Pet Store Boys on comparisons of ‘It is A Sin’ to Olly Alexander’s ‘Dizzy’

Pet Store Boys have responded to the current comparisons of their basic single ‘It’s A Sin’ to Olly Alexander’s Eurovision entry ‘Dizzy’.

Alexander launched the observe final month forward of the Years & Years singer representing the UK on the Eurovision Tune Contest in Malmö, Sweden subsequent month.

‘Dizzy’ was co-written by Alexander and digital producer Danny L Harle (Charli XCX, Dua Lipa, Caroline Polachek). Upon the observe’s launch, the previous defined that it was “impressed by quite a lot of music we love from the ’80s like Erasure, Adamski and naturally Pet Store Boys”.

Some listeners have identified similarities to Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe’s 1987 hit particularly. In a evaluate, The Guardian wrote: “The refrain echoes that of ‘It’s A Sin’, proper right down to the church bells, the glittering verses sound just like the previous decade in banging Stuart Value-era PSB and the monotone spoken-word center eight is pure Tennant.”

Throughout a brand new interview with NME, Tennant revealed that he had been made conscious of the comparisons – however dismissed there being any likeness between the 2 songs.

“Once I learn individuals saying it sounded related, I instantly listened to it and I don’t assume it does,” he mentioned.

“However personally, I at all times assume Pet Store Boys sound like one thing else to what everybody else does. I believe I hear what it’s meant to sound like.”

Alexander starred as Ritchie Tozer within the acclaimed Channel 4 collection It’s A Sin in 2021. Created and written by Russell T Davies, the present explored the devastating HIV/AIDS epidemic within the Nineteen Eighties.

Elsewhere within the NME interview, Tennant mentioned it felt like “the straight neighborhood lastly confronted as much as the AIDS disaster” after watching the drama.

“Oh God, I discovered It’s A Sin painful to observe,” he instructed NME. “We put that into songs on the time, then you definately transfer on, but it surely’s like troopers remembering the First World Warfare. It wasn’t mentioned for a very long time, but it surely’s nonetheless lurking in your historical past, within the again, in your recollections, the ache continues to be there.”

Pet Store Boys revealed that their 2019 single with Alexander, ‘Dreamland’, was initially written for, then finally rejected from, Years & Years 2018 album ‘Palo Santo’.

Tennant defined: “The opposite two [ex-Years & Years members Mikey Goldsworthy and Emre Turkmen] got here in and one in every of them mentioned it seemed like [The Weather Girls’] ‘It’s Raining Males’. Didn’t make me very joyful, that comment!”

Years & Years launched an acoustic cowl of Pet Store Boys’ ‘It’s A Sin’ when the TV collection premiered, with a portion of the proceeds going to the HIV help charity George Home Belief.

Alexander additionally teamed up with Elton John for a collaborative reside rendition of the observe on the BRIT Awards 2021. A studio model of the pair’s cowl – co-produced by Pet Store Boys and their collaborator Stuart Value – was shared to learn the Elton John AIDS Basis.

On New Yr’s Eve 2021, Alexander joined forces with Tennant and Lowe to carry out ‘It’s A Sin’ in London. The singer then appeared on stage with the synth-pop duo at Glastonbury 2022.

It got here after Years & Years featured on Pet Store Boys’ 2019 single ‘Dreamland’.

The unique model of ‘It’s A Sin’ noticed an enormous streaming surge after the Channel 4 present of the identical title aired.

In the meantime, Pet Store Boys are resulting from launch their new album ‘Nonetheless’ this Friday (April 26). They’ll play an intimate present at London’s Koko on Might 26, along with their 2024 ‘Dreamworld’ biggest hits tour dates.