(๐ฑ๐๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐๐๐, ๐ผ๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐ผ๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐ป๐๐ ๐ธ0๐ธ๐ธ)
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after last Wednesday, when I shared with you my review of the unique Halloween concert, today we have another break from Placebo lullabies.
๐๐น๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ญ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ ๐ข๐จ๐ฐ ๐ข ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ถ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ฆ๐ต ๐๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฎ, ๐ข๐ญ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต.
⚡๐น"๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐" ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐น⚡
๐ถ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐๐ซ
https://bit.ly/3TrNw2S
It is the second single (after Beautiful James) preceding the release of ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ and the sixth track of the album. It was also available as a digital download and later released on Mint color vinyl along with "Beautiful James" - on 25th of March, 2022.
๐๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ ๐ซ๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐๐๐ ๐๐ญ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ข๐จ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐จ๐ง ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐จ๐๐ฅ๐. ๐๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ฒ๐.
Do you remember that night, soulmates?
⭐๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐น๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ฆ๐๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ถ๐ฒ๐๐ถ ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐น๐ ๐บ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ป๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ป ๐ฎ ๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ฏ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ป ๐ผ๐ป ๐ก๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ต, ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ญ.⭐
My memory is still very vivid. Our whole house was already asleep, I was sitting in bed buried in pillows, the lit candles materialized the shadows and the incense stick made the perfect atmosphere.
And at exactly midnight, something fantastic came. Pure Placebo like a cut diamond. The lyrics, which didn't make much sense, still filled me with a dark melancholy. The strange sound of the drums in the middle of the night was absolutely hypnotic, Brian's voice repeating the monotonous verses brought me almost to the edge of a trance. And the ending with the piano was simply "Wooow... I didn't expect that...". Since then I wanted to hear it again and again.
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๐น๐ฌ“๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ'๐ด ๐ข ๐ฎ๐บ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ท๐ช๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ, ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ด๐ฑ๐บ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ท๐ช๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ. ๐ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ด๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ช๐น ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฐ๐ด, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ข๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ-๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ด๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฎ'๐ฏ'๐ฃ๐ข๐ด๐ด. ๐๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ช๐ข๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ข๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ง๐ถ๐ญ.”
(๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐พ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐ฑ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐น๐๐๐๐, ๐ฐ๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ0๐ธ๐ธ)
So let's now celebrate this one year birthday by telling you everything we already know about this song and maybe a little something new.
This song was based on Brian's realization that he was being spied on by his neighbors who did not respect his privacy.. Unfortunately, this always happens when you live near a celebrity. However, with the advent of technology, virtually every smartphone owner has become a potential paparazzo.
๐น๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ "๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐"๐น
“We sleepwalk through the city, unaware of the fact that you can be followed from your doorstep to your destination. I thought to myself, ‘If good neighbours of mine can do this, then what else is going on?’ It’s just a microscopic version of what’s happening everywhere.” (๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐บ, ๐ต๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ข ๐ท๐๐ ๐ธ0๐ธ๐ธ)
“I began to ponder the countless ways in which our privacy has been eroded and stolen since the introduction worldwide of CCTV cameras that now employ racist facial recognition technologies; the rise of the internet and the smartphone, which has turned practically every user into a paparazzo and a spectator in their own life, and how we have mostly all offered up personal information to enormous multinationals whose sole intent is to exploit us.”
(๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ข ๐ธ0๐ธ๐ธ)
"I've moved since then, but my old neighbours thought it was okay to spy on me because I was famous... That triggered something in my head about global surveillance, about cameras filming us. The question I ask in this album is: what is the human price to pay for all this progress? But I don't have the answer.”
(๐ป๐ ๐ฟ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐ผ๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ๐ป๐๐ ๐ธ0๐ธ๐ธ)
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From this song, I sense an indictment of all of us for allowing these technologies to take over our daily lives. Not only do we silently suffer from CCTV in big companies because we care about money, about our livelihood. Not just that cameras in the streets have crept into our actual reality and intimacy. But we ourselves contribute to it very frivolously by sharing the details of our lives with 'Big Brother' on a daily basis. The mobile phone has become our most faithful companion, searching for a contact with a live person is second only.
๐น๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐:
“I'm a child of the 80s. In my days there were no surveillance cameras every few meters and the phones were still connected to the wall by a cable. My son's world can not compared to mine. He enjoys the progress. But what is the bill for this motley present and future that is waiting for him at some point. He has lost the freedom to walk down the streets without ending up in the sights of a surveillance camera.
