Franz Ferdinand - Michael (Official Video)

Franz Ferdinand - "Michael" taken from 'Franz Ferdinand' released 2004 on Domino Record Co.

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Directed by Uwe Flade

[dominorecordco]

Franz Ferdinand’s latest album ‘Always Ascending’ is out now on Domino Record Co.

[Iggysluckytonite]

Franz Ferdinand: *writes this song*
Historians: They were roommates

[CarlaWay]

When I went to their concert I couldn't even sing along, I was too hypnotized by his moves and his voice. Damn sexy man. Kapranos is too sexy for his own good.

[ElaborateTiger]

My name is Michael and I just watched Franz Ferdinand live a couple of days ago and it was so awesome when they played this. I felt like they were playing it to me.

[Mossynugget]

Thank you Franz Ferdinand, your song helped my friend to express his love for his best friend.

[KimmyQueen]

I have to say that it does take balls to make a song like this though

[SweetGreymalkin]

Somehow I feel like if it was a girl singing to Michael or Alex singing to a lady it wouldn't be as good a song...There's just something fundamentally gay about it, and that's awesome.

[michaelortiz]

This song makes me feel good about myself

[thebidding.]

Every man in this music video is beautiful.

[coflyer]

"She worried about you, call your mother" is my favorite line

[tastymedleys]

For some reason the line that made me start liking this song was "This is what I am, I am a man...so come and dance with me Michael". I don't know why it made such an impression on me really.
Of course it also helped when I understood the lyrics of the chorus...

"Beautiful boys on a beautiful dancefloor
Michael, you're dancing like a beautiful dance whore!"
<3

[lewis]

I remember hearing this song for the first time as a young teenager, when the record first came out. I was dealing with so much shame and embarrassment at that time. Already people had started calling me the f-slur before I had even come to terms with the idea that that was what I was, and other boys would have these stupid conversations like "Would you rather x, or be gay?" (Obviously they'd always pick the former, no matter how gruesome, even if it meant death.) I fought hard against my desires, but hearing Alex sing about stubble on his sticky lips was like a jolt of lightning that shocked me out of denial. Nothing will ever be as electrifyingly sexy as that moment, when being gay was so taboo and Alex was whispering this delicious filth in my ear through my headphones, as I went to school.

[clusterhvg]

can't believe alex kapranos invented bisexuality 14 years ago today ugh his mind

[tatum]

it sucks i can't fully appreciate this song because my step dad's name is Michael

[benedictcooper]

I can’t believe we don’t have more songs like this about openly sexual male-to-male attraction

[GQseven]

Still so glad they released this song as a single. One of those sexy songs you get stuck in your head.

[Pride]

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
This is where I'll be, so heavenly
So come and dance with me, Michael
So sexy, I'm sexy
So come and dance with me, Michael
I'm all that you see, you want to see
So come and dance with me, Michael

[Pre-Chorus]
So close now, so close now
So come and dance with me
So come and dance with me
So come and dance with me

[Chorus]
Michael, you're the boy with all the leather hips
Sticky hair, sticky hips, stubble on my sticky lips
Michael, you're the only one I'd ever want
Only one I'd ever want, only one I'd ever want
Beautiful boys on a beautiful dance floor
Michael, you're dancing like a beautiful dance-whore
Michael waiting on a silver platter now
And nothing matters now

[Verse 2]
This is what I am, I am a man
So come and dance with me, Michael
So strong now, it's strong now
So come and dance with me, Michael
I'm all that you see, you want to see
So come and dance with me, Michael

[Pre-Chorus]
So close now, it's close now
So come and dance with me
So come and dance with me
So come and dance with me

[Chorus]
Michael, you're the boy with all the leather hips
Sticky hair, sticky hips, stubble on my sticky lips
Michael, you're the only one I'd ever want
Only one I'd ever want, only one I'd ever want
Beautiful boys on a beautiful dance floor
Michael, you're dancing like a beautiful dance-whore
Michael waiting on a silver platter now
And nothing matters now

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
Michael, you're the only one I'd ever want
Only one I'd ever want, only one I'd ever want
Michael, you're the only one I'd ever want
Only one I'd ever want, only one I'd ever want
Beautiful boys on a beautiful dance floor
Michael, you're dancing like a beautiful dance-whore
Michael waiting on a silver platter now
Nothing matters, oh, nothing matters, oh
Nothing matters, oh yeah

[sandrok]

easter egg at 1:33, that weird voice you hear ... if you play it backwards you will hear "phone your mom she worries about you"

[luncheonroll]

This is the best Franz song, the most brilliant original thing they ever did

[rosetiger]

Living in 2004 this song was, and still is, epic