🎉✨🎈⚡'𝔼𝕍𝔼ℝ𝕐 𝕐𝕆𝕌 𝔼𝕍𝔼ℝ𝕐 𝕄𝔼' 𝕊𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕝𝕖 𝔸ℕℕ𝕀𝕍𝔼ℝ𝕊𝔸ℝ𝕐⚡🎈✨🎉

⭐“𝙒𝙝𝙤'𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩? 𝙄'𝙢 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙤𝙤 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙮𝙚𝙩. 𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚. 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮... 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙬𝙝𝙤'𝙨 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙡𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙢𝙚. (𝙡𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙨) 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚.” (𝙡𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙨)⭐
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙸𝚗 𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚆𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚂𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚘𝚗, 𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝 '𝟿𝟾)

Dear friends, today we have a little break in the lullaby series again.
I'm honored to make a post to celebrate the song that was at the birth of my passion and long-standing love for the band Placebo.

Photo credit: single cover - Corinne Day, screenshot from video, soundtrack cover, Edit by Marti

The song 🔹𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐌𝐄🔹 is the eighth track on the album '𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗜'𝗺 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴' from 1998 and was released as 🔹𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲🔹 from this album 🔹𝟐𝟒 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨, 𝐨𝐧 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟓, 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟗🔹.


🔹🎶 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗠𝗘 - 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼
http://bit.ly/3dexwCq


𝗬𝗲𝘀, 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝟮𝟰 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀😍. 𝗦𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝘁'𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗲 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗲𝗺, 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗱'𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀.


⭐𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐌𝐄 - 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎:⭐

🔹“𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘵 '𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘺 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘡𝘰𝘰' 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘦!“
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝚒𝚗 𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚆𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚂𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚘𝚗, 𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟾)

🌹The lyrics for the song were written by Brian with the help of his friend and AC Acoustics singer Paul Campion, who "𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 '𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘔𝘦' 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳'𝘴 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬." (𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗, 𝚂𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚊𝚝 𝙰𝙾𝙻 𝟸00𝟺)

🌹The song 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐌𝐄 (along with the entire WYIN album - except Pure Morning) was recorded in early 1998 at Real World Studios with producer Steve Osborne.

🌹The single managed to chart at number 11 on the UK Singles Chart, number 46 in Australia, and number 99 in Germany.

🌹It was voted from a poll of 500,000 votes to be ranked number 83 on the list of the Hottest 100 of All Time in July 2009, conducted by Australian radio station Triple J.

🌹The single was released as a 2-CD set and on cassette, but promotional copies on 12-inch vinyl also exist.

 Screenshot from the video

⭐𝐂𝐃 𝟏 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞:
Every You Every Me (single mix)
Nancy Boy (Blue Amazon mix)
https://bit.ly/3JAGXaE
Every You Every Me (Jimmy Cauty's Infected by the Scourge of the Earth mix)
https://bit.ly/3qD49fz

⭐𝗖𝗗 𝟮
Every You Every Me (album version)
Every You Every Me (Sneaker Pimps version)
https://bit.ly/31hzuvH
Every You Every Me (Brothers in Rhythm Glam Club mix)
https://bit.ly/3HtTYRg


🌹This song was used as the theme song for the famous American drama ⭐𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐄𝐋 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒⭐ with Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, Selma Blair and Sarah Michelle Gellar. This film is based on the 1782 novel "𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐋𝐢𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬" 𝐛𝐲 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐬 𝐝𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬, which is set in the present day.

The plot concerns two high school step siblings from New York's high society, who are forever at war with each other and scheme and manipulate other people to achieve their goals, including sex and revenge. I think 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐌𝐄 is a great choice for the overall experience of this drama. The lyrics reflect the tone and plot of the film, especially Ryan's character Sebastian.
Following a bet with his evil sister, he decides to hurt a girl who is very vulnerable and naive, and as a result, everything comes to an inescapably tragic end.

 Screenshot from the video

🔹💬𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐄𝐋 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒:
"𝘐 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘢, 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 [𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘓𝘪𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘴] 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘶𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨. 𝘐 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥: '𝘐𝘧 𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘥, 𝘪𝘧 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘥𝘰 𝘪𝘵.' 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘴𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭."
(𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚕𝚍 𝚂𝚞𝚗, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸𝟿𝚝𝚑, 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟿)

🔹🎶𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐂𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 (𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟗) - 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞
http://bit.ly/3WEqOpT


🌹𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲:

Two versions were filmed live at London's 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒙𝒕𝒐𝒏 𝑨𝒄𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒚 on October 24th, 1998, during Without You I'm Nothing world tour.

🔹The version with only live footage was released in 1999 at the same time as the single.

🔹Another one, directed by Matthew Amos, includes clips from 𝑪𝒓𝒖𝒆𝒍 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 and was included into 𝐎𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐕𝐃 (2004).

