"Single-Bilingual"
Single by Pet Shop Boys
from the album Bilingual
B-side	"Discoteca" "The Calm Before the Storm" "Confidential"
Released	11 November 1996 (1996-11-11)[1]
Length	3:30 3:48 (8:24 with "Discoteca" album version)
Label	Parlophone
Songwriter(s)	Neil Tennant Chris Lowe
Producer(s)	Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys singles chronology
"Se a vida é (That's the Way Life Is)" (1996) "Single-Bilingual" (1996) "A Red Letter Day" (1997)
Music video
"Single-Bilingual" on YouTube

"Single-Bilingual" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released on 11 November 1996 as the third single from their sixth studio album, Bilingual (1996). The track peaked at number 14 on the UK Singles Chart. The song is named "Single" on the album version but was retitled "Single-Bilingual" because Everything but the Girl also had a song named "Single", which had been released the previous May. The album version cross-fades with the previous track, "Discoteca", of which both the album and single versions feature an interpolation at the end.

Critical reception

A reviewer from Music Week rated the song three out of five, adding, "The album has fallen from the Top 75, but this class single — devastatingly detailing the life of an upwardly-mobile Euro-executive — should return it to the forefront."^[2]

Music video

The accompanying music video features Neil Tennant as a glib businessman travelling across Europe and trying to pick up a woman in a bar. Towards the end, the visuals feature military aircraft suggesting that he is in fact an arms trader.

Track listings

• UK CD1^[3]

1. "Single-Bilingual"
2. "Discoteca" (new version)
3. "The Calm Before the Storm"
4. "Discoteca" (Trouser Enthusiast's Adventures Beyond the Stellar Empire mix)

• UK CD2^[4]

1. "Discoteca" (PSB extended mix)
2. "Confidential" (1992 demo for Tina Turner)
3. "Single-Bilingual" (Baby Doc mix)
4. "Discoteca" (Baby Doc mix)

• UK cassette single and European CD single^[5][6]

1. "Single-Bilingual"
2. "Discoteca" (new version)

Charts

References