🔷 "𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄" 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘 🔷

🔹 𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐛 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐬, 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟑𝟏, 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖.

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𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑭𝒊𝒍𝒎 𝑪𝒍𝒖𝒃 - 𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒕. 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐

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🔹 𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑭𝒊𝒍𝒎 𝑪𝒍𝒖𝒃 is a rock band founded in London in 1995 by Michael Sheehy, Andrew Park, Laurence Ash and Alex Vald, and split in 1999. 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆, 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒄 𝑬𝑷. Dream City Film Club, whose Michael Sheehy and Andrew Park are former band mates of 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝑯𝒆𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒕 in Breed, often toured with Placebo in their early days, without the same success.

🔹 The year 1997 was the springboard for Dream City Film Club. The band had the opportunity to go on a small tour in Europe where they followed Placebo.

🔹 They recorded their second album which was released in 1999 and was called 𝑰𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈, which inspired Placebo for the 12th track on the Placebo album Meds. A nice wink ! 😄

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🔹 𝐴 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒: 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑷𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒃𝒐𝒚 𝑡-𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑎 𝐷𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝐹𝑖𝑙𝑚 𝐶𝑙𝑢𝑏 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔.

𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑭𝒊𝒍𝒎 𝑪𝒍𝒖𝒃 - 𝑷𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒃𝒐𝒚
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𝘼 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙜𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙫𝙤𝙡𝙫𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙁𝙞𝙡𝙢 𝘾𝙡𝙪𝙗 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙚.
💬 They're friends of mine, in fact Steve was playing with Andy, the bass player, in Breed. The singer, Michael, wrote something and just asked me to come and sing. (Laughs.) I liked it, I got to do my Pj Harvey.
📍 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 - 𝙼𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚌 ! 𝚗°𝟸𝟹 - 𝙾𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟾


💬 We opened a couple of gigs for them, before they became famous, and that's how the idea came about... It was a bit cynical on our part. We thought: "Let's get this little chick to sing on our record, and maybe we'll sell a few more". I don't know if it totally backfired or not. I remember some reviewers were more interested in trashing Brian than the record itself.
📍 𝙼𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚎𝚕 𝚂𝚑𝚎𝚎𝚑𝚢 - 𝙳𝚎𝚜 𝚌𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚜 𝚎𝚝 𝚍𝚎𝚜 𝚖𝚊𝚞𝚡 𝚋𝚢 𝚂𝚎́𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚗 𝙼𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚞𝚍

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🟦 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗺𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀, 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰.

𝗔 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗽 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺, 𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗰𝗱𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀, 𝗮 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲. 𝗔 𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝘆𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹. 
𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 ! 🌠 ✨

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💦 𝙂𝙀𝙏 𝙊𝙐𝙏 𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙍 𝘾𝙇𝘼𝙒𝙎 💦

🔹 On Its Third Record, Scrappy Placebo shreds skeptics and expectations

🔹 There are certain truths in life that are Darwinian, indisputable. Bumble into a bobcat's den and you'll probably get scratched. Poke your hand into a moray eel's lair, get ready for a thorough severed-digit chomping. And get on the bad side of the diminutive, but shrew-fierce, Brian Molko? When he's finished with you, you'll be gutted like a floundered fish.

🔹 Take, for instance, a recent backstage incident at San Francisco's Warfield Theatre, where 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 and his U.K. alterna-punk trio 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 had just finished headlining. Still toweling the stage mascara from his sweat-drenched face, the thin, sparrow-framed frontman was entertaining a coterie of cooing music industry nabobs with his thoughts on the transformation of Jeffrey Eugenides' brilliant The Virgin Suicides novel into an even bleaker film by first-time director Sofia Coppola. As the discussion moved on to movies, 𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐝 𝐇𝐚𝐲𝐧𝐞𝐬' Bowie-inspired 𝐕𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐭 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞 was mentioned, which instantly brought one young hotshot out of his aloof shell. "𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒅 !" he boldly declared. "𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒕—𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒔𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉, 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒕 𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒅!"

🔹 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨's eyes brightened, like a cat when it's just scented a mouse in the house. "𝑶𝒉 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒉 ?" he asked, moving to face his opponent. "𝑰𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕 ?"

🔹 The loudmouth didn't even see it coming. "𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒍, 𝒚𝒆𝒔 ! " he shot back. "𝑽𝒆𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒕 𝑮𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒅."

🔹 "𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 ?" grinned the Placeban with barely contained delight. "𝑾𝒆𝒍𝒍, 𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕! 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒎, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒅𝒊𝒐𝒕! 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆, 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒆 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕. 𝑺𝒐𝒐𝒐𝒐 ..." and 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 raised his right hand, middle finger extended, until it was directly in front of the poor pretender's nose. "𝑭𝑼𝑪𝑲 𝒀𝑶𝑼 !" A guillotine beheading couldn't have been more effective. The kid could only stammer, turn red and bleatingly admit that he hadn't really seen the flick—he was only parroting some reviews he'd read. Too late—𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 had already turned his back on him, dismissing him from the chat entirely.

Photo credit: Helena Berg

🔹 "𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒆: 𝑨𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕, 𝒐𝒏𝒆; 𝑺𝒚𝒄𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒕, 𝒛𝒆𝒓𝒐!" cackles the mischievous 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨, recalling the incident a few weeks ago over lunch at his chic New York hotel. He could've done the P.C.-polite thing and let the chap squeak by with his affrontery. But it just isn't his non-fool-suffering style. "𝑯𝒆 𝒕𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒎𝒆 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒏𝒐 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒕," claims the 28-year-old, pointing across the table at pinstripe-suited drummer 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭, an even more mischievous chum he's known since they were teenagers attending London drama school. (Only last night, Hewitt—on a late-night stroll through Soho—had smilingly misdirected several couples who'd mistook him for a local.) Why is the duo so scrappy? "𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕," 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 sighs. "𝑵𝒐𝒕 𝒔𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒑𝒉𝒚𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒌𝒊𝒅𝒔 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑, 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒔, 𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚, 𝒕𝒐 𝒒𝒖𝒐𝒕𝒆 𝑵𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝑪𝒂𝒗𝒆, 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒒𝒖𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆. 𝑾𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒂 𝒅𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒘. 𝑾𝒆'𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇𝒇—𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆'𝒔 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒏 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒂𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒅-𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒋𝒐𝒃𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 2 1/2 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒕. 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒂𝒍." He sighs, shakes his head somberly. "𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒏𝒆𝒑𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒎, 𝒔𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒐𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒚𝒄𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔, 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒗𝒆 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑺𝒐 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕, 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒏𝒐 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒕."

