신스팝 그룹 펫 샵 보이즈가 1990년 11월 12일 발표한 싱글. 4집 앨범 Behaviour의 두 번째 싱글이다.
제목은 스콧 피츠제럴드의 연인이자 썅년으로 잘 알려진 젤다 피츠제럴드의 말에서 따왔다고 한다. 그녀는 따분함을 느끼기를 주로 거부했는데, 왜냐면 그녀가 따분한 인간이 아니었기 때문이다.(She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.)
싱글 발매 당시에는 UK싱글 차트에서 최고 순위 20위에 그쳤으나 이후 펫 샵 보이즈의 명곡을 꼽을 때 반드시 거론되는 곡 중 하나가 되었다. 닐 테넌트는 1993년 인터뷰에서 자신들이 썼던 최고의 곡들 중 하나로 이 곡을 거론했으며, 이 곡만을 위한 팬사이트 10 Years of Being Boring도 있다.
액슬 로즈는 의외로 펫 샵 보이즈의 광팬인데 가장 좋아하는 곡이 이 곡이라고 한다. 한편 액슬 로즈는 펫 샵 보이즈의 공연 백스테이지에 하트 모양 초콜렛과(...) 편지들을 보낼 정도로 그들의 팬이었다고.
1 싱글 수록곡
- 7인치
- Being Boring
- 2. We All Feel Better in the Dark
- 12인치
- Being Boring (Extended Mix)
- 2. We All Feel Better in the Dark (Extended Mix)
- 3. Being Boring
- 리믹스
- Being Boring (Marshall Jefferson Remix)
- 2. We All Feel Better in the Dark (After Hours Climax)
- 3. We All Feel Better in the Dark (Ambient)
2 가사
| I came across a cache of old photos And invitations to teenage parties "Dress in white" one said, with quotations From someone's wife, a famous writer In the nineteen-twenties When you're young you find inspiration In anyone who's ever gone And opened up a closing door She said: "We were never feeling bored 'Cause we were never being boring We had too much time to find for ourselves And we were never being boring We dressed up and fought, then thought: "Make amends" And we were never holding back or worried that Time would come to an end" When I went I left from the station With a haversack and some trepidation Someone said: "If you're not careful You'll have nothing left and nothing to care for In the nineteen-seventies" But I sat back and looking forward My shoes were high and I had scored I'd bolted through a closing door I would never find myself feeling bored 'Cause we were never being boring We had too much time to find for ourselves And we were never being boring We dressed up and fought, then thought: "Make amends" And we were never holding back or worried that Time would come to an end We were always hoping that, looking back You could always rely on a friend Now I sit with different faces In rented rooms and foreign places All the people I was kissing Some are here and some are missing In the nineteen-nineties I never dreamt that I would get to be The creature that I always meant to be But I thought in spite of dreams You'd be sitting somewhere here with me 'Cause we were never being boring We had too much time to find for ourselves And we were never being boring We dressed up and fought, then thought: "Make amends" And we were never holding back or worried that Time would come to an end We were always hoping that, looking back You could always rely on a friend And we were never being boring We had too much time to find for ourselves And we were never being boring We dressed up and fought, then thought: "Make amends" And we were never being boring We were never being bored 'Cause we were never being boring We were never being bored |