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⭐𝑯𝒊 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔,

After two weeks, we can return to our favorite series:
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘺 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴, 𝘪𝘧 𝘐'𝘮 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵.

The shared video is the only live version ⭐"𝑱𝒆 𝑻'𝑨𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒊 𝑵𝒐𝒏 𝑷𝒍𝒖𝒔"⭐ from 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘀𝗵 𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗟𝗮 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗱𝘂 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟭𝟬𝘁𝗵 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟮, where Brian sang this beautiful song live and Asia Argento was projected from a video on the screen behind him.

🎶🔹„𝐉𝐞 𝐓'𝐀𝐢𝐦𝐞 . . . 𝐌𝐨𝐢 𝐍𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐥𝐮𝐬“🔹🎶
𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴, 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘵, 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨?
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘪𝘵? 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴?

For me it is a very distant past... I was about twelve years old when my father, a big fan of popular music, got this record from friends, banned in our totalitarian Czechoslovakia. I saw it as a bright moment in our family, of which unfortunately there were not many.

My parents did not have a good relationship, they often argued. But while listening to this song, my mom would smile mysteriously and receive gentle eye contact from her husband. You could say that she melted like chocolate, and I still see it as one of the few very nice moments in the whole life of my parents.

⭐𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎:
The author of the song is ⭐𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐆𝐄 𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐆⭐, who wrote it for his lover ⭐𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐄 𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐎𝐓⭐ in 1967 and recorded it together during a hot moment in a Paris recording studio.

𝘓𝘦𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩:
✨🔹𝐒𝐲𝐥𝐯𝐢𝐞 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐭🔹✨
He was an ugly man who loved some of the world's most beautiful women, a shy man who spent most of his life in the spotlight - and a prankster who knew exactly how to outrage the public. …/.../

𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐠
The man who looked like an elegant turtle cross-bred with a particularly louche, chain-smoking wolf was also a singer, a songwriter, a cutting-edge soundtrack composer, a Eurovision Song Contest winner, novelist, photographer, actor, artist, drunk, director, screenwriter, populist, provocateur, sentimentalist, clown, lover, intellectual, and the man who single-handedly liberated French pop. …/.../

'𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐥𝐲𝐝𝐞' was the title track of Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot's album together, released in 1968. It was one of a pair of songs Gainsbourg had written in the space of a night following a disastrous early date with Bardot. Struck dumb with either nerves or alcohol, his usual wit deserted him, the evening was a flop and he thought he had blown it. But Bardot phoned the next day and demanded as a penance that he write her "𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦". In fact he wrote two - Bonnie and Clyde and '𝑱𝒆 𝑻'𝑨𝒊𝒎𝒆 . . . 𝑴𝒐𝒊 𝑵𝒐𝒏 𝑷𝒍𝒖𝒔'

Trash Palace, August 2002, Saint Malo, France. Photo credit unknown 

Late one night in the winter of 1967, Gainsbourg and Bardot went into a dimly lit studio in Paris and recorded Michel Colombier's arrangement of Je T'Aime in an intimate two-hour session. The two singers were squashed into a small, steamy glass booth; engineer William Flageollet witnessed what he described as "𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨". Word leaked to the press that it was an "audio vérité" recording, with the Sunday paper France-Dimanche reporting that the four minutes and 35 seconds of "𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘯𝘴, 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘰𝘵'𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦" set to almost churchlike organ music gave "𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦".

…/.../ She (Bardot) wrote Gainsbourg a letter, pleading with him not to release the record. Gainsbourg protested: "𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘴 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘦. 𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦, 𝘐 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘺." But he had witnessed the public's love-hate relationship with Bardot, and put the tapes in a drawer. They would stay there 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 1986 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 "𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘦" 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘑𝘦 𝘛'𝘈𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘢𝘴 𝘎𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘨 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵, 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘵.

If you wish to know how this story continues with the wonderful ⭐𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐊𝐈𝐍⭐, read on here:
⭐◾ http://bit.ly/3gMjedQ


And here you can listen to both versions that Serge Gainsbourg recorded with these star ladies:

🎶🔹𝐉𝐞 𝐓'𝐀𝐢𝐦𝐞- 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐨𝐭
http://bit.ly/3ETeo6L

🎶🔹𝐉𝐞 𝐓'𝐀𝐢𝐦𝐞- 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧 - 𝐎𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐩
http://bit.ly/3AX6t7d

Photo credit;  Lucille Brauscks

But the most important thing for us is that thanks to Brian and especially his friend ⭐𝐃𝐈𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐑𝐈 𝐓𝐈𝐊𝐎𝐕𝐎𝐈, this song has once again become known to the younger generations.

Dimitri decided to prepare a project about how society perceives certain aspects of human sexuality - ⭐'𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐇 𝐏𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄'⭐. And he invited Brian Molko, among several other music stars, to participate in this project, because, as they both say, they share the same sense of humour when it comes to sex:


𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐇 𝐏𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄:
🔹💬“The collaboration was just for fun! Dimitri Tikovoï is my buddy. We have the same sense of humour, porn makes us laugh. What is strange is that people, the media, everybody took us very seriously."
(𝘓𝘦𝘴 𝘐𝘯𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘶𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴, 2002)

🔹💬”The artist in question is a French named Dimitri, whose nickname is the vibrator. He made an electronic record in French about pornography on wich I figure as well as John Cale, Jean-Louis-Murat. We wrote texts for Dimitri. I wrote one a la William Burrough. But it was very interesting to work on this record because it's a kind of music that is very different from what we do usually, and I love this kind of music”.
(𝘔6 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤, 2001)

The result was the album ⭐'𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒'⭐, released in 2002, on which Brian lent his voice to three tracks:
🎶„𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺“ ,
🎶 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗞𝘆𝗹𝗶𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗴𝘂𝗲'𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴 "𝗖𝗮𝗻'𝘁 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝘆 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗱“
🎶 𝗮𝗻𝗱 „𝗝𝗲 𝗧'𝗔𝗶𝗺𝗲 . . . 𝗠𝗼𝗶 𝗡𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗹𝘂𝘀“.

🔹💬𝐃𝐈𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐑𝐈 𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒:
“I just wanted to push myself, my own knowledge of computer-based music so there was a lot of experimentation and trying to do things a bit differently. But I also had a theme which was sex, because firstly, everyone uses sex to sell things but they exploit it in a way that’s not very sensual or erotic. I thought that if I could combine some kind of eroticism into something that is as cold as electronic music, then it would be really interesting. Also I wanted things to be a bit deranged or slightly out of place…kind of the opposite of Britney Spears! Electronic music is so cold because it’s made with machines so if you try to put sensuality into it, it kind of gives it some soul.“
(𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘤𝘰𝘮, 𝘈𝘶𝘨𝘶𝘴𝘵 2006)

Photo credit; Dimitri Tikovoi's Instagram  

𝘏𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘧𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦'𝘴 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘋𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘳𝘪:
🔹💬„I wanted to have different views, different moods and different sorts of perversions on the album and that's why there are so many different people involved.“

That Dimitri is as persuasive as he's well-connected is clear from the characters he tracked down, who include Velvet Underground legend John Cale and Placebo singer Brian Molko. He also managed to seduce Italian sex siren Asia Argento into performing a version of „Je T'Aime“, though admits he didn't actually know her until she walked into the studio to lay down her part.

