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📢 “Very powerful words that conjure up so many strong emotions. From something that can be very happy to something that can be very destructive, disturbing and difficult.”
𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗧 𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗚𝗘𝗧 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠?
📢 “Excitement and joy, pleasure and comfort, and, hopefully, some things to make them feel, as well as sounds and songs to make them contemplative.
There are a lot of emotions and colour in this record. It’s both emotional and exciting at the same time.”
𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗗𝗜𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗖𝗛𝗢𝗢𝗦𝗘 '𝗧𝗢𝗢 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗬 𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗦' 𝗔𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 “𝗟𝗢𝗨𝗗 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘”?
📢 “It just kind of shows itself. (The song) just seemed to present itself from the way it starts with the piano, which... reminds us of the epic pop songs of the 1980s, like Total Eclipse Of The Heart, and then, with the big chorus, it just seemed to be the obvious single for us.”
𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗕𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗡 𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗨𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬?
📢 “I have a few other projects with friends. I like to make music for fun, to write, record and make videos for a transvestite here in London.
I’m also starting to work and produce a Spanish female recording artist.
These are things that I like to have on the side, in order for me to have a more objective perspective on Placebo, which is my main driving force.”
𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜𝗦 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗙𝗔𝗩𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗘 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘𝗕𝗢 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗙 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘?
📢 “'Bosco', the last track off the new record. The song that, for me, kind of transcends what I never expected Placebo to do.”
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𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗗 𝗢𝗙 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗖 𝗗𝗢 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗡 𝗧𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗦𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬𝗦?
📢 “Music without distorted guitars, that doesn’t resemble what we do.
It has to be contemplative, modern, piano music. Classical piano. Players like Nils Frahm from Germany and Olafur Arnalds from Iceland.
Just music that takes me away from conventional pop structures or rock music, or music with lyrics. I find that it gives me a break, and refreshes and restores my musical brain.
Otherwise, if I listen to the same type of music all the time, I would feel saturated.”
𝗪𝗜𝗟𝗟 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗕𝗘 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗬𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔𝗡𝗬 𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗔𝗟𝗕𝗨𝗠 𝗔𝗧 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘?
📢 “We’d like for people to hear the new songs when the record comes out, rather than on a badly recorded YouTube clip that someone had filmed at the concert, so we’re not going to play that many songs from the new record. But there will be a few.
Then, as always, we will try to choose a set list that we feel we can connect with emotionally and, at the same time, try to play some songs that have been crowd favourites in the past.”
(The Straits Times, August 2013)
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