🔹 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 has another good reason to be on the defensive: stalkers. He's got 'em in spades. Sometimes, he says, "𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 '𝑰𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰'𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒎𝒆'—𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒂 𝒃𝒆 𝒂 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒆𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒃𝒂𝒅 𝒘𝒂𝒚." One night, he arrived home late to find a starry-eyed female encamped on his apartment doorstep; she'd bluffed her way past security, adoringly informed 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 she'd come to stay and death-gripped the stairwell railings as guards struggled to drag her away. What's the spooky allure ?

🔹 To understand 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨, you have to understand the 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐧. On the band's third release, 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 (Virgin), lead/rhythm guitarist 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 leapfrogs through so many musical styles it's head-spinning—from scratchy punk ("𝐷𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝐵𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝐶𝑎𝑚𝑒") to shimmering glam ("𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘-𝐸𝑦𝑒𝑑," "𝑆𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝐾," "𝑇𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑀𝑒𝑛") to folk-quiet balladry ("𝐵𝑙𝑢𝑒 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛," "𝑃𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑇𝑜𝑚"), flat-out funk 'n' hip-hop ("𝑆𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑒 & 𝑀𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑒," featuring U.S. rapper 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝) and even cheeky, Modern English-retro New Wave ("𝑆𝑙𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑎𝑔𝑒"). Part prick-kicking confessional, part socially conscious outrage, 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨's material is—above all else— impassioned, compelling, some of the most true-blue-believable rock ’n’ roll you're likely to hear this year. Add to that 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨's unique singing voice (imagine a black-footed ferret, gnaw-squealing at its trap-clamped leg; or maybe Rush's Geddy Lee with a certain part of his anatomy caught in a clamp) and his innate instinct for combining melodic experimentation with huge, arena-pleasing hooks, and you've got a guaranteed formula for superstardom. Already, 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 (issued elsewhere last October) has moved nearly a million copies in Europe alone, hit the Top Ten in 15 countries and launched three smash singles ("𝑇𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑀𝑒𝑛," "𝑆𝑙𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑎𝑔𝑒," "𝑆𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝐾"). Will America follow suit ? 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 is such a commanding presence—both onstage and off—there are few capable of resisting his hypnotic spell.

🔹 Today, the black-T-shirt/black-jeans-clad 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨—staying "𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒄𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒔"—has let his sideburns grow into pincer-beetle points, and trimmed his trademark Louise Brooks bob into a businesslike, side-parted style that would've made June Cleaver beam with parental pride. One mouse-click through the labyrinth of unofficial 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 websites will explain why: Most feature photos of male and female lookalikes, some eerily accurate, some laughingly awkward. "𝑰𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝑰'𝒅 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆'𝒅 𝒃𝒆, 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆, 𝒂 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐𝒔, 𝒃𝒐𝒚𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒔, 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 𝒃𝒐𝒃. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 '𝑶𝑲— 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 𝒃𝒐𝒃 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒐.' 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎 𝒐𝒇 𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒚, 𝒔𝒐 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏'𝒕 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝒊𝒕. 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅'𝒔 𝒑𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔, 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒖𝒂𝒍, 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒚."

Photo credit: Hamish Brown

🔹 It all started innocently enough. "𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒂 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒖𝒑𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈," explains 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨, examining the cracked ebony polish barely clinging to his fingernails. "𝑴𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝒂 𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒏-𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒏, 𝒔𝒐 𝑰 𝒈𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 11 𝒂𝒏𝒅," 𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒓𝒔 "𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒊𝒕 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 14. 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 '𝑴𝒐𝒎, 𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒐 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆—𝑰'𝒎 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝑰 𝒂𝒎.' 𝑰𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰'𝒎 𝒃𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒙𝒖𝒂𝒍." Before that ? "𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒖𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒔, 𝑩𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝒒𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔. 𝑰 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏, 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒚, 𝒎𝒂𝒏 !" (Ergo, 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 adds, the strong thread of religion wafting through 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜.)

🔹 Instead, the "alter" boy eventually wound up in London, where he and 𝐇𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭 began occasionally gigging. By chance, he bumped into another old schoolmate—Swedish musician 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐥𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐥—in a tube station, and invited him down to see his combo perform. 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 was formed that very night, with guitarist 𝐎𝐥𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐥 switching to bass (which accounts for his unusual, Joy Division-melodic approach to the instrument) and 𝐇𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭 momentarily switching to his side group, Breed (he rejoined in '96, just in time to tour behind a decidedly carnal-themed 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 debut). That same year, 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 huddled in a tiny San Francisco cafe, less concerned with discussing the disc than he was with trying to picture what attractive Bay Area native he might pick up at that evening's meet 'n' greet. This coati-mundi-masked miscreant hadn't come to edify—he'd come to party.

🔹 And party 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 did, on into the recording of its glam-happy, million-selling follow-up, 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐈'𝐦 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠, and hit singles like the jagged-but-chiming "𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠" (which 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 still refers to as "𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈."). But the pleasure train was about to derail. The British press had already dubbed 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 the "𝑑𝑟𝑢𝑔-𝑐𝑟𝑎𝑧𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑥 𝑑𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑓"—true, he never refused any backstage treats on offer. But stimulation gave way to self-loathing, with the nadir being that fateful night the 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 tour hit Paris—minus one blind-drunk 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨, who'd disappeared (i.e., passed out) somewhere the night before in Manchester. 𝐇𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭 was furious—his friend was quickly destroying himself and taking 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 down with him. It was time for an ultimatum.

