tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86065146758048742092024-02-19T07:40:37.561+01:00Placebo Anyway Blog Page dedicated to PlaceboSusanneCkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13606632219290236073noreply@blogger.comBlogger1102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606514675804874209.post-42138837498759025462023-02-28T22:08:00.000+01:002023-02-28T22:08:24.911+01:00<h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"> Dear soulmates,</span></h3><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p></p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">This blog is currently on hold.</span></b></h1><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">To read our new daily posts please check our pages on Facebook and Instagram.</span><br /><br /><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PlaceboAnyway" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/PlaceboAnyway</a> <br /><br /></span></h4><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/placeboanyway" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/placeboanyway</a></span></h4><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br />We also have a Twitter account: <a href="https://twitter.com/PlaceboAnyway" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/PlaceboAnyway</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Your Placebo Anyway Team<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyQMc0Ji_3MoYaw0aEoNWqhnM6GaVAEeRIbRwfLUhQZrhOfLmXUlzLge9o3nWJ_BKsXx5S1HYQj7jDBUAtq27uKySGRk975l3NDDdkcvb6epc-1BiJVGiMCgw0Nbfw_z0nN2XRAmOlXaHIh8I0s52_DDRacYulW4DLrKimJ1Al71lCgdGAsEdoQmXXNg/s935/Placebo%20Brian%20Molko%20Taste%20It%20TV%20edit%20tcobm%20IMG_1195.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Placebo singer Brian Molko" border="0" data-original-height="935" data-original-width="789" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyQMc0Ji_3MoYaw0aEoNWqhnM6GaVAEeRIbRwfLUhQZrhOfLmXUlzLge9o3nWJ_BKsXx5S1HYQj7jDBUAtq27uKySGRk975l3NDDdkcvb6epc-1BiJVGiMCgw0Nbfw_z0nN2XRAmOlXaHIh8I0s52_DDRacYulW4DLrKimJ1Al71lCgdGAsEdoQmXXNg/w540-h640/Placebo%20Brian%20Molko%20Taste%20It%20TV%20edit%20tcobm%20IMG_1195.JPG" title="Placebo singer Brian Molko" width="540" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Taste It TV<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></span><p></p>Silkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11574342315975852620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606514675804874209.post-50600977091455610082023-02-22T21:00:00.001+01:002023-02-22T21:00:00.203+01:00🌛◾ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 - 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕏𝕍𝕀𝕀𝕀.◾🌜⭐“𝙄 𝙬𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙣𝙤 𝙤𝙣𝙚...<br />𝙣𝙤𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙧”⭐<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfy6b_wHE1bR-CfX4XtcFhq6jtFQ39DR7vAXRyYS1ttiwTLzOM0zqr8JcYULY1k6FHHEozwA60sPNmmji6AfwSks_AfzsKSYb4OBFVlX4l_JdbBH9gLRveJ-9UvVjcOtA5Bh0RzOrkx3zqxgpAd9fuhhVIu61vxHWqXiZl5VQQ6E9VYvFsixUa_aujQA/s700/Placebo%20Scarlet%20Page,%20April%202009%20_e0c7b5d6_orig%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="700" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfy6b_wHE1bR-CfX4XtcFhq6jtFQ39DR7vAXRyYS1ttiwTLzOM0zqr8JcYULY1k6FHHEozwA60sPNmmji6AfwSks_AfzsKSYb4OBFVlX4l_JdbBH9gLRveJ-9UvVjcOtA5Bh0RzOrkx3zqxgpAd9fuhhVIu61vxHWqXiZl5VQQ6E9VYvFsixUa_aujQA/w640-h424/Placebo%20Scarlet%20Page,%20April%202009%20_e0c7b5d6_orig%20(2).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Scarlet Page</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>Hi soulmates,<br />it's another Wednesday with no important Placebo anniversary, so we meet again for our series of lullabies.<br /><br />With today's beautiful ballad, we end the era of the Battle For The Sun album, which was not too inclined to slow songs compared to the previous Meds album.<br /><br />Here we see that this also confirms the departure from the dark Med's ballads towards the light, which does not eliminate the problems of human coexistence, but helps to see them more clearly and positively. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.<br /><br />🎶🔹𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔'𝐑𝐄 𝐆𝐎𝐍𝐄🔹🎶<br /><br />🔹💬𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗙𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗬 𝗬𝗢𝗨'𝗥𝗘 𝗚𝗢𝗡𝗘”<br />”There is definitely a bigger sense of hope and optimism on this record, but Placebo's music and lyrics are never going to be like a dance in a field of flowers you know? There is always the fascination in there with the darker side of human emotions.”<br />(𝙲𝚕𝚒𝚌 𝙼𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟿)<br /><br />It's the tenth track on the BFTS album, right after Julien, whose energetic sound makes us dance... and then comes this bitter-ironic-melancholic and very emotional ballad.<br /><br />🔹𝘐𝘯 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘍𝘛𝘚 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘌𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘦 𝘍𝘭𝘦𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥: 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳,<br /><br />"𝘏𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺 𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘯𝘦" 𝘢𝘯𝘥 "𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦".<br />🔹Gigwise music magazine included this song among the 11 underrated Placebo songs:<br />*𝟏𝟏 𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐒: 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎*⭐'𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐧𝐞'<br />"A melodic break-up song, ‘Happy You’re Gone’ is rumoured to be about the band’s split from former drummer Steve Hewitt (although this has never been confirmed) and finds Molko in turmoil on its chorus “How many times? How many times? Now I can't look you in the eye”. The swelling strings and more restrained pace were a marker of this period of Placebo, pointing to the direction they’d take on next album Loud Like Love."<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht2FIqeG1Jik7Dfe5iuTWqw2-KNz7f9-GfHVyByxue9b8na7X867gkWpm6O9FI_xNC9WGpd7WYSnmyqIPnyIjf_INlcu1UqJcFFl4ZAFRfFub-Xf5Drc-HIkExiVOSu8Cx6xl4obRIRQMUEuy9zAovkiEv-CP6ge9MzPsujADuvk9d8VI2Do3DeuPqKQ/s496/Placebo%20Scarlet%20Page,%20April%202009%2061d091d_orig%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="404" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht2FIqeG1Jik7Dfe5iuTWqw2-KNz7f9-GfHVyByxue9b8na7X867gkWpm6O9FI_xNC9WGpd7WYSnmyqIPnyIjf_INlcu1UqJcFFl4ZAFRfFub-Xf5Drc-HIkExiVOSu8Cx6xl4obRIRQMUEuy9zAovkiEv-CP6ge9MzPsujADuvk9d8VI2Do3DeuPqKQ/w522-h640/Placebo%20Scarlet%20Page,%20April%202009%2061d091d_orig%20(2).jpg" width="522" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Scarlet Page</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>Okay, it could just be another sad song symbolizing the end of a relationship between two people.<br />But this lullaby describes exactly the state where you convince your mind that this stage of life is over, while your heart is full of living painful wounds, bleeding and crying.<br />And Brian really knows how to get me into these emotions.<br /><br />Not only with his lyrics, but especially with his voice.<br /><br />How gently he begins...<br /><br />🔹"𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴... 