Background
The song was released as the fifth single from Light Years at the beginning of 2001 (see 2001 in music) by EMI Germany. Written by Minogue, Chambers and Williams, the song also received a limited release in Australia with only 10,000 copies pressed.. The background vocals were recorded by Tracy Ackerman and Robbie Williams. Musically, "Your Disco Needs You" is a traditional disco song. The album version has less arrangement with mostly drum beats. However, the single version was a more upbeat version, featuring vocoder and more fillers through the song. Lyrically, the song talks about the power of disco music. Heather Phares from Allmusic described the song as a "Four-on-the-floor beat" and said it was a surprisingly good "dance-oriented song". NME had described the song to Pet Shop Boys song "Go West".
Noted as Minogue's most controversial non-UK single, The release of the song outside the UK angered many of Minogue's fans and sparked protests outside her UK record company from fans lobbying for its release. When considering the fourth single to be released from Light Years, Minogue's record label chose the Latin sounding "Please Stay" instead of "Your Disco Needs You", due to the song's campness and to avoid Minogue being further stereotyped. Although remixers "Almighty" had remixed the song and this version appeared on the UK CD Single of her single "On a Night Like This".
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