„I had this idea of doing Je T'Aime because I've always loved the track, but my idea was to invert the characters roles,“ says Dimitri.

„In the original track, Serge Gainsbourg is fucking Jane Birkin, he's doing the act of penetration and I wanted to invert the roles; to have Asia doing the role of penetrating someone else. Brian (Molko) said he would do it so I asked Asia by sending her an email. Immediately, she sent me an email back saying 'yeah, I really want to do it' so I flew to Italy to record her voice.

She was very nervous when she did it because she's not a singer and she didn't know what I was going to ask her to do, she was still shooting movies at the time,“ he continues.

„We did it in a small room with a very basic recording set-up and I remember her chain smoking with me sitting in front of her. It was a little bit of a tense atmosphere but that was good for the track. She didn't know me, I didn't know her so it was a slightly bizarre environment.“

With Asia being generally acclaimed as one of the world's sexiest starlets, the resulting track is as salacious as Dimitri presumably hoped it would be, reflecting the overall highly polished standards of all 11 tracks on Positions. Musically, he's succeeded in tapping into the talents of all his various collaborators, to produce an album of punk, funk and electro songs that genuinely (and unusually, in this day and age) truly rocks.
(𝘋𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘳𝘪 𝘛𝘪𝘬𝘰𝘷𝘰𝘪, 𝘏𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘒𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘦, 2004)

Do you also find Dimitri's idea of switching the roles of the lovers as brilliant as I do?
I admit that the video from the concert, where both Brian and Argenta are so sexy, is breathtaking and dazzling for me.
„Je T'Aime“ is one of the hottest songs I know, even though Gainsbourg himself wrote about it 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒉𝒚𝒎𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒙𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒍𝒊𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒂𝒔, 𝒊𝒏 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕, 𝒂𝒏 "𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊-𝒇𝒖𝒄𝒌" 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈, 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒉𝒚𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆.

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🟨𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐁𝐄𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑: 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐄𝐓 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂🟨

Let’s continue talking about Placebo album covers and today, it’s 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐄𝐓 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂’𝐬 turn.
I hope you don't mind that I swapped this one with 𝐒𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 which we've alreadt discussed

Photo credit: Kevin Westenberg, Black Market Music cover, Discogs / edit by Olga

🟨In 2016, when ranking Placebo records in the interview for Vice, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 rated their third studio album 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐄𝐓 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂 (2000) as his least favourite.

𝐍𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐲: 𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆?
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨: I guess I put it there because I think it's the record that suffers most from having a blanket sound. We do our best to not make records that do that. It's part of our modus operandi. But it also happens to be the first time we also had a number one album, and in typical Brian Molko style, I put it at the bottom. [Laughs] I think it's a real somber record, so it doesn't really conjure up euphoria, which I suppose is what I look for in music. It was recorded during the height of our party phase, and once we had recorded all of our instruments, we had turned the studio into a place to have guests. So we spent a lot of time entertaining people while our producer spent a lot of time working on the album alone. I think if we'd been a little more involved, then perhaps there would be a little more light and color. It's quite a monochrome album for me. It's a very deep wood color, with stripes of gunmetal grey when I picture it.

𝐍𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐲: 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓.
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨: Yeah, and perhaps that's it. Perhaps the whole package is a little too gothic for me. I like to try and make an album with light and shade, and this one has the least.
(𝑉𝑖𝑐𝑒, 𝑅𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑅𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠: 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜 𝑆𝑘𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑅𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜’𝑠 𝐸𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝐿𝑃𝑠, 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 13, 2016)

Photo credit: Kevin Westenberg

🟨As you may guess, it’s impossible that Placebo would choose a meaningless random image for their album cover. Back in the days when the record was about to be released, the guys had quite an interesting idea behind 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 artwork. However, in the end, it has just not been understood fully by the fans and critics. “𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒘𝒆 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓-𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒚𝒛𝒆𝒅,” as 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 admitted later.

𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏. 𝑰𝒇 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒕, 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒘𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 [𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄]?
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Musical instruments, but very specific, very, very old and very, very heavy.
(𝐹𝑈𝑍𝑍, 𝐽𝑢𝑙-𝐴𝑢𝑔'00)

"While the band is at the height of his media exposure, Placebo removed for the first time any human presence (and charm) to his artwork.

Photo credit: Kevin Westenberg

"These are things journalists noted but not musicians" says 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐. "It was a visceral reaction to our past imaging. When we saw this music box mechanism, we just said yes, believing it showed the origin of the recorded music, there was nothing psychological ... In retrospect I think we over-analyzed, we just tried to be smart."
"But this cover sucks so much! " 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 complete."
(𝑉𝑂𝑋𝑃𝑂𝑃, 𝐽𝑢𝑛-𝐽𝑢𝑙'09)

🟨Sleeve photography was done by the talented 𝑲𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒏 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒈. Together with 𝑷𝒂𝒖𝒍 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒔, Mr. Westenberg was also responsible for the whole art direction on the album.
Captivating images of Brian, Stefan, and Steve Hewitt used as the booklet photography became quite iconic and loved by all Placebo fans.

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⭐ℍ𝔸ℙℙ𝕐 𝔹𝕀ℝ𝕋ℍ𝔻𝔸𝕐, 𝔸𝕃𝕀𝕊𝕆ℕ!‼💝🎸🍾🥂

Hi friends,
our lullaby series will be interrupted again by another important date.
Today is the birthday of the girl who gave her voice to one of the most iconic Placebo songs - 🔹𝑴𝑬𝑫𝑺: ⭐𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐍 '𝐕𝐕' 𝐌𝐎𝐒𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐓⭐.

Photo credit: Dave Kotinsky /Getty Images / Edit by Marti

💬🔹𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐒𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐓:
◾𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 "𝑱𝒆 𝒕'𝒂𝒊𝒎𝒆... 𝒎𝒐𝒊 𝒏𝒐𝒏 𝒑𝒍𝒖𝒔" 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑨𝒔𝒊𝒂 𝑨𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒆 𝑮𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒈, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑱𝒂𝒏𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒐𝒇 "𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒔" 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒅𝒖𝒆𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑨𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒂𝒌𝒂 𝑽𝑽 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑲𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒔. 𝑨𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑨𝒔𝒊𝒂 𝒂𝒓𝒆 2 𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒚, 𝒑𝒂𝒍𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒔, 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌-𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔.
(laughs) "Well, I've always thought that love is quite a narcistic thing. You like to see yourself reflected in your lover. Not that I was ever involved with those two, but I do think they're very beautiful women. And a duet always sounds better with someone you have the hots for."