𝘛𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘳𝘺..."<br /><br />When I heard it for the first time, I completely melted into the words...But I had no idea what would follow...<br /><br />🔹"𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘦... 𝘑𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺...<br />𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘣𝘺𝘦...<br />𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴?<br />𝘕𝘰𝘸 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘺𝘦..."<br /><br />And then so ironic..<br />🔹"𝘚𝘦𝘦 𝘮𝘦... 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳'𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥...<br />𝘛𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘺..."<br /><br />...as if the narrator wanted to say - the memories of what you did to me will haunt you even where you least expect it...<br /><br />⭐𝗟𝗬𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗦⭐<br />Breathe me every time you close your eyes<br />Taste me every time you cry<br />This memory will fade away and die<br />Just for today, breathe me and say goodbye<br />How many times? How many times?<br />Now I can't look you in the eye<br />Now I can't look you in the eye<br />How many times? How many times?<br />Now I can't look you in the eye<br />See me, in the eyes of another's child<br />Turn away, when you see me walking by<br />Once in a while<br />This melody will fade away and die<br />Just for today, breathe me and say goodbye<br />How many times? How many times?<br />Now I can't look you in the eye<br />Now I can't look you in the eye<br />How many times? How many times?<br />Now I can't look you in the eye<br />And I don't even want to try<br />My my<br />'Cause every word from you is a lie<br />My my<br />How many times? How many times?<br />Now I can't look you in the eye<br />Now I can't look you in the eye<br />How many times? How many times?<br />Now I can't look you in the eye<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHnvrUxhkDVPRhphY6u0Esqv4HejQ6iyzUuRe70LJ_SL8uVS7ATPB_ogxhb8mHxN87uBSj9KlFNir7549WY72Kkic7h4e0xd5P6gEdTMNWSbTikmBmCh9rqu1Ntu9bafitCiD3J5DmPccNCm91ab1wOFPzHGwBXTZ3WysfRDajb04_5KNhOv9ari4pAQ/s733/Placebo%202009%20MTV%20Ema%2013446_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="733" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHnvrUxhkDVPRhphY6u0Esqv4HejQ6iyzUuRe70LJ_SL8uVS7ATPB_ogxhb8mHxN87uBSj9KlFNir7549WY72Kkic7h4e0xd5P6gEdTMNWSbTikmBmCh9rqu1Ntu9bafitCiD3J5DmPccNCm91ab1wOFPzHGwBXTZ3WysfRDajb04_5KNhOv9ari4pAQ/w640-h476/Placebo%202009%20MTV%20Ema%2013446_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: MTV Ema 2009 </td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>Could this be a song about Steve Hewitt's bitter departure from the band? It certainly can, and many of you think so.<br />Honestly, I don't care whose departure cut such deep wounds in Brian's heart that he wrote this song.<br /><br />Anyway, Brian has been at pains to point out in concerts 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 '𝑵𝑶𝑩𝑶𝑫𝒀'...<br /><br />It's also possible that Brian is getting a little tired of people making so many parallels, searching for direct connections between each line of every song and his private life...<br />However, with Brian's sense of poisonous irony, we can also count on the fact that this was someone very important in his life...and maybe it's the rendition of more such relationship breakdowns, just suddenly, in some strange melancholic mood, this ballad was born in the composer's mind.<br /><br />But...<br />...at the end of the video from 𝐂𝐢𝐫𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐬, 𝐁𝐞𝐥𝐠𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐨𝐧 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟐, 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟗 I'm sharing with you, Brian said something very special💗.<br /><br />Can this help us to better understand this lullaby?<br /><br />💦“…𝑰𝒕’𝒔 𝒐𝒌, 𝒈𝒖𝒚𝒔, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒐, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒓𝒚… 𝑾𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒄𝒓𝒚, 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖?.. 𝑫𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖?!”💦<br /><br />What made Brian make such a tender statement to all the men in the venue?<br />We probably won't know the exact reason.<br /><br />But my thoughts lead me to the topic of men's mental health, which concerns both Brian and Stefan personally and Olga had the same idea in one of her old posts.<br />While preparing a post about Project Alpha, I learned that the percentage of male suicides in the UK is on the rise. The social paradigm is mainly to blame, it's the pressure that leads men to suppress their emotions because that's how the male role in society has historically been set up. And it is clear that this topic does not only concern men in the UK...<br />And since human consciousness has been undergoing a profound transformation in recent years, it is time to say:<br /><br />💗𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒈𝒖𝒚𝒔, 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒓𝒚, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 - 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='464' height='386' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dw9CPZG5nCgdoSDIQ8GQBxQZmZvFO6uGYC7sIuS0Km8zt1_OTdi-77xtupY_K-XOZt5s8eZLwC53MFg_J4U_Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Soulmates, I hope you enjoy this lullaby as much as I do. And again I will be glad for your open hearts. Let me know in the comments if this song also touches you emotionally and if it connects you with a bittersweet memory. And what do you think of Brian's words at the end of the song?<br /><br />Post by Marti<br />Silkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11574342315975852620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606514675804874209.post-14878036100826859502023-02-18T19:08:00.000+01:002023-02-18T19:08:00.764+01:00🌠💊 𝙋𝙇𝘼𝘾𝙀𝘽𝙊: 𝙊𝙉 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙍𝙐𝙉 𝙁𝙍𝙊𝙈 𝘿𝙄𝙎𝙀𝘼𝙎𝙀 💊 🌠✨𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴!<br />I found a great interview with 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 published in the Swedish 𝒁𝒆𝒓𝒐 𝑴𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒆 in 2001 that I hadn't read before and, of course, I want to share with you. Among the things 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 tells us here are 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's friendship with the 𝑮𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏 band 𝑹𝒂𝒎𝒎𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒊𝒏, how he feels about being Swedish and about the then novelty of consuming music in digital format. Wow, how much things have changed! So get comfortable and enjoy reading.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBNs1jlG-1T88XZLQmiX6x8gv9HT4GpXHswPQqC79PM1ACbioDwgH51Pe1uHBO9KtlUrTzmd4c-oRP25OuF80M-UsMm-4yBuvHKhSvEdw1l-RHpABU5x2dOqAhJ_r-SMCwJikFDWh-jzR_ShxcKptZbnNdTK3fv3KUtmJnSCzXa4Wqp3rtygBs_715PQ/s4096/Stefan%20Olsdal%20Interview%20Edit%20PA_20230217_031310975.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="4096" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBNs1jlG-1T88XZLQmiX6x8gv9HT4GpXHswPQqC79PM1ACbioDwgH51Pe1uHBO9KtlUrTzmd4c-oRP25OuF80M-UsMm-4yBuvHKhSvEdw1l-RHpABU5x2dOqAhJ_r-SMCwJikFDWh-jzR_ShxcKptZbnNdTK3fv3KUtmJnSCzXa4Wqp3rtygBs_715PQ/w640-h640/Stefan%20Olsdal%20Interview%20Edit%20PA_20230217_031310975.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: right;">Photo Credits unknown / Edit by
