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| Photo credit: Screenshots from the video, edit by Silke |
“For what it's worth” was one of the first songs that Brian and Stefan wrote for the album “Battle for the sun”. Brian started to work on it in the tour bus on the way between New York and Boston because he was so bored and wanted to do something creative. But according to him it's a song that is “infused with a kind of lust for life”. Brian also said that he hoped it would be an euphoric dancefloor experience.
He was aware from the start that there's a line in the lyrics that could easily be misinterpreted. But “your God-shaped hole” is not about a vagina as many fans may think. Instead it is about the hole that everyone is carrying in their soul and which they fill with different things (see quotes below).
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๐ข "It's got this real kind of Stax-esque, bluesy horn section on it, which makes sense to us because we grew up listening to Motown as much as we did listening to disco. It excites us too, the idea of freaking out the hardcore Goths, that part of our fan base."
(Big Cheese, 2009)
๐ข "'Come on lay with me / 'cause I'm on fire'? Do you need me to write that down for you, man? Perhaps the sexuality is more subtle; it's not coming at you in terms of a transvestite on crystal meth."
(J Mag Australia, 2009)
“๐ข I already sensed this line [your God-shaped hole tonight] would be open for interpretations. But it’s not about vaginas or other specific orifices of the body.” His hands are meanwhile forming a circle, he pauses, “why am I doing this right now?” Stefan blames the Freudian subconscious. “No, the expression aims on the hole everyone carries in their souls. A lot of people fill it with God, Jesus, religion, others with humans, drugs or alcohol. It’s the little piece of you which is missing. The place of birth of all desires and all wishes and emotions – that’s what it relates to for me, but already when I wrote it, I was sure most people would understand it sexually. For me, the song is about the libidinous party of life. That’s not sexual, but rather like embracing the universe.” This image of the libido surprises everyone and goes under in collective snorting. “That’s as well a way to push your buttons before intercourse” Stefan giggles. But the piece didn’t come out of emotional or erotic tension, but: “Boredom, the most boring six hours of bus ride between New York and Boston. I was so annoyed that I wrote the song out of frustration.”
(Sonic Seducer, 2009)
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๐ข ๐ฆ๐๐ฒ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ป: “We worked with one of our favourite video directors, Howard Greenhalgh, who has been working with us for a long time. He has done loads of stuff for us including 'Nancy Boy', 'Bruise Pristine' and 'The Bitter End', so we had a long relationship with him that enabled us to feel more relaxed, especially now we are introducing a new member to the public. We wanted it to be quite performance based and the tags were basically about the fact that sometimes what you see, is not what is real. We wanted to play with that. People like to portray themselves as something that is completely the opposite of what is inside of them. With the lyrics, Brian describes them as being quite optimistic but if you listen to them on face value, "got no friends, got no lover", it's like "shit, you're in the gutter" but to him the song is like a celebration of life. It's that dichotomy of what you see and what you hear not always being what is actually there.“
๐ข ๐ฆ๐๐ฒ๐๐ฒ ๐.: “You can take a photo and it can be two people, they can be hanging out and happy but if you put a label on, it completely changes the whole meaning of it. It could be like "cunt". My favourite bit is the guy with the suitcase walking to work and it's like "detonation". It's brilliant.“
(Clic Music, April 2009)
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