Creativity Quote by Neil Tennant

Tennant frames reinvention not as a guilty pleasure but as a civic right: "You should have the power". That phrasing matters. It shifts self-fashioning from lifestyle branding into autonomy, a quiet demand that the audience be treated as adults capable of writing their own scripts. Coming from a musician whose career was built on art-pop polish and lyrical detachment, the line reads less like a diary confession and more like a manifesto delivered in a cool tone - which is exactly why it lands. He makes it sound obvious, and that understatement is the point.

The tour context does a lot of work here. Pop concerts are already temporary cities where people try on selves they can't wear at work, at home, or online without consequence. Tennant names that function: a "celebration of individuality" that gives permission rather than instruction. The repeated "should" is doing ethical pressure, aimed not only at fans but at institutions - tabloids, gatekeepers, governments - that keep insisting sexuality is either a marketing hook or a social problem.

His most strategic move is the refusal to dramatize. "Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue". He's not denying conflict; he's denying the premise that queerness (or any sexuality) must be a permanent public debate. The closing warning - "It shouldn't box you in" - points at both sides of the trap: repression and commodification. You're not meant to be shamed into silence, but you're also not meant to be reduced to a label that performs on demand.