◾𝑨𝒔𝒊𝒂 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒐𝒐.
"No, really? I haven't seen her in years. I know Alison from a long time ago. I went to university with Jamie (Hince, aka Hotel, the other half of The Kills). He was the first friend I made in London, and I've stayed in touch with him for the past sixteen years. Jesus, sixteen fucking years, am I really that old? (Molko has recently turned 34). I think The Kills is one of the best bands at the moment. And Alison was very easy to work with, very straightforward - a kindred soul. And you don't meet a lot of people like that. Polly Harvey, Justin Warfield, Michael Stipe... I don't think there are more than that."
(𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 „𝐼'𝑚 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒“, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 2006)

◾𝑶𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌 "𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒔", 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒗𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒔, 𝒘𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑨𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒕’𝒔 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆 (𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒂𝒔 𝑽𝑽 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 '𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑲𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒔'). 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒔𝒏’𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆, 𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒕?
𝐁𝐌: No, it's not by accident. I wanted to have female vocals on "Meds". And I thought of Alison immediately. Working with her is very pleasant, and very wild too. We met a few years ago in London, she really wowed me. Since then, I have been following her career, her rise with The Kills. When I asked her to come and participate in working on a song for the album, she agreed right away. In the studio, it's a bomb: Alison is Viagra in its purest form (smiles). She has a very sexy way of singing… She is irresistible.
(𝐺𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝐵𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑒 "𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜, 𝑙𝑎 𝑏𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑒", 𝑀𝑎𝑟-𝐴𝑝𝑟'06)

◾𝐁𝐌: I've known Jamie [‘Hotel’] for 16 years. When we wrote Meds, we thought that a female voice would be a good idea. It was then that Dimitri suggested Alison. Her voice is a real turn-on, like Viagra. She's from another world. When we were in the studio listening to her doing the vocals, all the guys got hard-ons. The Kills are an incredible band. We've seen Jamie in a lot of bands, and we even played with some of them¬ but The Kills!...¬ They're a musical triumph. One of the best modern rock bands.
(𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑀𝑎𝑔, 𝐴𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑙 2006)

Photo credit: Thomas Rabsch

⭐𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐒𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐓⭐
𝐴 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟, 𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡, 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟, 𝑓𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑓𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟.
If I had to describe Alison's personality, I would use words like 'a woman who oozes animality on stage because she truly enjoys her creativity that drives her through life.'

💦𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 🔹𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐞 '𝐇𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐥' 𝐇𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞🔹, 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐝𝐮𝐨 ⭐𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟏.
Let's talk about what we know about Alison:


🔹𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎:🔹
💦𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐭 was born on November 23rd 1978 in Verona Beach, Florida, USA.

💦Her rock career started at the age of 14, when as a teenager she used to go singing in bars with her skateboarding friends.

💦She formed her first band '𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐓' at the age of 17 and they recorded their first album when the band members were still in high school.

💦After Discount disbanded, Alison moved to London in 2000, where the charismatic 🔹𝐉𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐄 lived in the flat above her.

💦Jamie is a long time friend of Brian's, they studied together at Goldsmiths and in 1997 he and his band ⭐'𝐒𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐅𝐎' were the opening band for Placebo:

Photo credit: Ben Grieme

💬🔹𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐒𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐅𝐎:
◾𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝑺𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒇𝒐? 𝑫𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒊𝒎? 𝑰𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒎𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 "𝑳𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝑶𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒔"?
Brian: Yes, their album is great, I was in college with Jamie, the singer guitarist of Scarfo. I played drums for him when he went to Edinburgh for a festival, he had created a one-man show inspired by Burkoff, which tells the story of a skinhead teenager. There are a few lines in this play that I robbed for the little poem that I say before "Lady Of The Flowers". He is one of my best friends, we have known each other for seven years.
(𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑠𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑎 𝑅𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑑𝑢 𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘, 14𝑡ℎ 𝐴𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡 1997)
~🔹~🔹~🔹~

💦𝘈𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘑𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘱𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘪𝘮. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥.
𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘒𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 2001. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴.

❓𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 '𝐕𝐕' 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐞 '𝐇𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐥' 𝐇𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞?
💬🔹What’s the story behind the nickname Hotel?
At the time I was squatting in an apartment in London and we didn’t have any money or jobs. We got drunk one day and named each other off the top of our heads as a stupid romantic ode to the pop art scene, where they had all these fantastic names like Paul America. I named Alison with a sound, Vv. And she came up with Hotel because at that point my apartment was like a hotel for bands.
(𝐴𝑛 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐽𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑒 𝐻𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐾𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑠, 𝐿𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑂𝑢𝑡, 𝑀𝑎𝑦 2009)
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💦All, five to date, The Kills albums reached pretty high positions in the UK album charts. Their fourth album Blood Pressures (2011) considered to be their most commercially successful one.

💦In early 2009, Alison joined the supergroup ⭐'𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐃 𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑', formed by Jack White, along with Jack Lawrence and Dean Fertita. In that band, her stage name is '𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 𝐑𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬'.
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💦𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧'𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐬.
Alison is always on the move, even during the tour she can accept any offer to collaborate. Among the many famous names are 𝑭𝑶𝑶 𝑭𝑰𝑮𝑯𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑺, 𝑷𝑹𝑰𝑴𝑨𝑳 𝑺𝑪𝑹𝑬𝑬𝑴, 𝑨𝑹𝑪𝑻𝑰𝑪 𝑴𝑶𝑵𝑲𝑬𝒀𝑺, 𝑪𝑨𝑮𝑬 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑬𝑳𝑬𝑷𝑯𝑨𝑵𝑻...

💦Alison is also a painter, she debuted her artwork as part of ArtNowNY's collaborative exhibit, Push It, in 2014. She also had first solo art show, Fire Power, in 2015 in New York. In 2016 she featured in the Impossible Project in Berlin where she exhibited photographs.

Photo credit: Vincent Lignier

💦𝐀𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭, 𝐈'𝐦 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐠𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐨𝐆𝐮𝐦 𝐦𝐚𝐠. 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎.

In this interview, Alison describes how she got into playing in a band as a young teenager and I have to say, her story is simply fantastic. But most importantly – 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨:

…/***/ Her eclectic career is both a testament to her malleable voice — although known for a glitter-bluesy melodic howl, her guest appearances can be ghostly or guttural — but also her restless, nomadic creative nature. “I’ve always, always loved working with people,” Mosshart says. “The power of more people is wonderful, and different ideas and different interpretations. It’s so fascinating to me to work outside of the Kills, work in the Dead Weather, but then also go do stuff with other bands and go sing on someone’s song. You go inside whatever their creative process is and explore. Everyone does something differently. You never walk away having not learned something. It’s great.”

