𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘
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| Photo credit: Screenshots from the video, single cover / edit by Marti |
13 years ago, April 20, 2009 single 🔸"𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐈𝐓'𝐒 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐇"🔸 was released.
"𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡" is the first single from Placebo's sixth studio album Battle for the Sun and it was also the very first song the guys wrote for this album.
It debuted in the UK Singles Chart at No. 97 and was nominated for the 𝑲𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈! Award for Best Single.
The single contains a cover of Nik Kershaw's "Wouldn't it be good" and a demo version of “For what it's worth” as b-sides.
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🔸🎶 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 (𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧)
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However, this great song is proof of Brian's boredom on the bus ride between New York and Boston. In addition, he wanted to create something dance-euphoric:
🔸💬 .../***/ But the piece didn’t come out of emotional or erotic tension, but:
“Boredom, the most boring six hours of bus ride between New York and Boston. I was so annoyed that I wrote the song out of frustration.”
(𝚂𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚌 𝚂𝚎𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚎𝚛, 𝙹𝚞𝚗𝚎 𝟸00𝟿)
🔸💬 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎.
Brian Molko: It's about time Placebo did a track that got people shaking their booty on the dancefloor!
𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅?
Brian Molko : You don't set out to do it, but when it starts to emerge that way, you're like, "Yeah, cool." It's always been part of what we do; possibly on Meds there wasn't much indie club dancefloor stuff. But this song has a disco beat, Memphis horns, soul diva backing vocals... it all contributes to, hopefully, a euphoric dancefloor experience.
(𝙹 𝙼𝚊𝚐 𝙰𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚊, 𝙼𝚊𝚢 𝟸00𝟿)
"It's got this real kind of Stax-esque, bluesy horn section on it, which makes sense to us because we grew up listening to Motown as much as we did listening to disco. It excites us too, the idea of freaking out the hardcore Goths, that part of our fan base."
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙱𝚒𝚐 𝙲𝚑𝚎𝚎𝚜𝚎, 𝟸00𝟿)
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| Photo credit: single cover |
Maybe you were a little confused by the line "your God-shaped hole" …😊
🔸💬 [Brian is] showing a wide, not very innocent smile, as if he’s waiting for something particular.
No. Please not. Blushing. On what the line “your god-shaped hole tonight” aims, seems to be the headword hoped for, at least Brian laughs happily:
“I already sensed this line would be open for interpretations. But it’s not about vaginas or other specific orifices of the body.”
His hands are meanwhile forming a circle, he pauses, “why am I doing this right now?”
Stefan blames the Freudian subconscious.
“No, the expression aims on the hole everyone carries in their souls. A lot of people fill it with God, Jesus, religion, others with humans, drugs or alcohol. It’s the little piece of you which is missing. The place of birth of all desires and all wishs and emotions – that’s what it relates to for me, but already when I wrote it, I was sure most people would understand it sexually. For me, the song is about the libidinous party of life. That’s not sexual, but rather like embracing the universe.”
This image of the libido surprises everyone and goes under in collective snorting.
“That’s as well a way to push your buttons before intercourse” Stefan giggles.
But the piece didn’t come out of emotional or erotic tension, but:
“Boredom, the most boring six hours of bus ride between New York and Boston. I was so annoyed that I wrote the song out of frustration.”
(𝚂𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚌 𝚂𝚎𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚎𝚛, 𝙹𝚞𝚗𝚎 𝟸00𝟿)
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However, the sexual charge of this song is obvious:
🔸💬 .../***/ 𝒀𝒐𝒖'𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒏. 𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒘𝒂𝒔 "𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒙𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒅".
𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕?
Brian Molko : How does someone become less sexually charged? I don't know about that. (Laughs) Perhaps it's less on the surface. With Battle For The Sun, I started out wanting to make quite a libidinous record. A celebration of all sexuality, because it's such a part of life, the beauty of life. So it's there. It's there in songs like 'Kitty Litter', 'Speak In Tongues', 'For What It's Worth', "Come on lay with me / 'cause I'm on fire"? Do you need me to write that down for you, man?
Perhaps the sexuality is more subtle; it's not coming at you in terms of a transvestite on crystal meth."
(𝙹 𝙼𝚊𝚐 𝙰𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚊, 𝙼𝚊𝚢 𝟸00𝟿)
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The video for this very expressive, surprisingly dance song is one of many clips directed by 𝐇𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐠𝐡, who started to work with the band in 1997 (Nancy Boy, Special K, Slave to The Wage, Bruise Pristine, The Bitter End).
🔸🎶 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 (𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨)
https://bit.ly/3xIpFVD
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⭐ 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗳𝗮𝗻: “We worked with one of our favourite video directors, Howard Greenhalgh, who has been working with us for a long time. He has done loads of stuff for us including 'Nancy Boy', 'Bruise Pristine' and 'The Bitter End', so we had a long relationship with him that enabled us to feel more relaxed, especially now we are introducing a new member to the public. We wanted it to be quite performance based and the tags were basically about the fact that sometimes what you see, is not what is real. We wanted to play with that. People like to portray themselves as something that is completely the opposite of what is inside of them. With the lyrics, Brian describes them as being quite optimistic but if you listen to them on face value, "got no friends, got no lover", it's like "shit, you're in the gutter" but to him the song is like a celebration of life. It's that dichotomy of what you see and what you hear not always being what is actually there.“
⭐ 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝗙.: “You can take a photo and it can be two people, they can be hanging out and happy but if you put a label on, it completely changes the whole meaning of it. It could be like "cunt". My favourite bit is the guy with the suitcase walking to work and it's like "detonation". It's brilliant.“
(𝙲𝚕𝚒𝚌 𝙼𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟿)
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What to say at the end? A great, lively, danceable song, the lyrics of which have not only a sexy charge, but also a spiritual subtext.
So how do you fill the hole in your soul, dear friends?
I wish you all a beautiful evening!
Post by Marti
