Beautiful People

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First released in 2009, this song was the third single from the Pet Shop Boys album Yes. "Beautiful People" is about celebrity culture, more specifically the function celebrities serve in the modern world. Many people lead ordinary, mundane lives that leave them longing for glamour and excitement. The lives of celebrities often seem to have the glamour and excitement so many people long for. Learning about how celebrities live their lives provides an escape for millions of people who want to be just like them. The song's musical accompaniment features a harmonica, something that makes this song unique among Pet Shop Boys's songs.

City life just leaves me weak
All this madness on the street
Need to get away today
Live my life a different way
Is it only fantasy
To dream about a perfect me?

I wanna
Live like beautiful people
Give like beautiful people
With like beautiful people around

Buy the latest magazine
And aspire to the dream
Perfect home and perfect kids
Not a life lived on the skids
Is it only fantasy
Or could it be reality?

I wanna
Live like beautiful people
Give like beautiful people
With like beautiful people around

Now I can see myself
Without a care in the world
It's a sun shining, money-spending
Green and healthy new world
Is it only fantasy
Or could it be reality?

I wanna
Live like beautiful people
Give like beautiful people
With like beautiful people around

Written by Tenant/Lowe

Works Cited

A large part of this song analysis was attained from the Pet Shop Boys fansite Geowayne: Commentary, Interpretation, and Analysis of Every Song by Pet Shop Boys. Retrieved from http://www.geowayne.com/newDesign/alternative/dark.htm

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