#being boring

[dsmsw]

This was news to me…although a part of me suspected that the person who inspired Jealousy also inspired Being Boring. Just adds more layers to the PSB mythos.

This is from the May 2024 issue of Record Collector.

[awhisperofcinnamon]

Video Intro, "Being Boring”

“I came from Newcastle in the North of England. We used to have lots of parties where everyone got dressed up. And on one party invitation was the quote ‘She was never bored, because she was never boring’

The song is about growing up -- the ideals that you have when you’re young and how they turn out.

The Pet Shop Boys”

[stillunusual]

Best birthday card ever....

[twicedailyquotes]

I've just one ambition in life: I aspire to go on and on being boring.

Wendy Cope from Being Boring

[joeygallagher]

Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring

Dir. by Bruce Weber  (1990)

[evidently-endless]

i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.

[thebigcomed0wn]

im so serious if you cant imagine a single female character u like or you coincidentally only care about men or imagine that women are a different species of human that are impossible to draw or write about or relate to, You are the problem. its not because you’re gay it’s because you do not like women

[manitat]

Merril Bainbridge - Being Boring

[fox-mulder-gets-pegged]

I just wanna say bc I KNOW you're somewhere on tumblr, to the teenage girl who attended Take Your Kid To Work Day at an office building in Ontario, Canada circa 2013 and had a conversation with a middle aged woman in which you showed her your Black Veil Brides fanart and fanfics and ship content and told her about different fanfic tropes including a/b/o verse bc she happened to know who Panic! at The Disco and Fallout Boy were and thus you felt the need to show her your bandblr ship art, that was my fucking mother and I had to clarify all that to her including looking my mother in the eye and trying to explain a/b/o verse without sounding like a lunatic.

It's been 10 years and I still regularly sent evil energies in your direction. Since you'd be probably two years younger than me and thus legally an adult now, please know if this post reaches you it's on sight.

[dsmsw]

Came across…this performance of Being Boring…and it was something. I think I came across this look by Neil before and I am a fan. It does look out of place…but that is typical PSB. But the trim down of the song….hmmm.

Makes me curious to see other performances of Being Boring around the time of its original release.

[bookshelfpassageway]

yknow i dont go here but sometimes i gotta go: seriously respect clowns. they have the worst pop culture representation in the world and also the best most thorough honor code. they're just here to be silly little guys who bring joy and are very conscientious about doing so responsibly. let them to their merriment in peace you dont hafta take potshots. i dont go here but like maybe i should, you all seem super chill

[stillunusual]

Pet Shop Boys - Being Boring (1990)

[caputvulpinum]

yeah we might be brothers in christ but so were cain and abel so shut the fuck up before i decide to find a rock about it