𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗠𝗘 – 𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬

Today we celebrate the 22nd ♦️𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬♦️ of “Every you Every me”, a track which was written by Brian and his friend Paul Campion, frontman of AC Acoustics. It was released on January 25th 1999 as the third single from the album “Without you I'm nothing” and reached no. 11 in the UK Singles Chart. It also featured in the movie “Cruel Intentions” (see quote below) and therefore gained the attention of many people who haven't known Placebo before.

Screenshots from the video, edit by Silke

Two different versions of “Every you Every me” were released. One includes the single edit, a remix by The Scourge of the Earth and “Nancy Boy (Blue Amazon mix)” and the other consists of the studio version of the song and two remixes by Sneaker Pimps and Brothers in Rhythm.

There are also two different videos for “Every you Every me”. The first one is a compilation of live footage recorded at Brixton Academy during the “Without you I'm nothing“ world tour and was released in 1999 at the same time as the single was put out.

🎬 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗠𝗘 – 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢 (𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟵)
🎵 http://bit.ly/2SSBvbl 🎵

But there's also a second video from1998 that was originally planned to be released with the single but stayed buried in the band's archive instead because the management didn't want to publish it for unknown reasons. It was first shown on October 7th 2016 to mark the release date of the retrospective double album “A place for us to dream“ and it was also the intro music clip of the following “20 years of Placebo“ tour concerts. This previously unreleased video shows the band gambling in a casino before things go awry.

🎬 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗠𝗘 – 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗠𝗢 𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢 (𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟲)
🎵 https://bit.ly/2RTnQ2n 🎵

Screenshot from the video.

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗜𝗙𝗙𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢𝗦 📌
📢 “The live video was filmed at Brixton Academy. It was first time we used live footage. This song was the theme tune to the film ‘Cruel Intentions’, which was ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ transported to Upper West Side of New York. It’s a teen film. There’s another version where they intercut it with parts from the film. Even though I’m wearing a rather fetching John Richmond dress, which cost a lot of money, I still look silly. It’s one of my many fashion crimes I was guilty of early in our career.
This video’s also a bit of a cop-out, because we made another video, which didn’t involve performance. It was about twins and never got released. It was banned by management. So we had to pull one together from footage that we’d filmed at Brixton Academy.“
(“Once more with feeling“ DVD, 2004)

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚 📌
📢 “Who's it about? I'm not really too sure just yet. I think it's about a lot of people. Probably anybody... everybody who's had the displeasure of sleeping with me. (laughs) I want to stress that I said displeasure there.“ (laughs)
(Interview "Placebo In Conversation With Sally Stratton", August 1998)

📢 "I studied drama, I know the original [Dangerous Liaisons] and we watched it on the tour bus when they wanted to use our song. I said: 'If he doesn't die in the end, if it's a happy ending, we don't do it.' It's quite perverted and manipulative, so the theme of the song fits in quite well."
(Herald Sun, April 29th 1999)

Screenshot from the video.

Post by Silke