🌟 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐋𝐊𝐎 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 𝐀𝐓 𝐏𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐅𝐌 (𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟑) 🌟

𝗦𝘆𝗹𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦 (...) 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠 ?

𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗹𝗸𝗼: 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑗𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑚. 𝐻𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑦. 𝐼'𝑚 𝑗𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝑗𝑒𝑟𝑘 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠.

Photo credit: Erik Weiss, edit by Laetitia

🔸 To promote the release of Loud Like Love, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 was the guest of 𝑷𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝑭𝑴, a Belgian radio station, on the September 16th, 2013.

An interesting interview where Brian speaks warmly about his youth, his views on his younger self, Placebo's aesthetics, songs meaning, the writing process. 🌠

Enjoy this intimate and smooth moment 😊


𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 7𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙡𝙗𝙪𝙢 𝙗𝙮 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙗𝙤. 𝘿𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 7 𝙖𝙡𝙗𝙪𝙢 ? 𝙄𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙚𝙧, 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙡 ? 𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙙𝙤 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙤 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚.
📢 Yes, maybe, but at the same time we don't know what to do, that's the problem. It's more and more difficult to renew first, and we're always afraid of repeating ourselves. Some repetitions are inevitable because we have our own style. For me, when I have the tune, in front of this blank sheet, I always have this kind of panic in me. I tell myself 'what do I have to say ? What do I have to tell the world ?' I am not the kind of person who writes thing in an intellectual way. I let myself go with instinct. It's rather the writing process which influences the topics, the emotions of the song. It's more and more difficult maybe because I put more and more value in it.


𝙒𝙝𝙮 ?
📢 Because I'm a bit more conscious of the fact that ... Well.. let's say I less believe in my own legend. When you are young, you're very arrogant, you are strongly self confident. With time, it erodes a bit. You ask yourself more questions and you get more of an identity crisis. For me, it becomes another value, a bigger one. I may be too conscious about the missed opportunities in the past. So I push myself more... I am very critical, self critical of things I would have let go before, I fnd it harder these days. So, I have this process of writing, and re-writing, and re-writing. And it often ends at the last moment when you have to finish the album. 'You don't have no more time Brian so write something'. Sometimes a deadline can help.

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𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 ?
📢 Because of this arrogance and this huge self-confidence, I thought when I was younger, that everything I wrote was a masterpiece Now, with hindsight , I realize it's not a fact. I often said to myself I should have been a bit more conscious, less in the clouds and I should have been a bit more careful.


𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮, 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙢𝙨 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙮, 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙙𝙖𝙮𝙨 ? 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙞𝙢 ?
📢 I am jealous of him. Honestly. I'm jealous of the rock star jerk I was.


𝙅𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙠𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 ?
📢 Yeah exactly. As I can't no longer act this way anymore.. It's a period of my life completely unceasing, quite mad, bohemian-like. Yeah, I look at it with a kind of nostalgia, but I feel more comfortable in my skin these days, more at ease than before. I don't feel like paying the price of all this anymore.


𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙤𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚, 𝙩𝙤𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨, 𝙩𝙤𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨, 𝙩𝙤𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 ?
📢 No, toward my everyday life. I feel less lost today. But there's something really attractive about this bohemian past. That's why I'm using the word 'nostalgia', because we're aware it's past life. With hindsight, you look through erose glasses.


𝙒𝙚 𝙤𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨.
📢 That's it. Exactly.


𝘼 𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 '𝘼 𝙈𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙇𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙋𝙞𝙚𝙘𝙚𝙨', 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙞𝙨, 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙚, 𝙖 𝙠𝙚𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙗𝙪𝙢 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙖 𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙤 ' 𝙒𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙄𝙣 𝙋𝙞𝙚𝙘𝙚𝙨', 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝘿𝙑𝘿. 𝙄𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖 𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙝 ? 𝙄𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙚 ?
📢 Well, no... No, I haven't thought about that until now. It's the same with 'Rob The Bank' on the new album. After the recording, someone told me : 'It reminds me of ‘Follow The Cops Back Home and rob their houses' . I told myself : 'Oh damn, I haven't thought about that'. 'A Million Little Pieces', 'We Come In Pieces', It's not a conscious connection I've made. I have stolen this title from a book by an American writer, James Frey, who wrote a sort of fictionalized essay about his life, about his huge addiction issues. Our song is quite abstract but I wanted to make this connection with this book in order to people, after they listen to this song 'A Million Little Pieces', go and read that book and open their mind and could give context to the song.

