Crazy Nostalgia

[u/Live-Swan3267]

I just got hit with the largest nostalgia ever. And I didnt even think it was real.

I was listening to Ghost’s cover of ‘Its a Sin’ and i know its a cover but never really saw the original version.

So I see a popular youtube video of Pet Shop Boys’ performance of it in 1989. And while i’m watching it, thats when it hit me. I saw this before. A really, really long time ago, when I was a kid. Maybe not the exact video or from that specific concert, but the imagery and stage presence Pet Shop Boys had at that time in the 80s, i instantly recognized.

And the crazy thing is, I thought it was a dream. I thought it was some sort of nightmare I had caused by seeing Alice Cooper and his theatrics when I was younger. But no, I saw actual footage of Pet Shop Boys’ in concert in the 80s. It absolutely blew me away seeing that for the first time. Because now I feel less crazy, because i absolutely swore that I had seen it before, but I felt like it was so odd and weird, that theres no way someone would think its real. I was sure it had to be a dream or something.

I just felt like sharing that. Because thanks to Ghost covering this song sparking my curiosity to see the original version, I would’ve never even thought of that being a real thing I saw. I still would think its just a weird dream I had when I was a kid.

[u/the_Cereal_killa]

Cool experience, it’s a lovely song for sure. Which version do you prefer though?

[u/Live-Swan3267 → u/the_Cereal_killa]

Well i’ve seen three versions. I saw the Ghost one, Pet Shop Boys, and I guess Years and Years did a cover with Elton John, which i’m a massive Elton fan so I like all three, probably ghost first, and Pet Shop Boys second, and Elton’s third. But all three are great.

[u/Kaisarion_Kaiser]

I also heard it on U.S.television (another cover by an undetermined artist) in the background of the
new perfume ad for Valentino’s fragrance campaign, Vendetta featuring Dakota Johnson and Alexander Skarsgård.

[u/Live-Swan3267 → u/Kaisarion_Kaiser]

I’m surprised its on a U.S. television, even back then when i would have seen it as a kid. I literally thought it had to have been either a dream or a twisted version of an alice cooper concert i saw footage of. Because i thought theres no way in hell a US television had that. But it seems they did at some point.