🔹🎶𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞 (𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨) 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟗
http://bit.ly/2SSBvbl
🔹🎶𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞 (𝐂𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧)
https://bit.ly/3JrqIfQ

 Screenshot from the video, HD edit

🔹Third video for 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞 (so called 𝐀𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐭 or 𝐄𝐲𝐞𝐬 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧) was recorded on November 11th, 1998, but wasn’t released with the single due to management’s decision and remained buried in the band’s archive for 18 years!

It was revealed on October 7th, 2016, to mark the release of the compilation album 𝑨 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑼𝒔 𝑻𝒐 𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎. The scenes from this video were used as intro at the shows of 20 Years of Placebo tour.

🔹🎶𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞 (𝐮𝐧𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨)
https://bit.ly/2RTnQ2n


🌹𝐌𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬...🌹
It was 1999. MTV channel was playing on the TV. The first notes of the song came on, and the singer's voice rang inside my chest. That was my "Wooow PLACEBO!!!" first time. With my arms full - washed clothes in one hand and my almost one-year-old daughter in the other and a baby dummy in my mouth - I stood in front of the television and for several minutes I could not take my eyes off the ambiguous singing being. These memories are still as vivid and strong as if it were yesterday...

And to enjoy this evening even more - here you can see how time went with '𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐌𝐄' live:

🔹🎶𝐖𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟏
https://bit.ly/3mBFy92

🔹🎶𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐀𝐦 𝐑𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟑
https://bit.ly/402UpMM

🔹🎶𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟔
https://bit.ly/3kxH66u

🔹🎶𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟗
https://bit.ly/3iZxwcr

🔹🎶𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟑
https://bit.ly/3JhQDcf

And there's also the unforgettable slow version from 🔹🎶𝐌𝐓𝐕 𝐔𝐍𝐏𝐋𝐔𝐆𝐆𝐄𝐃 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟓 with Majke Voss Romme, thanks to which we have this song in our Placebo lullabies:
http://bit.ly/40eBdvF

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⭐„𝘐 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸, 𝘴𝘰 𝘐 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺, 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭 “𝘴,” 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦… 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘥. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘱𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘳𝘺, 𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘴𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴... 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘨𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩, 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦. 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴.“⭐
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠, 𝚁𝙴𝙰𝚇, 𝙹𝚞𝚕 𝟸00𝟽)

Photo credit: Charlie  Cravero

Dear friends, many of us experience these winter days worse than the rest of the year.

Short sunshine, cold weather, snow and frost...
In connection with various hardships in life, this period causes a more frequent tendency to depression and gloomy thoughts in many people, the world seems sadder, darker.

When you add to all of this the troubles with love, with the end of a relationship, when we are shocked, angry, aggressive or just totally desperate, it can knock us down to the very bottom.

For today's post, I have chosen a song that is the perfect anthem for all broken hearts.

🔥...𝘐𝘧 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨
𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥
𝘐'𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘥... 🔥

A perfect, heartbreaking anthem about the end of love. A drama about despair expressed in very moving words and complemented by a gentle combination of guitar and piano accompanied by a drum machine...


🔹🎶𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐃🎶🔹

𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨
https://bit.ly/3HeGcF6
~🔹~🔹~🔹~


⭐𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎:

“𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐃” was written and recorded around 2002 when Placebo were working on covers with producer Dimitri Tikovoi.

Stefan: “We didn't want to make a B-side of it, so we kept the original recording for this album [“Meds”, released in 2006], just with vocals redone and more overdubs."

BLIND has been performed live 179 times, five of which were part of the setlist at intimate shows in 2022.

Lucky everyone who experienced this anthem about unrequited love live.

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⭐𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 "𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐃"
" Blind, included in Meds, is a somewhat alike song (I Know). The end of a relationship is kind like death. You have a life with someone and just suddendly, everything stops. The saddest part is that the world goes on and people go on minding their own business, without knowing the paint you feel. It's very interesting for an author to write about that."
(𝚂𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚜 𝟸00𝟼)

⭐𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐃
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: It's a song for the girls.
𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏: I wrote it 4 years ago, like Post Blue, when we were recording our covers with Dimitri [Tikovoï]. The guitars are tuned in the same way on both tracks. At that time, we didn't want to make B-sides of them, we kept the original recording for this album [Meds], just with vocals redone and more overdubs.
(𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝙾𝚕𝚜𝚍𝚊𝚕, 𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔 𝙼𝚊𝚐 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟼)
“One of the tracks you write for all the ladies out there.”
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝚇𝙵𝙼, 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝟸00𝟼)
~🔹~🔹~🔹~

Okay, so anyone who thought this song came from Brian's broken heart, might be wrong.

Fans can only speculate what all of Brian's experiences are in the lyrics of this painful ballad, as according to the quotes, the song Blind is mainly Stefan's child.
But a song is often created by a team... Someone suggests a musical line on the guitar or piano, someone comes up with a piece of verse...