🔹 In Black Market's lilting, '60s-sunny "𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐿𝑒𝑣𝑖," 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 chirps "𝘋𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘬 𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘦/ 𝘊𝘰𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘤𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘺— 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥 ... 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘪𝘦, 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘪𝘦/ 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘦." Make no mistake, says the singer: "𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈'𝒔 𝒅𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒎𝒆, 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝑰 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒂𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒚𝒍𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒔. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆— 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 '𝒆𝒎—𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒃 𝒎𝒆 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒖𝒇𝒇 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒈𝒐 '𝑳𝒐𝒐𝒌, 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆—𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒅𝒈𝒚 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆. 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒖𝒑 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆.' 𝑺𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑. 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒐-𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒈𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊-𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒈𝒔—𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒐-𝒎𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏." And casual sex with your own doppelganger groupies ? "𝑯𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒍𝒚, 𝒊𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒕𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒔𝒕," shrugs 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨, while both 𝐇𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭 and 𝐎𝐥𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐥 (who's been sitting silently at the table for most of the interview) furiously nod their heads in agreement. "𝑩𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆, 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕, 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒂 𝒅𝒐 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏. 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒏𝒐𝒘."

🔹 Isn't there any excess in which the cleaned-up Placebans still indulge ? Vodka/Red Bull cocktails, they shamefully confess. "𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 !" barks 𝐇𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭 .

🔹 "𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒉 ," 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 pipes in. "𝑱𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒅𝒐 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 100 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒔. 𝑾𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒕𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒚𝒍𝒆 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄. 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒆'𝒗𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒖𝒑 𝒂 𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒘, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆'𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆. 𝑰 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏, 𝒘𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒚, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒆 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒘𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐." Like, say, at the close of the 𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐭-co-produced Market sessions, which 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 had "𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆—𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎, 𝒔𝒐 𝒘𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐. 𝑾𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒄𝒌, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄."

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🔹 With such clarity, renewed focus has come a bevy of creative rewards. At personal invite, 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 played 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐁𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐞's 50th birthday gala in '97 (a favor which 𝐁𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐞 returned two years later by crooning "𝑇𝑤𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑡ℎ 𝐶𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑦 𝐵𝑜𝑦" with his pals at the Brit Awards). Fresh from a slot on Australia's gargantuan 𝐵𝑖𝑔 𝐷𝑎𝑦 𝑂𝑢𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙, 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 immediately got to work producing a documentary on—of all things—folk-rock ruffians the Dirty Three. And 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨's outrageous feather-boa-ed turn in 𝐕𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐭 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞 turned a few Hollywood heads, as well—𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 and cohorts were cast to portray Judas Priest in the upcoming Mark Wahlberg vehicle Metal God. "𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕-𝒂-𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒊𝒆 𝒃𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔," 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 hisses. "𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑹𝒐𝒃 𝑯𝒂𝒍𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒂, 𝒖𝒎, 𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕 𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆—𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒐 𝑰'𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅—𝒘𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒑𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒆𝒅 ‘𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒙 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒐𝒚𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏.’ 𝑾𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 ‘𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒊𝒕, 𝒏𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖, 𝒈𝒐𝒏𝒆.' 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒃𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 !"

🔹 But the biggest bonus of all is the aesthetic quantum leap forward that 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 represents. Judging by 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 history, you might think a track like "𝑆𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝐾" is about drugs, or ketamine in particular. But 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 tried it only once, a decade ago, and is merely using the allusion— against a stark backdrop of strummed acoustics, "𝘣𝘢-𝘥𝘢 𝘣𝘢-𝘥𝘢"-fluffed verses and a clanging, sugar-coated climax of a chorus—to illustrate the giddy floating/falling experience of true love.

🔹 Did someone say "true love" ? 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 starts to squirm in his seat. "𝑹𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒎𝒂𝒔, 𝑰 𝒘𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒂 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒏𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒚 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒖𝒑, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰'𝒎 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒕," he sighs, while his eyes follow a stiletto-heeled minx as she clickety-clacks to a seat at the bar. "𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝑰'𝒎 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒆. 𝑰'𝒎 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏."

🔹 "𝑰𝒏 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕," the artist suddenly decides, getting a spunky second wind, "𝑰'𝒎 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝑰'𝒗𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒘, 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒌𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒂 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆—𝒊𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒔. 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏'𝒕 𝒖𝒑𝒔𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒌𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒄 𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒚𝒘𝒊𝒓𝒆. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒂 𝒑𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔. 𝑺𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖" 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒈𝒈𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒅𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒕 "𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒅𝒆" 𝑯𝒆𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒕 "𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒖𝒑𝒔𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒌𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒄 𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕."

🔹 And what about 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 's wicked snubbing of that wanna-be cool cat ? Like 𝐇𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭's faux pas, it wasn't exactly middle-path-seeking material. "𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒕'𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒕," 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 concludes, eyes all a-glitter again. "𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒅𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 !"
✔️ 𝙿𝚞𝚕𝚜𝚎 𝙼𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚎 - 𝙼𝚊𝚢 𝟸00𝟷

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⭐️PLACEBO INTERVIEW (20 MINUTES, 2013)⭐️

𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰, 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴!
It's time to share with you a 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 that I found and that I don't remember having read before. It was published on the 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒉 site 𝟐𝟎 𝑴𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒔 on the same day their seventh album "𝑳𝒐𝒖𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆" was released (September 16, 2013); and although it is a short interview, it has a mix of emotions because it starts a bit tense, but it also has a funny and a reflective part. Enjoy reading!

Photo credit: Joseph Llanes

"𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐂𝐀𝐍'𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐓𝐎 𝐀 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐏𝐋𝐄. 𝐖𝐄'𝐑𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐀 𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐘."
~ 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦?
📢𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐: It took us a while to find the right energy, the right way of working. It took a lot of questioning to figure out that we had to stop questioning.

𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐭?
📢(𝑆𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒, 𝑡𝒉𝑒𝑛 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑔𝒉𝑡𝑒𝑟) 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐: Well, we won't go into that. There were ups and downs between us. Then we put it all together and moved on.

