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Actually (stylised as Pet Shop Boys, actually.) is the second studio album by English pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released in 1987 by record labels Parlophone (UK) and EMI Manhattan (US and Canada).
Actually was released on 7 September 1987 by record label Parlophone in the UK and EMI Manhattan in the United States and Canada. In TV commercials (in the UK, at least) for the release, Lowe and Tennant were shown in black tie, blank-faced against a white background. The former seems unimpressed by a radio DJ-style Alan 'Fluff' Freeman voiceover listing their previous hits and the new LP's singles, while the latter eventually 'gets bored' and yawns, with the image then freezing to create, roughly, the album's cover shot.
Actually spawned four UK Top 10 singles: the No. 1 lead-off single "It's a Sin", "Rent", "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" – a duet with fellow Parlophone artist Dusty Springfield which peaked at No. 2 in both the UK and US and led to a major resurgence of interest in Springfield's earlier work – and another UK No. 1 in April 1988 with a remixed version of the song "Heart".
Actors: Ashley Huizenga (producer), Ashley Huizenga (director), Ashley Huizenga (producer), Ashley Huizenga (editor), Ashley Huizenga (actor), Socrates Mitsios (editor), Socrates Mitsios (actor), Socrates Mitsios (producer), Socrates Mitsios (producer), Socrates Mitsios (director),
Plot: SoftRock, part 1 of a trilogy of short video works that the duo Actually Huizenga and Socrates Mitsios have colorfully referred to as 'Pop Rape', two words that have never been placed side by side, perhaps for justifiable reason. SoftRock is an exhibitionist display of naked, hyper-sexed bodies. At once glossy and vulgar, fastidiously disciplined and wildly chaotic, the filma are an exercise in the photogenic of sex. The video has all the predictable pleasures of porn and pop: procesed, repetitive, manufactured visual thrills intended for rapid and casual consumption. It is the past, processed and repackaged as the future. And the viewer is witness to a crime, an act of sexual violence that has been recorded and produced as a pop confection.
Genres: Drama, Music, Short,Your words grew out of the silence
to shelter your ceramic thoughts.
The sun made love to December
to melt away your opens arms.
Last night the lights went out in your house
and the clock turned black.
And every time it flashed, you saw me blink
and it was midnight forever.
I rode through town to your front door
on the horse of a different color.
My dream told me this was Kansas
and you'll never find me here, you'll never find me here.
Last night the lights went out in your house
and the clock turned black.
And every time it flashed, you saw me blink
and it was midnight forever.
I've always loved the things you'd say
not knowing what they mean to me.
Some embers fail to burn my skin
just rekindle stories I wish to tell