When I was digging into all the places you’ve contributed guest vocals, I was blown away. I forgot that you were on Placebo’s record, Meds, and Primal Scream’s Riot City Blues that same year. How did you end up on both of those records? Were you doing the vocals in person in the studio? Or were you sending stuff back and forth?

𝐌𝐎𝐒𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐓: 𝘐 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘨𝘶𝘺𝘴. 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 [𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰] 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘑𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘦’𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘒𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰 𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦, 𝘐 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘰. 𝘐𝘧 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘰, 𝘐’𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸? 𝘐’𝘮 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦, “𝘏𝘶𝘩. 𝘊𝘰𝘰𝘭. 𝘐’𝘮 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥. 𝘓𝘦𝘵’𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴.” [𝘓𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘴]

Photo credit: Getty Images, Mark Metcalfe

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🔹Twitter: @_alisonmosshart
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Dear friends, I hope you enjoyed today's reading about Placebo working with this beautiful being as much as I did. And if you thought they only met in the studio, 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 ⭐𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝: 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞:

🔹🎶 http://bit.ly/3Xk5wiO

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⭐𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘: 𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐑 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐀𝐈𝐒⭐

💥... & 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 ‘𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨. 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐬𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞’, 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏, 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝟏💥
Exactly 23 years ago today, on 22nd November 1999, a French version of 𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐑 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐄𝐍 was released exclusively in France under the title 𝑩𝒖𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄̧𝒂𝒊𝒔.
➡️ https://bit.ly/3ALV9Zw

In its original English version, the song is the 12th track on 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐈’𝐦 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 album.

Photo credit: Rudy Leonet, Radio 21; single cover / edit by Olga

⭐The song was written during a soundcheck in Leipzig on Placebo’s first German tour in October 1996, and was one of the first songs to be written for the album, along with 𝑺𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝑶𝒇 𝑮𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒔.
⭐Adaptation of Brian’s lyrics into French was done by Brian’s friend Nicholas Elliot. 🔶𝑵𝑰𝑪𝑯𝑶𝑳𝑨𝑺 𝑬𝑳𝑳𝑰𝑶𝑻🔶
Nicholas Elliot is an American-French director, actor, and writer. He was born in Massachusetts (USA) in 1974 and grew up in France and Luxembourg. He studied theater and cinema in Paris where he lived for 6 years.
Besides translating Burger Queen into French, Nicholas designed 𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒔 and together with Russell Thomas, worked on the video compilation 𝑶𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑭𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 (2004) released on DVD. He also directed a short film 𝑺𝒖𝒆'𝒔 𝑳𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝑹𝒊𝒅𝒆 with Brian as an executive producer.
Later, Nicholas Elliot moved to New York to pursue his film career and join the band Turkish Love Circus as a singer.

⭐𝑹𝑬𝑳𝑬𝑨𝑺𝑬𝑺⭐
▪ 𝑻𝒘𝒐 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒐 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒗𝒆:
Burger Queen Français
Aardvark
Every You Every Me live from the End Session on April 10, 1999
&
Burger Queen Français
Pure Morning video

▪ 𝑺𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆 (𝒅𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒌 / 𝒋𝒆𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒆)
Burger Queen Français
Aardvark
Every You Every Me live from the End Session on April 10, 1999

▪ 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒓
Burder Queen Français
The Crawl (Live Version Radio 21)

▪ 𝑳𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒐𝒙 𝒔𝒆𝒕 that includes 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑰'𝒎 𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 album and 𝑩𝒖𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄̧𝒂𝒊𝒔 single was also released only in France.

Photo credit: Francis Tsang

⭐The single was recorded at the Real World Studios and Matrix Studios, mixed at Whitfield Street Studios and Matrix Studios.

⭐𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑾𝑶𝑹𝑲 is by Risto Bimbiloski based on photography by Corrine Day.
🔶𝑻𝑰𝑻𝑳𝑬🔶
𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐧 is a play on words between the name of the famous fast food chain Burger King, the word queen and the Luxembourg where Brian and Stefan spent their teenage years.

📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: "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."
(𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑆𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤, 1997)

⭐The 𝐋𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐒 are inspired by Brian’s lonely adolescence in Luxembourg.
📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: "I've always been a loner. The three of us were, we spent our teenage years locked in our rooms, playing music. And like many boys of that age, I dreamed of becoming a star. A city like Luxembourg can be stifling when you are trying to create an identity. I couldn't be myself there. I felt isolated, far from the places I wanted to be. There was no place where I could express myself, find an echo. From this isolation I made songs, Teenage Angst or Burger Queen, because it inevitably turned me into a voyeur. Which is not the most enviable position to observe the world."
(𝐿𝑒𝑠 𝐼𝑛𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑁°169, 14 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 1998)

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𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐧: Maybe your European upbringing allows you to get away with lyrics that you wouldn't have dared use if you'd been brought up speaking English in the UK or America. I'm thinking especially of those rhymes in 'Burger Queen'...
📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: That's the whole point of a song like 'Burger Queen' sort of like structurally or if you're talking about it from a musical standpoint. The whole point of that song is to use a cheesy rhyme but to use words like infection, you know, connection, erection, you know. So it's subverting the cheesiness. It's like putting fuck and baby in the same verse.

𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐧: I bet it's also the first time caesarean section's been used in a pop song!
📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: I know, I'm so, so proud of that. I'm so proud of that one. (laughs)

𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐧: Is that song based on a real person?
📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: No, that one's kind of more of a story really. It's kind of about being in the wrong place at the wrong time you know and I guess you just finally... since we kind of grew up in Luxembourg - finally since we've written a song about it we can kind of forget about it now. But you know I think it's just... the play on Burger King, Burger Queen, Luxemburger, just kind of you know amused me when I first came up with it and along with 'My Sweet Prince' I think it's one of the saddest songs, but really beautiful, that we've written. 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."
(𝐼𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑆𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑛, 𝐴𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡 1998)

Photo credit: Scarlet Page

💥To make this anniversary post a little bit different and more interesting for you, I decided to add excerpts from 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒆𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝑫𝒆𝒔𝒂𝒖𝒍𝒆𝒔’ book 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎. 𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐊 𝐒𝐔𝐑 𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 (2009) which I translated for you. From its first chapter, 𝐋𝐮𝐱𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬, part 1 𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐲, we can feel the atmosphere of this tiny bourgeois country and learn more of Brian’s childhood.

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Having passed Lorraine, finding yourself in the Grand Duchy comes a true shock. Just a few steps from the rapeseed fields close to the former mine basin, and the border clearly warns of the inevitability of the shock coming: alcohol and cigarettes at a price that can withstand any competition, signs in two languages: French and Luxembourgish. The latter resembles distorted German with guttural sounds.

