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Disco Lies

"Disco Lies"
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Single by Moby featuring Shayna Steele
from the album Last Night
Released January 21, 2008
Recorded 2007
Length 3:23
Label Mute
Writer(s) Moby
Producer(s) Moby
Moby featuring Shayna Steele singles chronology
"Alice"
(2008)
"Disco Lies"
(2008)
"I Love to Move in Here"
(2008)

"Disco Lies" is a song by American electronica musician Moby, released in Europe as the first single from his 2008 album Last Night, and well as the UK as a remix version by the Freemasons. The female vocals are provided by Shayna Steele. The song was released as a single onto the US iTunes Store on January 21, 2008. The song was featured in the 2008 horror film Cloverfield during a dance party scene at the protagonist's apartment.

The single also features the track Clef, in which the vocals are an unknown woman counting in German.

The music video for the song premiered on February 14, 2008, and was directed by Evan Bernard. 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 1970´s) 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 the same Moby), a man dressed in white with a beard and cowboy hat (a clear reference to KFC's Colonel Sanders). 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 and strong animal rights activism, as it makes a strong statement against the meat industry.

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.


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