Rita </p></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>🔸𝐵𝑦 𝑃𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐽𝑎𝒉𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑𝑡<br /><br />𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 is one of the most written about bands in the foreign music press. In 𝑺𝒘𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒏 you read a few reviews and a short interview in the evening papers, despite the fact that one of the country's biggest rock stars is in this international trio. Now they are in 𝑺𝒘𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒏.<br /><br />They have played at 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑩𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒆's 50th birthday party, supported 𝑼𝟐 and had a dozen singles on the 𝑼𝑲 charts. Their third album has been showered with critical acclaim and with that behind them they have been on tour pretty much all year. As if that wasn't enough, they're being chased by all the world's press wherever they go. In 𝑺𝒘𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒏, however, 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 and 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 are relatively unknown. Mostly perhaps because 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 didn't grow up in 𝑺𝒘𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒏, but most likely because the media doesn't know about it yet. The group will be playing a Swedish show at the 𝑨𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒌𝒂 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 this summer, bringing with them songs from their incredibly strong album 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄. When they stopped off for a gig in 𝑨𝒎𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒅𝒂𝒎, I took the opportunity to call up the band's Swedish bassist 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍. A few digits on the phone and presto. <br /><br />📞 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐭? <br />🔹It's 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏's manager who answers, but he quickly hands the phone over to 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏.<br /><br />📞 𝐇𝐞𝐲, 𝐡𝐨𝐰'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠? <br />💬 We're a bit tired today, we visited our friends from Rammstein and celebrated that their album is number one in the German charts and typically only number two in the Swedish one, he laughs. We went to one of their favourite places yesterday, some goth club, that's their style. Otherwise, the tour has been going on for a while now, so the break yesterday was nice. Today we're playing here in Amsterdam after we've done a lot of Eastern Europe. <br /><br />📞 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐫? <br />💬 Well, we met Rammstein at a festival in Australia and we have so much fun together, so it's always fun to meet them. Otherwise we are good friends with PJ Harvey's band and some others but we don't have time to meet many people during the tour as there are gigs almost every day. <br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTwQgebgIehEFHP-NQdnk6touNt789KxCayU41VaCBgWxN2qToS2mB4RO8__vAy4SS_Zg_XlCJiVDN7kdV-A4NfvOJJtaPK4mpTpMrxatmNdiFFnTxkBh7USYz_Yhux18znCMIKeC3rDc3X-7N6GW17T7FNEQM7F5PcIwuKEYTrzHnprArVcqkzeBs5w/s626/Placebo%20Mark%20C.%20O'Flaherty,%202001%20gjfee.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="403" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTwQgebgIehEFHP-NQdnk6touNt789KxCayU41VaCBgWxN2qToS2mB4RO8__vAy4SS_Zg_XlCJiVDN7kdV-A4NfvOJJtaPK4mpTpMrxatmNdiFFnTxkBh7USYz_Yhux18znCMIKeC3rDc3X-7N6GW17T7FNEQM7F5PcIwuKEYTrzHnprArVcqkzeBs5w/w412-h640/Placebo%20Mark%20C.%20O'Flaherty,%202001%20gjfee.jpg" width="412" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Mark C. O'Flaherty</td></tr></tbody></table><br />📍𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 was born in 𝑺𝒘𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒏, but grew up in 𝑳𝒖𝒙𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒈 and went to the same school as the band's singer 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 . However, they hung out in different gangs at school. 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 was popular, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 wasn't, if everything written about the band is to be believed. It wasn't until several years later that 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 bumped into 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 at 𝑲𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒐𝒏 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 in 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒏 and they decided to start a band together. I guess the question is how Swedish he feels today. <br /><br />💬 I guess I have mixed feelings about Sweden, it's mostly personal, then we're not that big there, he says happily. I was born in Gothenburg but we moved to Vällingby outside Stockholm quite soon. I lived there until I was eight and then we moved to Luxembourg, as I said. It's been a while since I've been home now, but I try to make time to visit Sweden from time to time. <br /><br />💬 We're all living in London now but I don't know how long we'll be there, there's so much disease and shit there now. <br /><br />📞 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧, 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐰𝐬, 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭? <br />💬 No, that's very much why I want to get out of there. We've flown around so much that we don't feel at home anywhere, so moving doesn't feel strange in any way. <br /><br /><br />💫⭐ 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐓 ⭐ 💫 <br />The group does not hide the fact that they are gay. 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 points out to me that he is proud to be gay and that 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 is too and that 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 is bisexual. Often the media tries to focus on their orientation and other things, but as 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 puts it himself:<br /><br />💬 They're trying but they're not going to succeed.The music is the most important thing and no matter how you twist and turn Placebo's music, it is quite timeless. The first album could be the last if it weren't for the production. <br /><br />💬 We were quite young when we made the "Placebo" album, I was only 19 years old. It was a low-budget production and we only had three weeks, so it probably feels more like a good demo today. The songs I think still hold up and I'm very happy with them. We still play a couple of songs from that record live. <br /><br />📞 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐩-𝐡𝐨𝐩. 