Very quickly, the roads turn into avenues lined with tall buildings with signs of the of the largest commercial banks on the planet; luxury multifunctional cars and high-end sports cars are proudly displayed in front of them. No one walks here, people mostly drive in soft silence, muffled by financial well-being.

It was in this universe of comfort and slowness that the childhood and adolescence of young Brian Molko passed. Within this reliable but terribly predictable world, the young guy couldn’t find his place. He felt completely out of touch with his older brother and couldn't find any suitable cultural pursuits for himself. “My teenage years were dark, filled with loneliness and boredom. I felt out of place. All the time I was waiting for something special to happen and turn my whole life upside down.” (Brian Molko)
[…]
“What was great about Luxembourg, that’s its extremely international community. I grew up surrounded by children of various nationalities. I think, it made me open to different cultures, different traditions at an early age. And that taught me a lot. It taught me tolerance and understanding towards others. I think it's very important." (Brian Molko)
[…]
Next to his mother and older brother, his life flowed like a long and very calm river. Constantly busy with his own affairs and being in endless departures due to his business, Brian's father was very rarely at home. It’s the lack of paternal attention that future leader of Placebo would later call an important factor that had a huge impact on his personality.
“My father is an American financial freak. Of course, in a family where there was no place for any artistic aspirations, I felt like a black sheep. Nobody believed in me. So, I locked myself in my room and learned to play guitar." (Brian Molko)

“When I was a kid, we often drove somewhere in the family van, and my parents listened to The Beatles, The Kinks and other bands like that on the road. I was put to bed to the Elton John’s music … The Bee Gees and questionable masterpieces of The Wings, but at the age of 7 you can’t protest, you have to endure. My father was a big fan of Buddy Holly. It was really cool because my friends’ parents loved Elvis and I was kind of an anti-Elvis." (Brian Molko)

Photo credit:  Robin Sellick 

Studying at the prestigious American International School of Luxembourg, founded in 1962 as Dupont School, Brian was languishing; the only thing that fascinated him was drama course. Being a fragail and insecure boy, he was lost in the crowd of diplomats and bankers’ children he studied with. That close presence of the arrogant offspring of American financiers convinced him to never ever live in countries where people of his father’s job do.

Molko suffered of deep frustration and to replace it, he often visited Luxembourg bars of – which bothered his parents a lot. Unlike the little American bourgeois around him, he didn’t do any sports and instead, he escaped to the Netherlands where he also visited local bars with a wide range of psychotropic substances

“The Luxembourg school is the worst thing that happened in my life. I had to quit the high school because I was constantly bullied there. I used to provoke others, including the guys two times bigger than myself. Standing in front of a small, frail boy, they didn’t dare to hit. I remember that once, they hang me up by my feet at a height of six meters. If they had untied the rope then, I would definitely have my neck broken. So, I looked into the eyes of death at a very young age." (Brian Molko)

“Sometimes, I still have nightmares that I’m back to school. But the good thing is that in the middle of a dream, I always realise that school is over for me many years ago, and then I begin to badmouth everyone on my way.” (Brian Molko)
(𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝐷𝑒𝑠𝑎𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑠 ‘𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜. 𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑠𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒’)

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🌛◾ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕏.◾🌜

Hi friends,
today we are going back to lullabies.
Did you miss them? Are you looking forward to today's episode?
Let's do it, I believe you won't regret it.

Photo credit: Carole Epinette

𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘓𝘌𝘌𝘗𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘞𝘐𝘛𝘏 𝘎𝘏𝘖𝘚𝘛𝘚 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮.

🔹𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 „𝐒𝐋𝐄𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐆𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐒“𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦:🔹
"Although we have kept our rage, it's a very sentimental and melancholic record. An analytical summary of emotions we have felt in the last three years.“
(𝙸𝚗𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚜 𝟸00𝟹)

These three gems I want to talk about are unique because of Brian's talent, where he uses his singing in just the right way to elevate each of these songs to the highest level. Plus, we have two songs that are recorded in two versions, which is just something that pleases my ears again.
𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲'𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐲, 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐈 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞.


🎶🔹„ℙ𝕃𝔸𝕊𝕋𝕀ℂ𝕀ℕ𝔼“🔹🎶

🔹𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 '𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐄':🔹
“The one song that doesn’t fit into the relationships theme. A classic Placebo song with a classic Placebo theme – individuality.“
(𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔 𝚂𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟹)

📌𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘑𝘪𝘮 𝘈𝘣𝘣𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘴 7𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘎𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮.

https://tinyurl.com/y7bnuvrc

📌𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐄 -𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰'𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 “𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘴” 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘧 𝘢 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 “𝘚𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴” 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘪𝘹𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘋𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘳𝘪 𝘛𝘪𝘬𝘰𝘷𝘰𝘪 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 “𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘴” 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥.

https://tinyurl.com/yhpk5b2y

Photo credit: Nigel Crane

🔹𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎:🔹
In this song Brian references lyrics from Sonic Youth's album Sister on "Plasticine" ("𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑦𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚" 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 "𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟'𝑠 𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚" 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑆𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ'𝑠 "𝐵𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦 𝐿𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑦𝑒").

The very first song and such a gem.
I'm talking about the slow version, of course, even though the original fast rock version is just amazing.
𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐄 -𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧...
Unfortunately, this song was never performed live either.
When you hear the verse ⭐"...𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦"⭐ for the first time, it's pure perfection put into a unique voice.

Brian's voice makes this song something absolutely tender, soft, something that wraps you in angelic wings and you wish it would never end.
At least that's how this song makes me feel.

The lyrics could support teenagers in their difficult time when they are trying to draw attention to their uniqueness.
It's a time when everyone feels the need to be more or less a rebel, to stand up for themselves.

But this song can also be understood from the other side - at the moment when a young person joins a group of other rebels and tries to impress others there, so as not to stand out from the crowd, then it is appropriate to use exactly that verse - ⭐"𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞".⭐

But this song lovingly suggests to each of us to reflect on our lives.
To what extent am I being myself and to what extent am I trying to behave in a way that fulfills others' idea of me?
I leave that reflection to you.

I lived most of my life to please everyone around me...mother, husband, children, boss at work...
Until I got seriously ill and it made me realize where my uniqueness had been lost.

Rebel anarchist in my youth, but suddenly I didn't recognize myself...
Yeah, that was a tough test.

It was only then that the lyrics of this song took on the right meaning for me. I can honestly say for myself that Placebo really is therapy. Because such songs are meant to make you think.


