Troye who? These British rockers offered an intoxicating rush of “Animal Nitrate” way back in 1993
Subscribe to our daily newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Obviously, the title is a play on “Amyl Nitrate,” the drug commonly found in poppers.
Lead singer Brett Anderson sings of someone being introduced to the pleasures of the flesh and yearning for more.“Well he said he’d show you his bed, and the delights of the chemical smile, so in your broken home he broke all your bones, now you’re taking it time after time,” he wails.Another line underscores that this is more likely about gay sex.“What does it take to turn you on, oh?
Now he has gone. Now you’re over 21, oh. Now your animal’s gone.”At the time of the song’s release, the age of consent in England for gay sex was 21.
It was lowered to 18 in 1994, and then equalized with heterosexual sex (16 years) in 2000.Musically, the song is a rowdy marriage of glam-rock and punk that lurches and sweeps, before settling into its anthemic closing refrain: “Animal, he was animal, an animal.”Suede never really broke through in the US but were huge in the UK.
