🔷𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐀𝐋𝐁𝐔𝐌 𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐋𝐄𝐒🔷 part 2

Dear soulmates!
Today, we're going to continue discussing 🔷𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐀𝐋𝐁𝐔𝐌 𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐋𝐄𝐒🔷, so I prepered some quotes by 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇 regarding three latest Placebo studio records.

Photo credit: Trip Fontaine, 2009, album covers; edit by Olga

🟦𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐒🟦
📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: “I don’t know, it was the best album title that we can come up with. You always look for an album title which isn’t the name of one of the songs but we couldn’t really come up with one that we thought was strong enough in a way. So we went for Meds because it kind of seemed to represent the anesthesia that exists on this record. But I think as well we wanted to have an album title which was short because the other album titles have always been very long: Without You I’m Nothing, Sleeping With Ghosts, Once More With Feeling, you know… We just wanted something short, snappy – Meds – and something that anybody could say in any language.”
(𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑡, 𝑁𝑃𝐴 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑙+, 27.02.2006)

Photo credit: Nadav Kander

🟦𝐁𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐔𝐍🟦
📢𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: There have been a few track in Battle of the Sun. There were more songs in this album that we did, that ended up in the album. And for the first time, we had the title of the record very early on. Usually with Placebo, it’ll be like: “the album is going to be pressed tomorrow, we need a title for the record now”! And it’s like “sh*t, what are we going to do”? And then we panic! But for this album we already had the title quite early on which allowed the theme to evolved and to be looked at in more perspective throughout the recording process and that was different for us. It also helped with the artwork and the whole idea on what this whole album was about.
(𝐻𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 "𝐼𝑐𝑜𝑛: 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜'𝑠 𝐿𝑜𝑢𝑑 𝐿𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒", 𝑆𝑒𝑝'13)

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🟦𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄🟦
📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: “I wanted to call our last album "Speed of Sound" before Coldplay beat us to it with their single. So this time I scoured the internet to check that "Loud Like Love" had not already been used in a musical context which, to the best of my knowledge, it hasn't. I can't remember exactly when and where and why it came to me, but it was sometime during our first phase of writing. It occurred to me that an underlying theme was emerging. We stood at a turning point: were we to follow our instincts and recognize that this theme was a manifestation of our collective sub-conscience and have the courage to explore, in our own singular manner, the subject that remains the most explored in popular song? Or were we to embrace the intellectual and steer the album’s subject matter away from its natural course out of fear of appearing cliched? Thankfully we chose the former and never once questioned that choice. And the results have exceeded our own expectations.”
(𝐵𝐾 "𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜", 𝐴𝑢𝑔'13)

Photo credit: Joseph Llanes

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