🔹💬𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏? 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉?
"There’re no rules in fact. We try to stay very open. When it’s me that make the song, I can begin with a voice melody, when it’s Stefan, it more with a guitar, and when it’s Steve, it’s with drums. We can also begin with a piano line that Stef or me find accidentally, It’s often accidental."
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔 𝙼𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚎, 𝙳𝚎𝚌 𝟸00𝟻)

Photo credit: Virgin Megastore London, England

I think that even the verses for Blind were created as a team, partly by Stefan, supplemented and completed by Brian. .. maybe...

🔹💬 You have often been accused of being an intellectual band, sometimes you use somewhat complex phrasings. But for me, as you said, you're a band with a dark romanticism mood and I can not help but quote one of the most beautiful sentences that I have ever read in a song. Here's the quote. This is an excerpt from the title Blind.

You will tell me if my choice is right.

'...𝙄'𝙙 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙯𝙚 𝙪𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 /...𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 /
...𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙚𝙮𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙜𝙡𝙪𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙚...'

𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘭𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮.
Yeah what I see, first, there is an incredible musicality. Afterwards, all you have to do is adding the music, but it's already there intrinsically in the sentence. And above all, tell us the truth, you're a Shakespeare fan? It's Romeo and Juliet. A bit like that.
𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: 𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘦. 𝘚𝘰 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘭𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘺. 𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘫𝘰𝘣 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 ... 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐'𝘮 𝘵𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰.
(𝙿𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚋𝚘 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠, 𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚛𝚝 𝙿𝚛𝚒𝚟𝚎' 𝙼𝟼, 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝟸00𝟼)
~🔹~🔹~🔹~

Of course, when we see Brian tearfully wailing into the microphone .... 🔥"𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘥....𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦... 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦...."🔥 , we're not far from the idea that in that moment, in his role as narrator, he can recall any of his pain of an involuntarily ended relationship, the pain of a lost love, the pain of a loved one leaving💔

⭐For me, this ballad has always evoked my personal memory of a relationship between lovers that was affected by drug addiction.

It was about my friends from my youth and their suffering that almost resulted in the death of that girl. Fortunately, she eventually came out of her coma in the hospital and entered a drug addiction treatment facility.

Nevertheless, it was the end of great love, because the boy's parents, fearing for their son's life, moved so far away that the two lovers could no longer see each other. Life sometimes brings experiences that are very cruel and take a painful place in our souls for the rest of our lives.

Thanks to these experiences of my friends, I can't forget the very special movie 🔹'𝐑𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦'🔹, in which 𝐉𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐨 played the main role. I agree with the fan who used bits from this movie as the 'official' video for the BLIND song.

🔹🎶 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗻'𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗽 𝘆𝗲𝘁, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲:
http://bit.ly/3QL7PbW

For the end of today's post I have chosen a live performance from ⭐𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐮𝐱 𝐉𝐚𝐳𝐳 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟕, that is really very emotional...
It seems as if for Brian the microphone is the materialization of all his painful breakups...

🔥'...𝘋𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘨𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘦 ...𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘥...'🔥

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🌛◾ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 - 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕏𝕀𝕍.◾🌜

⭐“𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 '𝙈𝙚𝙙𝙨' 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙙𝙧𝙪𝙜𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙗𝙪𝙨𝙚. 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙬𝙚 𝙙𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙫𝙚𝙞𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙖𝙡, 𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙚𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙗𝙤 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡 ... 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙤𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙙𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙧𝙪𝙜𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙡𝙘𝙤𝙝𝙤𝙡..."⭐
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙻𝚎𝚜 𝙸𝚗𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚞𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜, 𝙼𝚊𝚢 𝟸𝟼𝚝𝚑 𝟸00𝟿)

Photo credit: Stuart Mostyn

Hello soulmates,
after a break caused by several important anniversaries, today we return to our beloved Placebo Lullabies.

Tonight is going to be special. I have two gems that give the term Placebo lullaby its true meaning.
I chose these two songs from 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐒 album today also because they were both part of Placebo's 🔹𝐌𝟔 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐤𝐨𝐟𝐟, 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟑𝟏, 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟔🔹 and followed each other, so it was very easy to upload a video with both songs at once.

So today you can enjoy a unique concert with Brian's fragile expression of a shy puppy, which I personally really love and recommend to anyone who doesn't know Placebo yet.


𝙇𝙚𝙩'𝙨 𝙜𝙤 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙜...

A ballad that I just had to listen to over and over again...
And even now, I play it several times in a row when I'm feeling down.

🔹🎶 '𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 '🔹🎶
🔹𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨
https://bit.ly/3XfUZog

The 12th track from the dark album MEDS.
Apart from the album version there's also a demo with slightly different lyrics which can be found on the “Meds” Special edition.

🔹'𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 ' 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧
https://bit.ly/3k397mh


So dark, so melancholic, so intense... almost hypnotic... Leonard Cohen's influence is absolutely clear in this song.
I'm always struck at first by Brian's low-pitched voice, full of total surrender to bitter reality.

