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Why we feature this artist Rocket to Uranus: pop camp with its own little science-fiction film Rocket to Uranus takes the Vengaboys’ taste for exaggerated pop theatre into a deliberately ridiculous space adventure. The 2010 collaboration with Perez Hilton is f…
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Rocket to Uranus: pop camp with its own little science-fiction film
Rocket to Uranus takes the Vengaboys’ taste for exaggerated pop theatre into a deliberately ridiculous space adventure. The 2010 collaboration with Perez Hilton is full of bright electronic signals, an emphatic refrain and spoken interruptions that refuse to let the premise become serious. The recording’s humour is built into its performance, rather than added as a separate commentary.
The guest becomes part of the scene
The Vengaboys’ own account identifies Hilton’s spoken contribution and Pete Burns’s appearance in the project. The group also links the song’s creation to a writer behind Army of Lovers’ Crucified, placing the release within a wider tradition of knowingly theatrical European pop.
Hilton’s role changes the song’s surface without turning it into a conventional vocal duet. The spoken lines act like small scene changes between the sung passages. The main melody remains simple and direct enough for those interruptions to become part of the fun instead of breaking the record’s momentum.
Two-dimensional song, three-dimensional spectacle
The official campaign included both a standard mini-film and a 3D presentation, with the group’s site also preserving a making-of feature. Their production account distinguishes footage shot near London from Hilton’s Los Angeles contribution. The space travel belongs to the film’s comic world.
The release package extends the song into additional remix treatments, including a Riptide version. Yet the central personality is already present in the original: a pop group comfortable with excess, a guest who can exaggerate the situation further and an electronic arrangement that never pretends the joke requires a solemn setting. The refrain works because everyone commits to the same absurd destination.
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Rocket to Uranus
The original joint release gives the Vengaboys’ electronic pop a comic space-travel setting and Hilton’s spoken guest role.