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"Getting Away with It" is the first single by the English band Electronic, which comprised Bernard Sumner of New Order, ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, and guesting vocalist Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys. 

It was first released in 1989.

Musically, Bernard Sumner wrote the verse and Johnny Marr wrote the chorus.

The lyrics, co-written by Tennant with Sumner, are a parody of Marr's Smiths partner Morrissey, and his public stereotyping as morose and masochistic (Pet Shop Boys would further satirise this trend on their 1990 song "Miserablism").

Morrissey, for his part, criticized the song in a 1991 interview, calling it "totally useless" and joking that the song had a "very apt title".

In a 2021 interview with Music Radar, Marr revealed that Chris Lowe also worked on the track, citing the bassline as his work. 

ABC and The The, Drummer David Palmer programmed the track's drums.

Two music videos were made for "Getting Away with It".

The first, directed by Chris Marker and produced by Michael Shamberg for European use in 1989, featured Sumner, Marr and Tennant in a studio environment miming to the single edit of the song.

Additional footage of Marker's muse Catherine Belkhodja, strolling among peacocks through Paris Zoo and also singing to the track, was left out.

The second video, shot in 1990, was made for the US release.

Sumner and Tennant appeared, alternately, against a series of coloured backgrounds, with artistic effects superimposed.

Two women's faces are also panned in close-up.

The later version is available on the 2006 Get the Message DVD.

Drawing in my style: Neil Tennant when he worked in Smash Hits magazine

Neil introduces "from Blackpool, Lancashire, the one and only Mr Chris Lowe" and breaks into laughter mid-song as Chris messes up and plays out of tune (proof that he's playing live lol). They both crack up as if it's just the two of them watching TV on a Sunday afternoon, as if the world isn't watching. "He can't remember the chords," Neil jokes and adds "We were NEVER being boring, particularly in the end."