🌛▪️ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 ℙ𝔸ℝ𝕋 𝕍.▪️🌜

☮️🔹"𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆'𝒔 𝒂 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒂𝒅𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆'𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒎𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒂 𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒚 𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕."🔹☮️
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰, 𝘐𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘚𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘯, 𝘈𝘶𝘨𝘶𝘴𝘵 1998)

Photo credit: LUZ Photo Agency

Hello friends,
another week has passed, for many of us very full of events, happy and often difficult.

𝘓𝘦𝘵'𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘭𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘐'𝘮 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 1998-99.

Again, it was not easy for me.
The first thing I had to deal with was skipping a song that definitely belongs in lullabies.
However, it is mentioned quite often here, and moreover, it is a song so strong and with such a rich history that I would have to dedicate a separate post to it.
Whoever guessed that I'm writing about the song
~*~𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗜'𝗺 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴~*~, guessed right.

So I decided to skip this song and another dilemma arose.
Three songs that I love and have a very personal connection to each. Which one to highlight with a shared video clip?

𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝, 𝐈 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨, 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐭, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐝𝐨 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥.
Today's first lullaby, which once enchanted my heart and which I used to play from morning till night, is

Photo credit: Neil Cooper

~🔹~🔹~🔹~🔹~🔹~🔹~🔹~🔹~
~*~𝔹𝕌ℝ𝔾𝔼ℝ ℚ𝕌𝔼𝔼ℕ~*~

🔹🎶 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐎
https://bit.ly/3RKPVWv


🔹💬𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 „𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐑 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐄𝐍“
"Yeah, we did a song. A new song that will be on the new album, which is called Burger Queen. It's a pun on Burger King and it also means Luxembourger queen. The queer from Luxembourg. It is a very sad story. The character in this song is in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's one of the worst things to be in the wrong place. He is homosexual, he is goth, he's on heroin and he lives in Luxembourg. These are four things you can have in your life ... No. I'm not saying that being homosexual is bad. It's the worst place where you can be all of those things. It makes us cry to listen to this song and play it."
(𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜 - 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑆𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 1997)


𝐌𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 .
☮️I am from the Czech Republic and when I went to high school, we had a totalitarian communist regime.
☮️Few of you can imagine how difficult life must have been for anyone who felt an inner discord with this political leadership that interfered with the daily freedoms of every being.
☮️At that time, it was a great miracle to meet a homosexual on the street who proudly claimed his essential nature. Such a person was immediately destroyed by the system.
☮️However, despite all the hardships, every day on my way to school I met a young man for whom life without pretense came first.
☮️A wonderful person who fascinated me with how ambiguous he was. Always perfectly groomed, with very extravagant hair and make-up, in clothes that were almost impossible to find here.
☮️I still remember his name, even though it's been 35 years. Back when I had a poster of Ziggy Stardust on my wall, I looked forward every day to seeing this gay guy again.
☮️When I first heard this song, a single image rose before my eyes. Once again I was a student waiting for him to appear on a street corner, and once again I perceived the undisguised contempt of the majority of the people of our city, which was a reflection of the then totalitarian era.
☮️𝗛𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗺𝘆 "𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝗲𝗻."☮️


The song was released on the "WYIN" album in 1998 and a year later as a single in French.

𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐈 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐮𝐱𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐠 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟗 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠:
"How many of you've ever seen ''Twin Peaks''? Funny thing about ''Twin Peaks'' is that it all looks really nice from the outside. And underneath... There's a lot of nasty shit going on. I've always felt that way about Luxembourg. It looks really nice, there's always weird shit going on underneath. You know what I mean, you know? I always thought if you're gay in Luxembourg it must've been really tough, you know? And if you're goth it must've been even tougher, you know? So, this is the song about living in Luxembourg.”

🔹🎬 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐋𝐮𝐱𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐠 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟗
https://bit.ly/3DtRAvn

~🔹~🔹~🔹~🔹~🔹~🔹~🔹~🔹~

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Let's go to the second ballad, which I would describe with the words: melancholic, dark, depressing... exactly as Brian writes in the first quote above - such sad songs are simply typical for Placebo.


~*~𝕋ℍ𝔼 ℂℝ𝔸𝕎𝕃~*~

🔹🎶 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐎
https://bit.ly/3UlPDXV


It's a classic breakup song, the lyrics describe that state where you're desperate that the other person doesn't love you anymore and you're willing to crawl in front of them to take you back.
I also see a reference to drugs in this verse - 🔹'...𝑰𝒕 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚... 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒚...', 🔹
and maybe that's why love left...

🔹💬𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 "𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐖𝐋"
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 "𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘻𝘦."
“The idea I had there was of hating someone so much that you get allergic to them - their smile irritates you, and makes you sneeze, I think that’s quite self-explanatory."
(𝑆𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡, 𝐴𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡 1998)

This song is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful Placebo lullabies.
🔹🎬 𝐄𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐬 - 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐰𝐥 𝐆𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖:
https://bit.ly/3qzScYD

Photo credit: CD:UK 1999

~🔹~🔹~🔹~🔹~🔹~🔹~🔹~🔹~

For me, the third song is the most important of all Placebo's work. You probably know the reason why...

☮️𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗜 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗲𝗻𝗷𝗼𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲.


~*~𝔼𝕍𝔼ℝ𝕐 𝕐𝕆𝕌 𝔼𝕍𝔼ℝ𝕐 𝕄𝔼~*~

🔹🎶 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐎
https://bit.ly/3dexwCq


☮️I still remember the first time I saw the video for this song on MTV in 1999.
At that time, I was already the mother of my first child, and yet, without knowing the reason, passion was immediately written in my heart.
I watched the video and had a lot of questions. Is that a boy or a girl on that stage?
Why is that voice so fascinating to me?
☮️The voice... Then it dawned on me. When i was a little kid, my father used to listen to 𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐇 (Canadian rock band) a lot...
You know where I'm going with this? The lead singer, 𝐆𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐲 𝐋𝐞𝐞, his voice is etched in my fond memories of my father's rock passion.
🔹🎬 𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐇 - 𝐓𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐚𝐰𝐲𝐞𝐫
https://bit.ly/3qAvZcL

☮️Yes, I know Brian doesn't like this comparison... 😁
But for me it was a moment of complete bliss that I couldn't understand at the time... I just stood transfixed and stared at the screen with the baby in my arms...
And I still carry that feeling in my heart whenever I hear that song.

🔹💬 𝐈 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 "𝐛𝐨𝐱" 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞:

"𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 '𝘣𝘰𝘹𝘦𝘴'. 𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘮 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦?
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: “Well, you could see it two ways, I mean, it could be a box, just a box, not a… a…”
𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: "Lady front bottom.” (sniggering)
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: “but…”
𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘪𝘵?
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: “It is. But you can still see it two ways. I mean, the image that I had is a safe place where you put…tender things.”
(𝑆𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡, 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 1998)

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☮️𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐮𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲.

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