How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?

"How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?"
US CD single cover
Single by Pet Shop Boys
from the album Behaviour
A-side"Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You)"
B-side"Bet She's Not Your Girlfriend"
Released11 March 1991 (1991-03-11)
GenreNew jack swing
Length
  • 3:55 (album version)
  • 4:10 (single version)
LabelParlophone
Songwriters
Producers
Pet Shop Boys singles chronology
"Being Boring"
(1990)
"Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You)" / "How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?"
(1991)
"Jealousy"
(1991)
Music video
"How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?" on YouTube

"How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?" is a song by English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys from their fourth studio album, Behaviour (1990). It was released in the United Kingdom on 11 March 1991 as a double A-side with "Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You)", serving as the third single from Behaviour. For the single, Brothers in Rhythm remixed the track. The song was released as a solo single in the United States and France; it peaked at number 93 on the US Billboard Hot 100.