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[[caption-width-right:350:'''L-to-R:''' Paddy Boom, Jake Shears, Ana Matronic, Del Marquis, and Babydaddy]]
->''When you're walkin' down the street and the man tries to get your business,\\
And the people that you meet want to open you up like Christmas,\\
You gotta wrap your fuzzy with a big red bow,\\
Ain't no sum bitch gonna treat me like a ho,\\
I'm a classy honey kissy huggy lovey dovey ghetto princess.''
-->-- "Filthy Gorgeous"

"Spawned by the scuzzy, gay nightlife scene of New York", Scissor Sisters crashed onto the music scene in the mid-‘00s. They became one of the most popular pop acts of the decade, especially [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff in the UK]]. Their self-titled album was (as of 2006) the 10th biggest-selling album of the 21st century, making them stick out like a sore thumb among other (mainstream) artists who sold similar numbers. Celeb fans include Music/LadyGaga, [[Music/{{Radiohead}} Thom Yorke]], [[Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge Jo]][[Music/EaglesOfDeathMetal sh]] [[Music/{{Kyuss}} Hom]][[Music/ThemCrookedVultures me]][[labelnote:*]]He's also friends with the lead singer[[/labelnote]], Music/EltonJohn, [[Music/PinkFloyd David Gilmour]], [[Music/TheWho Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend]].[[note]]And [[Series/DoctorWho The Master]].[[/note]]

The band's name comes from a popular lesbian sex act. They are known for their sexually-charged lyrics and [[{{Camp}} campy performances]], many of which have Jake Shears performing in revealing clothes (if [[{{Fanservice}} any at all]]).

The band have been on indefinite hiatus since 2012, save the charity single "[=SWERLK=]" in 2017. Jake Shears released a {{self titled|album}} solo album in 2018, shortly before appearing at the lead in the Broadway adaptation of ''Film/KinkyBoots''.
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Members:
* Jake Shears -- vocals, piano, guitar
* Babydaddy -- bass guitar, keyboards, vocals, rhythm
* Ana Matronic -- vocals, "Mistress of Ceremonies", percussion, keyboards
* Del Marquis -- lead, bass guitar
* Randy Real -- drums, electronic drums, percussion
* Paddy Boom -- drums, electronic drums, percussion (former member)

The only member confirmed to be straight was Paddy Boom. Randy Real's (Paddy's replacement) sexuality has yet to be disclosed.
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!!Discography:
* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Scissor Sisters]]'' (2004)
* ''Ta-Dah'' (2006)
* ''Night Work'' (2010)
* ''Magic Hour'' (2012)
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!!I don't feel like tropin', tropin':
* AnimatedMusicVideo: The second-half of the video for [[https://youtu.be/vEUZc5jMWlo "Mary"]] is an animated retelling of "Rapunzel," created by none other than Creator/DonBluth!
* BestFriend: They are friends with pop punk band {{Music/Busted}}.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: From "Any Which Way."
-->"Take me any way you can: in front of the fire place, in front of your yacht, in front of my parents! I don't give a damn, baby, just take me!"
* BuriedAlive: Referenced in "I Can't Decide" (where what can't be decided is "whether you should live or die"): ''"Or I could bury you alive / But you might crawl out with a knife / And kill me when I'm sleeping"''.
* CensoredForComedy: The radio edit of "Filthy/Gorgeous" bleeped the word "acid" (as in LSD)... but only the second syllable, which made it sound really... uh, filthy. "Trip on a hit of ass" indeed.
* {{Chiaroscuro}}: The front cover for ''Ta-Dah''.
* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: Their not-universally loved cover of the Music/PinkFloyd classic "Comfortably Numb" brings out a different facet. The original is overflowing with angst, about someone who can't quite get numb '''enough'''. The remake sounds like someone who really has been medicated into oblivion, to the point of losing both their neuroses and their identity, and is ''loving every minute of it''.
* DownerEnding: Their first album (the non-UK version) ends with "Return To Oz", a song about drug use in the gay community.