𝐈𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐚 𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝? <br />💬 It's not that strange. Brian and Steve have been listening to hip-hop for a long time and in "Spite & Malice" in particular there was a hole that we didn't know what to do with. We knew the rapper Justin Warfield from before and we said; why not try him? That's the way it is, and the type of music. I think it was very successful so it might come back. <br /><br />🔊 𝑺𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒆 & 𝑴𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒆 - 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨𝒕 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟎 🎶<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/2nYinIe" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2nYinIe</a><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NGmlam4pSSNVcrTnr6NbuWs-HsvXQrA3nDi2vYzCiP5TRiaOZsQ_88gYhE3Wm43MtBn-9ZkdKmqyVWof8KH95TvPUwYxkk15cdwurLXLkErCvRPaOJNoAhC7i7Ei2RD3JL-q9g0OucSlWjm2A0UODW0aS486uk5kznQj7XIJDbfCCLb0aysFV7hcRQ/s360/Placebo%202001%20Mark%20C.%20O'Flaherty_400.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="267" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1NGmlam4pSSNVcrTnr6NbuWs-HsvXQrA3nDi2vYzCiP5TRiaOZsQ_88gYhE3Wm43MtBn-9ZkdKmqyVWof8KH95TvPUwYxkk15cdwurLXLkErCvRPaOJNoAhC7i7Ei2RD3JL-q9g0OucSlWjm2A0UODW0aS486uk5kznQj7XIJDbfCCLb0aysFV7hcRQ/w474-h640/Placebo%202001%20Mark%20C.%20O'Flaherty_400.jpg" width="474" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Mark C. O'Flaherty</td></tr></tbody></table><br />📞 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲? <br />💬 I guess the three of us have in common that we all like PJ Harvey, and we hang out with her band a lot too. Her music is modern yet timeless, something I think our music is too, maybe that's why we like her. Otherwise, I guess I grew up with Depeche Mode as big idols. As a Swede I have listened to some Swedish synth bands too, Mobile Homes, but they have stopped now I think. Then I try to buy some Swedish music too. Lately I've been buying Kent's B-sides, Covenant, Bob Hund and Robots latest. Robot I think is very good, have you heard them?<br /><br />📞 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜. 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜. 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬? <br />💬 I don't think it's that strange. On the last album we use a lot of machines, which I think is natural because I grew up with that kind of music. On the first records we used more of a normal set up with guitar, bass, drums and vocals. This time I think it's more modern sound, but of course it still sounds Placebo. <br /><br />📞 𝐒𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟? <br />💬 On the tour there will be so much guitar music, so once we listen it will be to music without guitars. Right now Red Snapper, Aphex Twin and David Simon are probably spinning the most.<br /><br />📞 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐈 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫-𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐭? <br />💬 Napster is more like a jukebox, you discover music that you might otherwise never have come into contact with. I don't think it affects record sales either as the public still buys just as many records. Should it start to affect the sales of our records, it's not good, but for now it's okay.<br /><br />⭐ 𝘿𝙞𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙛𝙖𝙣❓✨ <br />🇸🇪 𝐁𝐨𝐫𝐧: 31 March 1974 in Gothenburg <br /><br />🌠 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 and 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏's nickname for 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 is "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑽𝒖𝒍𝒄𝒂𝒏", taken from 𝑴𝒓 𝑺𝒑𝒐𝒄𝒌 from 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓 𝑻𝒓𝒆𝒌, logical and serious. 🖖 <br /><br />🎸 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏's first electric guitar was yellow and he named it "𝑩𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒂". 🍌 <br /><br />🎵 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬: Depeche Mode and Abba<br />▪️ 𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝙾𝚕𝚜𝚍𝚊𝚕, 𝚉𝚎𝚛𝚘 𝙼𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚎, 𝟸𝟶𝟶𝟷.𝟶𝟷.𝟷𝟷.<br /><br />Before I say goodbye, I invite you to watch the aforementioned 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's performance at the 𝑨𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒌𝒂 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍, one of the most important festivals in 𝑺𝒘𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒏 that was held annually between 1992 and 2010, in which initially mostly synth bands played and later also included pop, alternative rock and metal bands.also were included pop, alternative rock and metal bands. <br /><br />✨🎶🎸 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨𝒕 𝑨𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒌𝒂 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 𝟏𝟑.𝟎𝟕.𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟏 🎶✨<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3YBi4Cx" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3YBi4Cx </a><br /><br />Post by Rita<br />Silkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11574342315975852620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606514675804874209.post-47369712865394300302023-02-17T15:24:00.000+01:002023-02-17T15:24:16.346+01:00🌛◾ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 - 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕏𝕍𝕀𝕀.◾🌜🌹𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬,🌹<br />tonight we're going to enjoy another evening with Placebo lullabies.<br /><br />I have prepared for you 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒂𝒃𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 that were originally recorded in a fast version and then slowed down after a few years for the 2010 album ⭐"𝐁𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐔𝐍 𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐔𝐗 𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐮𝐬 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜"⭐.<br />The release of this special edition was proudly announced by the band:<br />🔹💬“𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛 𝑢𝑛𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑃𝐿𝐴𝐶𝐸𝐵𝑂, 𝑖𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑔𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑎 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙.<br />𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤ℎ𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦."<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9lgTRH1mrYX2q-Pu_vArKLSUjRZwvDmY8NTex7JRl9w_xe0YGdXR090YVTIbS0i0YhnYBzMpK76z-9EZphBvp7RmzRM64K9Fw8XOqvCfsiBzLnYHRN7k2GeIbNRzoZynqbc3CLjXcCNw_VBTdIf7H1m4S1tixDqxMtMI4bmmFt02dW9LqUhuF-QiF2Q/s3000/Placebo%20Benni%20Valsson,%202006%2069_a929fd9d_orig%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2990" data-original-width="3000" height="638" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9lgTRH1mrYX2q-Pu_vArKLSUjRZwvDmY8NTex7JRl9w_xe0YGdXR090YVTIbS0i0YhnYBzMpK76z-9EZphBvp7RmzRM64K9Fw8XOqvCfsiBzLnYHRN7k2GeIbNRzoZynqbc3CLjXcCNw_VBTdIf7H1m4S1tixDqxMtMI4bmmFt02dW9LqUhuF-QiF2Q/w640-h638/Placebo%20Benni%20Valsson,%202006%2069_a929fd9d_orig%20(2).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Benni Valsson</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>𝐈. ⭐𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒⭐<br />To avoid confusion, I should put everything about this song in perspective:<br />𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒 is a rockier, more guitar driven version of the studio song 𝐒𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 from the 2003 same-titled album.