Blue Dress
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Blue Dress
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Song | Blue Dress |
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By | Depeche Mode |
Songwriter | Martin L. Gore |
Produced by | Depeche Mode Flood |
Recorded at | Puk Studios, Denmark Logic Studios, Milan |
Length (mm:ss) | 5:41 |
Tempo | 94 BPM |
Time signature | 3 4 |
Key | F♯ Minor |
Engineering assistance | Daryl Bamonte Dick Meaney David Browne Mark Flannery |
Mixed by | François Kevorkian |
Recorded | May 1989 – January 1990 |
Originally released | 19 March 1990 |
Live performances as Depeche Mode | 17 times * |
Total live performances | 17 times * |
"Blue Dress" is a song from the 1990 album Violator by Depeche Mode.
Notes
Martin Gore says in the 1990-02-17 issue of NME:
"I suppose my songs do seem to advocate immorality but if you listen there's always a sense of guilt. [...] Then there's 'Blue Dress' – that's the pervy song! – the idea of watching a girl dress and realising that this is 'what makes the world turn'."[1]
Q&A from Alan Wilder's Shunt:
Farhan: I was wondering if you can shed any light on the making of the song 'Blue Dress' - your thoughts on it, and how far off the demo it is. Any really unique sounds used in that song?
A: "Not really one of my favourites - hence penultimate track on LP (filler position). I would put it in the same bag as 'Get Right With Me' from 'SOFAD', in that we never really quite knew which way to go with it. Again, I'm a bit vague about the demo but I remember the approach when we recorded it was based around using washy sounding, drone guitars (a la Suicide) which formed the backbone of the track. It was deliberately quite wet sounding to try to give it some atmosphere."
Lyrics
Blue Dress
Put it on
And don't say a word
Put it on
The one that I prefer
Put it on
And stand before my eyes
Put it on
Please don't question why
Can you believe
Something so simple
Something so trivial
Makes me a happy man
Can't you understand
Say you believe
Just how easy
It is to please me
Because when you learn
You'll know what makes the world turn
Put it on
I can feel so much
Put it on
I don't need to touch
Put it on
Here before my eyes
Put it on
Because you realise
And you believe
Something so worthless
Serves a purpose
It makes me a happy man
Can't you understand
Say you believe
Just how easy
It is to please me
Because when you learn
You'll know what makes the world turn
Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Publishing Information: ©1990 Grabbing Hands Music Ltd/EMI Music Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.
Live performances
- Main article: Available recordings of "Blue Dress"
- Main article: List of dates where "Blue Dress" was played
Trivia
- "Blue Dress" was sampled in 1994's "The Meltdown" by Lunatic Asylum.
- "Blue Dress" was covered by controversial model, reality show star, and pornographic actress Tila Tequila for her 2010 EP Welcome to the Darkside.[2] Tequila would later be criticised for a blog entry on her website and social media posts in which she expressed views critics described as anti-Semitic.[3]
References
- ↑ Source: NME, 17 February 1990.
- ↑ Source: "Tila Tequila turns pornstar" - The Daily Telegraph 5 August 2010.
- ↑ Source: "December 10, 2013 Tila Tequila Says Hitler Just 'Trying His Best to Help His Country'" - Newsmax - 10 December 2013.