DJ Culture

{{Short description|1991 single by Pet Shop Boys}}

{{For|the album by Blank & Jones|DJ Culture (album)}}

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{{Infobox song

| name = DJ Culture

| cover = DJculture.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Pet Shop Boys

| album = Discography: The Complete Singles Collection

| B-side = Music for Boys

| released = {{start date|1991|10|14|df=y}}{{cite web|url=https://www.petshopboys.co.uk/product/single/dj-culture|title=DJ Culture|website=petshopboys.co.uk|access-date=14 August 2022}}

| recorded =

| studio =

| genre =

• Synth-pop
• house{{cite magazine|first= Ira |last= Robbins |title= Pet Shop Boys |magazine= Trouser Press |url= http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=pet_shop_boys |access-date= 31 March 2015}} "plus the new "DJ Culture" (boring, housey)"

| length = 4:13

| label = Parlophone

| writer =

• Neil Tennant
• Chris Lowe

| producer =

• Pet Shop Boys
• Brothers in Rhythm

| prev_title = Jealousy

| prev_year = 1991

| next_title = Dj Culturemix

| next_year = 1991

| misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|Mbprblx2s48|"DJ Culture"}}}}

}}

{{Infobox song

| name = Dj Culturemix

| cover = DJculturemix.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Pet Shop Boys

| album =

| B-side =

• "Music for Boys (Part 3)"
• "Overture to Performance"

| released = 1991

| recorded = 1991

| studio =

| genre =

• Synth-pop
• house

| length = 5:51

| label = Parlophone

| writer =

• Neil Tennant
• Chris Lowe

| producer = Pet Shop Boys

| prev_title = DJ Culture

| prev_year = 1991

| next_title = Was It Worth It?

| next_year = 1991

}}

"DJ Culture" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys from their first greatest hits album, Discography: The Complete Singles Collection (1991). It was released on 14 October 1991 as the album's lead single, peaking at number 13 on the UK Singles Chart. Another version of the song, remixed by the Grid and entitled "Dj culturemix", was also released as a single and reached number 40 on the UK Singles Chart. The B-side was "Music for Boys".

According to the singer Neil Tennant, the song concerned the insincerity of how President George H. W. Bush's speeches at the time of the First Gulf War utilised Winston Churchill's wartime rhetoric, in a manner similar to how artists sample music from other artists.[http://anecdotal-antidote.blogspot.com/2006/09/dj-culture-part-3.html The Anecdotal Antidote] The music video alternately features Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe as a pair of doctors, a pair of soldiers in desert combat dress, a judge presiding over Oscar Wilde (the line "And I my lord, may I say nothing?" is a close paraphrase of Wilde's comment after being sentenced to hard labour for homosexual practices) and a football referee and fan.

The French sample in the song is taken from the 1950 Jean Cocteau film Orphée: in it coded and poetic messages are sent over the radio.