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠?
📢(𝑁𝑒𝑤 𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒) 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐: There are open couples where the spouses keep their infidelities to themselves, out of respect for the other...

𝐘𝐞𝐬. 𝐀𝐧𝐝?
📢𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐: I don't know what I was getting at. Anyway, you can't compare Placebo to a couple. We're more like a family. We love each other, we hate each other. We can't stand each other but we know each other so well that being together is also very comfortable at times, and very strong at others.

𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐬.
📢𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐: We are a blended family, a modern family.
📢𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕: Don't say I'm the kid, please.
📢𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐: And we have a rebellious teenager.
📢𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕: I hate you.

Photo credit: Robifinizio 

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝?
📢𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍: France is a country where we have always been well received, maybe because Brian speaks French fluently. I think that the French are less attached to pop fashions than the English. As we have always been against the current...

𝑰𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟎𝒔, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆.
📢𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐: In spite of us.
📢𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍: We were younger and we didn't pay attention to fashion, we made the music that inspired us at the time and we were the fruits of that time. It was all natural.

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐨𝐧?
📢𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐: We listen to what's going on, we see the trends, like everyone else. But it doesn't affect our music. If we tried to follow the trend on this album, it would have sounded like an album from 2010... Because we are quite slow.
📢𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍: Brian doesn't want to imply that we are old, mind you.

Photo credit: Valentina Kalinkevich

𝐇𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, 𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲. 𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬.
📢𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐: Maybe there was a time when we were a bit more wild. Now we're pretty wise, that's true. But I don't think our music is.

𝐖𝐢𝐬𝐞, 𝐧𝐨. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞…
📢𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍: But we make love songs.

𝐒𝐚𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬.
📢𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐: Yes, in an incredibly original way, we are inspired by love's trying feelings. Fingers crossed that love will still be in fashion in 2013.
𝙿𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚋𝚘, 𝟸𝟶𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚞𝚝𝚎𝚜.𝚏𝚛, 𝚂𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟷𝟼𝚝𝚑, 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟹.

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🌛▪️ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 ℙ𝔸ℝ𝕋 𝕀𝕀.▪️🌜

🔹✨"𝙄 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙙𝙧𝙪𝙜𝙨 - 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙𝙣’𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢, 𝙇𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚, 𝙄’𝙫𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙗𝙖𝙙 𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙥𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙀𝙘𝙩𝙖𝙨𝙮, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙞𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨𝙣’𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙥 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨."✨🔹
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙽𝚎𝚠 𝚈𝚘𝚛𝚔 𝙳𝚘𝚕𝚕, 𝙺𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚐 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟽)

🔹✨"𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘵. 𝘈 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘦. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯'𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧. 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳'𝘴 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘫𝘶𝘥𝘨𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘺. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴. 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸."✨🔹
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 𝚘𝚗 𝚍𝚎𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚊𝚕𝚋𝚞𝚖, 𝚅𝚘𝚡, 𝙵𝚎𝚋𝚛𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟽)

Dear soulmates,
last week we opened the topic of songs that are a little different from the usual catalog of such a rebellious alternative rock band as Placebo undoubtedly is.
These are the songs we play when we go to sleep and need an escape from reality. Brian, as the narrator of his stories in slow songs, evokes in his voice not only love, passion, sensuality, but also a certain urgent restlessness... Don't you think?

~*~*~~~~~~~~\...***.../~~~~~~~~*~*~
🌛▪️ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 ℙ𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕀𝕀.▪️🌜
~*~*~~~~~~~~\...***.../~~~~~~~~*~*~

Let's go to three songs today that still keep us within the bounds of the first album, and that's only because Placebo guys just know how to turn some of their fast songs into slow gems.
Last week, there was a wish among fans here to have the not-quite-final song from the "Placebo" album on this list of lullabies.

🎶💥𝔸𝕟𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕒𝕔𝕚𝕕𝕖 𝕝𝕦𝕝𝕝𝕒𝕓𝕪: „𝕊𝕎𝔸𝕃𝕃𝕆𝕎“💥🎶

🔹𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨:🔹
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The song 𝐒𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐖 doesn't really end this album, although it seems so at first glance. After ten minutes, when Swallow ends,
🎶💥𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 "𝐇𝐊 𝐅𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐋"💥🎶 starts playing in the silence.

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𝘓𝘦𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘴.

