing personal information which may be shared with America; when you say you don’t want that, they always say that if you’ve done nothing wrong you’ve got nothing to hide. But I think we all have a right to privacy. I feel it’s a move that suggests we have to justify ourselves to the state before the state will trust us, and I think it’s for us to trust the state and not the other way round. I think the government has to win our trust, not us win their trust. We put the lyrics on the website earlier this year when there was a fuss brewing about ID cards, and Chris had phoned me up to say that some junior minister had used the word “integral” in defending it. There was a big article in the Evening Standard about the song. But the song has got a wicked kind of humour as well. It’s meant to be someone giving a speech really, madly justifying all of this, with a lot of energy behind."

It's great to see the Pet Shop Boys coming out with this! They are still a hugely popular group, much loved in the GLBT community, and this is an awesome track -- highly danceable with the kind of strong, ominous energy of some of (imho) their best work like "It's A Sin," "Where The Streets Have No Names/Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" etc. I like the way they did the video too. Great dancefloor background visuals. Thanks for posting, Steve!

Love & Liberty,
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I'm a huge Pet Shop Boys fan...on that same album (named "Fundamental," as a reference to the growing power of religious fundamentalism) there's a pro-immigration song called "Indefinite Leave to Remain" about LGBT immigration equality issues. "I'm With Stupid," again from the same album, parodies George W. Bush and Tony Blair by suggesting that they're in a secret gay relationship. I'd recommend their work to any libertarian, or anyone who's into dance music with a message.

Jeremy