![]() ![]() I never imagined that Michael would have been thought of as a single, partly as I thought it would be unlikely to receive any daytime radio play, but also because it was a song that had caused a bit of angst among the homophobic element of the ever-increasing number of FF fans. It’s symptomatic of the originality that makes Franz Ferdinand so intriguing. ![]() You simply don’t get songs like Michael very often in current rock music. ![]() Michael does neither, settling for an intriguing combination of sly humour and bug-eyed lust, as if the song’s central character started camping it up for a laugh and ended up in rather deeper water than he had anticipated. On the rare occasions that an alt-rock artist dabbles with sexual ambiguity in their lyrics, they either start carrying on as if they personally invented the concept of homosexuality and deserve some sort of medal – see electro-rapper Peaches – or else, like Suede, they overdo the mincing and end up sounding ridiculous, like John Inman visiting an indie disco. Morrissey and the Magnetic Fields aside, indie doesn’t really do gay. This really shouldn’t seem like a brave move in 2004, but it does. Michael appears to be a love song aimed squarely at a man. He especially went out of his way to mention the song Michael:. Back in 2004, he offered up a 5-star review of the self-titled debut album by Franz Ferdinand and in doing so welcomed them as a real breath of fresh air in an increasingly tired-looking indie scene. Alexis Petrides, the rock and pop critic for The Guardian newspaper, is someone I’ve long regarded as being a sharp and astute observer of music across all the genres. ![]()
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