🎶💥𝐋𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐒💥🎶
~~~🔹Confiscate... razor blade... confiscate... hey marilyn it kinda went like this stay with me stay with me stop stop stammering I uh I uh I I stop I forgot where I put it I can't remember where I put it swallow swallow hey hey what marilyn yeah I I well I kind of it kinda went like this kinda stay with me stay with me stop stammering stop stammering I uh I uh I I I forgot I forgot I uh I forgot where I put it I can't remember where I put it I put it swallow swallow marilyn marilyn I well I stop it kinda went like this stay with me stay with me stay with me stop stammering stop stammering I uh I uh I I stop stop I uh forgot where I put it I can't remember where I put it swallow marilyn where I put it yeah I well well I it kinda kinda went like this it went like this it stay with me stay stay with me stop stammering stop stammering I uh I uh I [echo] 🔹~~~

A very strange, chilling, almost a bit scary sounding song. To a very interesting musical composition, Brian's voice sounds like part of a phone call, when it is very difficult to understand the whole lyrics perfectly.
And honestly, even if you understand the lyrics, you still don't know what the author is trying to convey, and it's up to each of us to invent a story for the lyrics... What is the song about?

🔹For example, tt could be about Marilyn Monroe… Information that she suffered from stammering in her youth as a result of very traumatic abuse is known.
🔹Or about Marylin Manson... (I'll leave it to your imagination here...)
🔹Or maybe about a dialogue... With someone who wants to commit suicide...
🔹Or about all these things together...

The song Swallow has never been performed live. You can read more about it below in the quote from
💥𝐑𝐎𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐓 𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐔𝐋𝐓𝐙𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐆💥
🔹💬“My favourite song has always been Swallow. The first version of this Brian and Stefan recorded on acid when I was in Germany for a month in September ’94 visiting an ex-girlfriend of mine. When I heard it, I thought it was amazing: it really did something for me. The vocal sounding genuinely fucked up repeated over that eery bass motif and cool harmonics on the guitar (there were no drums on it). I believe Brian played bass on that, and Stefan the guitar. We never played it live because we could never really replicate the vibe of the original recording, even though I’m happy with the album version.
(𝙿𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚋𝚘 𝙲𝚒𝚝𝚢, 𝙽𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸00𝟽)


💥𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐒𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐖💥
🔹💬 "'Swallow' is what happened the last time Stefan and I took acid. It could mean many things, I guess at first you might think it's about losing all your drugs, or maybe it's someone who's so wasted during sex they forget not to swallow. I don't know, it was never really written in a state of reality."
(„𝙿𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚋𝚘 𝚋𝚒𝚘𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚙𝚑𝚢“, 𝙰𝚒𝚛 & 𝚂𝚝𝚢𝚕𝚎, 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟾)

Photo credit: Corinne Mariaud 

The interesting thing is that if according to Brian's opening quote, every song on this album is a story, then the song Swallow would end this whole album story quite possibly depressingly, even fatally... But when you let it flow smoothly into 💥"𝐇𝐊 𝐅𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐋"💥, you will feel the gentle piano waft of love and hope...
💥𝘛𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘶𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵.
𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘶𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘺 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬.💥

So what do you guys think about this strange lullaby?
Maybe there are more people who don't find it very popular.
And that's why I want to improve your appetite for falling asleep with Placebo music.
✨𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭:✨

💥🌛▪️𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 "𝟑𝟔 𝐃𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐬"▪️🌜💥

💥𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝟯𝟲 𝗗𝗘𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗦“ 💥
🔹"36 degrees is close to body temperature. The person concerned is a little cold blooded. If someone gets too close, they have to push the person away. This is what the song means to me, but now it's public property, and people can interpret it in their own way."🔹
(𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙸𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚝, 𝙼𝚊𝚢 𝟹𝟷𝚜𝚝 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟼)

🔹"It's called that because 36 degrees is close to body temperature," explains Brian. "I guess it's all body metaphors. The sleeve has an arm and a leg wrapped in clingfilm, like they're being preserved. And you can put something in clingfilm and stick it in the refrigerator, or stick it in a microwave and warm it up or cool it down."🔹
(𝙰𝚒𝚛 & 𝚂𝚝𝚢𝚕𝚎, 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟾)

🔹"About the number (1 7 2 3 9 8 5 I've got to breath to stay alive and 1 4 2 9 7 8 it feels like i'm gonna suffocate 40 50 22 ... etc) ?
It is the phone number of our favorite Indian restaurant. It's in London, in the east part"🔹
(𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙼𝟼, 𝚂𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟷𝟽𝚝𝚑 𝟸00𝟹)

Photo credit: Adrian Green

💥The original fast punky version of this song was first changed for the Wembley Arena concert in 2004 into a brilliant slow painful love song about a broken relationship.💥
Brian then introduced this version on stage saying:

🔹💬"𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘨𝘰 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘦-𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢 '𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘹' 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘢 '𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦', 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘢, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳...
𝘈𝘯𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘺, 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘰. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘪𝘵..."🔹

Thanks to this change, a masterpiece was created, which allows us to feel even more the emotions that take over us when we listen.

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♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸ 𝐍𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐂 ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪

♪♫▪𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐩𝐢𝐜 is the eleventh track on the 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 album released on October 9, 2000 and is a song with a quiet, almost lullaby-like melody. 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 annotated this song before choosing the title as "𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒓𝒖𝒈𝒔 𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒈 𝑷𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘".

Photo credit: Stefan Malzkorn

🎥 𝙉𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙚𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙘 (𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙤 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣)
https://bit.ly/3pAp3Mn 🎵


♪♫▪ The title is inspired by the name of a disease, narcolepsy, which is a disease that manifests itself daily in bouts of sleep that can't be controlled.

♪♫▪ The song describes a relationship that is getting bogged down, where routine and contempt have set in, and from which it's necessary to regain control in order not to let things fall inexorably asleep or to realise that it is necessary to face things instead of remaining in a state of lethargy in a relationship that leads nowhere, where love is dead.

♪♫▪ Like 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐊, 𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐩𝐢𝐜 uses the metaphor of drugs to parallel the drowsy state in which the character finds him or herself and the love situation that is obviously coming to an end, and which the character doesn't realise, or doesn't want to realise.

♪♫▪ 𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐩𝐢𝐜 was first play at 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒁𝒐𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒄 𝒊𝒏 𝑶𝒙𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝑱𝒖𝒍𝒚 20𝒕𝒉, 2000 and was performed for 32 times during the Black Market Music tour. The video I am sharing with you today is from the concert at 𝑶𝒍𝒚𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒂 𝒊𝒏 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 4𝒕𝒉, 2000, one of the concert I watched the most. 😊 💖

🌟 𝘽𝙍𝙄𝘼𝙉 𝘼𝘽𝙊𝙐𝙏 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙎𝙊𝙉𝙂
📜 Appearing at the tail-end of 2000’s experimental ‘Black Market Music’ album, ‘Narcoleptic’ uses the disorder as a metaphor for the stupor brought on by drug abuse, with a lackadaisical arrangement of lilting drums and meandering guitar suiting the mood perfectly. Here’s what Brian said “𝐷𝑟𝑢𝑔𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑏𝑖𝑔 𝑝𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑠𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑏𝑢𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒, 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔.”
✔️ 𝙶𝚒𝚐𝚠𝚒𝚜𝚎 - 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝟸𝟿, 𝟸0𝟸𝟸