Photo credit: Elise Schipman

𝙀𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙧, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙡𝙗𝙪𝙢 '𝙄 𝙬𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙛 𝙄 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡', 𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙨.𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙗𝙨𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 ? 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 '𝙍𝙤𝙗 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙖𝙣𝙠', '𝙎𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙚 𝙊𝙛 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙚', 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 '𝙁𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙥𝙨 𝘽𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙃𝙤𝙢𝙚', 𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙤𝙣. 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙫𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙤 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝘽𝙧𝙚𝙩 𝙀𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙣 𝙀𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙨, 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚'𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙄𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙖 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 ? 𝙎𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮, 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙬𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙤 𝙩𝙬𝙤 𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙝𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙨.
📢 Yeah.. I don't know. Maybe it's the transgressive side of it all which is attractive for me. Well yeah, I don't know. Excuse me, I have to think about that.


𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙖𝙮 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙗𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙖 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙮𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙨, 𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙚𝙭𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙤. 𝙒𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙚.
📢 Now, we can be more transgressive, we can go further. Maybe it has come back with a very human side, especially on that album. Rather than doing a crime against society, it is rather concentrated on an emotional crime you can do towards somebody.. on that album.


𝘾𝙖𝙣 𝙬𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙮 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙜𝙤𝙩 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙖 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘, 𝙖 𝙗𝙞𝙩 𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙙 ? 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙥𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙤 𝙞𝙣 𝙏𝙤𝙤 𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙘𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧, 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙩. 𝘿𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙞𝙩 𝙩𝙤𝙤 ?
📢 Yes, I hope so. We really wanted this album to be vulnerable, a very human album sonically speaking. Even though we've used lots of electronic instruments on that album, we've used piano a lot and also Indian instruments like dulcimer for example, lots of chords. For me... Yeah, after 'Battle For The Sun', which was a strong guitar album, kind of a guitar wall, I wanted to do something more delicate, more melancholic, with a human side. A sort of melancholy which makes you proud of the fact you can still feel this melancholy. A sort of happy sadness. This is the kind of music, since I've discovered artists like Leonard Cohen who has moved me throughout my life. Songs that make me cry but still make me happy that I am an emotional being and can cry this way.


𝙄𝙣 '𝙎𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙚 𝙊𝙛 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙚', 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜..
📢Yeah, there are many on this album.


𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙡. 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮. 𝘼𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙨𝙣𝙖𝙥, 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙩𝙤𝙪𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖 𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙙, 𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙩𝙨 7𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙡𝙗𝙪𝙢, 𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚. 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 ? 𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚. 𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙣𝙞𝙘.
📢 It's very interesting because it's the first album where we have used our phones, our ipad as instruments in the studio. There was this kind of childish joy because you can find something on the app store, it takes one minute to get it and you can begin playing. Because of the interface, it gives a childish joy because it's like a toy. It has become something really important on this album, and there's also this hyper human essence of the hands clapping. It gives you an idea of the scope of the sound and instrumentation we wanted to use in the sound of Placebo for this album. Yeah, a sort of democratic posture towards everything. A sort of open-mindedness too.


𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙗𝙤 𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙝𝙤'𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙣 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙩.
📢Yeah, that's true.


𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚. 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙞𝙥𝙖𝙙, 𝙚𝙩𝙘. 𝙃𝙤𝙬, 𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙙, 𝙙𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙩, 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙖𝙣'𝙩 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙩. 𝙃𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙖 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙩 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙣'𝙩 𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙨𝙩. 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙙𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙤 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙩 ?
📢 It's important to be surrounded by people who are much younger than you are and who understand the whole thing much better than you do and who know how to use the social networks, etc etc. It makes everyday life quite easier in the creation process. You can make a song at home and send it to someone. You spend less time in the studio, getting bored. The producer can send you mixes, things to listen to. It's important to stress because all this technology won't write a song for you. You always need the human touch to give soul to something. Even when you're using an ipad, it's the human touch which controls everything. With this tool, it's rather the accident which is magical. The fact it's brand new, you don't really know how to use it, we often use it the bad way and through these accidents, you can create something magical.

Photo credit: onstage.com

𝙄𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 ? 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙬𝙤 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙, 𝙖 𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙙𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙢𝙖𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙤̈𝙢 𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙.
📢 Aesthetically speaking, I wanted to stop with the Placebo aesthetic which was well established, a physical aesthetic, very figurative and quite monochrome. My first musical crush was psychedelic music. I wanted to do something with all the covers. Something quite psychedelic and use the 60's, the 70's, the 80's and the 90's altogether with all the formats, etc. These pictures are quite psychedelic as if it was seen through an old tv set or so. A sort of junk store aesthetic. Yeah, raising the junk store aesthetic to some work of art essentially.


𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙗𝙪𝙢. 𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝙚𝙭𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚, '𝘽𝙤𝙨𝙘𝙤' 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙬𝙚 𝙜𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙅𝙚́𝙧𝙤̂𝙢𝙚 𝘽𝙤𝙨𝙘𝙝, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙡𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧. 𝙃𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙣.
📢 I didn't know.


𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙗𝙪𝙢. 𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝙚𝙭𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚, '𝘽𝙤𝙨𝙘𝙤' 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙬𝙚 𝙜𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 ? 𝘽𝙤𝙨𝙘𝙤.. 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨. 𝘿𝙤𝙣 𝘽𝙤𝙨𝙘𝙤 𝙞𝙨 𝙛𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙜𝙞𝙪𝙢 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚, 𝙬𝙝𝙤'𝙨 𝙖 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙧 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨𝙩. 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙜𝙞𝙪𝙢 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚. 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 ?
📢 In Spain too. It's an Italian wine I think.


𝙔𝙚𝙖𝙝. 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙤𝙧 𝙛𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙫𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙚.
📢 It means 'forrest' in Italian. Stefan began playing this song on the piano. He gave this name to the melody. After that, I wrote the lyrics. We couldn't find a better title. So, why not. It's quite abstract. There's a sort of mystery with it. It could be interpreted in hundreds of ways. We like this ambiguity, We like this mystery so we decided to keep it.


𝙍𝙤𝙗 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙖𝙣𝙠, 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙜 ?
📢 Not yet. No, no. It's a deceptive song. It's not a song which deals with the financial crisis, it's about obsession and jealousy.A sort of carnal obsession you can feel for someone, for a human being. It's aslo a list of crimes, of repulsive things. The person in this song is saying : "You know, you can do whatever you want, you can have hundreds of disgusting ways, I don't care as far as you come back home at the end of the day and satisfy me".


𝘿𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙢𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣'𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙜.
📢 Of course, of course, yeah yeah. But it's interesting to play with it. It's interesting to present a song about obsession through something else.


𝙏𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮, 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙨, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙡𝙨, 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙚𝙭𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙫𝙚.𝙎𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙗𝙞𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙗𝙞𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙧, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙯𝙞𝙣𝙜. 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙚 𝙜𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙚𝙚 𝙤𝙣 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙜𝙚 ? 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙭𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙤𝙧 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙮, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙮 𝙖𝙩 𝙖 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙡𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡, 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙬𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙠𝙚𝙣 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙩 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬.
📢 I don't know yet. It's being drawn on paper, on the computer. What we try to do is to create a sort of concert which is a reflection of the aesthetic of the album. There will be a lot of colours and it will always keep this human factor for me.
(𝘚𝘺𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘗𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘍𝘔 - 16𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘦𝘱𝘵 2013)
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(Subtitled in Italian and English)

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