✨ 𝗣𝗘𝗘𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗢𝗠 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐕𝐎𝐘𝐄𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐌 ✨

🔸𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 likes to explore human emotions, especially those surrounding Love.With 𝐼 𝐷𝑜, which proclaims the shared love that would be sealed by a marriage (if the answer is yes of course ;) ), here with 𝑷𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒐𝒎, the feelings of love are one-sided, because the object of desire is not aware of the feelings of the other person, who poses as a voyeuristic observer.

Although voyeurism is considered a perverse practice, 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 succeeds here in conveying empathy for this character who seems unhappy, introverted, scared and unable to declare himself officially. But does he really want to ? It is clear that the voyeur enjoys his status because it gives him a sense of superiority ("'𝐶𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢'𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒 / 𝑊ℎ𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 / 𝑀𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 ").

But the song is above all a cry of loneliness that the character in the song fills with alcohol, which allows him to bear his loneliness, I suppose.🔸

🎥 𝑷𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒐𝒎 (𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒐 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏) https://bit.ly/3BDjOQd 🎶

Photo credit: Photo credit: Kevin Westenberg - edit byLaetitia

📍 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 📍

⭐📢"It's about voyeurism. It's about being a peeping tom. I try in the song to place you inside the head and make you feel the emotions of this voyeur and try and make you feel sympathetic because the only ray of light in this person's life is spying on this one particular person. The song is full of pathos and extremely sad - it's kind of like "Burger Queen" but taken a couple of steps further." (Brian Molko)


⭐𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑷𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒐𝒎 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂 𝒑𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏. 𝑰𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒂 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆?

📢 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻: I wanted people listening to his songs to feel the emotions of the peeping Tom. I guess I'm trying to bring a human side to what people consider to be something quite perverse but it's interesting that these days we live in a culture where CCTV is very present. There are cameras everywhere. We're obsessed with each other's lives. There are even shows like Big Brother where we watch other people's lives.
(𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜 𝑜𝑛 𝐹𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐ℎ 𝑇𝑉)

🎥 You can watch the interview here https://bit.ly/3l1WsOJ

Photo credit: Ullstein bild

🔸If the voyeurist is satisfied with watching and nothing more, can we consider this practice to be harmful if the person being watched is not aware of anything ? But 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 often points out that every action we take can have consequences, but it seems obvious that in this case, voyeurism is harmless.

In our society where everything is controlled and TV shows offer us programmes where watching people has become commonplace, I wonder which voyeurism is the most perverse. The one that is secret and kept to oneself or the one that is thrown out for all to see ?🔸


🎵 Let's listen to one of my favourite live version of the song, 𝑷𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒐𝒎 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝑳𝒆 𝑹𝒆́𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒓 performed in September 2001.
🎥 https://bit.ly/3v8kXwK 🎵



📍 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐀 𝐁𝐄𝐍𝐄 📍

I wrote this post before the release of the new single 𝑺𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝑩𝒚 𝑺𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒔 and we can't help but realise that this is still a very important topic for 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜, as it directly affects the band. Indeed, 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 was spied on by his own neighbours ! Moreover, we can only observe that there is a gulf between the simple voyeur and organised mass surveillance...

💬 I began writing the lyrics when I discovered my neighbours were spying on me on behalf of parties with a nefarious agenda. I then began to ponder the countless ways in which our privacy has been eroded and stolen since the introduction of worldwide CCTV cameras that now employ racist facial recognition technologies; the rise of the internet and the cellphone, which has turned practically every user into a paparazzo and spectators in their own lives, and how we have mostly all offered up personal information to enormous multinationals whose sole intent is to exploit us.
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 - 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘖𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥, 𝘕𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 9𝘵𝘩 2021)

🔸𝐴𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑙...

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