❗💠"𝐅𝐔𝐂𝐊 𝐔"💠❗

𝐴 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑜 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑒, 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑠, 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑑 ...
𝑆𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒, 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙-𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑥𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡.
𝑁𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑, 𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑎 𝑔𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑜, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑎 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑐𝑢𝑡, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔.

💠𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 "𝐅𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐔"
https://bit.ly/2YekFbW

Photo credit: Placebo - Audrey Cerdan, Archive - unknown / edit: by Marti

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑎 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 - 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛'𝑠 𝑣𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑠.
𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝑖𝑓 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙, 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝐼 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙.

The original song from the band 𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐕𝐄 was released on the album "𝐍𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐞" in 2004. The song "Fuck U" aroused huge interest, but this whole album was really great.
However, like many of you, I got to know this song only from the performance by the band Placebo which released it on the single Ashtray Heart in 2009.

💠🎶𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞 "𝐅𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐔" 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧
https://bit.ly/3pYVw0d

💠🎶𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞 "𝐅𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐔" 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟖
https://bit.ly/2ZVX1l4

Photo credit: Torsten Roman

What desire made Brian include this cover on Placebo single?
In truth - I don't know and I can only assume ... Based on my curiosity, I immersed myself in the search for why this song was written and whether this reason may be important to Placebo.
My finding was not surprising at all...

💠𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎:
The alternative rock band Archive, playing electronic rock with an overlap to trip hop, was founded in London in 1994. The first album "Londinium" was released in 1996. Very similar to Placebo, see? But there are even more similarities ...

The band is still based on two lifelong friends - Danny Griffiths and Darius Keeler. The line-up of the other members of the band has changed several times during more than 25 years of existence. The Archive has released a total of 11 albums so far and they are still an active creative band. Their albums are definitely worth listening to and if you don't know them, you can enrich your favorite music repertoire.

Already the first album Londinium garnered very good criticism. But still, this band always celebrated their greatest success outside the United Kingdom, the most popular they are in the rest of Europe, especially in France (oh, again a resemblance to Placebo :-))
The band Archive often uses their songs to express their political position on world events. And here we get directly to the meaning of the song "Fuck U":

I managed to find out some information as to why this song was actually created. The most important clue I found on the Internet was that the text was created by looking at a poster of US President George W. Bush. Is it even possible?
After reading those poisonous words, I have no doubt about it:

Archive. Photo credit unknown

💠🎶𝐋𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐒:
There's a look on your face I would like to knock out
See the sin in your grin and the shape of your mouth
All I want is to see you in terrible pain
Though we won't ever meet I remember your name
Can't believe you were once just like anyone else
Then you grew and became like the Devil himself
Pray to God I think of a nice thing to say
But I don't think I can, so fuck you anyway


You a scum, you a scum and I hope that you know
That the cracks in your smile are beginnin' to show
Now the world needs to see that it's time you should go
There's no light in your eyes and your brain is too slow
Can't believe you were once just like anyone else
Then you grew and became like the Devil himself
Pray to God I can think of a nice thing to say
But I don't think I can, so fuck you anyway


Bet you sleep like a child with your thumb in your mouth
I could creep up beside put a gun in your mouth
Makes me sick when I hear all the shit that you say
So much crap comin' out it must take you all day
There's a space kept in hell with your name on the seat
With a spike in the chair just to make it complete
When you look at yourself do you see what I see?
If you do why the fuck are you lookin' at me?


Why the fuck are you lookin' at me, me?
Why the fuck are you lookin' at me?
Why the fuck, why the fuck are you lookin' at me?
Why the fuck, why the fuck are you lookin' at me?


There's a time for us all and I think yours has been
Can you please hurry up 'cause I find you obscene?
We can't wait for the day that you're never around
When that face isn't here and you rot underground
Can't believe you were once just like anyone else
Then you grew and became like the Devil himself
Pray to God I can think of a nice thing to say
But I don't think I can, so fuck you anyway


So fuck you anyway
So fuck you anyway
So fuck you anyway
So fuck you anyway..
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Photo credit: Alex Weston

And then I managed to find the exact statement of the band about the origin of this text:
💠💬 In their 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐐&𝐀 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟗, 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐮𝐬 𝐊𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐫 explained:
“𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝐵𝑢𝑠ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑟. 𝐷𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑦 𝑤𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑦𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡. 𝐻𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑒 𝐵𝑢𝑠ℎ 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑗𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑟𝑦, 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑐𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑠.”

