Gay-Friendly Office Party Music

Read this lukewarm review of the third Scissor Sisters some while back in the printed version of Die Welt, and have wanted to post this but didn't look it up online until now. The headline brilliantly sums up the Sisters' tepid pop: «Musik fürs schwule Betriebsfest». Or in English: «Music for the gay office party». As I was writing this however, it struck me that given the Sisters' adoring mainly non-gay fanbase (at least in the UK and Europe), a rather more fitting headline that neatly encapsules their sound would have been: «Music for the Gay-Friendly Office Party». Which just about sums up that the band reached its pinnacle early in their career, with a brilliant cover of Pink Floyd's «Comfortably Numb».