"Disco Lies" is a song by American
electronica musician
Moby. It was released as the first single from his eighth
studio album ''
Last Night'' on January 21, 2008. The female vocals are provided by
Shayna Steele
Shayna Steele (born September 23, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter and a Broadway stage actress.
Career
Steele's Broadway credits include ''Rent'' at the Nederlander Theatre, the revival of '' Jesus Christ Superstar'' at the Foxwoods The ...
.
Release
"Disco Lies" was released as a single onto the US
iTunes Store
The iTunes Store is a digital media store operated by Apple Inc. It opened on April 28, 2003, as a result of Steve Jobs' push to open a digital marketplace for music. As of April 2020, iTunes offered 60 million songs, 2.2 million apps, 25,00 ...
market on January 21, 2008. It was released in Europe as the first single from ''Last Night'', and well as the United Kingdom as a remix version by
Freemasons.
The single also features the track "Clef", in which the vocals are an unknown woman counting in German.
Music video
The music video for the song was directed by
Evan Bernard
Evan Bernard is an American director of commercials and music videos who has directed videos for artists such as Moby, the Beastie Boys, Green Day, Lit, Cibo Matto and many others.
Life and career
After studying advertising design at Syrac ...
and premiered on February 14, 2008. The video follows the story of a baby chick who at a young age escapes from a
chicken farm, witnessing the slaughtering of his friends and kin. The video then shows ten years later (acclimated at the late 1970s) when the chicken has grown up and is out for vengeance for the killing of his friends. Dressed as a
pimp, the chicken enters into an "MFC" fast food restaurant (a reference to
KFC) and seeks out the owner of the franchise (played by Moby), a man dressed in white with a beard and cowboy hat (a clear reference to KFC's
Colonel Sanders
Colonel Harland David Sanders (September 9, 1890
December 16, 1980) was an American businessman, best known for founding fast food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (also known as KFC) and later acting as the company's brand amba ...
). After disposing of the owner's two bodyguards, the chicken chases the owner until he eventually corners him in the slaughterhouse where his friends were killed and beheads the owner with the same knife used to kill his kin. The video is likely the product of Moby's
veganism
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and strong
animal rights
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activism, as it makes a strong statement against the
meat industry
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.
There are two versions of the video, one censored and the other uncensored. Firstly, the chicken slaughter scene is cut in the censored version. Secondly, in the scene where the chicken finally kills the Colonel, his death is indicated by the blood splattering over the MFC's poster in the uncensored version. The censored version just shows the poster. Finally, at the last scene, the colonel's leg meat is on the dish is shown in the uncensored, whilst the colonel's hand meat in the bucket (as if it was part of the fried chicken) is shown for the censored video.
Track listing
* CD single
# "Disco Lies" – 3:23
# "Clef" – 3:34
* CD single
# "Disco Lies" – 3:23
# "Clef" – 3:34
# "Disco Lies" – 6:14
# "Disco Lies" – 6:36
# "Disco Lies" – 5:59
# "Disco Lies" – 6:34
# "Disco Lies" – 9:04
# "Disco Lies" – 3:26
* Digital single
# "Disco Lies" – 3:22
# "Clef" – 3:34
# "Disco Lies" – 6:14
# "Disco Lies" – 6:36
# "Disco Lies" – 5:59
# "Disco Lies" – 6:34
# "Disco Lies" – 9:04
* Digital single
# "Disco Lies" – 6:13
# "Disco Lies" – 7:05
# "Disco Lies" – 6:34
# "Disco Lies" – 6:34
# "Disco Lies" – 3:34
# "Disco Lies" – 7:16
# "Disco Lies" – 5:54
# "Disco Lies" – 5:58
# "Disco Lies" – 9:04
* CD single
# "Disco Lies" – 3:31
# "Disco Lies" – 3:34
* 12-inch single
# "Disco Lies" – 9:04
# "Disco Lies" – 6:34
# "Disco Lies" – 6:13
# "Disco Lies" – 9:04
* Digital single – remixes
# "Disco Lies" – 9:04
# "Disco Lies" – 7:05
# "Disco Lies" – 7:16
# "Disco Lies" – 9:04
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
External links
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2008 singles
Moby songs
Mute Records singles
2008 songs
Songs written by Moby