Prick Up Your Ears: Datarock

It's been awhile since we shared our unsolicited and entirely uneducated thoughts on music (I think it was back somewhere around, oh, Burt Bacharach?), but when a band like Datarock comes along it's time to listen up.

The Norwegian disco/pop/funk duo apparently aren't gay, but they do love playing with gender roles and gay themes and do so in several songs. For example, in "Computer Camp Love" (kind of an homage to "Summer Night" from Grease) one notes, "she's not that kind of a girl", and the chorus responds, "does she have a penis?"

In the bouncy "Princess", they note, "You're a princess! You got the ass of a prince, you got a prince of an ass!" Menawhile, in "Ugly Primadonna" the fellas sing about how they had an illicit love affair with E.T.

In "Sex Me Up" they claim, "I'm into S&M, I'm neither butch or femme, and now don't you understand, I'm into any man." Then there's "Night Flight to Uranus," which ... well, I'll just leave that one be.

Goofy stuff, to be sure -- but they're having so much fun with it that they pull it off. Thanks go to my boyfriend for getting this crap stuck on infinite loop in my already overtaxed little mind -- "Summer Lovin'", indeed.

Check out the videos for their single, "Fa Fa Fa", and "Computer Camp Love" below.