“Beautiful Filth by The Lovely Electric is vile, foul and abhorrent. If it isn’t a huge success, it’ll be an absolute travesty.” CHARLIE BROOKER
Ariane Sherine and Graham Nunn were the creative team behind the phenomenally successful atheist bus campaign, with its famous slogan “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life”. The campaign ran in 13 countries around the world in 2009, and generated more national press than any other advertising campaign that year.
Now the duo, best friends for 17 years, have turned their hand to music, forming the comedy pop group The Lovely Electric. The 12-track album Beautiful Filth is available on CD and as a digital download from Monday October 20, and is full of melodic, catchy and hilariously rude songs about sex. The electro-pop album has been described as “the bastard lovechild of the Pet Shop Boys and Saint Etienne”, with the lyrics “a cross between Monty Python Sings and Viz’s Profanisaurus”.
Highlights include Cum Face, where Sherine confesses to her lover: “You are so beautiful, I’d watch you at the IMAX/I love the way you look, except for when you climax/You flare your nostrils out, and for what it’s worth/You scrunch your cheeks up like a hamster giving birth”. And on MILF Not Milk, she laments the fact that she still leaks breastmilk: “M-I-L-F not M-I-L-K /I’ll never turn guys on with my fromage frais/The milky bras are on me, so it’s time to say/M-I-L-F not M-I-L-K”.
Then there's Hitler Moustache, about an unfortunate incident during a bikini wax ("There are some things I just don't like/Including having a flange that supports the Third Reich"); Generosity, about a man who gives terrible presents ("You bought me a translator, but English was its only tongue/You bought me a vibrator that had been up someone else's bum"); and Put It In, about a man who refuses to insert the full length of his penis during sex. As its name suggests, Beautiful Filth may well be the filthiest album you've ever heard, but it could also be the funniest.
Ariane says: “With Weird Al Yankovic’s album reaching number one in the States, there’s no better time to release a comedy pop album. We hope people enjoy listening to the songs just as much as we enjoyed recording them.”
Graham says: “My plan to collaborate on an album of soothing choral music has gone terribly wrong.”