Darius Keeler: “‘Fuck U’ is probably the most overtly political song Archive has released, coming as it did in the wake of the 2003 Iraq invasion. It was written very spontaneously, and came from a place of deep despair and anger. The fact that it still resonates to this day is a sad indictment on the state of the World in many ways, it never seems to lose its relevance, sad to say." /.../
"I know it's a song that’s meant a lot to people in various troubled places around the world, I know because I’ve had so many messages to that effect over the years. It means a lot to me that we were able to give voice to their anger in some small way – it’s a song of defiance, a song for the people!”

And a few words about another Archive album, Controlling Crowds from 2009:
Darius Keeler: "I believe that with 'Controlling Crowds' we had reached the height of angst and hypocrisy in the world. Remember that barely ten years ago, the Bushes ruled and imposed their laws on the whole world with their English colleague, Tony Blair. All this basic anti-Islamism and these wars started for nothing in the Arab countries could only lead to an album like 'Controlling Crowds'."
(𝐴𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑀𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑒 𝑈𝑛𝑑 𝑀𝑒ℎ𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑔., 𝐴𝑢𝑔.2020)
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And then it wasn't hard to connect it to Brian's various quotes which support the idea that Brian didn't need to target a specific person in his personal life with this heavy hate text when he decided to sing the song.

💠💬 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝑹𝒖𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆:
“Eminem for starters. Then Fred Durst, from Limp Bizkit. Let’s throw Britney in there. Then Marilyn Manson — just because he’s sick enough to enjoy it. And the last one? Tony Blair. He’s such a great disappointment — and he plays roulette with other people’s lives all the time. It’d be good to see him sweat for a change”.
[𝐹𝐻𝑀, 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟, 2000]

💠💬 .../.../"George Bush comes out on the podium and throws words like, "You're either on our side or on the terrorists' side!" What a shame! Nothing is ever black or white in life except that Bush does not remember that.
At one point, I even considered giving up American citizenship. I was extremely disgusted with the way people suspected of having ties to Al Qaeda are being treated.
I was ashamed that I had an American passport! What the Americans were doing at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba was a gross violation of human rights. America does such things in the name of freedom and to protect the American way of thinking."
.../.../"Note that Bush has so far done nothing but portray himself as a military leader and call for war. These are his "successes". For him, war is, in a way, a battle for popularity. Disgusting!"
(𝑃𝐿𝐴𝐶𝐸𝐵𝑂 - 𝐴 (𝑁𝑂𝑁) 𝑆𝐸𝐶𝑈𝑅𝐼𝑇𝑌 𝑍𝑂𝑁𝐸, 𝐵𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑛, 𝑀𝑎𝑦 2003)

Photo credit: Trip Fontaine

💠🎶 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆'𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 "𝑺𝒍𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒈𝒆" 𝒐𝒏 𝒂 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝑨𝒎 𝑹𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟑 - 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆:
"𝐿𝑒𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑦𝑜𝑢 '𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑚𝑒. 𝑆𝑖𝑐𝑘 & 𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑇𝑜𝑛𝑦'𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑟𝑚 '𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 ℎ𝑒'𝑠 𝑎 𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑒 𝐵𝑢𝑠ℎ'𝑠 𝑏𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑏𝑟𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑟𝑚" ....
https://bit.ly/3jYqFNF

💠💬 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 "𝑻𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑯𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔":
.../.../You say it's an anti-government song. Are you referring to the British government or... "No doubt! Yes! Right now it disgusts me to see the media promote Tony Blair's autobiography; for me it's the autobiography of a war criminal. I spoke out against the Iraq War, along with 150,000 people, and no one listened to us. This happened in London, and internationally. Democracy no longer exists. What we have is a false democracy, in love with big business and corporations."

Aren't people starting to revolt? Tony Blair was violently greeted in Ireland, for example, when he was presenting the book...
"Yes, it was fantastic! And he had to cancel the book launch party because he knew there were going to be protesters there. How dare he make money from what he did?"
(𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐵𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑧 𝑚𝑎𝑔., 𝑁𝑜𝑣. 2018)


💠💬 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚, 𝒂 𝒇𝒆𝒘 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏'𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎:
.../.../But what of the future of Placebo? Molko reveals that he is currently writing songs for the band’s as yet untitled eighth album, a project that will no doubt become the main focus of their 2018.
“I'd like the next record to reflect the pain, frustration and violence that we're seeing on the news on a daily basis” he says. “I'd like it to be a record of the times because I've lived in London for 27 years and I honestly have never seen anything quite like the political climate we’re living in today, both in the UK and in the US. We’re going backwards rather than forwards; everyone’s on edge and a sense of fear pervades with terrorist attacks and world leaders threatening to wipe other countries of the face of the planet."
(𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑔., 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 2017)
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𝑭𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔, 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝑰'𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓, 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆.

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