Eminem Tryst Imagined In New Pet Shop Boys Song

04/12/2002 1:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Brett Anderson

(4/12/02, 1 p.m. ET) -- Eminem is the subject of a gay romantic fantasy in a new song by British synth-pop duo, the Pet Shop Boys. Titled "The Night I Fell In Love," the song is first-person fiction by Pet Shop Boys singer Neil Tennant--told from the point of view of a young man--about meeting the hip-hop star, being charmed by him, and then the pair becoming "secret lovers," the group's Chris Lowe tells the Calgary Sun.

Eminem has long angered the gay community with the homophobic lyrics in his songs. Lowe says that the openly gay Tennant wrote "The Night I Fell In Love" "to turn the tables on the rapper," the newspaper reports.

The track can be found on the Pet Shop Boys' latest album, Release, which arrives in the U.S. on April 23.

The Pet Shop Boys kick off a North American tour in support of the album in Miami on May 14.

Pet Shop Boys tour dates (subject to change):

May 14 - Miami, FL - Jackie Gleason Theatre

May 15 - Melbourne, FL - Maxwell King

May 16 - Atlanta, GA - DeKalb Atlanta Center

May 18 - Washington, D.C. - Nation

May 19 - Boston, MA - Orpheum Theatre

May 21-23 - New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom

May 25 - Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory

May 26 - Toronto, ON - Massey Hall

May 27 - Detroit, MI - State Theatre

May 28 - Chicago, IL - Rivera Theatre

May 30 - Denver, CO - Auditorium Theatre

June 1 - Dallas, TX - Bronco Bowl

June 2 - Houston, TX - Verizon Wireless Theatre

June 4 - San Diego, CA - Copley Symphony Hall

June 5 - Las Vegas, NV - The Joint

June 7 - Los Angeles, CA - Universal Amphitheatre

June 8,9 - San Francisco, CA - Warfield Theatre

-- Neal Weiss, Los Angeles

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