How I Learned to Hate Rock 'n' Roll

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First released in 1996, this song was a bonus track of the Pet Shop Boys song "Se A Vida É", the second single from their album Bilingual. This song is about a dislike of rock music shared by Neil and Chris. Although the song has few lyrics, it gets its meaning across very easily. The main criticisms of rock music expressed in the song are the tendency of rock musicians to give in to conformity while preaching non-conformity ("everybody does what everybody does"), produce ugly sounds and even uglier sentiments, and dismiss important, beautiful things just for the sake of doing so.

Someone states the obvious
Someone sneers at all you love
Someone preaches ugly manners
Excluding some, including me

This is how I learned to hate rock 'n' roll
This is how I learned to hate rock 'n' roll

All feelings blunted, all passion spent
Everybody does what everybody does
All the broken promises
To recreate a status quo

This is how I learned to hate rock 'n' roll
This is how I learned to hate rock 'n' roll

Written by Tenant/Lowe

Works Cited

Some 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/introspective/dog.htm

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