I hate these things. And his cell phone is de facto a control medium. It holds him hostage but of course he doesn't see it. He only knows the dopamine kick that calls him to scroll again and again.“
(๐ฑ๐๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ป๐ฐ๐ผ, ๐ธ๐๐๐๐ ๐ท๐ธ๐ท, ๐ฐ๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ0๐ธ๐ธ)
~๐น~๐น~๐น~
๐๐ฅ๐ฌ๐จ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฏ๐ข๐๐๐จ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐, ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐๐ก ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ ๐ซ๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐๐๐ ๐๐ญ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ก๐ข๐ฅ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐๐๐จ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ง ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ ๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ซ ๐๐, ๐๐๐๐, ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐ข๐ซ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ:
๐The video for ‘Surrounded By Spies’ is shot from the perspective of CCTV cameras. Their faces — filtered and warped — appear on the artwork for the first time ever, for singles ‘Beautiful James’ and ‘Surrounded By Spies’. Nowhere in the material do you see Molko or Olsdal clearly, which feeds into the ever-present theme of surveillance, either by security cameras (London, after all, is the most surveilled city on Earth outside China), by your neighbours, or by your own hyper-vigilance. However, it was also a more practical choice.
“It was born out of a certain inherited shyness,” Molko admits. “We found ourselves after four or five years not really having done a photoshoot, looking around, and understanding that nobody puts a picture of themselves out into the world without manipulating it. We all hide, we all project an image of ourselves that isn’t really our true selves. And so the idea came to take this aesthetic and push it to the extreme, [to become] a very clear comment on aesthetics today.”
(๐ฑ๐๐๐๐ ๐ผ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ , ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ0๐ธ๐ธ)
๐น๐ฌ"๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐" ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐๐๐จ
https://bit.ly/3WOZ9ny
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“It's a true story told through a lens of paranoia, complete disgust for modern society’s values, and the deification of surveillance capitalism. The narrator is at the end of their tether, hopeless and afraid, completely at odds with our newfound progress and the god of money.”
(๐ฐ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐ฝ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ธ0๐ธ๐ท)
The term surveillance capitalism was coined by American author ⭐๐๐๐ค๐จ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ช๐๐ค๐๐⭐ in her 2019 masterwork of original thinking and research - as defined by the Financial Times - ⭐'๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ด๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐ถ๐น๐น๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐บ: ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฎ ๐๐๐บ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ก๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ'⭐.
In short, it can be described in the following words:
⚡๐ช๐ต๐ถ๐น๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ๐๐๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐บ ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฝ๐น๐ผ๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ป๐ฎ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐พ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ๐, ๐๐๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐ถ๐น๐น๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐บ ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฝ๐น๐ผ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐น๐ ๐ต๐๐บ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ป๐ฎ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐ฎ ๐๐ผ๐๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฑ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ถ๐ป๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ผ๐ฝ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐.⚡
๐Our dear ๐๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ elaborated on this topic in her post here:
https://bit.ly/3Gihq71
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Do you know the term ๐น๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ and the resulting ๐๐๐จ-๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ?๐น
๐น๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ - members of a secret organization of English textile workers in the 19th century. They protested the boom in the textile industry by destroying the newly invented weaving machines for fear of losing their jobs.
From this comes the term ๐น๐๐๐จ-๐ฅ๐ฎ๐๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ - used to describe someone who is opposed or resistant to new technologies.
Maybe it's a completely new term for you, but I have to tell you that ๐ข๐ญ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ 1996, ๐ข ๐๐ถ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ต ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฅ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ถ๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ฎ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ด "๐ข ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฑ๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ฎ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ช๐ป๐ข๐ณ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐จ๐ฆ ".
Could Brian go so far in his thoughts as to agree to this movement?
And how do you perceive it?
~๐น~๐น~๐น~
Of course, Stefan's thoughts on this single are also very interesting.
๐น๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ "๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐":๐น
”Maybe we don't see so clearly where we are going until it's too late, right? And that's a little bit what we want to explore in the song 'Surrounded by Spies' as you said, which is a little bit of chaos and a little bit of losing control but still, I think what we have to do as musicians and as people, is try to surf what's going on without going crazy (laughs) and have a little bit of vigilance so that we don't get sucked into technology or what's going on and keep a little bit of humanity.”
