SUPER

Pet Shop Boys' 13th studio album, SUPER, was released independently via their own label, and charted pretty well worldwide, peaking at number 3 in the UK and at number 1 on the US Dance/Electronic Albums chart. Moreover, it sold 10,000 copies during its first week in the US.

“The Pop Kids” was the lead single, which also made it to number 1 on the US Hot Dance Club Songs. The entire album centres around this theme, with Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe crafting huge, claustrophobic club tracks with honest and, sometimes, tongue-in-cheek lyrical content.

They explained the choice of the album title:

I was walking to the studio one day and I kept imagining Germans saying “super”, because they say ‘super’ in a certain way – “SUPER, JA! ” – and they say ‘super’ a lot… and I just thought “Oh, super!”