<br />This heavier version was released first as the 𝐛-𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 in 2003, and then also on the album 𝐒𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐁-𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐀 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐔𝐬 𝐓𝐨 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦, 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟔.<br />However, we all know this version from concerts, because Placebo included it in the setlist instead of the original Sleeping With Ghosts.<br /><br />Another difference is that “Soulmates” was recorded at Livingstone Studios in London and produced by Dimitri Tikovoi while “Sleeping with ghosts” was recorded at The Townhouse Studios (also located in London) and produced by Jim Abbiss.<br /><br />🔹🎶𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒 - 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3Eaw1iH" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3Eaw1iH</a><br /><br /><br />🔹💬𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦“ <br />"𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺. 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵, 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥, 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘴. 𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮, 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤."<br />(𝙻𝚎𝚜 𝙸𝚗𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚞𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙽°𝟹𝟾𝟸, 𝙼𝚊𝚌𝚑-𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟹)<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtqvKV2BEocHcApubDECM5jECoVlXmYjOO-oGEZNGyL0S7HVJTMpyeNOKxXnVpKSf1LfnNAJbLJzfLL9pLG3bAZh804yn4B28DRGqbFt20BzAPEBtD5sk8qzJQ8yq8MAU8bbz__xXT6-OQqj1ZRNYdM9Vu9px_zMNEyfTZQrdwTYqDBep_90XDMRHoIw/s731/PlaceboThomas%20Rabsch%20dhdh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="731" height="544" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtqvKV2BEocHcApubDECM5jECoVlXmYjOO-oGEZNGyL0S7HVJTMpyeNOKxXnVpKSf1LfnNAJbLJzfLL9pLG3bAZh804yn4B28DRGqbFt20BzAPEBtD5sk8qzJQ8yq8MAU8bbz__xXT6-OQqj1ZRNYdM9Vu9px_zMNEyfTZQrdwTYqDBep_90XDMRHoIw/w640-h544/PlaceboThomas%20Rabsch%20dhdh.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Thomas Rabsch</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />Okay, but we're here today for the 🌛𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐥𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐲🌜 that the guys created for the "𝐁𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐔𝐍 𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐔𝐗 𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍" and I'm very grateful for that.<br />Brian changed the order of the verses in the chorus a little bit to make this lullaby absolutely perfect.<br /><br />At the beginning there are only simple piano notes... After a while, Brian's voice joins in, full of tenderness and so vulnerable...<br />🔹"𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘢'𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 ...𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦...<br />𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥𝘴 𝘸𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨... 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘬𝘺...<br />𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯... 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦...<br />𝘏𝘶𝘴𝘩... 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘰𝘬𝘢𝘺...<br />...𝘋𝘳𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘺𝘦<br />...𝘋𝘳𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘺𝘦"🔹<br /><br />In the second verse, Brian's voice is joined by the sound of bells and violin, which is soft at first and gradually becomes more and more insistent...<br /><br />🔹"𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯... 𝘛𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘦...<br />𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥'𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯... 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘦...<br />𝘋𝘢𝘮𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵... 𝘋𝘢𝘮𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨... 𝘋𝘢𝘮𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴...<br />𝘏𝘶𝘴𝘩... 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘰𝘬𝘢𝘺...<br />...𝘋𝘳𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘺𝘦<br />...𝘋𝘳𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘺𝘦"🔹<br /><br />Brian repeats these lines very gently a few times before he concludes<br /><br />🔹"'𝘊𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘦...<br />...𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘦...<br />...𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘦... ...𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘦..."🔹<br /><br />Listening to this version, you will simply melt away, overwhelmed by your love of Placebo's music. Plus, the lyrics remind me that now more than ever, this song sadly fits the events of this time... when none of us know what tomorrow will bring, as the powers of this world play dice with our lives...<br />𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐲 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰:<br /><br />🔹🎶𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒 - 𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐔𝐗 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/40ScRbn" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/40ScRbn</a><br /><br />Today's second lullaby is just as beautiful as the first.<br />It comes from a song that in its fast, I would say almost rock punk form, reminds me of Placebo from the first album...<br /><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF42jDSKrQeNcanwQSd3hogQGMpq2c5bRA6XLY1GH-HeEtb-YNxpTmkBgoOPCFvdNniBb9nUJy7NvK4LhaRqfglSlPgrvQYYtx2FBcjVE4uSoIxCapJxDR8sdSJFC1OL8Ttii-0agXFokXjSRzyXkyOznsYA4ubviT337kQe6vlU5ypBynUX_ohIptVw/s595/Placebo%202013%20Joseph%20Llanes%20Wiltern%20%2005-x595-1382375719.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="358" data-original-width="595" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF42jDSKrQeNcanwQSd3hogQGMpq2c5bRA6XLY1GH-HeEtb-YNxpTmkBgoOPCFvdNniBb9nUJy7NvK4LhaRqfglSlPgrvQYYtx2FBcjVE4uSoIxCapJxDR8sdSJFC1OL8Ttii-0agXFokXjSRzyXkyOznsYA4ubviT337kQe6vlU5ypBynUX_ohIptVw/w640-h386/Placebo%202013%20Joseph%20Llanes%20Wiltern%20%2005-x595-1382375719.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Joseph Llanes</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><br />𝐈𝐈. 🌛𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑🌜<br />- 11. track from the album Battle For The Sun form 2009.