I’m an unabashed Scissor Sisters fan. I fucking love them. Like Gorillaz, Spice Girls, Pet Shop Boys, Human League, ABBA and the Bee-Gees before them, the Sisters are practitioners of a polished brand of pure pop perfection that makes it nearly impossible not to give into their music and sing along. The Scissor Sisters write pop hooks like nobody’s business. Their production is flawless, the musicianship as good as it gets. The put out albums with no filler. They’re here, they’re queer—well, some of them are, anyway—so why can’t they score a proper breakthrough in the US despite being massive superstars the rest of the world over?

And it’s not that they’re “too gay for America”—that doesn’t mean shit anymore. Why haven’t they had a hit record here? It boggles the mind. You’d figure that there’s about an 85% overlap between their fans and Lady Gaga’s in the rest of the globe. Just not in America. I can’t figure it out. Even the biggest grouch could find something to like in their bag of tricks. They’re the best pop band in the world right now and they get no respect at home.

Maybe things will change with the release of their latest single “Shady Love,” a sick collaboration with hot property Azealia Banks (performing under the pseudonym “Krystal Pepsy”). She really keeps Jake Shears on his game here. Sublime!

I’ve been playing this like crazy for the last week. “Shady Love” could be the first monster song of 2012. It’s about time for the Scissor Sisters to have a hit in America. They deserve it. The country deserves them!

Awesome “Shady Love” video directed by Hiro Murai.