𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐈 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔: 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐛𝐲 𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐄

Dear soulmates,
Today, I’m going to start telling you about two great Placebo videos directed by 𝑷𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆́: Because I Want You, today, and Song To Say Goodbye, in my next post.
𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐈 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮 (𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨)
https://bit.ly/3twDXn9

The songs are both singles from Placebo’s fifth studio album 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐬, Because I Want You was released as the first single in the UK and Song To Say Goodbye in other countries.
In 2006, Placebo's management asked 𝑷𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆́ to write the scripts for both videos connected by a common idea. He wrote two scripts for Because I Want You and three for Song To Say Goodbye.

Now, I’d like to tell you a little bit about the director 𝑷𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆́ using an excerpt of the 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 "𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨. 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐬𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞" ("𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨. 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧") 𝐛𝐲 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬 (𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟗).

“Passionate about music, mostly contemporary, he dreamed of becoming a conductor. After graduating from the High School of Audiovisual Art where he studied cinematography and particularly, music for films, Philippe André changed his way for becoming a director. He vowed to watch two films a day for three years. Leaving school and having several documentaries done, including 'Brackets', based on texts by Samuel Beckett and William Burroughs, the young filmmaker started working at The Centre Pompidou where he collaborated with artists to create videos for their exhibitions. Later, he created logos and captions for the Planète Câble channel, then designed the visual stuff for the Paris Première TV channel.
He shot his first music video for Zazie for the song 'Larsen' followed by videos for Ann'So, Ute Lemper, Shakedown, Reminiscent Drive, Alain Chamfort and Emilie Simon. Then - thanks to the 'Under The Bridge' video for All Saints that won the Mobo Awards in 1998 - Philippe André embarked on a ‘British' career. The talented director was approached by such artists as Youssou N'Dour, Texas, Hooverphonic, Faithless, Roger Sanchez, Morcheeba.
Since then, the young man has worked mainly between London and Los Angeles. His first short film, The Rope, was selected for the short lists of many festivals such as the Los Angeles International Film Festival, The Big Apple New York Film Festival, and the San Francisco Independent Film Festival. The Rope won first prize at the Seattle International Film Festival.
Today, Philippe Andre lives between Paris, London, and Los Angeles.”

Screenshot from the video


By the way, the cover of 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞́’𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞 represents the scene of the Song to Say Goodbye video. I think, this only fact says how much he’s proud of this incredible work he did for Placebo.
 https://www.philippe-andre.com/

Back to the 𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐈 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔 video, the shooting took place at the club 𝑲𝑶𝑲𝑶 in Camden Town, London, on January, 24th, 2006, and a lot of real (and lucky!) Placebo fans were involved in this work. The song was played 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 to record enough material for editing the final version of the video. After that was done, the band played a short set that included 𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒔, 𝑫𝒓𝒂𝒈, 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑬𝒏𝒅, 𝑵𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒚 𝑩𝒐𝒚 and 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒐 𝑺𝒂𝒚 𝑮𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒃𝒚𝒆.
We all love “behind the scenes” shootings, don’t we, soulmates? As for Because I Want You, we can also enjoy one!
From it, we can get where Brian’s phrase "𝑵𝒐𝒘 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒐 𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒉𝒐𝒕 𝒃𝒂𝒕𝒉!" at the end of the video comes from. On the shooting day, some of the fans spent about ten hours nearby and at the club to be a part of the video! Brian was surely honest saying that he “𝒂𝒅𝒎𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒅𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏”

Screenshot from the video

𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐟 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐈 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮
 https://bit.ly/3stfMEE

We’ve also got another amazing “behind the scenes” piece - a homage video to Placebo fans created by Stefan’s (now) husband 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒏 called “𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨𝐨”. It perfectly shows all the variability of Placebo’s crowd and is a beautiful way to say “Thank you” to many many fans in particular. The video leaves no doubts that it was totally unforgettable experience!
Enjoy watching, dear soulmates!

Post by Olga