⭐𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞:⭐
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯... 𝘐𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨...
𝘋𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘨𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘮... 𝘋𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦...“

Photo credit: Tracey Griffin

And now we have another song from the series of „acid lullabies“:

🎶🔹"𝕀'𝕃𝕃 𝔹𝔼 𝕐𝕆𝕌ℝ𝕊" 🔹🎶
📌"I think we've gone back to what we do best which is writing twisted love stories. They have a certain darkness to them, an acid lullaby, which is important otherwise they become insipid and disposable."
(𝙿𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚋𝚘, 𝙱𝙱𝙲 𝚁𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 𝟷, 𝟸00𝟹)

🔹𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎:🔹

The song '𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬' was also released in two versions.
📌"𝘈𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘻. 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰, 𝘑𝘪𝘮 𝘈𝘣𝘣𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘶𝘴: "𝘞𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘰𝘯 '𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴', 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘻. 𝘞𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳-𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦. 𝘜𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺, 𝘐 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦. 𝘐𝘯 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘉-𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦!"
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙻𝚎𝚜 𝙸𝚗𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚞𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙽𝚘.𝟹𝟾𝟸, 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑-𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟹)

So to be clear, the version that is on the 𝐒𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 album is not the original version because Jim Abbiss needed to change the rhythm of the song from a waltz to a four beats. And thanks to this, we can now enjoy two lullabies instead of one!

Take a listen to the version '𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬' that was eventually released as the ninth song of the 𝐒𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 album. You'll hear the onset of Steve's drums first, joined by the dark sound of Stefan's guitar.
Even this beginning is a foreshadowing that this is no romantic sweet lovesong.


'𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬' 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨
https://tinyurl.com/4kj3t5kb

While the second version with piano may confuse us because it sounds more tender, the lyrics belie that impression.

'𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬' (𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟒 𝐀.𝐌.)
https://tinyurl.com/ac3dzv67


This original version called - 🔹"𝐈'𝐋𝐋 𝐁𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟒 𝐀.𝐌."🔹 was released as the B-side of the 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐑𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒 and was re-released in 2016 on the compilation "𝐒𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐁-𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬" available only on digital platforms.

As far as I know, Placebo played live "𝐈'𝐋𝐋 𝐁𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟒 𝐀.𝐌." only at the private concert at 𝐋'𝐎𝐥𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬, 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐨𝐧 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟑𝟎, 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐓𝐋𝟐.

Photo credit: Nigel Crane

🔹𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 "𝐈'𝐋𝐋 𝐁𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒":🔹
„I composed Protect Me From What I Want during Black Market Music at the same time as I'll Be Yours. This is two songs you vomit, which came out of me without my being aware of it. At the time I was weak. I was caught in a painful divorce and I needed to express it."
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙻𝚎𝚜 𝙸𝚗𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚞𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙽𝚘.𝟹𝟾𝟸, 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑-𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟹)

”A disturbing track. Someone who wants to engulf another person completely in the name of love. Something I’ve been on the receiving end of and it’s scary.”
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔 𝚂𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟹)


„𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳... 𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯...𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘭𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘥 𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘦...
𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘳... 𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯...𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦...

𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳...𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳..
𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳... 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴... 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴...

𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘳... 𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘦...
𝘚𝘰 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘰𝘳... 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺...“


To me, this song is an expression of the cruel boundless dependence of one person on another.
But be warned - it's not the tormented tone of Without You I'm Nothing song, it's not the dog's eyes full of desire to be noticed by the other person.
These are dark threats, just whatever you do, I'll lovingly hold you in my arms so you can't breathe.

For me it's like -

I'll be your water, I'll clear your thoughts and I'll keep a good eye on you so you don't escape.
I'll be your anchor, I'll hold you so you never leave these shores.
I'll be your drug, the demons don't stand a chance because you have me.

I'll be your everything, but don't you dare look anywhere else. It's me, I'm all you need. Nobody else. And you have no choice but to believe it and surrender.

Photo credit: Helena Berg

The third treasure at the end.
If the previous lullaby has dragged you down into the dark waters of human addiction, rest assured that there is no escape during the next track.


🎶🔹"ℂ𝔼ℕ𝕋ℝ𝔼𝔽𝕆𝕃𝔻𝕊"🔹🎶

is the last song on the album “Sleeping with ghosts” and maybe it deals with something that is long past, but the author clings to it and cannot get over it.

I imagine it can extend to idolizing a famous celebrity... All he thinks about every day is that the object of his desire he worships can't be happy with anyone but him.

And in his malice, he wishes his adored nothing good... „𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯, 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘭 (𝘉𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘻𝘢𝘳) 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘺.“

These verses ⭐"𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘥... 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘥... 𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 …"⭐ are full of poison.

For me it means „..𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦... 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘥𝘰 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦... 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘮𝘦, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐'𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘦𝘴...“

It's about self-degradation, total humiliation at any cost.

I have personally experienced several times a situation when I looked up in love to some important person from my surroundings, and in that moment, when your hormones are totally controlling you and every cell is screaming for his or her arms, it's pretty hard to handle the emotions.

It meant a lot of despair and crying nights for me...

Fate often tests us hard, how far we are willing to go, what humiliation we are able to achieve, just to be noticed by that person.

🔹𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐅𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐒:🔹
”Someone telling a washed-up celebrity 'I’m the best you can get now so you’d better be mine.' It’s about obsession, questions of status and self-degradation.”
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔 𝚂𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟹)

”This is a track written by Stefan six years ago at the piano. It's about the role reversal in relationships, the lost power, a very desperate form of love, very unclean, impossible.”
(𝙻𝚎𝚜 𝙸𝚗𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚞𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜, 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑-𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟹)

“When you’re releasing your first couple of records you do think that you’re invincible. As a young artist there’s always this voice in the back of your head telling you you’re shit, that you’re not as good as the next guy. By the time you get to your fourth album that voice has changed. You know you can’t be shit because you’ve just sold X amount of records, but now it’s telling you you’re a has-been. As an artist that’s been on my mind and that’s why it’s crept into songs like ‘Centrefolds’ and ‘Special Needs’, this idea of washed-up celebrity.”
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔 𝚂𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟹)
~🔹~🔹~🔹~


Dear soulmates, - the song 'Centrefolds' was played live only 69 times in total in 2003-2004.

Enjoy today's last lullaby in a live performance shared from 𝐃𝐕𝐃 „𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐢𝐞“ 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟑.

Post by Marti

🎉🌹A NEW MILESTONE FOR PLACEBO ANYWAY🌹🎉

With big steps we're making it towards reaching 20.000 fans on Facebook.
Today we hit a new milestone on the way and welcomed our 19.000 follower!
Instagram and Twitter included Placebo Anyway has about 25.000 subscribers now. This is a great success for our team and means a lot to everyone of us.

Photo credit: Mads Perch, edit by Silke

So once again we'd 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 the 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐚 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐭
💖𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐊 𝐘𝐎𝐔💖
𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮. 

Thank you all so much for regularly visiting our page, thank you so much for liking and commenting on our posts, thank you so much for all your lovely messages.

In short: Thank you all very much for your great daily support.

