Michael

About Michael

"Michael" is a song by Franz Ferdinand and was the fourth single released from their debut self-titled album. The song was notable for its homoerotic lyrics such as "stubble on my sticky lips" and "beautiful boys on a beautiful dancefloor". The singer, Alex Kapranos, stated in an interview to the UK magazine Boyz that the song was written about two friends of his — "It was one night when me and the band were out with friends from Glasgow, and we went to this warehouse dance party thing called Disco X. .

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About this song

Credited to

Franz Ferdinand

Album

Franz Ferdinand · Track 9 of 11

Released

February 16, 2004

Duration

3:24

On Last.fm

698,121 listeners on Last.fm

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From the album: Franz Ferdinand