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Rolling Stone once asked “How can ‘Blue Dress’ come off so beautiful yet creepy?” Billboard describes it as “a song about how pretty girls … essentially ‘make the world go 'round.’”
Songwriter Martin Gore himself famously called “Blue Dress” the “pervy song” on Violator, explaining it was based upo...
[Verse 1]
Put it on and don't say a word
Put it on, the one that I prefer
Put it on and stand before my eyes
Put it on, please don't question why
Can you believe
[Chorus]
Something so simple
Something so trivial
Makes me a happy man
Can't you understand?
Say you believe
Just how easy it is to please me
Because when you learn
You'll know what makes the world turn
[Interlude]
[Verse 2]
Put it on, I can feel so much
Put it on, I don't need to touch
Put it on, here before my eyes
Put it on because you realise
And you believe
[Chorus]
Something so worthless
Serves a purpose
It makes me a happy man
Can't you understand?
Say you believe
Just how easy it is to please me
Because when you learn
You'll know what makes the world turn
Blue Dress was written by Martin L. Gore.
Blue Dress was produced by Depeche Mode & Flood.
Depeche Mode released Blue Dress on Mon Mar 19 1990.
Martin Gore told New Music Express in 1990:
‘Blue Dress’ – that’s the pervy song! – the idea of watching a girl dress and realizing that this is ‘what makes the world turn’.
Alan Wilder also wrote:
Not really one of my favorites – hence penultimate track on LP (filler position). I would put it in...