Always remember:
WITHOUT YOU WE'RE NOTHING AT ALL!🙏
Your Placebo Anyway Team


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🎉💐⭐ 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐗! ⭐🎸💐🎊

🎉🎁 Today we celebrate the 🎈𝒃𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒅𝒂𝒚🎈 of the 𝑨𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏 actress, singer, songwriter, guitarist, TV host, fashion expert and stylist 𝑳𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂 𝑬𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓, better known as ✨ 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒙 𝑺𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕 ✨, who has been a close friend of 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 for several years and used to be his neighbor.

Photo credits: Brian & Brix  - selfie taken by Brix (TW) / Brix & Stef at Boogaloo Radio - @brixsmithofficial IG / Paul Scala // Edit by Rira

🎉💐⭐ 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐗! ⭐🎸💐🎊

𝑳𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒂 𝑬𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 was born in 𝑳𝒐𝒔 𝑨𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒔, 𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒂 on November 12, 1962. She studied theatre and literature at 𝑩𝒆𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒐𝒏 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒆 in 𝑽𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒕. Then she formed a group called 𝑩𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒂 𝑫𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈, in which she was the vocalist and played bass. She adopted the name "𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒙" after 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒉's song "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒖𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒙𝒕𝒐𝒏".


In 1983 she met 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝑬. 𝑺𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒉 at a concert in 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒈𝒐, who was the leader of the 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒉 punk band 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒂𝒍𝒍 and who later became her husband, so she joined the band as lead guitarist. In 1989, she divorced and also left the band. However, a few years later she returned to play with them for a while (1994 - 1996).


⭐🎤 “𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂 𝒇𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝟑𝟖 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔, (𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝟏𝟗) 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒋𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓. 𝑰𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒑𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝒄𝒆𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒕’𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒅𝒂𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒍𝒖𝒄𝒌𝒚 𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒎𝒆, '𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅, 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒄𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂 𝒘𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝒚𝒐𝒖'."✨
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚡 𝚂𝚖𝚒𝚝𝚑, 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚏-𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌.𝚞𝚔, 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟶.


𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒙 has also leaded other musical projects such as 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒅𝒖𝒍𝒕 𝑵𝒆𝒕 (1985), 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒙 & 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 (2014 - 2019) and earlier this year she revealed that she has formed an all-female super band that includes members of 𝑴𝒚 𝑩𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑽𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒆, with whom she already went on tour as guests of 𝑷𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄 𝑰𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝑳𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅 and played some shows in the 𝑼𝑲 over the past month. Soon she plans to release an album with this brand new band called "𝑽𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒔".


📍Now dear soulmates, I invite you to read an interview where 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 and 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒙 tell how they met and also share some lovely memories of their friendship. 🤗💗💞

Photo credit: Brian & Brix backstage at Meltdown - selfie by Brix 

💫⭐ 𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐖𝐄 𝐌𝐄𝐓: 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐋𝐊𝐎 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐗 𝐒𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐇-𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓 ⭐💫

✨𝑩𝑹𝑰𝑨𝑵:
🎤The first time I ever saw Brix was on TV. I grew up in Luxembourg in the 1980s and there was this legendary show called Snub TV, where a lot of people of my generation got introduced to alternative music. I liked her song so much that I went out and bought the cassette. That was my first introduction to her: a kooky American lady on TV.

Cut to London, 2002, and I was finally moving into my dream loft apartment. My mate and I were dragging all my stuff up in the lift and on one of these trips I ran into this American woman. I said "Hi, I'm Brian" and she said "Hi, I'm Brix". I couldn't believe it. I was moving in next door to the living legend who I'd been listening to for 10 years.

Over the years we've become very close. Even though I spend at least six months of the year on the road, Brix and I have a real unspoken understanding because, in a way, she's already been through a lot of the things I am going through now.

I also shop at Brix's shop a lot. It's the place where I get the majority of the trousers that I wear on stage. I witnessed the beginning of the Start empire and now it's an oasis of genuine glamour in the universe of urban decay, dog shit and trust-fund hipness that is Shoreditch. Every piece that is sold is lovingly picked. Plus it's convenient and the neighbours' discount is fantastic.

We used to party a lot, but things have changed now that I'm a father. When I first moved in here, it was when my band started getting really successful and Brix would always show up to see us in Europe. We'd have the best of times because Brix is the life of the party. My memories of her are of the comfort of a familiar face transported to legendary venues in Paris.

These days we have a lot of dinner parties - Brix is a great cook. Our next outing is lunch, and we're going to Jamie Oliver's Fifteen later. Our crazy days are kind of over. Everybody has started breeding.

Brix and I will be friends forever. We're both people who've lived the rock'n'roll thing to the full - through the good craziness and the bad craziness, the light and the darkness, we've been there for each other. I think it's a sign of a true friendship. Until doing this interview I didn't really think about our friendship because it was so natural and so unspoken. Brix gives off such an inspiring energy she radiates.
⭐✨💫⭐💫✨⭐

Photo credit: Amelia Troubridge

✨𝑩𝑹𝑰𝑿:
🎤 I lived here before Brian did. There were always rumours about rock stars buying places - someone from the Prodigy bought a flat two doors down, and then I heard that Brian from Placebo was moving in. I only really knew his song, "Nancy Boy", and I loved it - but I only vaguely knew what he looked like. Then one day we met in the lift, and we just introduced ourselves. After that we kept bumping into each other, we both thought that we had a lot in common. It was almost like we connected without having to go through the awkward motions of becoming friends. It was seamless really.

I have fitted Brian in many a pair of jeans, but he doesn't always agree with what I suggest. He has a very strong sense of taste and, being a rock star, he gets fabulous clothes from all over the place. I remember once Hedi Slimane from Christian Dior gave him a truckload of clothes and I was extremely jealous.

The thing about Brian is that he's super-intelligent. He's such a special creature - so captivating and warm - I would love him no matter what he did. One night a few years ago we went to this wild festival called Lost Vagueness, where men dressed up as women and where there was a big casino and gambling and burlesque; really mad. It was late and we were all on the blackjack table where Brian was winning, and winning and winning - he just could not lose. I remember thinking it was like God was shining his light on this man.

I've got millions of fond memories of Brian. We've had so many great nights out together, and dinner parties at each other's houses. One year we threw a rolling New-Year's-Eve party that started off at his house for canapés; then to the next neighbours' house for the first course; the next neighbours' house for the main course - and it ended up at our house for champagne and dessert on the roof. It was wonderful, but even just sitting around watching TV with him is great.

I feel lucky to have Brian as a friend. There are times when I've felt a bit low or insecure, and he's always bolstered my ego. He never fails to remind me of my past, which is good, because I could forget it and move on to the next stage of life. It's really special to know that he's proud of me. It makes me feel all warm and teary.
▪️𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙸𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚝, 𝙹𝚞𝚗𝚎 𝟸𝟶𝟶𝟽.

