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"Being Boring" is a song by the British pop group Pet Shop Boys, the opening track from their fourth album ''Behaviour''. As the second single release from the album, following "So Hard," "Being Boring" was not particularly successful upon release, only reaching number twenty in the UK Singles Chart and being the first single released by the group not to get into the Top 10 since "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" four years previously. The song is concerned with the idea of growing up and how people's perceptions and values change as they grow older. The title apparently materialised after someone in Japan accused the duo of being boring. The title is also derived from a Zelda Fitzgerald quotation, "she refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring". Rated highly by Pet Shop Boy aficionados, in a 1993 interview Neil Tennant described "Being Boring" as "one of the best songs that we've written", and explained that "For me it is a personal song because it's about a friend of mine who died of AIDS, and so it's about our lives when we were teenagers and how we moved to London, and I suppose me becoming successful and him becoming ill."〔O Zone. BBC 2, 1993. http://www.10yearsofbeingboring.com/materials/interviews/printed〕 The track was originally pieced together in a studio in West Glasgow, where the music for "My October Symphony", "The End of the World" and the unreleased "Love and War" were also done.〔(Remastered Behaviour liner note interview - Being boring )〕 ==Live== In spite of the track's moderate commercial success, "Being Boring" has been played regularly at concerts and is widely considered amongst the greatest, most beautiful Pet Shop Boys songs by fans. Ironically, due to various factors (including it being hard to sing), it wasn't initially performed on 1991's Performance tour;〔sleevenotes Pet Shop Boys "Discography: the Complete Singles Collection"〕 leading to many fans, including Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses, complaining about its omission.〔(10 Years of Being Boring Trivia )〕 As a result, it was added as an encore late in the tour with the band commenting that it "invariably got the best reception of the night."〔 It has since become a mainstay of their live performances. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Being Boring」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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