Pet Shop Boys have denied that a track from their new album, 'Elysium,' is specifically about Lady Gaga.

The British pop duo, who performed with the Born This Way superstar at the 2009 BRIT Awards, have sparked rumours that the song, 'Ego Music,' is inspired by Gaga because of the way it sends up today’s self-obsessed pop acts.

But frontman Neil Tennant told Attitude magazine: "It's not specifically about Lady Gaga, it's about the modern pop star. Pop music is very ego-driven these days.

“The modern pop lyric is like a diary almost. In other words, people don't imagine, they just say what it is... A lot of lines [in the song] are direct quotes from what people say in interviews. 'I am my own demographic' is a direct quote."

The 58-year-old also admitted that he’s disappointed with the lack of lyrical imagination in today’s pop scene:

"If you look at the lyrics that Boy George wrote in Culture Club, or even Adam Ant and Gary Numan - 'Are "Friends" Electric?' - and compare that, or 'Karma Chameleon' with a contemporary pop song, they don't have the artistry or the imagination or the sense of metaphor. It's like it hasn't even occurred to anyone to have that."