Photo credit: Brix & Stef at Boogaloo Radio - @brixsmithofficial IG 

⭐ 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐗 𝐒𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐋𝐊𝐎 ⭐
🎤 "I have been neighbours and friends with Brian Molko for 15 years. We live in the same building, on the same floor, opposite each other.

We call it 'the rock & roll floor'.
Normally I would pop round to a neighbour's flat to borrow a missing ingredient for a recipe, like sugar, or a lemon.

With Brian, I pop over to borrow a guitar!" 🎸🎶
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚡 𝚂𝚖𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚝, 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚋𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢.𝚛𝚞, 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟼.

🔸𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐱:

𝐖𝐞𝐛: https://brixsmith.com/
𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤: brixsmithstart
𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫: @Brixsmithstart
𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦: @brixsmithofficial

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🎸 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐙𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐈𝐍 𝐍𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐘 - 10𝑡ℎ 𝑁𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 2022 🎸

◾ 𝐷𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠…𝑂𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛, 𝐼 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜’𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑡, 𝑖𝑛 𝑁𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑜𝑛 𝑇ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑦. 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑟, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑔𝑖𝑔 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 ! 😍 𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑡. 𝐼 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢’𝑙𝑙 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦 𝑖𝑡 😊
♪ ¨♪ ¨♪ ¨♪ ¨♪ ¨♪

Photo credits: Alexandre Marchini (Brian, Stefan, background) for L’Est Républicain,  Laetitia Evalia / Edit by Laetitia

🌠 What more can I say than what I already said about the concert in Luxembourg ?
It was a thousand times more magical ! But I'm not going to compare, because each concert has its own atmosphere.

🌠 People arrived rather late to line up. I arrived in the early afternoon. I was allocated number 7 and the wait began. The few fans present were very nice and there was no shortage of Placebo talk, of course 😊

🌠 The doors opened, we ran and stood in the centre at the barrier. The perfect place to enjoy a concert 🎶

🌠 The opening act, 𝑬𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑵𝒚𝒍𝒐𝒏, was pretty good. A former French band from the 80s, they reunited 3 years ago. The rock they played, and updated, was powerful. For their last song they invited a man on stage (I can't remember his name !) who the singer introduced as the '𝑔𝑜𝑑𝑓𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜'. And 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 was present at the side of the stage to admire the band. The song was called '𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯𝘯𝘺 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯𝘯𝘺, a tribute song to the singer Johnny Hallyday., a famous rock French singer.

Photo credit: Alex Marchi 

♦️ 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨'𝐬 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧...The smell of incense lit before the set permeates the atmosphere... tears come to my eyes. A sweet smell that foreshadows an intense emotional moment ⭐. The set list was the same as for the other concerts. When the first notes of 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑪𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒔

started, the crowd went wild and so did I. The tracks follow one another... 𝑩𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔, 𝑺𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒆 𝑶𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒆, 𝑯𝒖𝒈𝒛... an electric atmosphere. The audience was in total communion and the band was visibly satisfied with the fans' reception who came to appreciate them live. 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 greeted the audience warmly. '𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑵𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒚 ! 𝑪𝒂 𝒗𝒂 ?'. And meanwhile, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 smiled in the distance ✨

🌠 𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑩𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝑰𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒌𝒚 began. It was impossible to hold back the tears that were welling up in my eyes. This song has that indescribable touch that transcends you. It strips you bare and you can't help but be swept away by its flood of emotions 💖. This was followed by 𝑩𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒄, which swept away the happy sadness of 𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑩𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝑰𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒌𝒚 and gave way to a wave of phenomenal power. The same goes for 𝑻𝒘𝒊𝒏 𝑫𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒔. As for 𝑺𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝑩𝒚 𝑺𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒔, I spent half the song with my eyes closed, surrendering to the somewhat surreal atmosphere that the song provides live. The next three songs, 𝑪𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒔, 𝑺𝒂𝒅 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒈𝒈𝒂𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒓𝒚 𝑩𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑵𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝑻𝒊𝒎𝒆 are a logical continuation of the set list. Why ? I have no idea ! It's just the way I feel about it. This is surely due to their rhythm, which drew me even deeper into the heart of the moment. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔... It's so good to hear them live again 🌟

Photo credit: Alex Marchi 

🌠 𝑾𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈… Last time in Luxembourg, this song didn't have a particular effect on me. It is beautiful, that goes without any doubt ! But yesterday in Nancy, it enveloped me in a captivating bubble. The guitar squeezed my heart with a gentle delicacy. I was in the grip of a mesmerizing sublimity 💗

🌠 The band went backstage for the usual break. But before that, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 gave a child in the audience a guitar pick with that beautiful smile on his face reflecting his joy and gratitude. Again, that smell of incense in the air and again that strange turmoil took hold of me. A sweet turmoil 💫.
The crowd grew impatient in a joyous mood and the band reappeared.

🌠 The last three songs of the set went on, still in this crazy atmosphere. The band and the audience were moving in unison.

Photo credit: Alex Marchi 

♦️ What can I say about 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧... They were both very happy to be on stage, proud to play their new songs and satisfied with the reception of the audience. Smiles between them, smiles from 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 towards the crowd, 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏's numerous interactions with people, encouraging them to clap, encouraging them to shout. 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 was silent, as usual, but you could see the satisfaction in his eyes and his attitude. 𝙉𝙤 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨, 𝙜𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙠 𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣.❤️

🌠 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 came down to greet the audience before leaving. He took his time to enjoy the experience. What a magical moment to see his contentment 😍. Yes, 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 was bright and flamboyant. There is no doubt seeing the joy of the audience !

🌠 I was able to get a set list that will go straight into my Placebo collection. In the end, it is the memory of this concert that I cherish the most. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙫𝙖𝙡𝙪𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙚 💝.

🌠 The security was not at all annoying for the few times they intervened. I once again felt like hugging an agent when he was facing me... I managed to reason with myself. 😁

Photo credit: Alex Marchi 

♦️ Last night the band was simply perfect. From the first song to the last, 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 wanted to reach transcendence, as noted in the message before the concert. At least, I did.

My Placebo concert at the Bataclan, which for 10 years was the one where a special symbiosis with the band was achieved, was swept away with a single stroke last night 🔥.


🔶 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎... Sometimes I wonder why I love this band so much. It's by experiencing moments like thursday’s that I finally have part of the answer.
🙏 Once again, 𝑻𝑯𝑨𝑵𝑲 𝒀𝑶𝑼 𝑷𝑳𝑨𝑪𝑬𝑩𝑶. 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 !! 🎸🎵✨🎶💗🔥
(concert review by Laetitia)


𝘈𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦́: 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘮𝘺 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘶𝘴𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘶𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵. 𝘏𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘧𝘢𝘯, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤. 𝘏𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩.
💞 𝗧𝗼𝗶 𝗲𝘁 𝗠𝗼𝗶 💞
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