🎇 𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 '𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗞' 🎇

"𝐖𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬." (𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰)

Photo credit: Kevin Westenberg, CD picture by me / edit by Laetitia

🔸 Dear Soulmates, today, I'm going to tell you a little story about 𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝑲 single release.

In the 1990s, seeing that the CD market was flourishing, the UK music industry decided to make it mandatory to commercialise singles in different formats. The result was that UK singles were sold as three separate CDs with three tracks each, or more commonly, two CDs and an additional format ( such as 7inch, 12inch or DVD).

Due to 𝑑𝑟𝑢𝑔 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑙𝑦𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑠, some radio stations didn't want to play 𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝑲, which prevented the song from reaching a high chart position.

Therefore, instead of two part CD release as they did for 𝑇𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒 𝐼𝑛 𝑀𝑒𝑛 or even for 𝑆𝑙𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑎𝑔𝑒 and former releases, 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 decided so boldly to edit the single into an EP including 7 tracks and the video, so that the single wasn't eligible for the charts ranking, as for being elilgible, a single doesn't have to exceed "25 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑠 (𝑎𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑜 𝑜𝑟 𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑜) 𝑝𝑙𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑜 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑠." (𝘙𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘌𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺).

Photo credit: Making of Special K video

🔸 On March 9th 2001, always caring for their fans and defying conventions, 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 announced the release of the song with this explanation:

⭐ 💬 The British Music Industry which has recently been championing disposable, facile pop and music which promotes homophobia, misogyny and violence has in it's infinite wisdom, taken offence to the lyrical content of our new single "Special K'.

This combined with our ongoing dissatisfaction with the two CD system, since we feel it rips off genuine music fans, has forced us to take the decision to bypass the system completely. 'Special K' will therefore be released on one single, available at regular CD single price, and comprise of 8 items which will make it non chart eligible.

We feel this is the best deal for our fans and that it drives home the statement that we don't care about chart positions.

Take care and have respect for each other. Keep the faith and never let the sycophants and small minded people of this world get you down.

Sincerely,
Brian Molko
Stefan Olsdal
Steven Hewitt ⭐
(𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥)

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✨ 𝑻𝑹𝑨𝑪𝑲𝑳𝑰𝑺𝑻 ✨

🎵Special K
🎵Dub Psychosis
🎵Passive Aggressive (Brothers in Rhythm remix)
🎵Special K (Timo Maas remix)
🎵Little Mo
🎵Slave to the Wage (I Can't Believe It's a Remix)
🎵Special K (Timo Maas Dub mix)
🎵Special K [Enhanced Video]


🔸 All this recalls me 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 telling to Bernard Pivot at 𝐷𝑜𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝐽𝑒 interview in 2003:

"𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑎 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑦, 𝑎 𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠. 𝐼𝑡'𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝐸𝑂𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑠."

🔸 𝘐𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭, 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘴𝘰 ? 💝

𝑬𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝑳𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 (2001) ! 🔥

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