🌟𝐌𝐓𝐕 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒: 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 & 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄🌟

Ssreenshot of the video MTV Supersonic 2004, edit by Olga

🌟𝐌𝐓𝐕 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒: 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 & 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄🌟
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On October 24th, 2004, Placebo played live at the MTV Studios in Milan. The show was broadcasted one week later by MTV Italia.

🎶 The 𝒔𝒆𝒕𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕 included 8 songs:
Taste in Men
The Bitter End
Black Eyed
Twenty Years
English Summer Rain
Special K
Pure Morning
Nancy Boy

Curious fact😉 According to the fan who attended the show as member of the FanClub "Placebo Italia", also 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐞 was played (just before Nancy Boy), but the band went wrong with the lyrics and the song wasn't added to the broadcasting. Well, happens🙂

Brian, Stef and Steve Hewitt were interviewed right before the live show. They talked about their approach to the old stuff, recording of their first album, pop music they like to listen and their then new single Twenty Years.
To make it easier for you, I transcribed some excerpts of the interview. But of course, I’d recommend you to watch it all because it’s really nice and funny.

Screenshot of the video MTV Supersonic 2004

𝑰’𝒗𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆-𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔…
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: You know, it’s important thing to stress that as soon as you release a song it ceases to be your story, you know, and it becomes other people’s story, so you’re kind of free of it, so it’s kind of like an exorcism. And that’s fine because often you write songs for reasons, you know, it’s done. Songs are sometimes uncomfortable for you, but the big discomfort basically is all about the relationship that you have with your own art, particularly your early work. Some bands’ early work is their best, some bands get much much better throughout their career. I’d say we’re in the second category. And so, when you look back at those songs it’s often sort of like going to the house where you’re used to be living with your parents and going to your bedroom and finding a box of the bad poetry that you wrote when you were a teenager and then you start to read it again. Of course, the way that you relate to these songs is completely different to the way that other people, the people who love them, the people who had experiences to them – their first kiss, their first party, the first time they got drunk or their first sense of identity - when they listen to these songs they kind of emerge, and they have a different relationship to these songs. Ours is a far far more critical one and uncomfortable one than of people who genuinely love these songs, but then Placebo fans. But the positive thing about that is that what it does is that it forces you to continuously look forward and it forces you to continuously improve, which I think is basically, you know, the goal. […] That’s what I’m saying, you can’t sort of belittle the significance that they have, you know. It’s just important to point out that your relationship with them is completely different. When you look back you just look back at things when you go ‘well, I could have done this better’ or ‘I’m not very proud of that line’ or something like that. Unfortunately, it’s the cross that you have to bear as an artist. I really really doubt that Radiohead go back and listen to their first album. […] Listening to your own music is a bit like drinking your own sperm, you know…

𝑾𝒂𝒚 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒊𝒏 1996. 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒕…
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Yeah, strangely enough. I mean what’s strange about that record is that I think it was incredibly commercial. We’d kind of become less and less commercial with every album but somehow managed to sell more records, which I think is great. It seems that chasing this elusive pop hit isn’t necessary. Just keep doing what you think is correct at the time and put as much honesty as possible, and then people stay loyal to what you’re doing.

𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎?
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: What I remember, we were in Dublin in Ireland, so I remember drinking a lot of Guinness, a lot of fine Guinness, and putting on some weight because we drank so much Guinness but it was fun, it was good, yeah. Dublin is like the pub that stay open all day every day so a lot of black stuff was consumed. Oh, that’d be nice if I can get a pint of Guinness right now!
[…] It used to be a case that I refused to play any guitar that wasn’t older than me, the other guitars had to be really older! But now it’s getting a little bit difficult, you know (laugh) they’re as young as I used to be… now they have to be younger than me, you know. It’s just a way, there’re life changes…

𝑫𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔?
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: It’s just things that you do for fun, the whole point of doing them is that it’s not work. It’s kind of a vacation from your serious music. And you just try to have a laugh, try and enjoy it. Because you don’t write it, so you have a different relationship to it, you’re kind of a fan of the song as opposed to being the person who created the song so you can kind of have more carefree fun with it.

𝑨𝒏𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓?
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Yeah, Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler!

𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔?
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Oh, yeah!
𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞: Unfortunately, he’s serious! (laugh)

Post by Olga

Photo credit: screenshot of the video MTV Supersonic 2004, edit by Olga

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