💬 When I first wrote down the tracklisting of the album, I wrote underneath each track a second title. They didn't make their way on to the album, but they were a summing up in one phrase of what those songs represent to me. And the one I wrote for "Narcoleptic" was "Love And Drugs Are One Big Pillow". Again, like "Special K", it explores the link between drugs and love. "Special K" is uppers and the rush of falling in love. "Narcoleptic" is more like downers and more like relationships, relationships that reach that point of familiarity breeding contempt.
✔️ 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙼𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚍𝚢 𝙼𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚛, 𝟸0 𝚘𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚛𝚎 𝟸000

💬 It's a song about passing love... Drugs and love are one big pillow and they can make you forget about so many things and they can make you forget about living and put you into a somnambulist state, like sleep walking.”
✔️ 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 - 𝙳𝚎𝚜 𝚌𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚜 𝚎𝚝 𝚍𝚎𝚜 𝚖𝚊𝚞𝚡 𝚋𝚢 𝚂𝚎́𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚗 𝙼𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚞𝚍

Photo credit: Mark C. O'Flaherty

🌟 𝙇𝙔𝙍𝙄𝘾𝙎

𝘚𝘭𝘪𝘱 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘴
𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘦
𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘴, 𝘐 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦
𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘦

𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮
𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮

𝘊𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘴
𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘦
𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩, 𝘐 𝘴𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴
𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘦

𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮
𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮
𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮
𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮

𝘐𝘧 𝘸𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘮𝘰𝘳
𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘳
𝘐𝘧 𝘸𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘮𝘰𝘳
𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘳

𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮
𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮

𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬
𝘖𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘢 𝘸𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘬
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘶𝘱
𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬
𝘖𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘢 𝘸𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘬
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘶𝘱

𝘞𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘶𝘱
𝘞𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘶𝘱
𝘞𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘶𝘱
𝘞𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘶𝘱

𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮
𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮

𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬
𝘖𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘢 𝘸𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘬
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘶𝘱

𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬
𝘖𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘢 𝘸𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘬
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘶𝘱

𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬
𝘖𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘢 𝘸𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘬
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘶𝘱

𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬
𝘖𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘢 𝘸𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘬
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘶𝘱

𝘞𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘶𝘱

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⭐🌠𝐓𝐎𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐒 𝟗𝐓𝐇 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘🌠⭐

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Placebo’s first single from their seventh studio album 𝑳𝒐𝒖𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 was released 9 years ago today, on August 23, 2013, on 7” 𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒚𝒍 in Europe and 𝑪𝑫 in only Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Although, it was already available as a digital download since 9 July 2013.

𝐓𝐨𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 (𝐀𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧)
 ➡️ https://bit.ly/3oBv4If

⭐️ Side B on the vinyl and the second track on CD is an instrumental Outro.
𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐨
➡️ https://bit.ly/3Sa067z

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The single was recorded at 𝑹𝑨𝑲 𝑺𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒐𝒔, 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎 and 𝑨𝒊𝒓 𝑺𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒐𝒔, mastered at 𝟑𝟔𝟎 𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈, mixed at North Seven Studios, London.

⭐️ 𝐓𝐎𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐒 seemed to be a reflection of Brian’s not very positive attitude towards social media… but the real meaning is way deeper, of course.
𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆 “𝑻𝒐𝒐 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝑭𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔” 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒎𝒔 𝒂 𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂…

📢 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: "Too Many Friends" is most definitely not a rallying cry against social media. It is a small story about social alienation. I do worry, however, that technology is fast replacing religion as the opium for the people. But we cannot blame the technology itself—people are the problem. After all, guns don't kill people, but people do.
(𝐵𝐾, 𝐴𝑢𝑔'13)

📢 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: “Too Many Friends is based on real events. One day I was at my computer – and I don’t know what I typed into Google… what dodgy porn I was watching… and all of sudden my computer started advertising to me like, you know, I was a gay man into the fetish thing. And I remember saying to myself, ‘My computer thinks I’m gay today’ – what a ridiculous line to start a song (laughs). Around the same time, some friends of mine who use social media, and I should say that I don’t myself because I have enough trouble keeping up with my real friends, said they had to stop taking friend requests because they had too many friends. I started thinking ‘How can we ever have too many friends? Then I wondered how many ‘real’ friends do I actually have and how is the virtual world humans are creating affecting the way we interact with each other?

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📢 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: “Is it creating a new society founded on togetherness or is it simply creating a new form of social alienation? I think it’s very dangerous. People don’t have to communicate face to face anymore – you can do it from behind a screen. You no longer have to have the courage of your convictions – you don’t have to justify what you feel and what you really mean. The virtual world creates an amazing platform for the spineless. It’s both a fascinating and dangerous proposition to consider.”
(𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐, 𝑆𝑒𝑝'13)

📢 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: "I'm quite fascinated with technology. I don't social network – I have a hard enough time keeping up with friends in the physical world. I'm also very aware of the addictive nature of the relationship and the infinite possibilities that present themselves. I'm asking [in the song], is that real or is that an illusion? As someone who's had addictions in the past, it may not be the healthiest thing for me to do. I see all the possibilities."
(𝑌𝑎ℎ𝑜𝑜 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐, 𝑆𝑒𝑝'13)

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𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐓𝐨𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 (𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐑𝐀𝐊 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐬)
➡️ https://bit.ly/3zI7JuT

📢 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: We thought the self-titled track [Loud Like Love] was probably the most Placebo-ish track. So, we decided to take a little risk and start the promo with something different. To start the campaign with piano notes. […]

… 𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠, 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐬 𝐄𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐞́𝐞𝐬. 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐬 𝐄𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐞́𝐞𝐬?
📢 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: I was looking for something that rhymed with 'gay', that wasn't 'way', 'say', 'play'. So, the Champs Elysées, why not! The French will love it [laughs]
(𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑇𝑟𝑒̀𝑠 𝑇𝑟𝑒̀𝑠 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒́𝑒, 𝑅𝑇𝐿, 2013)