<br /><br />🔹🎶𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3lHelFi" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3lHelFi</a><br /><br />As I wrote above - this song was also reworked into a slower version for the "𝐁𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐔𝐍 𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐔𝐗 𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍" in 2010:<br /><br />🔹💬" 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒’𝑠 𝑎 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑏𝑢𝑚, 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝐵𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑤𝑒’𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑡, 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑝𝑢𝑛𝑘𝑦 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔, 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑝𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑜-𝑑𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑏𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑜 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝐵𝑜𝑠𝑐𝑜. ”<br />(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 - 𝚅𝚊𝚗𝚢𝚊𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍, 𝟸0𝟷𝟹)<br /><br /><br />The prominent noisy guitars were swapped for piano and this again made space for Brian's even more challenging voice, turning the starkly punk version into a breathtaking confession of his desire for life change.<br /><br />There is so much truth in those verses that touches me personally so I always feel very moved when I listen to this song.<br />You can read the lyrics to the song here:<br /><br />🔹𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑 - 𝐋𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐒🔹<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3YJeuGm" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3YJeuGm</a><br /><br />𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐞𝐦 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐨𝐬 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝐔𝐒𝐀 𝐢𝐧 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟑.<br />Lucky those who were there...<br />Here's a mention of this song from a review of a concert at Terminal 5, New York City:<br /><br />🔹💬"𝘈𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥’𝘴 𝘴𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥-𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 “𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳” 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦. 𝘐 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘣𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥."<br />(𝑀𝑐𝑃ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑆𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑙, 𝑂𝑐𝑡 17, 2013, 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑏𝑦 𝐾𝑦𝑙𝑒 𝐷𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔)<br /><br />That evening, it was introduced by 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 saying "𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 80'𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓, 𝒘𝒆 𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒅𝒐 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔."<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='488' height='406' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzT77Yv_yIpGgiwUIqhBtmBWerq1FwRoQxGVgvwJX9Bb6Ynf7i3GVtw0yTeqzDRGGMekAmD-7d4WbCkjq6X9g' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>And today you can watch this breathtaking version that I uploaded for you.<br />Take a moment for yourself and share your open hearts with me.💖<br /><br />Post by Marti<br />Silkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11574342315975852620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606514675804874209.post-73651368302788811972023-02-10T15:00:00.001+01:002023-02-10T15:00:00.216+01:00⭐🎉 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐌𝐈𝐆𝐔𝐄𝐋! 💖🎁🎉🎂🥂 Today we celebrate with joy the 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐝𝐚𝐲 of ⭐𝑴𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒍 𝑳𝒐́𝒑𝒆𝒛 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒂 / 𝑫𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝟐𝟏⭐ who together with 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 gives life to the electronic musical projects 𝑫𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝟐𝟏 + 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 and 𝑴𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑯𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒔. <br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixdxp52HpC1vES4khWhXGzazSSx6gH5sWyRnL9fYpBkmLkQT5YpA0QA_UYplrjc29Hj2cwxC-nR2p1y92D0wFxwBJYEbXKhmOrmd0b_HTWGtggZ6fqJNMQfwT4ldkZRbwBY3ae9WxahRB2QMA-M8KxGsmSE0rNYoZDo-CX6-2mxmOlSakBj3MNMj_ymQ/s4096/Placebo%20and%20Miguel%20Lopez%20Mora-%20Miguel%20Digital%2021%20Birthday%20PA%202023_20230209_221547883.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="4096" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixdxp52HpC1vES4khWhXGzazSSx6gH5sWyRnL9fYpBkmLkQT5YpA0QA_UYplrjc29Hj2cwxC-nR2p1y92D0wFxwBJYEbXKhmOrmd0b_HTWGtggZ6fqJNMQfwT4ldkZRbwBY3ae9WxahRB2QMA-M8KxGsmSE0rNYoZDo-CX6-2mxmOlSakBj3MNMj_ymQ/w640-h640/Placebo%20and%20Miguel%20Lopez%20Mora-%20Miguel%20Digital%2021%20Birthday%20PA%202023_20230209_221547883.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: start;">Photo Credits: Javier Alonso & Marina Sanz, Patrick Slesiona // Edit by Rita</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>✨ 𝘞𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘴, 𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘴. <br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;">⭐🥳🎉 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐌𝐈𝐆𝐔𝐄𝐋! 💖🎁🎈✨<br />from Rita and the whole Placebo Anyway team.💜</h3><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>📍𝑴𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒍 𝑳𝒐́𝒑𝒆𝒛 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒂, born in 𝑴𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒈𝒂, 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏 on February 10, 1973, he is considered a pioneer in the Spanish electronic music scene since his career began in 1988 combining machines with instruments and video art, making his <br /><br />formal debut in 1990. 𝑴𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒍 has been a self-taught and multi-instrumentalist artist, he plays 𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒓, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏, 𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒈 𝒔𝒚𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝒖𝒌𝒖𝒍𝒆𝒍𝒆, 𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒔, 𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒎𝒔, etc. <br /><br />Besides to be a great 𝑫𝑱, he is remarkable for his talent as a 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒓, 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓, 𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓, 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒆𝒓, 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓 and 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒆𝒓. He has directed his own video clips and also has created video art for his live performances, which makes his shows an amazing, unique and powerful experience.<br /><br />𝑫𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝟐𝟏 has performed from small venues to the biggest festivals in countries like 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏, 𝑮𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚, 𝑹𝒖𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒂, 𝑩𝒆𝒍𝒈𝒊𝒖𝒎, 𝑯𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅, 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒄𝒐, 𝑯𝒖𝒏𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒚, 𝑴𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒄𝒐, 𝑼.