๐ฐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐,
๐ฐ๐ ๐ฐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ , ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ …”
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| Placebo live at Terminal in New York City, USA, 2013. Photo credit ubknow |
Today we’re going to talk about probably the most misunderstood song from the album ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ข๐ค๐ ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐, ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐. The first two verses contain a weird list of wrong, stupid, ugly actions, and only in the latest lines the whole true meaning of the song is revealed to an attentive listener.
๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ explains it shortly and accurately.
๐ข“Rob the Bank” is not about financial crisis. It’s about obsession and jealousy, very carnal, primal obsession and jealousy.
(๐๐ข๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ "๐&๐ด: ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐'๐ ๐ต๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐", ๐๐๐'13)
๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ admits that he also needed Brian’s interpretation first to get the song correctly.
๐พ๐๐๐’๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ‘๐น๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐’?
๐ขI understand why it’s misunderstood; a lot of people take it on face value thinking it’s about the economic crisis but the story of that which Brian had to explain to me before I could understand really. It is a list of quasi-illegal acts (like sort of criminal things like robbing the bank for example, if you do that you can get arrested) the song is basically a list of bad things and bad actions that the person is doing but the person who’s singing basically says I don’t care what you do or the kind of person you are, just as long as the end of the day you just get home and f*ck me.
(๐ต๐๐๐๐ค๐๐๐๐.๐๐ ๐๐, ๐ผ๐๐ก๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ค: ๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐ด๐ข๐๐ข๐ ๐ก 2013)
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Placebo live at Termnal 5 in New York City, USA, 2013. Photo credit: The Artistree.fm |
๐ฝAn ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ (alternate director version) for Rob The Bank, directed by Diego Contreras and Dave Ramirez and produced by Anders Hedberg, deals with the ๐๐๐ณ๐ข ๐๐๐ซ๐ค ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ค๐๐ฒ. In the early summer of 2013, three and a half million people took to the streets across Turkey over a three-week period to protest Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian policies.
The protests were triggered by government building plans in Gezi Park, the small green area on the edge of Taksim Square in Istanbul. Erdogan wanted to demolish the park to build a replica of the Ottoman-era Taksim Military Barracks that would include a shopping mall. But local environmental protests immediately grew into a large opposition movement.
The price of people’s hopes for a different society, civil rights and freedom was high: twenty-two people were killed and more than 8,000 injured.
Who would have doubted Placebo supporting Gezi movement!
๐In fact, ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ค have nothing to do with the Turkish protests but the concept of the video fits quite well the basic idea behind the song. A selfish blind jealousy of one person towards another echoes in some way a disrespectful, violent neglecting of human rights by the political regime.
๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐จ - ๐๐จ๐ ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ค (๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐)
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| Placeb at Terminal 5, USA, 2013 1. Photo credit unknown |
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Rob the bank
Of England and America.
Rob the bank
Of the entire Eurozone
Robe the bank
Of Mexica and Canada.
Rob the bank
Then take me home.
Take me home
To make love.
Rob the bank,
Make the joke out of dyslexia.
Rob the bank,
Then pick your nose.
Robe the bank
Paint a picture of the swastika.
Robe the bank
Then take me home.
Take me home
To make love.
And if ever I suspect that in your head
you're somewhere else you are thinkin'
or maybe you don't think of me at all
and if ever you conspire to woo another
I will not be forsaken
beware the very hell and all its fury,
if I am scorned, scorned
Rob the bank in Luxemburg and Monaco
Rob the bank in Lichtenstein and Rome
Rob the bank pick the biggest vault in Moscow
Rob the bank then take me home
Then take me home
and make love
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