🔹💬𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 '𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆'
“𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘓𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬.”
(𝚇𝙵𝙼, 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝟸00𝟼)

"𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘴 7𝘢𝘮 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘴. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘢𝘺 '𝘞𝘩𝘺 𝘢𝘮 𝘐 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴? 𝘐 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯." 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭, 𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘫𝘰𝘣, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 "𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦."
(𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔 𝙼𝚊𝚐, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟼)

For me, ⭐'𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆'⭐ is a recurring misunderstanding of the narrator's life journey...

As if, thanks to a certain loop in reality, he kept experiencing the same thing...
A wild night full of drug highs and sex and a bitter morning when he is disgusted with himself when he looks in the mirror...
Everyone else wakes up to normal life...
And he again judges his experience as the height of hypocrisy, because it was yet another night as an escape from himself...

🔹„...𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 ...𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦'𝘴 𝘺𝘢𝘸𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 ...𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩
...𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 ...𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘬 𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩

...𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘴 ...𝘈 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘦
...𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘳, 𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳, 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘰'𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘦 ...𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵...“🔹

Although I've never tried hard drugs, this song is a reliable way for me to feel even worse in moments of self-disgust and enjoy the feeling, as crazy as it sounds.
It's a way for me to cry about not being in control of my life, and I know that relief will come right after because I will feel hope in my heart.

Hope for another day.
That everything I failed again will pass with the sunrise and I can try again.
And that I don't have to repeat the same mistake again.
For me personally, it's a beautiful and honest ballad about hope.
In the morning I will hear the kettle with hot water whistling again and the day will begin full of new opportunities for change.

Photo credit: Vincent Lignier

If the first ballad is about hope, the second one is about pure human pain and knowing other forms of love.

🔹🎶'𝐏𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐋𝐎𝐖𝐍'🔹🎶

The ninth track from MEDS.

🔹𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨
https://bit.ly/3ZqIDLM

🔹𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧
https://bit.ly/3QvF82m


🔹💬 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 “𝐏𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐋𝐎𝐖𝐍”✨
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: It's about destructive, violent relationships. After having written it, I realized that it might be a family relationship as well as a love one. A lot of songs - mostly country - talk about women being hit by their husbands. On the contrary, in “Pierrot the clown”, the target of the violence is a man. A vulnerable man, trapped in a violent and destructive relationship. The title of this track reflects my obsession with clowns and my passion for the circus. In high school, I even thought about getting into a school for clowns and become a...

𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏: (teasing) That's what you do!

𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: (Laughter) But fortunately for everyone, I was accepted at university! When I was a kid, I would go to the circus. It was a celebration, but a person, Pierrot, was always sad. I felt compassion for him. Pierrot the Clown, it's also the role played by David Bowie in his video Ashes To Ashes. It's a powerful image for me, with which I wanted to express how you can feel alone in a couple, how much you can let yourself being beaten physically and mentally by someone. Very cheerful, huh? "
(𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔 𝙼𝚊𝚐, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟼)

Brian's voice so intimate again.... I'm very sensitive to these ballads, where the musical arrangement only very subtly adds to what initially gives this song its soul...
Brian's voice expressing the story of the narrator.

🔹„𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘥, 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸, 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥.
𝘒𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥, 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯....“🔹


Thanks to the clear message in the text, we don't have to doubt the desperation of this story...
But we can only speculate if Brian experienced the weight of physical abuse first hand.

🔹„𝘙𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘥 𝘴𝘢𝘺, 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸, 𝘢𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘸 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥...“

„...𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮, 𝘪 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘱𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮, 𝘪 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘬𝘪𝘴𝘴,
...𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮, 𝘪 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴...“🔹

This is the lullaby that always makes me cry when I let myself get carried away by this sad musical energy at night before bed.
Brian, in the form of a crying Pierrot, is in my mind and I can only add to that - '𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨𝙣'𝙩 𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧.'

If the victim of abuse gets over such brutal life experiences and understands their meaning, if he can then forgive himself and the other person with love, he will find his value and achieve a very deep spiritual knowledge.

⭐'𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆' was played live only 4 times and ⭐'𝐏𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐋𝐎𝐖𝐍' 6 times.

I think it's a great shame because these songs are also indicators of Brian's masterful songwriting talent and Placebo's music made them unforgettable gems.


Dear friends, my post ends today. Enjoy part of this private concert from 2006, and as always, I look forward to hearing your feelings about these two wonderful lullabies. Tell me, which one do you like better and why? And how do you like the demo versions.

🌛◾Have a good night and take care of yourselves.◾🌜

Post by Marti

🎉 💎𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐒𝐘𝐃 𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐓! 💎🎉

🎉 We remember ✨𝑺𝒚𝒅 𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕✨ the singer-songwriter, musician, painter, co-founder and leader of the historic band 𝑷𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝑭𝒍𝒐𝒚𝒅, who would have been 77 years old today.

