West End Girls (Swedish band) cover of "West End Girls", the track that inspired their name, was released. A third single, their cover of "Suburbia", was released on 7 June. It also features on The Sims 2 expansion pack , recorded in the game's "native" language, Simlish, and called "Booglurbia". In December 2007, they announced through their Blog that a new single would be released in February/March 2008 . This was followed up on 9 January 2008, when Popjustice announced that the band's next two singles would be "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" (a cover of the Pet Shop Boys' duet with Dusty
West End Girls 1985, topping the charts in both the UK and the US. In an interview on BBC4's "Synth Britannia" programme ( at 1h 21m 19s), Neil Tennant explains the role of the then new sampling technology on the track and how every single sound came from the newly introduced E-mu Emulator keyboard. "West End Girls" is a synthpop song influenced by hip hop music. The song's socially conscious streak, as well as the propulsive bass line, derives from Grandmaster Flash's protest rap song "The Message". Lowe and Hague created a "snaky, obsessive rhythm punch" for the music, replacing the song's previously