Pale Movie

"Pale Movie"
Single by Saint Etienne
from the album Tiger Bay
B-side	"Highgate Road Incident"
Released	7 February 1994 (1994-02-07)[1]
Genre	Folk Eurodance
Length	3:51
Label	Heavenly
Songwriter(s)	Bob Stanley Pete Wiggs
Producer(s)	Saint Etienne
Saint Etienne singles chronology
"Xmas 93" (1993) "Pale Movie" (1994) "Like a Motorway" (1994)
Music video
"Pale Movie" on YouTube

"Pale Movie" is a song by British pop group Saint Etienne, released in February 1994 by Heavenly Records as the first single from the group's third album, Tiger Bay (1994). The song reached number 28 on the UK Singles Charts and also became a hit in Iceland, peaking at number 24. In common with the folk music theme of the album, the song combines a Eurodance beat with Spanish folk-style guitars. The lyrics use surreal imagery to describe a man's love for a mysterious woman. Although the title is not sung, some of the words refer to cinema: "In the bed where they make love / She's in a film on the sheets. / He shows dreams like a movie, / She's the softness of cinema seats." Other lines are stranger: "her skin as white as the milk, / Just like a Sherpa Tenzing / under a Manila silk."

In an interview with Melody Maker magazine, keyboard player Pete Wiggs said that he considers the song "potentially brilliant" but "a bit of a failure"; he feels that the band "stuck too rigidly to our folk idea". He also adds that they only chose Spanish guitar so that they could go to Spain for the video [1]

The cover art for the single features photographs of swimming tigers, presumably in reference to the album title.