Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Placebo interview - Portugal 2001

๐‘พ๐’† ๐’‚๐’“๐’† ๐’—๐’†๐’“๐’š ๐’‰๐’‚๐’‘๐’‘๐’š ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’ˆ๐’“๐’‚๐’•๐’†๐’‡๐’–๐’ ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’ˆ๐’†๐’๐’†๐’“๐’๐’”๐’Š๐’•๐’š ๐’๐’‡ ๐’๐’–๐’“ ๐’”๐’๐’–๐’๐’Ž๐’‚๐’•๐’† ๐‘ฑ๐’–๐’ ๐‘ด. ๐’‡๐’“๐’๐’Ž ๐‘ฑ๐’‚๐’‘๐’‚๐’, ๐’˜๐’‰๐’ ๐’‚ ๐’‡๐’†๐’˜ ๐’…๐’‚๐’š๐’” ๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’ ๐’”๐’‰๐’‚๐’“๐’†๐’… ๐’†๐’™๐’„๐’๐’–๐’”๐’Š๐’—๐’†๐’๐’š ๐’˜๐’Š๐’•๐’‰ ๐‘ท๐’๐’‚๐’„๐’†๐’ƒ๐’ ๐‘จ๐’๐’š๐’˜๐’‚๐’š ๐’”๐’๐’Ž๐’† ๐’Š๐’๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’—๐’Š๐’†๐’˜๐’” ๐’‡๐’“๐’๐’Ž ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’†๐’‚๐’“๐’๐’š ๐’š๐’†๐’‚๐’“๐’” ๐’๐’‡ ๐‘ท๐’๐’‚๐’„๐’†๐’ƒ๐’, ๐’˜๐’‰๐’Š๐’„๐’‰ ๐’‰๐’Š๐’Ž๐’”๐’†๐’๐’‡ ๐’•๐’“๐’‚๐’๐’”๐’๐’‚๐’•๐’†๐’… ๐’‡๐’“๐’๐’Ž ๐‘ฑ๐’‚๐’‘๐’‚๐’๐’†๐’”๐’†. ๐‘ฉ๐’†๐’๐’๐’˜ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’„๐’‚๐’ ๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’… ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’‡๐’Š๐’“๐’”๐’• ๐’๐’๐’† ๐’๐’‡ ๐’•๐’‰๐’๐’”๐’† ๐’Š๐’๐’•๐’†๐’“๐’—๐’Š๐’†๐’˜๐’”.
๐‘พ๐’† ๐’‰๐’๐’‘๐’† ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’†๐’๐’‹๐’๐’š ๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’Ž ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’๐’๐’„๐’† ๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’‚๐’Š๐’, ๐’•๐’‰๐’‚๐’๐’Œ ๐’š๐’๐’– ๐’”๐’ ๐’Ž๐’–๐’„๐’‰ ๐’…๐’†๐’‚๐’“ ๐‘ฑ๐’–๐’!! ✌๐Ÿป❤️
๐‘ป๐’‰๐’† ๐‘ท๐’๐’‚๐’„๐’†๐’ƒ๐’ ๐‘จ๐’๐’š๐’˜๐’‚๐’š ๐‘ป๐’†๐’‚๐’Ž ๐‘ฟ๐‘ฟ๐‘ฟ


*๐‘ต๐’๐’•๐’†: This interview is from an archived Japanese fan site. Please be aware that a lot of things may have been lost in translation seeing it may have been translated from Portuguese to English to Japanese and now back to English! I couldn't find the source, but if anyone knows, contact me.


♦️๐™‹๐™‡๐˜ผ๐˜พ๐™€๐˜ฝ๐™Š ๐™„๐™‰๐™๐™€๐™๐™‘๐™„๐™€๐™’ - ๐™„๐™ฃ ๐™‹๐™ค๐™ง๐™ฉ๐™ช๐™œ๐™–๐™ก (2001)♦️
๐ƒ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ก ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐š๐ข๐ง. ๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ž๐ฅ ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฌ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ?
๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง: They're things that you live with and also can't escape from. They're a part of life.
๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐Ÿ๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฆ?
๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง: Of course. But it's not worth it to fear pain. It's something you have to experience sooner or later. Death... You definitely can't run away from it either. I mean, I try not to think too much about the fear [of these things] itself. You have to live in the present and treasure life.
๐’๐จ, ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐š๐Ÿ๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ?
๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง: Prison.
๐‡๐ฎ๐ก?
๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง: Getting locked up, having your freedom stolen, that kind of power is bullsh*t.
๐‡๐ฆ, ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ข-๐š๐ฎ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ก๐ฒ?
๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง: That's my personal opinion... Maybe it's some trauma from my childhood. (laughs)
๐ˆ ๐ฐ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐š๐ฌ๐ค ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐›๐š๐ง๐ ๐ง๐š๐ฆ๐ž. ๐ƒ๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐›๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ฏ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž๐›๐จ ๐ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐œ๐ญ?
๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง: Definitely! I recently heard a story about someone who cured themselves of cancer by sheer willpower... To be able to rule the body with the power of the mind is ideal. It's miraculous to have something happen just by concentrating on it. I personally think it's tremendous to have the power to be so confident in yourself…
๐ˆ๐ฌ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐Ÿ๐ข๐๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ๐ฌ?
๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง: It's pretty much the same.
๐˜๐จ๐ฎ'๐ฏ๐ž ๐›๐ž๐ž๐ง 5 ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ ๐š๐ฅ ๐š๐ฅ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐๐ฒ. ๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ?
๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง: Hm... A long distance relationship.
๐‡๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐จ๐?
๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง: Yes, of course. Wherever we go, we try that place's local food. We're quite open in that aspect. We're different from King Richard who refused to eat any food that wasn't English.
๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐š๐ฏ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐จ๐?
๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง: Meat.
๐ƒ๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐š ๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐š๐ซ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ก?
๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง: MEAT!
๐’๐ญ๐ž๐Ÿ๐š๐ง: Portugal is still one of the few countries where you can have high quality meat.
๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง: Great! I love meat! Bring us lots of meat! (laughs)
๐‹๐ž๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐ ๐จ ๐›๐š๐œ๐ค ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐จ๐ฉ๐ข๐œ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค... ๐€๐ซ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐จ๐ง ๐š ๐ง๐ž๐ฐ ๐š๐ฅ๐›๐ฎ๐ฆ?
๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง: We're not 'working' on a new album. But we're writing songs... To us, to work on an album means something more along the lines of recording in the studio.
๐๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ค ๐Œ๐š๐ซ๐ค๐ž๐ญ ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐œ ๐ฆ๐š๐๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐š ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐œ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐›๐š๐ง๐…
๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง: I wouldn't say that, it just made us more famous? ... No!
๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ.
๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง: Sold well, huh? (laughs) To say it sold well means it sold much, much more.
Does the question mean that because the album sold well automatically we've turned into a commercial band? It was only the result of the last 7 years of activity and touring. We haven't stopped creating powerful sounds.
๐‹๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ, ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฆ?
๐’๐ญ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž: To be like Sting, he's my ideal man.
(laughs)
Copyright credits to the original author of the text.
Interview translation credits: Jun M.
Source: https://bit.ly/2VhXGbx
๐Ÿ“ธ Photo credits: Karin Catt

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