Photo credits: Mick Rock (2), Lili Wilde // Edit by Rita

📍𝑹𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝑲𝒆𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒕 was born January 6, 1946 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom.When he was a child, he played the piano, ukulele, banjo, and guitar. He also loved drawing and writing poetry and won awards for his poetry in high school. He formed a band called 𝑮𝒆𝒐𝒇𝒇 𝑴𝒐𝒕𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒐𝒆𝒔, which was short-lived. Around that time, he was influenced by the Beatles and sang their songs at parties and picnics.

In London, 𝑺𝒚𝒅 𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕 reconnected with 𝑹𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔, his school friend from Cambridge. Waters had formed a band with 𝑹𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑾𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 and 𝑵𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏, which was called The Sigma 6. When one of the members left, Barrett joined the band, which went through several name changes and was finally named 𝑷𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝑭𝒍𝒐𝒚𝒅 by Barrett in 1965, after two U.S. blues musicians, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. In April 1968, Barrett was expelled from the band amid speculation about mental illness and his excessive use of psychedelic drugs. In 1996, Barrett was inducted into the 𝑹𝒐𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑹𝒐𝒍𝒍 𝑯𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒂𝒎𝒆 as a member of 𝑷𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝑭𝒍𝒐𝒚𝒅. He died of pancreatic cancer in 2006.

Several artists have acknowledged 𝑺𝒚𝒅 𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕's influence such as 𝑩𝒍𝒖𝒓, 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝑼𝒃𝒖, 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄 𝑩𝒐𝒍𝒂𝒏, 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑳𝒊𝒑𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑩𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒆.

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🎤"For me, the first Pink Floyd album is a work of absolute genius. It's completely different from everything else they've done because by the time they get to write their second album, they kick out Syd Barrett, who started the band and who wrote all their songs, and then they become something else. What is great about this record is it sits on the border of garage rock from the 60s and psychedelia, you know, because essentially, Syd Barrett was very much inspired by the blues and it's a raw moment captured in time before psychedelia sort of ran away with itself (laughs). There's still like a real rough edge to it and you can really hear it on 'Lucifer Sam' and the guitars… there's no nice guitars, (laughs) but it don't have to be nice to be beautiful."
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙱𝙱𝙲 𝚁𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 6 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙵𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚃𝚒𝚖𝚎, 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟼.


𝑫𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝑮𝒍𝒐𝒃𝒆 is an original song from 𝑺𝒚𝒅 𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕's first solo album "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒑 𝑳𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒔" (1970) which was recorded at 𝑨𝒃𝒃𝒆𝒚 𝑹𝒐𝒂𝒅 𝑺𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒐𝒔 on August 5, 1969 produced by 𝑷𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝑭𝒍𝒐𝒚𝒅 members 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑮𝒊𝒍𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒓 and 𝑹𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔. It is a melancholic song that gives a glimpse of what 𝑺𝒚𝒅 may have been feeling about his mental health, the lines,

🎶 𝘐'𝘮 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘌𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘮𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘯
𝘐 𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 🎶,

seems to be a reference to his girlfriend at the time, 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒚𝒏 𝑹𝒐𝒔𝒆, better known by the nicknames "𝑰𝒈𝒈𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒎𝒐" and "𝑰𝒈𝒈𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑰𝒏𝒖𝒊𝒕", who is also the lady who appears on the back cover of the album.

Photo credit: Robin

💎𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬, 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲?
🎤𝐒𝐲𝐝: Yes, very much. It would be terrific to do much more mood stuff. They're very pure, you know, the words...I feel I'm jabbering. I really think the whole thing is based on me being a guitarist and having done the last thing about two or three years ago in a group around England and Europe and The States, and then coming back and hardly having done anything, so I don't really know what to say. I feel, perhaps, I could be claimed as being redundant almost. I don't feel active, and that my public conscience is fully satisfied.
▪️𝚂𝚢𝚍 𝙱𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚝, 𝙼𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚍𝚢 𝙼𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚛, 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝟸𝟽, 𝟷𝟿𝟽𝟷.


𝑫𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝑮𝒍𝒐𝒃𝒆 was one of the first covers 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 recorded on the sessions of their debut album at 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒐𝒔, 𝑫𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒏, 𝑰𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅. It was produced by 𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒅 𝑾𝒐𝒐𝒅 and engineered by 𝑬𝒅 𝑲𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒉𝒂𝒏 and later this cover appeared as a b-side of the "𝟑𝟔 𝑫𝒆𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒔" single released on June 3, 1996.

🔊 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐞 - 𝐒𝐲𝐝 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭 🎵
https://bit.ly/2YG4hv8

🔊 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐞 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 🎵
https://bit.ly/2WhzgQH

🔊 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐞 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐆𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟕 🎵
https://bit.ly/3Co1eOL

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🎶💫⭐ 𝐋𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 ⭐💫🎶
𝘖𝘩, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘰𝘸
𝘗𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘧?
𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦
𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵

𝘔𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘬𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥
𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯, 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥

𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦, 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦, 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘵 𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥
𝘐'𝘮 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘵
𝘖𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴, 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭
𝘞𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘮𝘦? 𝘞𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭?

