Filthy/Gorgeous

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"Filthy/Gorgeous"
Scissor Sisters Filthy Gorgeous.jpg
Single by Scissor Sisters
from the album Scissor Sisters
B-side "Take Me Out"
ReleasedJanuary 3, 2005 (2005-01-03)
Studio
  • 5D (Brooklyn, New York)
  • The Shed (New York)
Genre Hi-NRG [1]
Length3:47
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Scissor Sisters
Scissor Sisters singles chronology
"Mary"
(2004)
"Filthy/Gorgeous"
(2005)
"I Don't Feel Like Dancin'"
(2006)
Official audio
"Filthy/Gorgeous" on YouTube

"Filthy/Gorgeous" is a song by American pop-rock band Scissor Sisters. It is the seventh track on their self-titled debut album. [2] Released as the album's fifth and final single in the United Kingdom on January 3, 2005, the song peaked at number five on the UK Singles Chart, making it the band's first British top-five single. [3] It also reached number one on the UK Dance Chart and on the US Billboard Dance Club Songs chart. In Australia, it peaked at number 29 on the ARIA Singles Chart, and in Ireland, it reached number 13.

Contents

Music video

Two versions of the music video, directed by John Cameron Mitchell, were made: a full-length, raunchier version featuring semi-explicit scenes in a sex club, and an edited version where those scenes are shown more briefly, out of context, and occasionally obscured. Some scenes are removed completely. [4]

Track listings

UK CD single(986 979-9) [5]

  1. "Filthy/Gorgeous" – 3:48
  2. "Filthy/Gorgeous" (Paper Faces vocal mix edit) – 4:26
  3. "Mary" (Mylo mix) – 5:53
  4. "Filthy/Gorgeous" (gorgeous video)

UK 12-inch picture disc (986 980-1) [6]

A1. "Filthy/Gorgeous" – 3:48
A2. "Filthy/Gorgeous" (I Love You – See You Next Tuesday mix) – 5:28
B1. "Filthy/Gorgeous" (Paper Faces mix) – 8:53

UK DVD single(986 980-0) [7]

  1. "Filthy/Gorgeous" (filthy video)
  2. "Filthy/Gorgeous" – 3:47

Australasian CD single(987 120-7) [8]

  1. "Filthy/Gorgeous" – 3:48
  2. "Take Me Out" – 4:32
  3. "Filthy/Gorgeous" (Paper Faces vocal mix edit) – 4:26
  4. "Filthy/Gorgeous" (I Love You – See You Next Tuesday mix) – 5:28

Credits and personnel

Credits are lifted from the UK CD single liner notes and the Scissor Sisters album booklet. [5] [9]

Studios

Personnel

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [19] Silver200,000

Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United KingdomJanuary 3, 2005
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
Polydor [20]
United StatesFebruary 14, 2005 Contemporary hit radio Universal [21]
AustraliaApril 25, 2005CDPolydor [22]

This song appeared on the soundtrack to Tony Hawk's American Wasteland [23] and also is the theme to the NBC show Kath & Kim . It was also used in the 2006 film It's a Boy Girl Thing [24] and the 2014 film Dumb and Dumber To . [25]

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