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| Screenshots from the official video, edit by Laetitia |
๐ท The lyrics were written by Brian Molko who was inspired by a story in the news.
๐ฌ We wrote texts for Dimitri, I wrote one in the style of William Burroughs. It's about a guy who lives in Los Angeles and sells his sperm to famous lesbians so they can have children: that's the story. But it was very interesting to work on the record, because it's very different music from what we usually do and I really like that kind of music.
✔️ ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ฐ - ๐๐ฐ๐ค๐ฌ ๐๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ฆ๐ณ๐ณ๐บ ๐๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ข๐ถ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด
๐ฌ The idea of the "metric system" came to me as a reaction to living in England or the United States. The two countries that keep this ancestral system of measurement in inches ! And then there was this news story about this gay couple who had taken David Crosby's sperm from Crosby, Still & Nash to have a baby. So I imagined this guy who lived in California, who was a sperm donor for a famous lesbian.
✔️ ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ฐ - ๐๐ฆ๐ด ๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฎ๐ข๐ถ๐น ๐ฃ๐บ ๐๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐๐ช๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ถ๐ฅ
๐ฌ It's the only song that doesn't deal with sexual exchanges after all. Yes, only masturbation... My whole life !
✔️ ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ฐ - ๐๐ฆ๐ด ๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฎ๐ข๐ถ๐น ๐ฃ๐บ ๐๐ฆ๐ฃ๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐๐ช๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ถ๐ฅ
๐พ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐๐ ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐๐๐๐̈?
๐ฌ That was just for fun ! Dimitri Tikovoรฏ is my mate. We have the same sense of humour, porn makes us laugh. What's funny is that people, the media, everyone took us very seriously. So it was even more jubilant. In another register, I also just worked with the German DJ Timo Maas.
✔️ ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ฐ, ๐๐ฆ๐ด ๐๐ฏ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ค๐ฌ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ต๐ช๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด - ๐๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ 2004
๐ฌ When I worked with Placebo, I played a song to Brian Molko and asked him if he wanted to work with me on it. He fell in love with the project. He said; "great ! it's about sex ! I want to do something like that too", and we did the song Metric System.
✔️ ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ช๐ต๐ณ๐ช ๐๐ช๐ฌ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฐ๐ช, ๐๐๐๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ๐ด - ๐๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ 2002
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| Photo credit: Lucille Brausch |
๐ท The video was directed by Franck Perrin.
It shows Brian dressed in a white suit, sitting on a black chair, against a black background. Dimitri is also present, dressed in black.
The protagonists are women and men, all connected by a cable that I imagine represents the link that will allow these women to obtain the sperm they need to have a child.
๐ด๐๐๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐
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๐ฅ https://bit.ly/3HZXPX2 ๐ฆ
๐ท ๐ป๐๐๐๐ ๐ท๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐ 10๐๐, 2002 ๐๐ ๐ณ๐ ๐น๐๐๐ ๐ซ๐ ๐น๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐-๐ด๐๐๐.
๐ท The critics were harsh with the band, describing the project as ridiculous, calamitous, depressing (✔️Philippe Richard for Magic). Harsh words that I think are nothing more than a total misunderstanding of the project. The staging is particularly well done, the performances brilliant. Everything is dynamic and above all to be taken to the second degree !
๐ท ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐๐'๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ป๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ ! ๐
On a screen, words scroll by: "๐ป๐๐ก๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ฆ", "โ๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐ โ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐", "๐๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐", ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ ๐ก๐๐๐ฆ", ๐๐๐๐กโ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐", "๐กโ๐ ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ข๐ ๐๐ข๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐ ๐ก". Photos of hotel rooms follow in quick succession. All this to the rhythm of the song. Brian is in particularly good shape, jumping around, warming up the room a bit, singing in his megaphone. The musicians are focused and play their part to perfection. Everything is accentuated by the very effective light show by the way !
In a few words, I love it ! ๐
๐ด๐๐๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐
๐ฅ https://bit.ly/3JxLbip ๐ฆ
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| Brian Molko (left) and Dimitri Tikovoi (middle). Photo credit unknown |
Good work if you can get it
Good work if you can get it
Good work if you can get it
Rock boy is genital suck juice mad
His delicious apparatus would flutter and
Tremble after pubic worship
He would freeze it in a jar and sell it to
Celebrity lesbians
Good work if you can get it
Good work if you can get it
Good work if you can get it
Good work if you can get it
They want to buy it in kilos
They want to buy it in grams
They want to buy it in kilos
They want to buy it in grams
You know they’re down with the metric system
And they never fuck around
They want to buy it in kilos
They want to buy it in grams
You know they’re down with the metric system
And they’re paying by the pound
Good work if you can get it
Good work if you can get it
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