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘺 𝘣𝘪𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘺
𝘚𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘸𝘪𝘨𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥
𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘥
𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘦

𝘔𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘬𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥
𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯, 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥

𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦, 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘵 𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥
𝘐'𝘮 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘌𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘮𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘯
𝘐 𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺
𝘞𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘮𝘦? 𝘞𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭?

•.☆♫•♬•*･ﾟ♡･ﾟ*•♬•♫☆.•

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💗🎉✨ℍ𝔸ℙℙ𝕐 𝔹𝕀ℝ𝕋ℍ𝔻𝔸𝕐 𝕄𝕀ℂℍ𝔸𝔼𝕃!✨🎉💗

☮"𝘼𝙨 𝙄 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙩 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙗𝙫𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙥𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙚𝙭𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮, 𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙨𝙣’𝙩 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙩𝙚, 𝙤𝙧 𝙨𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚 – 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙗𝙤𝙬."☮𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙚𝙡 𝙎𝙩𝙞𝙥𝙚

Photo credits: Michael Stipe - Jenn Five, screenshots from video, Michael and Brian from Brixton Academy 1997 - Justin Thomas / Edit by Marti

Dear soulmates,
today we have another important date.
𝟲𝟯 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗴𝗼, 𝗼𝗻 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟰, 𝟭𝟵𝟲𝟬, 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗻 -
- 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗻, 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗿, 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗥.𝗘.𝗠. ⭐𝗝𝗢𝗛𝗡 𝗠𝗜𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗘𝗟 𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗣𝗘⭐.

It is a great honour for me to be able to write a few words about a man whose music and his whole being is a celebration of life. Prepare yourself for a long read full of various links, because Michael is simply my idol.

⚡🌹💗🎉✨ℍ𝔸ℙℙ𝕐 𝔹𝕀ℝ𝕋ℍ𝔻𝔸𝕐 𝕋𝕆 𝕐𝕆𝕌, 𝕄𝕀ℂℍ𝔸𝔼𝕃!✨🎉💗🌹⚡

Photo credit: Noam Galai 

Let's summarize in this post the most important things about this charismatic man.

⭐𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬
Michael is a creative artist with an open heart. His work and ideas support various charity projects, the latest being Brian Eno's 𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 project, founded in 2021, which aims “to offer simple and innovative ways for businesses and artists to donate to the most impactful organisations addressing the climate emergency”.

🔹𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲:
https://bit.ly/3GxYXmp


Michael and R.E.M. have always actively supported various human rights organizations (e.g. Amnesty International), fought for the ethical treatment of animals, participated in concerts as part of charity projects for victims of Hurricane Katrina and others.

In this article, Michael admits to being a member of the climate change movement 🔹'𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧'🔹 and enjoying the ongoing nonviolent protests:

🔹💬“𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤!” 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘦. “𝘐’𝘮 𝘢 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 [𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘹𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯] 𝘴𝘰 𝘐’𝘮 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘐𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘐’𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘯-𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵. 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦’𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘪𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴.”
(𝑁𝑀𝐸, 𝑅.𝐸.𝑀. 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 25 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 ‘𝑀𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟’: “𝑊𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑤𝑎𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑟 – 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑎𝑤”, 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 2019)

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⭐𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐝𝐨𝐥
When he became interested in rock music as a teenager, it was mainly the singer-songwriter ⭐𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐈 𝐒𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐇⭐ who became his idol and most influenced his musical talent.

Michael managed to sing with Patti on the same stage several times. Enjoy these two amazing videos:

🔹🎶𝐑.𝐄.𝐌. 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐢 𝐒𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐡 : "𝐄-𝐁𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫" (𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖)
https://bit.ly/3VDiq9C

🔹🎶 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫, 𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐢 𝐒𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐑.𝐄.𝐌. 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 "𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫" 𝐚𝐭 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟔/𝟏𝟐/𝟎𝟓
https://bit.ly/3WHS6MJ


⭐𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨: 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐢 𝐒𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐡
Michael Stipe followed friend and fellow musician Patti Smith on tour for two weeks in 1995. Two Times Intro is his intimate and evocative visual diary of her return to live performance, along with portraits of other cultural celebrities, such as Allen Ginsberg, who appeared with her.

The photos in the book feel more like a personal scrapbook than a typical photobook. The book also includes reproductions of Stipe's diary and cut-and-paste experiments with text, which is a method we already know from William Burroughs.

Photo credit:  Justin Thomas

⭐𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑.𝐄.𝐌.
In 1980 Michael formed the band R.E.M. with three of his friends: drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck and bassist Mike Mills.

R.E.M. was pivotal in the creation and development of the alternative rock genre.
AllMusic stated, "𝘙.𝘌.𝘔. 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵-𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬."

Alternative bands such as Nirvana, Radiohead, Coldplay, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice in Chains, have drawn inspiration from R.E.M.'s music.

