๐ป๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐"โญ
Hi soulmates,
today we will stop for a moment at the video for the song "๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐", which Brian made with his friends from the band Alpinestars in 2002. This June, it will be 20 years since the release of this single.
๐ฅ How does this fast electronic rock thing affect you?
As a Placebo fan, I admit that Brian's voice gave the song the right energy, don't you think?
๐ฅ And what about the music video with two of Brian's androids, do you like it?
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| Photo credit: Screenshots from the video, edit by Silke |
"Well when we were making 'Black market music', we got a phone call from our management saying 'we want to manage another band, if that's OK with you' and we said, 'yeah sure that's fine as long as they're not shit'.
And an Alpinestars track came out on an NME free CD and I heard it when we were at Olympic Studios and was really, really impressed. It really reminded me of Kraftwerk and their early stuff which is really quite cold and robotic in a similar way. So we were totally down with it and we were really happy with the fact that our managers who are total rock heads were getting into some electronic tunes.
And so the Alpinestars did their first album 'Basic' which we really liked and they also did the 'Taste In Men' remix, which still stands as one of the best ones. And after we'd mixed the album I still found myself looking for a flat and staying in the studio flat above the recording studio in Shepard's Bush, and I didn't actually manage to find myself a place until after we got back off tour, so I ended up staying there for a while. And after touring, the Alpinestars were in the studio doing their second album and they were my downstairs neighbors.
They were doing this album, 'White Noise' and I used to go down and use the washing machine a lot, cos I didn't have one, and we just started hanging out and they just wanted me to try 'Carbon Kid'. So I listened to it and then we went to the pub, then back to the studio, did two takes, the second was the one, went back to pub and that was that. And for me it was really good cos I didn't write the lyrics, didn't write the vocal melody line. Just my soul purpose there was to be the singer and it was responsibility free. There was the performance, but there's just no pressure, which was why it kind of like happened so quickly and why I think it's so natural and so accomplished."
(Silver Rocket magazine, 2002)
https://bit.ly/3D2G6wm
๐ธ And now back to the video:
The song "๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐" was also released as single on June 3, 2002 and the music clip directed by ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ was published exactly one week later.
In the video two crazy scientists work in a laboratory where they make synthetic people and decide to use them for a real video game and compete with them.
In the words of the director Dougal Wilson - the idea for this clip came from buying a video about running down corridors, and in connection with the title of the song Carbon Kid, an idea came to him - it could actually be about making synthetic humans ... and that's how these two ideas came together.
๐ธ๐ฌ "๐ช๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฒ๐๐ " ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ -๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐:
https://bit.ly/3Jy4Vmd
๐ฅ So - what do you say to the director's idea? Was it in line with the lyrics?
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| Photo credit: Screenshot from the video |
Image image you do what you want
You're a carbon kid with a sinister diagram
Image image we're leaving the ground
Image image we're leaving the ground
Image image we're leaving the ground
Image image we'll never be found
Image image we'll never be found
Image image we'll never be found
You're a carbon kid with a sinister diagram
With a sinister diagram
Sinister diagram
And when this half is over and we claim our second skin
We can compliment each other on the state that we are in
And when we leave this place forever and we're floating round in space
Take the easy way to heaven with a smile upon your face
You're a carbon kid with a sinister diagram
Image image you do what you want
Image image you do what you want
Image image you do what you want
You're a carbon kid with a sinister diagram
You're a carbon kid with a sinister diagram
You're a carbon kid with a sinister diagram
You're a carbon kid with a sinister diagram
Sinister diagram
You're a carbon kid with a sinister diagram
๐ธโญ๐ธ
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