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Like all good art, the lyrics to Depeche Mode songs like “Master and Servant” and “Strangelove” leave room for interpretation. In the small minds of young homophobes, most interpretations erred on the side of man-on-man dungeon sex sessions filled with drugs, oils, and punishment. In “Strangelove”, lead vocalist Dave Gahan sang: “Strange highs and strange lows / Strangelove, that’s how our love goes / … Pain / Will you restore it?” In “Master and Servant”, he sang about a new game that’s a lot prefer life, a “play between the sheets / With you on top and me underneath / Forget all about equality”. The latter song only fed rumors that the band was lgbtq+ by featuring a cracking whip sound as part of the beat.

Depeche Mode played these songs on Casio keyboards, not Gibson Flying-Vs, and used a drum road, not a reside, stick-wielding drummer. They were essentially pasty computer geeks programming music instead of video games for a living, nerds who’d ended up on the concert stage rather than behind it operational the lights. And, like me, they had no reputation as heartbreakers to defend th