⭐️ 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎 for 𝐓𝐎𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐒, premiered on YouTube on August 9th, 2013, presents a "detective case" regarding a series of events occurring during a pool party. It’s directed by 𝑺𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑲𝒆𝒔𝒉 (𝑺𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑲𝒆𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒓𝒛) and was shot in Los Angeles. American transgressive novelist 𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒕 𝑬𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒏 𝑬𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒔 provides a voiceover in the video as a narrator.
“I've been a fan of his since my teenage years, so it's thrilling to be in cahoots with him,” Brian said in the interview with 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 in August 2013.

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𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐓𝐨𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 (𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨)
➡️ https://bit.ly/3be4npX

⭐️ I guess, you’ve noticed that in the video, the phone takes quite a significant part in the sequence of events and is labeled as a “probable trigger for reaction” of attack…
𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 talks about the song and the video in the interview he did with 𝑩𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒘𝒂𝒈𝒐𝒏.𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒂.

𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕 𝑬𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒏 𝑬𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 ‘𝑻𝒐𝒐 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝑭𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔’ 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐?
📢 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: We didn’t actually meet him because of the way these things work, as everyone is really busy, and I think he’s really busy with his new film called The Canyon. The director lives in LA, and Bret Easton lives in New York, and we live in London. So, we flew to LA to film the video with Saman Keshavarz the director, and while we were there, he brought up the idea of having Bret Easton narrate the video and we loved the idea. But by that time, we were on the way back from LA to London, so we never got to meet him but we were very happy to have him on it.

𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑺𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑲𝒆𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒓𝒛?
📢 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: We have seen a few videos he had done previously and that’s why we wanted to work with him. When you work with someone, it’s basically striking a balance between letting him do whatever the hell he wants because you love his work but also to try and steer it into some direction of what we feel comfortable with. It is a collaboration, he would provide ideas and we would say we’re not every comfortable looking like 50 year olds at a barbeque so could you change that a bit? It’s kind of like striking a balance that we feel happy with and at the same time not reining him in. It is insane and I’m still looking at it and going fucking hell. Are you mad? Are you absolutely insane?

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𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂 𝒃𝒊𝒕?
📢 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: I don’t think it’s a literate representation of the song, I think they work on parallel universe. They have certain things in common which are technology and social media and the kind of effect it has on our lives and there’s a certain kind of miscommunication. Like the song is alluding you to, there’s a whole thing about people being isolated but having more friends but these friends are virtual. So, are you closer to the 500 virtual friends you have than the people you sit with having one to one conversation? I think it is dealing with what social media is doing to us.

𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐?
📢 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: To me, I know people have different ideas about this. I think it’s very much about what actually happened. Because between you and me, we can see that something happened. But your reality is going to be different from mine and you’re going to think that what you saw is what happened. For me, I think the “assailant” was so high that he was after the sugar rush that he reached out for gummy bear that was placed there by accident. He was obviously too high to place the gummy bear there himself.
(𝐵𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑤𝑎𝑔𝑜𝑛.𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑎, 𝐴𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡 30, 2013)

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⭐️ No doubt, the song stays more than relevant NOWADAYS. Brian keeps reflecting on the way social media influence people as a society and every single one of us.

𝑰𝒏 𝑻𝒐𝒐 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝑭𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒂𝒍𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒅𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅, 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒆? 𝑰𝒕 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒏𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 “𝒘𝒐𝒏” 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚.
📢 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: For me, it’s more about seduction, about how we’re seduced by technology and are willing to give away all our personal information to giant corporations and allow them to earn money. And what do we get in return?
We were promised a better future with more connection between people but I’m not sure that’s what happened. Any sociologist or phycologist can tell you that rather the opposite has happened: we’re more disconnected and atomized than we were before.
What is the result of having all these virtual communities and what effects do they have on communities that exist in real world? Are virtual communities more important than real communities for us today? Is virtual world more important that
(𝑅𝑢𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑛.362, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 2022)

⭐️ 𝐓𝐎𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐒 has been performed live very often since its release and now, the song is part of 𝑵𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑳𝒆𝒕 𝑴𝒆 𝑮𝒐 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓.

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🔍 𝐁ℝ𝕀𝔸ℕ 𝐌𝕆𝕃𝕂𝕆 𝔸𝕊 𝐏𝕊𝕐ℂℍ𝕆𝕊𝕐ℕ𝕋ℍ𝔼𝕋𝕀ℂ 𝐌𝕆𝔻𝔼𝕃 𝕆𝔽 𝐌𝔸ℕ 🔎

"𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐦𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬. 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞, 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐲, 𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐬. 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟. 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐦𝐞." ▪𝘽𝙍𝙄𝘼𝙉 𝙈𝙊𝙇𝙆𝙊▪

Photo credit: Joseph Llanes

🟪 𝑻𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚'𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏'𝒔 𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒕, 𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑰𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒕𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑷𝒔𝒚𝒄𝒚𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒚𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒔. The text was written in 2011 after the autor read a quote by Brian from the 𝑩𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒖𝒏 era. Battle for The Sun is described by most critics as a brighter and more optimistic album. To which critics Brian and Stefan have added nuance:

"𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘳, 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘮. 𝘈𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘐'𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘴𝘰 𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤, 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦. 𝘐𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦, 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭, 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦."
✔️ 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 - 𝙴𝚕𝚎𝚐𝚢 - 𝟸00𝟿


"𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰'𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸? 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴.”
✔️ 𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝙾𝚕𝚜𝚍𝚊𝚕 - 𝙲𝚕𝚒𝚌 𝙼𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 - 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟿


🟪 Beyond the psychological aspect of the text, it is also the vision of a fan who, like many of us, considers 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 in her life, a model, allowing her to understand and know herself better.

🟪 But before you start reading, a short explanation of what psychosynthesis is about.

Photo credit: Moritz Hagen

◾◾ 𝐴 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑡. 𝑃𝑠𝑦𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑦𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑖𝑚𝑠 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑠, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠. 𝐼𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑠𝑦𝑐ℎ𝑒.

𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑦𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑠 ( 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠), 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦/𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑘. 𝐼𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦, 𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑦. ◾◾

I wish you a very good time in reading it ✨