𝑺.𝑨., 𝑼.𝑲., 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒂, etc. He has collaborated with artists such as 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑻𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒅𝒂 and 𝑴𝒊𝒌𝒊 𝑪𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒏 (from the mythical 𝑻𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒐𝒓 label in 𝑩𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒏), 𝑩𝒊𝒈 𝑻𝒐𝒙𝒊𝒄, 𝑺𝒊𝒍𝒗𝒊𝒂 𝑺𝒖𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓 or 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒎, 𝑯𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒍 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂, 𝑨𝒏𝒂 𝑪𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒂 (from the Spanish band 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒂́𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒔 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆). <br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTuPUeJqR91ISB2twpLQmjsyguqofRQVyr0M9W4izziMjbSclt3omGpuiUv-h7AXgp1uRyQADgyydR9W9D0dIJDxiPZ6jn7QVjbTvzPz8wfKdz2L68uGzllNTlpoFIKP99XcLy5iMUkQ9rXRWAD1nhFKRX-IwTNAOIvqW7HE1LAqXQjcNN_tonnRsoWA/s1150/Placebo%20and%20Miguel%20Lopez%20Mora%200140656437486_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1131" data-original-width="1150" height="630" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTuPUeJqR91ISB2twpLQmjsyguqofRQVyr0M9W4izziMjbSclt3omGpuiUv-h7AXgp1uRyQADgyydR9W9D0dIJDxiPZ6jn7QVjbTvzPz8wfKdz2L68uGzllNTlpoFIKP99XcLy5iMUkQ9rXRWAD1nhFKRX-IwTNAOIvqW7HE1LAqXQjcNN_tonnRsoWA/w640-h630/Placebo%20and%20Miguel%20Lopez%20Mora%200140656437486_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit unknown</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>𝑫𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝟐𝟏 also has remixed several artists, among them is the remix he did in 2009 of "𝑴𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒏 𝑲𝒊𝒅𝒔", the song from 𝑯𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒍 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂 featuring 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐. This remix was included in 𝑫𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝟐𝟏's LP "𝑶𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒓" which was nominated as "𝑩𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑽𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝑨𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟎" at the 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝑰𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝑨𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔 (𝑴𝑰𝑵). And last year along with 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 remixed the 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 song "𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑰𝒔 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑾𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅", the remix was available in the deluxe digital version of the album "𝑵𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑳𝒆𝒕 𝑴𝒆 𝑮𝒐".<br /><br />🔊 𝐇𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐥 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚 "𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐊𝐢𝐝𝐬" - 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟏 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐱 🎶<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3JYBDjU" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3JYBDjU</a><br /><br />🔊 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 "𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐈𝐬 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝" - 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟏 + 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐥𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐱 🎶<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/40C995k" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/40C995k</a> <br /><br /><br />🌠 𝑴𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒍 and 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 started working together in 2012, naming this hybrid project of electronic music and string quartet simply 𝑫𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝟐𝟏 + 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍. <br /><br />In 2017 they released their debut album titled "𝑰𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆", followed by "𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒙" in 2022. Due to the long confinement we all lived through during the pandemic, 𝑴𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒍 and 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 continued to unleash their creativity and kept composing music, thus their second project 𝑴𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑯𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒔 was born from whose music is of a more instrumental, reflective and atmospheric nature, releasing the debut album of this project in 2020. <br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio3akS-77VZ294DsjkvRFm3uVGv_xH7k6MuXU6ebiA2IbDJVLmrFZ_LlrwaW_d1XI3geDfYKNdsd9Hlsr8ah9hWPZq1KvSN3e-SLxfpF4bOj01RGZy6Ki9yUuQPLAk25EzncvBYlSgbPALgxbv6C-8mM7A9uru4PeGDoU80h0KUxXqMiOX1lLD8bBIwQ/s1080/Placebo%20and%20Miguel%20Lopez%20Mora%20D21%20+%20SO%20FB_IMG_1606078833972.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1080" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio3akS-77VZ294DsjkvRFm3uVGv_xH7k6MuXU6ebiA2IbDJVLmrFZ_LlrwaW_d1XI3geDfYKNdsd9Hlsr8ah9hWPZq1KvSN3e-SLxfpF4bOj01RGZy6Ki9yUuQPLAk25EzncvBYlSgbPALgxbv6C-8mM7A9uru4PeGDoU80h0KUxXqMiOX1lLD8bBIwQ/w640-h426/Placebo%20and%20Miguel%20Lopez%20Mora%20D21%20+%20SO%20FB_IMG_1606078833972.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit unknown</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>🎙️"Phew! What it is to know each other, we easily met fourteen years ago. Through mutual friends in Madrid at an exhibition, but I don't know the exact year. Well, not fourteen... more! It would be 2002 or 2003. And the group started in 2012. It came naturally: we talked a lot, we did a lot of things, we remixed each other... And in the end we had this idea, it was nice to do it and we did it.<br />▪️𝙳𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚕 𝟸𝟷, 𝙼𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚂𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚛𝚘, 𝟷𝟻.𝟷𝟸.𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟷. <br /><br />🔊 𝐓𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 - 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟏 + 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐥𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐥 (𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨) 🎶<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3RLoQDp" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3RLoQDp</a><br /><br />🔊 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 (𝐀𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦) 🎶<br /><a href="https://spoti.fi/3Ymulef" target="_blank">https://spoti.fi/3Ymulef</a> <br /><br />⭐ On January 11, through his 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 account 𝑴𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒍 shared how he has been doing, what he has been working on and his musical plans for this year: <br /><br />💠 𝘐𝘯 2022 𝘸𝘦'𝘷𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 (𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥, 𝘰𝘣𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥)...