metalero
13th November 2005, 03:08
I was very young when I saw the video, and I thought the music was fine. I was recently paying attention to the video as they showed Lenin with his hand poinitng the west, and I wasn't sure if they were making fun of Lenin or they meant something. I also found that the lyric doesn't have anything to do with politics nor ideology, that it is rather something about a gay utopia; actually a cover from theme originally made by "The Village people". I found this in an interview :
"We did bits in Moscow for the 'Go West' video simply because we were going to Moscow for the launch of Russian MTV It was just a coincidence, and we thought, 'Where do you go when you're East? You go West', so we did some filming in Red Square, pointing. But according to this artist we know in Russia, people thought that we had done a song that was based on the Soviet national anthem, and these Hungarian fans wrote to us and said, 'I hear this song and I am frightened,' because they thought it was suggesting that the Russians should invade Eastern Europe again, because they would go west. Maybe that's why the Russians like it."
http://www.petshopboys.net/html/interviews/very012.shtml
"We did bits in Moscow for the 'Go West' video simply because we were going to Moscow for the launch of Russian MTV It was just a coincidence, and we thought, 'Where do you go when you're East? You go West', so we did some filming in Red Square, pointing. But according to this artist we know in Russia, people thought that we had done a song that was based on the Soviet national anthem, and these Hungarian fans wrote to us and said, 'I hear this song and I am frightened,' because they thought it was suggesting that the Russians should invade Eastern Europe again, because they would go west. Maybe that's why the Russians like it."
http://www.petshopboys.net/html/interviews/very012.shtml