🔷 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙮 𝙢𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙡, 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙈𝙤𝙡𝙠𝙤. 🔷

🔹 I’m a huge fan of Placebo and I’m a member of the Institute of Psychosynthesis, a branch of Human Psychology, founded by Roberto Assagioli in 1926. I’m studying to be a counselor.

🔹 Since the beginning of their careers I’ve loved the music of the band and thought that somehow 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 “𝒑𝒔𝒚𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒚𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑴𝒂𝒏”. Very briefly 𝑃𝑠𝑦𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑦𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒, 𝑝ℎ𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙, 𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙, 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙. The synthesis occurs around a personal center, the conscious ego, the “I”, so that it is possible a formation or reconstruction of a personality around this center, through the correct use of the will.

𝐼𝑛 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠, 𝑎 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠/ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ ℎ𝑖𝑠/ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝑔𝑜𝑎𝑙, 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑠𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑦𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒, 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟.

Photo credit: Franck Juery

🔹 But what is the best way to take the control of the sides if not giving them a voice, listening to them, telling of them, singing of them, expressing them, looking at them as you would be another person, experiencing a kind of empathy for them, finally accepting them and integrating them ?

🔹 Watching the documentary in the new Placebo dvd “𝑾𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒔” that intuition about Brian grew even more inside me. When I heard him say the words:

“…𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭, 𝐈 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤, 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬. 𝐈𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟, 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐲, 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐬. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐦, 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐞. 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐈 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲, 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟, 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐧𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥-𝐠𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐚𝐲….”

….suddenly I realized I was the same, the reason I love him so much is that we both pursuit to find the truth in ourselves.

So I started to write this article…

🔹 𝐼’𝑚 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑢𝑧𝑧𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝐼 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚, 𝑩𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒏, 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐.

🔹 This may also be true, but I think Brian and Stefan don’t like to hear the thing. And they surely are right, because saying that the last Placebo album is more beautiful because it is more optimistic is like saying depressed, lonely, sad, abused people can produce only ugly stuff, or even they haven’t the right to share their lives and their feelings because they are pessimistic then ugly. They better remain silent to not bother happy people. There is beauty in everything and I personally think the reason for the last album being better is because Placebo are growing as artists and human beings. And let me say that the literature is filled with pessimistic masterpieces (think of novels and poetries written at the war’s periods) and to be optimistic doesn’t assure an artist to make a beautiful work.

Photo credit: Scarlet Page

🔹 Once, when my daughter was only six, I let her listen to 𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒔. After only a minute she looked at me and said: ”Mum, I’m sorry for you, you are a loser.“ This really left me dazed. She barely knew English so I thought she had learnt that English word “looser” from some Hanna Montana’s stuff she was used to watching.

Saying that sad, depressed, stuck people are losers and that happy, combative, self confident people are winners is not completely wrong, but… 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑛𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑦 ℎ𝑖𝑠/ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒??.

I think it’s part of some culture, which starting from the basic statement that optimism is the foundation for victory, which I agree with, ends with the dangerous statement that everything sad, or depressing, ugly, painful has to be referred to as losers.

𝑫𝒆𝒏𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒖𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒂 𝒗𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚. 𝑰𝒇 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒊𝒏, 𝒘𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒔, 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒏𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆.

𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒛𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔, 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒓, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒓 !

🔹 I can understand that at the beginning of his career Brian’s sides which mostly urged to be expressed were the most suffering, the angriest, the most repressed.

If you grew up as an abused or alienated child you’ll likely feel stuck in a bad mental frame. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡, 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑝𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢. 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒, ℎ𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒. That is, you can turn more optimistic.

All the work Brian does on himself, trying to understand the emotions which are troubling inside of him “𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐧𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥-𝐠𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐚𝐲” as he says, is likely similar to the work that psychosynthesis suggests.

🔹 By listening to his own feelings, discovering every side of his personality and by giving them a voice, by accepting them with the tenderness of a mother, he managed to have the control of them, to synthesize the opposites in order to walk together towards a common goal, his success, that is the full expression of his potential as artist and as human being.

Brian has managed to deal with the conflict of personalities and the unmet needs he experienced in his youth.

Photo credit: Laetizia Forget

🔹 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑜𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛’𝑡 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠. Brian didn’t choose to be pessimistic to look cooler. Depending on his past experiences, since as he referred he grew up as an alienated child, he was likely to reach the age of twenty feeling a pessimistic, angry and sad young man. This doesn’t mean a depressed person doesn’t have the right to share his pain and his negative vision of life, because 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑛𝑒’𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑠. Again he doesn’t do that to look cooler, but because he needs to share to be accepted. 𝑶𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒉𝒊𝒎𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆. 𝑨𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏, 𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔𝒏’𝒕 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒎 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒓 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆.

Brian never chose to be pessimistic. He just was like that because his heart was hurt and filled with anger. He felt a loser, but never meant to be a loser forever, for in fact all their albums are a search for a way out. And he found it ! So he’s a winner, because he felt a loser but at some point he chose to be a winner.

For that reason I disagree with that clinical psychologist who told him once, as Brian says in the documentary, “𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲.”

🔹 This sounds quite a weird thing to say from that psychologist because who can be totally happy forever ? 𝑨𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔, 𝒉𝒆 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒉𝒊𝒎𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒔. He has some needs, like to receive recognition, to be accepted, to be considered as any other human being, to be loved.

🔹 Once he gets respect, appreciation, and he feels reworded and accepted for what he is, once he learns to cope with music industry’s pressures, the press’s attacks, the rock’ n’ roll lifestyle’s false rules, once he gets love from his son, friends and fans, once he gets more freedom through the money honestly gained, once he learnt to cope with his latent sides and the self-sabotage, why shouldn’t he feel happy ?

🔹 As artist he may be unrest as sitting on a volcano, but this is the foundation for creativity and the urge to always set new goals in life, that is great !

So Brian and Stefan, go on ! We love you !
✔️ 𝙸𝚕 𝚋𝚕𝚘𝚐 𝚍𝚒 𝙰𝚕𝚎𝚡𝚒𝚊 𝙼𝚎𝚕𝚒 - 𝙽𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸𝟹, 𝟸0𝟷𝟷

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