Being Boring

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"Being Boring"
"Being Boring" cover
Single by Pet Shop Boys
from the album Behaviour
B-side(s) "We All Feel Better in the Dark"
Released 12 November 1990
Format 7", 12", Cassette, CD
Recorded Munich, 1990
Genre Synthpop
Length 4:50 (7" edit)
Label Parlophone / EMI
Writer(s) Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe
Producer(s) Pet Shop Boys, Harold Faltermeyer
Chart positions
Pet Shop Boys singles chronology
"So Hard"
(1990)		 "Being Boring"
(1990)		 "Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You)" / "How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?"
(1991)
The capitalization of song titles in this article may be disputed. Please see the centralized discussion on this subject before making changes.

"Being Boring" is a single by the British pop group the Pet Shop Boys. As the second single from the 1990 album Behaviour, after "So Hard" which was released before the album, "Being Boring" was not particularly successful upon release, reaching only number twenty in the UK singles chart and being the first single released by the group not to get into the top ten since "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" four years previously. Despite this, "Being Boring" has been a regularly-played song at concerts since its release.

The song is concerned with the idea of growing up and how people's perceptions and values change as they grow older.

The video, the first by fashion-photographer Bruce Weber, totally in black and white, shows a house party and begins with a nude swimmer and a message: "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 Zelda Fitzgerald quotation in question is actually "she refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring".

Australian singer Merril Bainbridge covered the song as the tenth track from her debut album The Garden released in 1995.

Pet Shop Boys
Neil Tennant | Chris Lowe
Discography
Albums: Please | Actually | Introspective | Behaviour | Very | Bilingual | Nightlife | Release | Fundamental
Soundtracks and scores: Closer to Heaven (Original Cast Recording) | Battleship Potemkin
Remix albums: Disco | Disco 2 | Disco 3
Compilations: Discography: The Complete Singles Collection | Alternative | PopArt: The Hits | Back to Mine: Pet Shop Boys
Live: Concrete
Singles: "West End girls" | "Love comes quickly" | "Opportunities (Let's make lots of money)" | "Suburbia" | "It's a Sin" | "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" | "Rent" | "Always On My Mind" | "Heart" | "Domino dancing" | "Left to my own devices" | "It's alright" | "So Hard" | "Being Boring" | "Where the streets have no name (I can't take my eyes off you)" | "How can you expect to be taken seriously?" | "Jealousy" | "DJ Culture" | "Was it worth it?" | "Can you forgive her?" | "Go West" | "I wouldn't normally do this kind of thing" | "Liberation" | "Yesterday, when I was mad" | "Paninaro '95" | "Before" | "Se a vida é (That’s the way life is)" | "Single-Bilingual" | "Somewhere" | "I don't know what you want but I can't give it any more" | "New York City boy" | "You only tell me you love me when you're drunk" | "Home and dry" | "I get along" | "London" | "Miracles" | "Flamboyant" | "I'm with Stupid" | "Minimal" | "Numb" | "She's Madonna"
Related Articles
Other projects: It Couldn't Happen Here | Reputation | Results | Spaghetti Records | Closer to Heaven
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