🔹💬𝐊𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐑.𝐄.𝐌.:
"𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘰. 𝘎𝘰𝘥, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤."
(𝐾𝑢𝑟𝑡 𝐶𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑖𝑛: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤)

𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐱 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐊𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞.

He tried to help Kurt in his battle with depression and drug addiction. He was even godfather to their daughter, Frances Bean.

The deaths of both close friends hit Michael hard.
𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟒 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐑.𝐄.𝐌. 𝐝𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 "𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝐌𝐞 𝐈𝐧" 𝐭𝐨 𝐊𝐮𝐫𝐭.

🔹🎶𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥-𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐄𝐌'𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐊𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐢𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐊𝐮𝐫t:
https://bit.ly/3VIsbn8

🔹💬𝘿𝙞𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙩𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙨𝙚𝙭𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙥𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙘 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙆𝙪𝙧𝙩 𝘾𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙋𝙝𝙤𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙭?
Stipe: “Yes, River died before we started making the record (Monster) and I went through a six month period where I just shut down and couldn’t write anything. That was really frustrating for me and the band, who were also grieving. We all knew him and loved him – but particularly for me, that friendship and relationship was like having a brother. It was the most profound loss that I’d had experienced at that point. We commenced with the record, we were almost at the end of it, and that’s when Kurt died. I can’t say that any of that thematically ties to where we were going with the record – except certainly on the song ‘Let Me In’.”

Mills: “The most direct song on the record is ‘Let Me In’. It’s the one song where there is no ironic distance. It’s exactly what it sounds like it is. It’s personal and real. That’s a song that came about because of what happened. It’s a direct response to losing a friend.”
(𝑁𝑀𝐸 𝑅.𝐸.𝑀. 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 25 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 ‘𝑀𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟’: “𝑊𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑤𝑎𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑟 – 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑎𝑤”, 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 2019)

About the music and legacy of R.E.M. I could write for a very long time.
R.E.M. released a total of 15 highly successful albums and amicably broke up in 2011 after selling more than 90 million records worldwide and becoming one of the best-selling music groups in the world.

Photo credit unknown

⭐𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫
An avid photographer, he published the first photo book in 2018 titled 🔹"𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞 𝟏"🔹 featuring images of celebrities such as River Phoenix and Kurt Cobain.

In 2019, Michael published the second photo book 🔹'𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬'🔹 with his friend Douglas Coupland.

🔹💬"𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘰𝘯-𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘵: 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘱𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘮 (“𝘐𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘦; 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘺. 𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺, 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦, 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘳”) 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘦-𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤, 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘠𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰. 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘯’𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴, 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘱 𝘢𝘵 11𝘢𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘵 5𝘢𝘮, 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘩𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘮. “𝘔𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦’𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦,” 𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴. “𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩: 𝘢 𝘷𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥, 𝘢 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘧, 𝘴𝘢𝘺… 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨.
𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘷𝘶𝘭𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘪𝘤, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘮."
(𝑀𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑒𝑙 𝑆𝑡𝑖𝑝𝑒: ‘𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑑𝑢𝑚𝑏’, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛, 𝐴𝑝𝑟 2021)


🔹𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰: 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬: 𝐀 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝
https://bit.ly/3Z8yjry

Well, in this amazing article from The Guardian you can read more not only about Michael's third book of photographs called simply - 🔹'𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐞'🔹, but about his life during the pandemic and also about his many memories - like his beloved Patti Smith.
🔹💬 https://bit.ly/3XlIMhR

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⭐𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬
Michael hates social media. I could end this thread with that one sentence. But since Michael recently reappeared on Instagram, it is necessary to clarify this topic.

In 2018, Michael expressed his opinion in this interview for the BBC:
🔹💬 “𝘐’𝘮 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵, 𝘐’𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵,” 𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦𝘥. “𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘧 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘵𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘱𝘴. 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘍𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬, 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘰 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘥𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘺…𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥, 𝘐 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘳𝘦 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘐 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘐 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴.”
(𝑆𝑝𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑔., 𝑆𝑒𝑝 2018)

But in November 2022, Michael certainly pleased a lot of his fans:
🔹💬 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐓𝐨 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐓𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐓𝐨 𝐕𝐨𝐭𝐞
Today, on this highly stressful 2022 midterms elections day, R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe is back after a four-year social-media hiatus to remind people to vote. In fact, that’s what he wrote in his newly resurrected Instagram bio:

“𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢 4𝘺𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺…𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘴!”

Photo credit: Adam Berry/Getty Images

Stipe also shared one post containing three photos of himself walking through New York with a fist aloft and an “I Voted” sticker on his jacket. “𝘛𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘵—𝘠𝘖𝘜𝘙 𝘝𝘖𝘛𝘌—𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘴…𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦, 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘥—𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴!! 𝘙𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩!!!,” he captioned.
Patti Smith even replied in the comments: “𝘈𝘸𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦. 𝘑𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶.”
As should we all.
(𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘰𝘨𝘶𝘮, 𝘕𝘰𝘷 8, 2022)

To the delight of all his fans, Michael's instagram is still active, the last post was on December 20th, so we can still see Michael there after the election.
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⭐𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎
Brian, Stefan, Steve (Hewitt) and Michael have known each other since the late 90ies because they both performed at a lot of festivals.