* DrugsAreBad: ''Return to Oz''. Oh, boy, ''Return to Oz''. It's all about crystal meth abuse in the gay community, told via analogies based on the film of the same name, and it's absolutely chilling.
* EveryEpisodeEnding: Their first two albums ended with one song completely devoid of synths and drum loops. However, after Paddy Boom left and the band started doing out-and-out techno, this was dropped.
* FagHag: Ana could be considered one, as she's the lone female in a band consisting almost entirely of openly gay men. However, she could also be considered a subversion; [[CommonKnowledge while she is commonly assumed to be straight,]] she has in fact had relations with women (though she is currently married to a man) and doesn't label herself as any particular sexuality.
* {{Fanservice}}: In-universe: [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x14u5m_scissor-sisters-filthy-gorgeous-unc_music "Filthy/Gorgeous"]] is about a woman (or possibly not) who goes to a sex club and is transformed into a dancer/stripper (with hula hoops). It contains, it is not much of an exaggeration to say, every fetish there is, including pregnancy, toe sex, smoking, armpits, blow-up dolls, leather, vinyl, adult babies, pony play, men kissing, boobs galore, drag queens, the biggest hair in the world, bears... a little something for everyone. Try guessing the original or true gender of everyone who appears.
** The animated segment of "Mary" has the male protagonist at one point strip down to his underwear.
** The guy's ass (complete with impressive wedgie) adorning the cover of ''Night Work''.
** Jake himself has been known to strip almost completely naked during concerts if they venue gets too hot.
* GetBackInTheCloset: Not surprisingly, Wal-Mart refuses to sell their [=CDs=] because of their overtly homoerotic lyrics and openly gay band members.
* Main/HiddenTrack/Main/ThankingTheViewer: The UK version of their SelfTitledAlbum features "A Message from Ms. Matronic" after the standard tracks, where Ana thanks the listener for listening to the album.
* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: Just ''try'' being the one to introduce this band to a lesbian. Or someone who's squeamish about innuendo, although such a person [[IntercourseWithYou probably won't be their biggest fan anyway]]. Worse yet, their original name (as part of an arms race of [[RefugeInAudacity escalating vulgarity]]) was "Dead Lesbian and the Fibrillating Scissor Sisters."
* IntercourseWithYou: Oh boy, this has got to be their favorite trope. Emphasis on "[[HoYay boy]]."
* InTheStyleOf: The disco cover of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb", which got mixed reactions from Floyd fans -- while some considered it a butchering of the work, others find that the disco beat fits the song's lyrics pretty well.
** And there's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9x7UN0oeag "Sex And Violence"]] which is ''Film/AmericanPsycho'' in the style of Music/PetShopBoys.
*** Also they covered Music/KylieMinogue's 'All The Lovers' in a country western style.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7jrgmcqIyM They also did]] Music/FranzFerdinand's "Take Me Out" as a cabaret song.
* IWasYoungAndNeededTheMoney: Jake was a stripper around the time the band formed.
* LoveHurts: "Better Luck Next Time."
* LyricalDissonance:
** "I Can't Decide", made famous to geeks everywhere by its use in ''Series/DoctorWho'', is an excellent example. The bouncy, upbeat song's chorus actually starts, "I can't decide whether you should live or die..." and the middle eight describes various methods of murder.
** "Intermission" is a vaudevillesque tune cautioning the listener to make something of himself as soon as possible, since "not everyone has lambs to slaughter" and "we were born to die."
*** Pretty much everything from ''Ta-Da'', save the ballads.
** Their infamous ''disco version of "Comfortably Numb"''. The most disturbing part of the effect is how freakishly ''right'' it sounds.
*** "Skin Tight", [[ObsessionSong which may be about someone's extreme clinginess in a relationship over new wave love song instrumentation.]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM2d28lBM3k&list=UUh1itnlJqqGe2PaJcw_fflA&index=2 "Baby Come Home."]]
