Songfacts®:

• This euphoric '90s house-tinged anthem tells the tale of two university friends in London and their love of clubbing. "It's the early '90s and based on the story of my friend who came to university in London, met this girl and went clubbing," Neil Tennant told The Sun. "All of his fellow students called them The Pop Kids and I made all the rest up."
  
  "We were going to call it The Club Kids and we have a longer version of it too called The Full Story, which has a Nineties break in the middle and a verse that brings their story up to date," he added. "The girl is living in California and the guy who narrates it is now a journalist. I guess it is quite filmic."
• The song was produced by Stuart Price and released on physical and digital formats on March 18, 2016. Pet Shop Boys also bundled the physical release with a pair of B-sides and two remixes. One of the B-sides, "One-Hit Wonder" is a new version of an instrumental track Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe originally wrote in late 1981.