Saturday, May 9, 2020

Placebo interview, Japan 1997


๐‡๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž!
๐“๐จ๐๐š๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ž ๐›๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐ž๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ž๐š๐ซ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐‰๐ฎ๐ง ๐Œ. ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐‰๐š๐ฉ๐š๐ง, ๐ฌ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐ž๐ฑ๐œ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž๐›๐จ ๐€๐ง๐ฒ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ.
๐“๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐œ๐ก ๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐จ ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐ž๐ฐ ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ ๐ ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐š๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž๐›๐จ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ซ๐ญ ๐ข๐ง ๐“๐จ๐ค๐ฒ๐จ, ๐‰๐š๐ฉ๐š๐ง, ๐จ๐ง ๐‰๐ฎ๐ง๐ž 19๐ญ๐ก, 1997 ๐š๐ญ ๐’๐ก๐ข๐›๐ฎ๐ฒ๐š ๐‚๐ฅ๐ฎ๐› ๐๐ฎ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐ซ๐จ ๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ฎ๐ž.
๐„๐ง๐ฃ๐จ๐ฒ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐๐ข๐ง๐ !
๐“๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž๐›๐จ ๐€๐ง๐ฒ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ ๐“๐ž๐š๐ฆ ❤️





♦️Placebo Interview (Excerpt) 1997♦️

With only one Japanese concert date for this summer, their show betrayed our expectations with a tough performance. After the show, in a very good mood, Brian greeted me with a hug and a shriek!

๐‡๐ž๐ฒ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง, ๐๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ก๐ฎ๐  ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ ๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ง๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ?
๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง ๐Œ๐จ๐ฅ๐ค๐จ: (laughs) I was quite drunk.

๐–๐ก๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐œ๐ก ๐š ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐จ๐?
๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง: The gig was just so great... Ah, (to the sofa) excuse me for laying down. My hangover is quite severe and this is our last interview, so I'll take it easy. (laughs)

๐“๐ก๐š๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐จ๐ค. ๐‹๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ง๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐š ๐ฅ๐จ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ ๐ข๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ค๐ž๐ '๐ค๐š๐ฐ๐š๐ข๐ข'.
๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง: What? What does that mean?

๐“๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ'๐ซ๐ž ๐œ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž.
๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง: Ah.. Thank you. (laughs) Someone also said 'Eat me!'

๐‘๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ? (๐ฅ๐š๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ฌ) ๐ƒ๐จ ๐Ÿ๐š๐ง๐ฌ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฐ๐š๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐š๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ'๐ซ๐ž ๐œ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž?
๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง: Yeah, before the band it really bothered me when someone called me cute. And recently I hear that I'm sexy? I think it's a strange thing. If you're in a rock band does it mean you're 'f*ckable'? Well, I understand it very much as a compliment. Perhaps if I were a journalist then maybe no one would say I was cute, but I guess being in a band means there's some other explanation.
Marilyn Manson is also considered sexy because of the band.
Ringo Starr is also considered sexy because of The Beatles.

๐’๐ญ๐ž๐Ÿ: It's unbelievable anyone thinks Noel Gallagher is cool or sexy. (laughs)

๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง: Yeah. He has an unibrow. (laughs)

๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ง ๐ฌ๐š๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ก๐š๐ญ๐ž '๐ฆ๐š๐œ๐ก๐จ-๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฌ'.
๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง: Because there is something very violent about the ideal role models of 'male-ness'. So I turned to a more feminine way of thinking.

๐–๐ก๐ฒ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐œ?
๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง: I was 16 when I started playing the guitar. At that time it was meant to be an escape for my increasingly lonely little world. Music was a way to turn that loneliness into something positive.

๐๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž๐›๐จ'๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐œ ๐๐จ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐š ๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ข๐ญ.
๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง: Absolutely. It's a way to place these feelings of loneliness into something, but in no way it's 100% all there.
I think a lot of the songs on our first album follow the same story.

๐˜๐ž๐ฌ, ๐ˆ ๐๐ž๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐œ ๐ซ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐š ๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ข๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง.
๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง: You got it. (laughs) If one is always happy and having fun, with balance in their lives, would they want to express that in some way? If such a person makes music, then it's just going to be happy and fun music. I wonder if that can be called a great work.

๐“๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž'๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ '๐‡๐š๐ง๐  ๐Ž๐ง ๐“๐จ ๐˜๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ˆ๐', "๐ˆ'๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ฅ๐ฒ...". ๐˜๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐๐š๐ฒ ๐š๐ฌ ๐ˆ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐ , ๐ˆ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐๐ž๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ƒ๐š๐ฏ๐ข๐ ๐๐จ๐ฐ๐ข๐ž'๐ฌ '๐‘๐จ๐œ๐ค ๐š๐ง๐ ๐‘๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐’๐ฎ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐๐ž'.
๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง: "Oh no, love, you're not alone!" It's a lovely song. Curiously, I was humming that same song today.
When I was writing the lyrics [for 'IQ'] I think at the time I was very easily hurt by others.

๐’๐จ ๐ญ๐จ๐๐š๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ž๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ?
๐๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง: Yeah, maybe I've gotten better.

Copyright credits to the original author of the text.
Interview translation credits: Jun M.
๐Ÿ“ธ Photo credits: Placebo backstage Tokyo,Japan June 1997 - Photographer unknown / Edit made by Rita.

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