** "I Don't Feel Like Dancing" is a dance pop song.
* NewSoundAlbum: Their first album was on the edge between "band" music (i.e., mostly live instrumentation) and dance pop, with their second moving much more towards the former with the addition of drummer Paddy Boom. Once he left, however, the band made a stylistic U-turn with the electroclash-heavy ''Night Work,'' eventually doing straight-up dance pop on ''Magic Hour.''
* NonIndicativeName:
** Scissor Sisters contains no lesbians, siblings or scissors. [[TheSmurfettePrinciple And only one woman]].
** And their song "Paul [=McCartney=]" isn't really about Paul [=McCartney=].[[note]]Though it is about a dream Jake had ''about'' Paul [=McCartney=], and it's implied that Paul is the person Jake is singing to.[[/note]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: Jake is in his 40s. He could pass for being in university.
* OneWomanSong: "Laura" and "Mary".
* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: The video for "Filthy/Gorgeous", especially the uncensored version.
* {{Portmanteau}}: The title "[=SWERLK=]" is a seriously next-level example; a combination of "swirl," "twerk," "twirl," "work" and "swerve."
* PunnyName: Ana Matronic.
* RearrangeTheSong: "Comfortably Numb" disco-fied.
* SmurfettePrinciple: Ana is the lone girl of the quintet.
* SopranoAndGravel
* ShoutOut:
** Creator/DonBluth's animated segment of their "Mary" video is one to his own "Don't Walk Away" segment from ''Film/{{Xanadu|1980}},'' which the band are huge fans of.
** "Return to Oz" references ''Film/ReturnToOz'', obviously, but there's another, subtler reference there; the lyrics reference Wheelers (bad guys from ''Oz'') but also Skeksis, the evil race from ''Film/TheDarkCrystal''. Fitting as the song is about ''crystal'' meth.
** The debut album's band photo references the inner gatefold of Music/RoxyMusic's ''Music/ForYourPleasure'', and "Better Luck Next Time" quotes "If There Is Something" from [[Music/RoxyMusicAlbum that band's own self-titled debut]].
* SpokenWordInMusic: "Let's Have A Kiki" begins with Ana giving this doozy of a voicemail rant:
-->"What's up; it's Pickles. Leave a message." ''[BEEEEEEEEP]''\\
"Hey, I'm calling you back! ''Oooh,'' she's been a ''bitch'' tonight! And by bitch, I mean this rain. No cab, nowhere. So I had to put on the wigs and the lashes and the heels and the eairh and take the '''train''' to the club, and we all know that the MTA should stand for Motherfuckers Touching my Ass. So then I get to the club, looking like a drowned, harassed rat, and I'm greeted, not by Miss Rose at the door, but our friend, Johnny Five-Oh. Yes honey, [[RhymesOnADime the NYPD shut down the par-ty.]] So no fee for me! I don't even know what's the tea! So I hope you're up girl, 'cause we are all coming over. Lock the doors, lower the blinds, fire up the smoke machine and put on your heels, 'cause I know ''exactly'' what we need!"
* StayingAlive: "I Can't Decide".
--> ''Oh I could throw you in the lake / Or feed you poisoned birthday cake / I won’t deny I'm gonna miss you when you're gone / Oh I could bury you alive / But you might crawl out with a knife / And kill me when I'm sleeping / That's why / I can't decide / Whether you should live or die...''
* StraightGay:
** Babydaddy.
** Paddy Boom was the complementary CampStraight.
* UnPerson: A curious case concerning Randy Real, since it happened during his tenure as a full member and with no apparent bad blood present: despite being the fifth official member, the music videos from ''Night Work'' and ''Magic Hour'' portray the band as a quartet, composed only of Jake, Ana, Del and Babydaddy. Randy's predecessor as drummer, Paddy Boom, was notably featured at the same level of the other members.
* UnusualEuphemism:
** "Skin This Cat" is about an umm...special male body part. That or perhaps a special female body part.
** From "Whole New Way: ''So with everyone gone home, I got [[RagingStiffie your tail between my legs]].''
* VillainSong: "I Can't Decide" seems to be this, seeing as it's styled as a goofy love song but involves the singer plotting to murder the person he's singing to.
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