October 10, 2023
Pet Shop Boys Puzzled by Drake's Mixing of 'West End Girls' on New Album
Emell Adolphus READ TIME: 2 MIN.
Drizzy Drake has some explaining to do with the Pet Shop Boys. On "All the Parties," off his new album "For All the Dogs," Drake hits a melody in the song that is a play on Pet Shop's famous "West End Girls," reported Rolling Stone.
What's more is Drake also mimics a bit of the words, singing "It's 6, our town a dead-end world," before going into "East End boys and West End girls, yeah." He then repeats the last line in the same vein as the Pet Shop Boys did on their 40-year-old hit "West End Girls."
"West End Girls" was Pet Shop's first single and went No. 1 in the U.S. and the U.K. Although Drake's "All the Parties" doesn't outright sample the song, artist are often credited for interpolations as well. And the group claims that Drake has done this all without their permission.
"Surprising to hear Drake singing the chorus of 'West End Girls' in the track 'All the Parties' on his new album," the band wrote in a tweet. "No credit given or permission requested."
Drake seems to be on a tear lately when it comes to pissing people off with his new album. He reportedly asked Halle Berry for permission to use a photo of her covered in slime for his single "Slime You Out " with SZA. Berry refused, and he reportedly used it anyway. Then on the song "Fear of Heights," the Canadian rapper blatantly disses Rihanna and her baby daddy A$AP Rocky. And now the Pet Shop Boys.
Drake, are you doing OK?
Listen to Drake's "All the Parties" below.