<br />💠 𝘈𝘯𝘥, 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯, 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥, 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦... (𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭…)<br />💠 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘣𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 21 + 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯 𝘖𝘭𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘭.<br />𝘚𝘰 𝘐 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 2023 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴. <br /><br />🔹𝑶𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕: <a href="https://bit.ly/3XsQfLG" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3XsQfLG</a> <br /><br />✨ We wish him all the best and hope to hear from him soon. 🙏💗💞🌟✨ <br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinoOHYKp8LU3rK_jIAhhi85I-1-b6HSmudsaisPhuYoHe041dpr9nyYmumwkYtgU7zQXicAafV0dCSiRXrA77BtZscOZThCkLDLnkNJ8M4neFEQ1OMXbffRyf-t3McsGWX937BTf32fhHiGJX-SQG75fUG16QgInB8uEx-5GowODp3ttgYmHeYc5Q6Ig/s1151/Placebo%20and%20Miguel%20Lopez%20Mora%20288966541_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1132" data-original-width="1151" height="630" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinoOHYKp8LU3rK_jIAhhi85I-1-b6HSmudsaisPhuYoHe041dpr9nyYmumwkYtgU7zQXicAafV0dCSiRXrA77BtZscOZThCkLDLnkNJ8M4neFEQ1OMXbffRyf-t3McsGWX937BTf32fhHiGJX-SQG75fUG16QgInB8uEx-5GowODp3ttgYmHeYc5Q6Ig/w640-h630/Placebo%20and%20Miguel%20Lopez%20Mora%20288966541_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit unknown</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>🌟 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟏 🌟 <br />🔹𝐅𝐁: <a href="https://bit.ly/3XiXJk7" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3XiXJk7</a><br />🔹𝐓𝐖: <a href="https://bit.ly/3RKz0El" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3RKz0El</a><br />🔹𝐈𝐆: <a href="https://bit.ly/3xckT1a" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3xckT1a</a><br />🖱️𝐖𝐄𝐁: <a href="http://www.digital21andstefanolsdal.com" target="_blank">www.digital21andstefanolsdal.com </a><br /><br />Post by Rita<br />Silkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11574342315975852620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606514675804874209.post-90641550398285711742023-02-08T21:00:00.001+01:002023-02-08T21:00:00.210+01:00✨🎉💦𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐒 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 💦🎉✨⭐...𝙈𝙖𝙮𝙗𝙚 ' 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙛𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙨𝙮, ...𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩....'𝘾𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙖 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙪𝙧𝙩𝙨, ...𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙨.⭐<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOes3oBPoLChVqOJvoXZwp3P5WMlYkG19fEHgs0mGqKGQYnufNalzrll6wMgOfLSSN_uuLZQJiuLBh83DTPkoxo70hoZz4wyv4HYqN9p-IqE2TerWt6Vh5r-2DIUVYvYiMCJo5fRSsEGlAr4NMSjOWOH92pcMAjHpPSfCrajD1nQYt_G0CixZShsxyPA/s892/Placebo%202008%20Joseph%20Llanes%20fuktfmf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="892" data-original-width="595" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOes3oBPoLChVqOJvoXZwp3P5WMlYkG19fEHgs0mGqKGQYnufNalzrll6wMgOfLSSN_uuLZQJiuLBh83DTPkoxo70hoZz4wyv4HYqN9p-IqE2TerWt6Vh5r-2DIUVYvYiMCJo5fRSsEGlAr4NMSjOWOH92pcMAjHpPSfCrajD1nQYt_G0CixZShsxyPA/w426-h640/Placebo%202008%20Joseph%20Llanes%20fuktfmf.jpg" width="426" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Joseph Llanes</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>Dear friends,<br />today is a very beautiful day to celebrate the release another 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞, this time from the album 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐧:<br /><br />✨𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐒✨<br />🔹🎶𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨<br /><a href="http://bit.ly/40E3tb6" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/40E3tb6</a><br /><br />I don't know how you feel, for me it is a song illuminated by spring rays, those that bring rebirth after a cruel, dark, hard winter. It is, along with Speak In Tongues, the most positive song on the whole album. The song directly calls out - look at us, after all we've been through, we rise like a mythical phoenix bird from the ashes, stronger, more beautiful, happier, full of faith in a better tomorrow.<br /><br />🔹💬𝗜 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡'𝗦 𝗾𝘂𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺:<br />"Let me put it this way — I have a theory about drugs and alcohol. There is a limited amount that a human being is able to consume in a course of a lifetime. Some people are sensible and consume the amount that’s able to stretch a lifetime. Some people who are not so sensible, like me and Stefan, consume that limited amount in a period of about 10 years. There comes a point that it doesn’t do anything for you that isn’t negative. In fact, it destroys your life and you lose everything. Then one has to either surrender to that, which most people do, which begins the inevitable descent to nothingness and emptiness. Or one takes the courageous step to try and rebuild one's life in a more positive way, which was what Stefan and I decided to do. It was one life choice and a major philosophical influence on the record."<br />(𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜, 𝑀𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤: 𝑃𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑁𝑜 𝑅𝑒𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 2010)<br /><br />Anyway, for Placebo it's a very atypical song, very original, it could be played on mainstream radio from morning till night as a pop rock anthem, spread that positivity to all listeners and it wouldn't be bad at all.<br /><br />⭐𝐋𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝, 𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞.⭐<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghNKqweBlMTMHrmW0mV3p_MD01T8WUTuKwxeT1RhiPZT2MB0bAfV1izIfvDoRgfjRptyxb9g9ZUGxh0NaxZ8ulMwVApj_qhyzI-xm9JCmwJUfd5nbCdF2hmKv8Ojq6eYRI_r8-tWL5uGNuoMPZujVSsTyESqYk2pf9QAS0yyY5Bj5O6VWbaH4G8ObDJQ/s800/Placebo%20Torsten%20Roman,%202009%20%20ffk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="514" data-original-width="800" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghNKqweBlMTMHrmW0mV3p_MD01T8WUTuKwxeT1RhiPZT2MB0bAfV1izIfvDoRgfjRptyxb9g9ZUGxh0NaxZ8ulMwVApj_qhyzI-xm9JCmwJUfd5nbCdF2hmKv8Ojq6eYRI_r8-tWL5uGNuoMPZujVSsTyESqYk2pf9QAS0yyY5Bj5O6VWbaH4G8ObDJQ/w640-h412/Placebo%20Torsten%20Roman,%202009%20%20ffk.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: right;">Photo credit: Torsten Roman</blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>💦𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐒💦 - 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨'