๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐ - ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐๐̧๐๐๐ ๐ต https://bit.ly/3ALV9Zw ๐ต
๐ธThe song was written during a soundcheck at Leipzig on their first German tour in October 1996, and was one of the first songs to be written for the album, along with ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐ .
The lyrics written in English by ๐ต๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ were adapted into French by ๐๐๐โ๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐๐๐๐๐ก and it is this version that was released as a single exclusively in France under the title ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐๐̧๐๐๐. Lyrics are quite similar to the original version.
Inspired by his difficult adolescence in Luxembourg, ๐ต๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ paints a portrait of an outsider living in a bland country.๐ธ
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| Photo credit: Corinne Day, single cover, edit by Laetitia |
Nicholas Elliot is a director, actor and writer. He was born in Massachusetts (USA) in 1974 and grew up in France and Luxembourg.
He translated Burger Queen into French for his friend Brian Molko and hds also done visuals for Placebo concerts. He collaborated with Brian on shorts films (Sue's Last Ride)
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Toujours stupรฉfiรฉ par ce manque de direction
Hey you, hey you
Nรฉ ร la cรฉsarienne sa premiรจre opรฉration
Hey you, hey you
Ses habits avantagent sa pรขle complexion
Hey you, hey you
Et maintenant tant d'efforts pour une si simple รฉrection
Hey you
Mรฉfiez-vous des apparences
Ca n'a aucun sens
Mรฉfiez-vous des apparences
Ca n'a aucun sens
Il drague en boรฎte et il cherche sa connexion
Hey you, hey you
Pas trop de jouissance mais pas mal d'affection
Hey you, hey you
Il rรชve d'un endroit ร la plus belle sรฉlection
Hey you, hey you
Et toujours tant d'efforts pour une si simple รฉrection
Hey you
Mรฉfiez-vous des apparences
Ca n'a aucun sens
Mรฉfiez-vous des apparences
Ca n'a aucun sens
Mรฉfiez-vous des apparences
Ca n'a aucun sens
Things aren't what they seem
Luxemburger Queen
He's a Burger Queen
Toujours stupรฉfiรฉ par ce manque de direction
Hey you, hey you
Nรฉ ร la cรฉsarienne sa premiรจre opรฉration
Hey you, hey you
Rรชve d'un endroit ร la plus belle sรฉlection
Hey you, hey you
Rรชve d'un visage ร la pure perfection
Hey you
Things aren't what they seem
Luxemburger Queen
Luxemburger Queen
Luxemburger Queen
He's a Burger Queen
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๐ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ป๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ป๐ฐ๐ป๐ณ๐ฌ ๐
Burger Queen is a play on words between the name of the famous fast food chain Burger King, the word queen and the Luxembourg where Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal spent their teenage years.
"Yeah, we did a song. A new song that will be on the new album, which is called Burger Queen. It's a pun on Burger King and it also means Luxembourger queen. The queer from Luxembourg. It is a very sad story. The character in this song is in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's one of the worst things to be in the wrong place. He is homosexual, he is goth, he's on heroin and he lives in Luxembourg. These are four things you can have in your life ... No. I'm not saying that being homosexual is bad. It's the worst place where you can be all of those things. It makes us cry to listen to this song and play it."
(๐ต๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ - ๐ต๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ค, 1997)
๐ ๐น๐ฌ๐ณ๐ฌ๐จ๐บ๐ฌ๐บ ๐
* ๐ป๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐:
_๐๐ช๐ด๐ณ๐ต_
Burger Queen Franรงais
Aardvark
Evey You Every Me live from the End Session on April 10, 1999.
Discogs: https://bit.ly/3EWqpHP
_๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ_
Burger Queen Franรงais
Pure Morning video
Discogs https://bit.ly/3m1jzbb
* ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ (๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ / ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐)
Burger Queen Franรงais
Aardvark
Evey You Every Me live from the End Session on April 10, 1999.
