Songfacts®:

• "Dead Disco" is about stagnation and lack of innovation in music. It lampoons multiple genres, not just disco (which had its heyday in the 1970s).
  
  Dead disco
  Dead funk
  Dead rock and roll
  Remodel
  Everything has been done
  
  The song points out that the artistic homogeneity spans the entire globe, and bands are so much alike that it's hard to tell them apart.
  
  Tits out, pants down
  Overnight to London
  Touch down, look around
  Everyone's the same
  World wide, air tight
  No one's got a face left to blame
  
  The irony is that "Dead Disco" itself is essentially a danceable rock song. Metric has built their reputation on experimentalism and originality, but there's only so much new ground left to break in the modern world. At this point, originality is mostly a matter of mashing together and tweaking existing genres.
• This was the second and final single released from Metric's debut album, Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?, following "Combat Baby." It didn't chart but helped build the foundation for the band's loyal following.
• Metric frontwoman Emily Haines wrote the lyrics while lead guitarist James Shaw wrote the music, which isn't the band's usual process. Haines told Better Propaganda: "The last record, and the way that James and I have worked traditionally is that I write sad, slow songs on the piano, and he would hear them another way, sort of adapt them to the sound of the band, and flesh them out, and then we'd play them with the rhythm section. But songs like 'Dead Disco' he wrote the music to, and 'Combat Baby' we wrote together. It's a combination of ways that it happens. But a lot of it starts as just songs on the piano." >>

  Suggestion credit:
  Bertrand - Paris, France
• On their second album, Live It Out (2005), Metric included a disco remix of this track titled "Dead Rock & Roll."