(๐ฐ๐๐๐ ๐ฟ๐ท,๐น ๐ต๐ผ – ๐ผ๐๐ก๐๐๐, ๐ต๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ข ๐ท๐ฟ๐๐ ๐ธ0๐ธ๐ธ)
๐น๐ฌ๐๐ข๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข๐ญ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐บ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐บ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ท๐ฐ๐บ๐ฆ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ด? ๐๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ '๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ' ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐๐๐. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต'๐ด ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐บ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ. ๐๐ฐ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต?
“You see, I haven’t seen it from that angle, that’s interesting. This track is kind of claustrophobic because, you know, it’s hard to avoid unkind eyes nowadays. It’s kind of crapped off on us. The character of 'Surrounded by Spies' feels that pressure of modern age, what it can do to you, how it can slowly turn your world very dark. And it can start to feel at times that there’s no escape. There’s some kind of darkness in this song. We wanted music to be very expressive, evil… We’re trying to find the hope, trying to find the cracklings of light in our songs but I think that 'Surrounded by Spies' is probably one of the darker moments. When it comes to Placebo lyrics, generally, on all the albums there were elements of personal, emotional honesty. I think that we’ve realized that it’s what makes the song universal - if you make it personal, sing of what you’ve experienced on this planet, whatever the feeling may be. We always discovered the darkest sides of human psyche and human’s emotions which are not easy to talk about, to acknowledge that we have sometimes. So I think this track is continuing in that way.“
๐๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐๐๐ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข๐ฏ '๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ช-๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ฆ'?
“I think life would be too safe without taking risks. We’ve got very eclectic taste fan base, they don’t like one type of music. 'Surrounded by Spies' is very different to our first song, 'Beautiful James'. But it’s still us. It was good to do things slightly different, not to make two same songs, to let the fans taste yourself what’s to come. But as I said, it’s all still Placebo.“
(๐๐๐๐๐ ๐น๐ป๐ฝ, ๐ฝ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐ธ0๐ธ๐ท)
~๐น~๐น~๐น~
But in the end let's go back to the very specific lyrics of the song which I purposely inserted without repetition to make it obvious how confused the text sounds:
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๐ ๐ด๐ข๐ธ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ข ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ 2๐น
๐'๐ท๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐๐ญ๐ท๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ
๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐๐ญ๐ท๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ
๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฌ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ฆ 3๐น
๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ด๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ
๐๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ข๐ต 2๐น
๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต 2๐น
๐๐ถ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ฃ๐ข๐จ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ 4๐น
๐๐น-๐ฅ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ'๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ด๐ต 2๐น
๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข ๐ค๐ข๐ณ 2๐น
๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ช๐ง๐ฆ 2๐น
๐๐ต๐ข๐จ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ, ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐จ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ธ๐ฐ, ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐จ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ 2๐น
๐๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข ๐ค๐ข๐ฃ 2๐น
๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฑ๐ช๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ต๐บ 2๐น
๐ ๐จ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ต, ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ช๐ต ๐ฃ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ 4๐น
๐ ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด 4๐น
๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ง๐ญ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ 4๐น
๐ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ข๐ค๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ง๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ณ 3๐น
๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐'๐ญ๐ญ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต? (๐๐ฉ๐ถ๐ต ๐ถ๐ฑ) 4๐น
๐ ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด 12๐น
๐๐ฑ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด...
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When you read the verses, they don't seem to put together any story. It's as if headlines and bits of news from various sites across the internet are running in front of our eyes.
Can you see that now? It's another one of the masterpieces of the last Placebo album.
To create this song, Brian used a special method - the ⭐"cut-up technique"⭐, which was used by the writer and representative of the ๐๐๐๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ, ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ฆ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ฌ, and which the unforgettable icon David Bowie fell in love with, and even made his own computer program for this method of creation.
⭐๐ฌ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ญ๐๐๐ก๐ง๐ข๐ช๐ฎ๐- ๐๐๐ฏ๐ข๐ ๐๐จ๐ฐ๐ข๐
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It works by simply taking the finished text and cutting it into individual parts. Then you play with how you put random parts of the text back to create something completely different and new. For creators who don't want to be limited by anything, it's a fantastic and very liberating way to create.
๐น๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐๐ง ๐ซ๐๐๐ ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐ ๐ข๐ง๐๐จ ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ฆ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐'๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ:๐น
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