In 1998 Michael Stipe was executive producer of the movie “𝐕𝐞𝐥𝐯𝐞𝐭 𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞” in which all three Placebo members played minor parts as glam rock musicians. He was also involved in the production of other great movies like “Being John Malkovich” or “Man on the moon” and made a number of acting appearances himself on film and on television.

🔹💬 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥:
“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥 ‘20𝘵𝘩 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘉𝘰𝘺’ 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘌𝘸𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘤𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘪𝘱𝘦. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦. 𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘹𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘺𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮.

How did you get on with Michael Stipe?
“𝘏𝘦’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘉𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘩𝘢 𝘐’𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘵,” 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯. “𝘏𝘦’𝘴 𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭. 𝘏𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺.”

Everyone turns to look at Stefan, who raises an eyebrow, glances away, throws a peanut in his mouth and chews with studied innocence.

“𝘐’𝘮 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦’𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵,” laughs Brian, utterly upstaged. But only for a moment. “𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦. 𝘞𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘵 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳’𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦, 𝘔𝘦, 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦. 𝘛𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘴𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘳. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘱 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘰.”
(𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰, 𝘕𝘔𝘌 𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘶𝘴𝘵 1998)


In 2006 Placebo invited Michael to collaborate on the Meds album and together they recorded the absolutely stunning ballad 🔹"𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞"🔹.
I can imagine that Brian checked off another dream come true then.

🔹🎶 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - '𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞'
https://bit.ly/3VKoA7R


🔹💬 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧:
“𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘷𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘵𝘺𝘭𝘦. 𝘐 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘸 𝘶𝘱 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘙𝘌𝘔, 𝘴𝘰 𝘐 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘧𝘢𝘯. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦; 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘷𝘶𝘭𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺, 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴; 𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦, 𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘥𝘢𝘺. 𝘐𝘵 𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱; 𝘸𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵. 𝘞𝘦’𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩. 𝘖𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦.
𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘫𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮𝘴, 𝘴𝘰 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘭’𝘴 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨.”
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙽𝙼𝙴, 𝙽𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 2016)


⭐𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎:
"𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥!"
(Michael Stipe 09.28.2016)

Photo credit:  Justin Thomas

⭐𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐫
Michael refers to himself as a queer individual in his intimate relationships.
He talked about it beautifully in this article - https://bit.ly/3QfxYiH - from which I want to quote at the very end of this post.

🙏𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗲𝗹'𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼'𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗰𝘆: 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝘅𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲.

🔹💬𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐞: 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠

It's been 20 years since I announced to the world that I was queer – and that I had found the strength and the voice to say that, and to move forward with my life as a completely out, publicly queer individual. .../.../

For the promotion of our next album, Monster, and its world tour, I decided to publicly announce my sexuality. I said simply that I had enjoyed sex with men and women my entire adult life. It was a simple fact, and I’m happy I announced it..../.../

In 1994, most people had a largely binary perception of sexuality – the message was complicated for them. I am thrilled to see how much this has changed in those 20 years. The 21st century has provided all of us, recent generations particularly, with a clearer idea of the breadth of fluidity with which sexuality and identity presents itself in each individual. Gender identification, and the panoply of sexuality and identity are now topics that are more easily and more widely discussed, debated and talked about openly. It’s thrilling to see progressive change shift perceptions so quickly.

What I feel we have arrived at with all this, is that queerness – as I am happy to call an all-embracing, foundational tenet – is really a state of mind brought about by an understanding: it is understanding difference, accepting your own truth, desire and identity, and lovely, lovely choice. It is the final, completely obvious contemporary acceptance and understanding that this enormous world of beauty, sexuality, identity, lust, feeling, excitement, and love isn’t just black and white, or simple, at all – it is literally every shade and gradation of the rainbow. It doesn’t just lie in one of two camps. It includes accepting and supporting positions that you may not even completely understand; and to arrive at that conviction is so, so beautiful, and to quote my great friend Casey Legler: “Fierce!”
(𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛, 𝑂𝑐𝑡. 2014)

𝘖𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘺 - 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺 𝘣𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘥𝘢𝘺, 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘦𝘭💗, 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘢 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘨𝘰 𝘰𝘯.
𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘦𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵.
🌹𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨, 𝘣𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧. 🌹
~🔹~🔹~🔹~

👉Michael Stipe YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/3ChB6on
👉Michael Stipe's website - https://michaelstipe.com/
👉R.E.M. on Spotify - https://bit.ly/3Ciwf6w
👉Michael Stipe on Spotify - https://bit.ly/3VOy3Ls
👉Michael Stipe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michaelstipe/

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