West End Girls West End Girls "West End Girls" is a song by the British pop duo Pet Shop Boys. Written by Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, the song was released twice as a single. The song is influenced by hip hop music, with lyrics concerned with class and the pressures of inner-city life which were inspired partly by T. S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land". It was generally well received by contemporary music critics and has been frequently cited as a highlight in the duo's career. The first version of the song was produced by Bobby Orlando and was released on Columbia
West End Girls the single included another line, "All your stopping, stalling and starting/Who do you think you are, Joe Stalin?" which was removed for the 1985 version. "West End Girls" has been generally well received by music critics. Stephen Thomas Erlewine from Allmusic in a review of the album "Please" called the song "hypnotic", adding that "it's not only a classic dance single, it's a classic pop single". In a review for the group's second studio album "Actually", Rob Hoerburger from "Rolling Stone" magazine commented that "West End Girls" was "as catchy as anything on the radio in 1986", praising "its enticing