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"Disco Lies"
SinglebyMoby
from the album Last Night
B-side"Clef"
ReleasedJanuary 21, 2008
Length3:23
LabelMute
Songwriter(s)Moby
Producer(s)Moby
Moby singles chronology
"Extreme Ways (Bourne's Ultimatum)"
(2007)
"Disco Lies"
(2008)
"Alice"
(2008)
Music video
"Moby - Disco Lies"onYouTube

"Disco Lies" is a song by American electronica musician Moby. It was released as the first single from his eighth studio album Last Night on January 21, 2008. The female vocals are provided by Shayna Steele.[1]

Release[edit]

"Disco Lies" was released as a single onto the US iTunes Store market on January 21, 2008. It was released in Europe as the first single from Last Night, and well as the United Kingdom as a remix version by Freemasons.

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

Music video[edit]

The music video for the song was directed by Evan Bernard and premiered on February 14, 2008.[2] 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 1970s) 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 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.

Track listing[edit]

Charts[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Huhn, Sebastian (17 March 2008). "Moby – Disco Lies". Reflections of Darkness. Retrieved September 21, 2011.
  • ^ Disco Lies by Moby Songfacts
  • ^ "Disco Lies de Moby" (in Spanish). Colombia: iTunes Store. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  • ^ "Disco Lies by Moby". United States: iTunes Store. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  • ^ "Disco Lies (Remixes) by Moby". United Kingdom: iTunes Store. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  • ^ "Moby – Disco Lies" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  • ^ "Moby – Disco Lies" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  • ^ "Moby – Disco Lies" (in French). Ultratop 50. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  • ^ "Ultratop Dance – 04/10/2008" (in Dutch). Ultratop Dance. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  • ^ "Moby Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
  • ^ Moby — Disco Lies. TopHit. Retrieved December 2, 2022.
  • ^ "Moby – Disco Lies" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  • ^ "Moby – Disco Lies". Top Digital Download. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  • ^ "Moby – Disco Lies" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  • ^ "Romanian Top 100 – Issue nr: 22/2008 (09 Iunie - 15 Iunie 2008)" (in Romanian). Romanian Top 100. Archived from the original on June 10, 2008. Retrieved October 30, 2022.
  • ^ "Moby – Disco Lies". Singles Top 100. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  • ^ "Moby – Disco Lies". Swiss Singles Chart. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  • ^ Zywietz, Tobias. "Chart Log UK: M – My Vitriol". Zobbel.de. Retrieved March 19, 2012.
  • ^ "Official Dance Singles Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  • ^ "Moby Chart History (Dance Club Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  • ^ "Moby Chart History (Dance Mix/Show Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
  • ^ "Jaaroverzichten 2008". Ultratop. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
  • ^ "Rapports Annuels 2008". Ultratop. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
  • ^ "Top 100 Single-Jahrescharts". GfK Entertainment (in German). offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
  • ^ "Dance Club Songs – Year-End 2008". Billboard. Retrieved May 6, 2020.
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