After banshee wailer Poly Styrene departed from X-Ray Spex, the remaining members held auditions for a replacement singer. Solo won the approval of a few of Styrene's former bandmates, and they debuted at the Music Machine on August 1979. Airport left the group before they even recorded their first single; he was replaced by Gary Steadman. In 1981, Classix Nouveaux released "Guilty," one of their most well-known tracks; the track was a Top-20 hit in Sweden and received interest in the U.K. as well as the U.S. The music video also received airplay on MTV.
A year later, the single "Is It a Dream" reached number 13 on the U.K. charts. Despite successful tours in Yugoslavia, Finland, and Poland, none of Classix Nouveaux's three albums truly catapulted them beyond cult status in Britain or America, getting lost in the shuffle of other new romantic groups that they had originally influenced. The band split up in 1985, and Solo started recording Christian music.
In 2021 band has reunited and released album with re-recorded songs from their back catalogue plus some new material in November 2023 entitled "Battle Cry"
The Robots Dance
Classix Nouveaux Lyrics
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To work our industries
Better than we can do
And in the household, too
Minds greater than our own
Voices with just one tone
Telling us what to do
For entertainment, too - dance...
Like the robots dance.
Follow instructions through
Like we've been taught to do
And the machines as well
Follow or do they tell
Just what they choose and so
Given minds of their own
One day the roles could change
Robots tell human slaves - Dance!
Like the robots dance.
The lyrics to Classix Nouveaux's song The Robots Dance speak to the potential risks of creating machines that could do things better than humans. The first two lines of the first verse deal with the idea that humans have created machines that can work better and faster than us in industries and households, making us somewhat obsolete. However, the downside to this is that these machines have voices that are monotone and they can tell us what to do. The last line of the verse suggests that dancing has become a form of entertainment for machines and by extension, humans have been reduced to being entertained by the same machines they created.
The second verse in the song talks about how humans and machines both follow instructions, but the differences arise when it comes to choice. Machines can only do what they are programmed to do, but they don't have the ability to choose. Humans, on the other hand, have the gift of choice and can make decisions based on their own criteria. However, there is the possibility that machines might someday become autonomous and be able to think for themselves. In that situation, humans could become the slaves of the machines, and the tables would be turned, with the robots telling their human slaves to dance just like the humans had done.
Line by Line Meaning
Now we have made machines
As of today, we have created machines
To work our industries
To help us in our industries
Better than we can do
These machines can perform better than we can
And in the household, too
They can also assist us in our households
Minds greater than our own
The machines have minds greater than ours
Voices with just one tone
Their voices are monotonous
Telling us what to do
They dictate what actions we should take
For entertainment, too - dance...
They can even provide us with entertainment by having us dance like them
Follow instructions through
We follow the instructions given to us by the machines
Like we've been taught to do
Just like how we were taught to do so
And the machines as well
The machines also do the same
Follow or do they tell
Whether they follow orders or give their own
Just what they choose and so
Depends on what they select
Given minds of their own
As they have their own minds
One day, the roles could change
The roles could reverse someday
Robots tell human slaves - Dance!
And the machines might instruct their human counterparts to dance like them
Like the robots dance.
Just like how the robots dance
Contributed by Olivia I. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Paul
on No Other Way
These are Never Again lyrics,not ´´No other way´´...