'Notes: This limited edition single (5000 copies) contains a new version of 'Burger Queen' with vocals re-recorded in French. Along with the title track you'll find 2 other previously unreleased songs, 'Aardvark' and a live rendition of 'Every You Every Me' which was recorded for KNDD - Seattle radio.' (๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ค๐๐๐๐)
Discogs https://bit.ly/3EZ83G2 / https://bit.ly/39QnAJQ
* ๐ท๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
Burger Queen Franรงais
The Crawl (Live Version Radio 21)
Discogs https://bit.ly/3ATBXZW
Discogs https://bit.ly/3ATBXZW
*๐พ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฐ'๐ ๐ต๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐
A special edition of the album inlulding the Burger Queen Franรงais in card sleeve
Discogs https://bit.ly/3zPvTjB
"I've always been a loner. The three of us were, we spent our teenage years locked in our rooms, playing music. And like many boys of that age, I dreamed of becoming a star. A city like Luxembourg can be stifling when you are trying to create an identity. I couldn't be myself there. I felt isolated, far from the places I wanted to be. There was no place where I could express myself, find an echo. From this isolation I made songs, Teenage Angst or Burger Queen, because it inevitably turned me into a voyeur. Which is not the most enviable position to observe the world."
(๐ต๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ ๐°169 14 ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐ 1998)
๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐จ๐ง: Maybe your European upbringing allows you to get away with lyrics that you wouldn't have dared use if you'd been brought up speaking English in the UK or America. I'm thinking especially of those rhymes in 'Burger Queen'...
๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง: That's the whole point of a song like 'Burger Queen' sort of like structurally or if you're talking about it from a musical standpoint. The whole point of that song is to use a cheesy rhyme but to use words like infection, you know, connection, erection, you know. So it's subverting the cheesiness. It's like putting fuck and baby in the same verse.
๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐จ๐ง: : I bet it's also the first time caesarean section's been used in a pop song!
๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง: I know, I'm so, so proud of that. I'm so proud of that one. (laughs)
๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐จ๐ง: : Is that song based on a real person?
๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ง: No, that one's kind of more of a story really. It's kind of about being in the wrong place at the wrong time you know and I guess you just finally... since we kind of grew up in Luxembourg - finally since we've written a song about it we can kind of forget about it now. But you know I think it's just... the play on Burger King, Burger Queen, Luxemburger, just kind of you know amused me when I first came up with it and along with 'My Sweet Prince' I think it's one of the saddest songs, but really beautiful, that we've written. I think there's a real beauty in our sadness you know when it goes down there there's something in it that really pulls at your heart, you know, and I don't know how we really achieve it but it's there. There always seems to be a tiny bit of hope at the end of it as well which is important."
(๐ต๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐ผ๐ ๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ ๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐ค๐๐กโ ๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐ก๐๐๐ก๐ก๐๐, ๐ด๐ข๐๐ข๐ ๐ก 1998)
"It's really the worst you could ever be. A goth, gay and on smack in the worst place, Luxembourg. It's so sad."
(๐ต๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐๐๐ก, ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ 1997)
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| Photo credit: Corinne Day |
When they performed ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐๐̧๐๐๐ ๐๐ก ๐ฟ'๐ด๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฟ๐ข๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐ข๐๐ 29, 1999, Brian introduced the song with this statement:
"How many of you've ever seen ''Twin Peaks''? Funny thing about ''Twin Peaks'' is that it all looks really nice from the outside. And underneath... There's a lot of nasty shit going on. I've always felt that way about Luxembourg. It looks really nice, there's always weird shit going on underneath. You know what I mean, you know? I always thought if you're gay in Luxembourg it must've been really tough, you know? And if you're goth it must've been even tougher, you know? So, this is the song about living in Luxembourg.”
"Burger Queen" fallen into oblivion since the English tour of September 1998. The song is telling a story of an imaginary gay, goth, addicted and lost character wandering alone in the streets of Luxembourg city and is sung tonight in French! Imagine Brian making the audience repeat "Mรฉfiez-vous des apparences / รa n'a aucun sens" and the crowd pointing the fingers at Brian and Stefan at each "Hey you"
(๐ฟ๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐๐, ๐ฝ๐ข๐๐ 1999)๐ธ
๐ฅ ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐ - ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐๐̧๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ณ'๐จ๐๐๐๐๐๐ (1999)
๐ตhttps://bit.ly/3ANURBc๐ต
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