The band put out a brief for the music video around e-waste and singer Brian Molko got talking to director Sasha Rainbow.
"I called her up to sound her out and discovered that I was speaking to a very brave and passionate woman," he said. “I told her that she had balls of steel for actually daring to go film on location in Ghana and that, no, we would not be coming, since we were timid little souls."
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Watch the new video for 'Life’s What You Make It'
Directed by Sasha Rainbow.
Filmed on Location at Agbogbloshie, the world's largest e-waste dump.
VEVO - http://vevo.ly/kDHejI
US & Canada - https://youtu.be/33zJnIku5F4
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The Bitter End of UK's E-Waste Safari Exploitation
Look, Brian Molko is closer to being the richest rock star than Agbogbloshie is to being the largest e-waste dump, but that's irrelevant. My point is that good people - Ghana's Tech Sector and Brian Molko - can get thrust into conflict through misinformation and misunderstanding, and no one has to get bent out of shape. It's dialectic. I know more about the band, and at the end they'll know more about Ghana, and the UK Press portrayal of its slums (no chaps,it isn't about you).
So for the benefit of Placebo fans, it's ok to enjoy the video. The camerawork is some of the best I've seen there (a little cheating with extra gasoline of the fires). But below is a quick Q and A about Agbogbloshie, the myths and the facts. Everything stated below has been the subject of many blogs. [...]
It seems that not everyone is happy with the new Placebo video and the message behind.
Read more:
http://bit.ly/2sO4voc
Sasha answer to the article was: "To be clear, none of what he has posted is true. Everybody was paid and in fact we placed the boys into a boarding school so they now have a bed, shelter, education and food everyday.
We worked closely with the secretary of the slum union of Ghana (a former resident of Agbogbloshie and now a close friend) to make this video and the documentary. I have been advised not to respond to this man, Robin, as apparently he likes to cause trouble online around this subject.
He has been contacting the people from the video (who I am in contact with still) offering them $20,000 for god knows what, which I think is deeply upsetting considering these people live in real poverty."
Photos: Sasha Rainbow
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The Bitter End of UK's E-Waste Safari Exploitation
Look, Brian Molko is closer to being the richest rock star than Agbogbloshie is to being the largest e-waste dump, but that's irrelevant. My point is that good people - Ghana's Tech Sector and Brian Molko - can get thrust into conflict through misinformation and misunderstanding, and no one has to get bent out of shape. It's dialectic. I know more about the band, and at the end they'll know more about Ghana, and the UK Press portrayal of its slums (no chaps,it isn't about you).
So for the benefit of Placebo fans, it's ok to enjoy the video. The camerawork is some of the best I've seen there (a little cheating with extra gasoline of the fires). But below is a quick Q and A about Agbogbloshie, the myths and the facts. Everything stated below has been the subject of many blogs. [...]
It seems that not everyone is happy with the new Placebo video and the message behind.
Read more:
http://bit.ly/2sO4voc
Sasha answer to the article was: "To be clear, none of what he has posted is true. Everybody was paid and in fact we placed the boys into a boarding school so they now have a bed, shelter, education and food everyday.
We worked closely with the secretary of the slum union of Ghana (a former resident of Agbogbloshie and now a close friend) to make this video and the documentary. I have been advised not to respond to this man, Robin, as apparently he likes to cause trouble online around this subject.
He has been contacting the people from the video (who I am in contact with still) offering them $20,000 for god knows what, which I think is deeply upsetting considering these people live in real poverty."
Photos: Sasha Rainbow
Visit our page on Facebook
#Placebo #PlaceboAnyway #Placebo20 #20yearsofPlacebo #BrianMolko#Molko #StefanOlsdal #PlaceboFans #soulmates #PlaceboWorld #lyrics#Placebolyrics #Placebosongs #songs #goodmusic
