♦️𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘: 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐃𝐎𝐍’𝐓 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐔𝐒♦️

Exactly 23 years ago, on September 28th, 1998, 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐃𝐎𝐍’𝐓 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐔𝐒 was released as the second single from Placebo’s second studio album 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐈'𝐦 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠. It reached No. 5 in the UK singles chart.

💿 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐔𝐬 (𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨)
🎵 https://bit.ly/3zHMR3M 🎵

Photo credits: single covers; screenshots from the video / edit by Olga

𝑩𝑩𝑪 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 called You Don't Care About Us "a track that's propelled by an unstoppable, elastic bass line and that flips manically between wise, sighing despair and spitting adolescent rage. A song which feels like it had no choice but to be written and which is one of the rawest, most brilliant singles of the last decade."
(𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑂𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐹𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 (𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑒𝑠), 𝐵𝐵𝐶 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤, 2004)
There are two versions of the single released on 𝐂𝐃 as well as on 𝟕" 𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐲𝐥 (in the UK); one of them was also released on 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞 (in Europe).

⧫𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕⧫
𝐂𝐃𝟏/𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞:
You Don't Care About Us (Radio Edit)
20th Century Boy (T-Rex cover)
Ion

𝐂𝐃𝟐:
You Don't Care About Us
Pure Morning (Les Rhythmes Digitales Mix)
Pure Morning (Howie B Mix)

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐔𝐬 including its radio edit was produced by Steve Osborne, engineered by Adrian Bushby, mixed by Jake Davies, additional engineering - by Paul Corkett.
𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 for the single was done by the famous British photographer 𝑪𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒚. You can read more about her in my older post:
👉 https://bit.ly/3xaBm3j

Photo credit: .Vincent Bouchard 

Brian and Stef explained the meaning of the lyrics pretty well but the song is still open for interpretations.
Brian admits his tendency to destructive love and inability to keep his relationships...
📢 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: “‘You Don’t Care About Us’ is directed towards me, written from the point of view of someone who I used to be in a relationship with. There’s a line in it which says, ‘You’re in the wrong place / You’re in the back page’ which is often what I used to do - I used to imagine the end of these things just as they were starting. When you do that, you’re fucked from day one basically, but that’s often the way I used to conduct my relationships. I think I’m quite a misunderstood songwriter - all the bile and vitriol and wickedness people believe is directed by me towards other people, but they’re often directed from other people towards me and I’m being extremely self-critical.”
(𝑁𝑀𝐸, 𝐴𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡 1998)

📢 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: "It's about an ex-lover having a furious rant at me for not caring and being wrapped up in my own head. Unfortunately, that's how I used to conduct my relationships: I was always imagining the end just as it was beginning."
(𝐴.𝐹., 1998)

📢 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: It's the poppiest that we've ever been in our lives, it's sort of... it's got a really cheerful melody but it's quite a disturbing song.
𝐒𝐒: Disturbing in what way?
📢 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Well, it's kind of... it's sort of somebody ranting at me basically, it's sort of like an ex kind of telling me I'm crap at relationships really which is what all the mental masturbation's about in that song. But it has a total, total pop edge to it, it's kind of got that punk pop thing that 'Nancy Boy' had.
(𝐼𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑆𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑛, 𝐴𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡 1998)

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞: Many of the songs deal with sexuality and they seem to have different gender points of view. Is it just me or are these songs written like that?
📢 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: Definitely. That is the way Brian writes his lyrics sometimes. Like the song "You Don't Care About Us". That is taken from the point of view of somebody talking to Brian. As opposed to him talking to somebody else, actually somebody is asking him, 'This relationship is going wrong. You don't care about us, man.' (laughs) But other people translate it like the kids are going to the adults, 'You don't care about us!' It's weird. They are all coming from all different angles.
(𝐻𝑖𝑝 𝑂𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒, 𝑀𝑎𝑦 17, 1999)

Photo credit: LUZ Photo Agency

⭐ Official music 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎 for 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐔𝐬 portrays the band being thrown one by one into a tank full of sharks while a group of children stand by and watch. The clip was directed by 𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒏 𝑯𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒂𝒕 who also worked on music videos for Depeche Mode, Massive Attack, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Johnny Cash to name a few. Brian Molko, Stefan Olsdal and Steve Hewitt are mentioned as the writers of the script.
The video was filmed at the newly opened (in March 1997) 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐮𝐦 at night to not hinder its opening the next day. The shoot lasted 7 hours and the guys remember water being quite cold.

📍 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐮𝐦 (now - The Sea Life London Aquarium) is located on the ground floor of County Hall on the South Bank of the River Thames in central London, near the London Eye. It hosts about one million visitors each year.

🎥 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐔𝐬 (𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨)
🎵 https://bit.ly/3i9nfHn 🎵

The song was played live 68 times in 1998 to 2001, throughout the Without You I'm Nothing tour and the early stages of the Black Market Music tour.

As soon as it’s Tuesday and you’re used for watching a live performance in the evening, I’m leaving you with a great version of 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐔𝐬 recorded at the 𝐕𝐈𝐕𝐀 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞 event by the German music TV channel Viva Zwei.

🎥 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐔𝐬, 𝐕𝐈𝐕𝐀 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖
🎵 https://bit.ly/2TBeIDo 🎵

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