Pet Shop Boys - Domino Dancing

What this video is

Released in September 1988 as the lead single from the Pet Shop Boys' third studio album Introspective, 'Domino Dancing' marked a deliberate Latin pop pivot for the duo, produced by Miami-based freestyle producer Lewis A. Martinée. The video, shot in Puerto Rico, arrived at a cultural inflection point: the late 1980s mainstream pop landscape was negotiating coded queer representation — the video's homoerotic…

Why it matters

A pivotal document of late-1980s synth-pop's attempt to absorb Latin freestyle and Miami Sound influences into the British pop mainstream, 'Domino Dancing' represents one of the most internationally successful fusions of Eurodisco electronics with Cuban brass and freestyle production. The video's…

The director

Eric Watson (9 September 1955 – 18 March 2012) was an English photographer and music video director born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He studied fine art at Hornsey Art College (1977–1980) and worked as a staff photographer at Smash Hits magazine (1981–1986),…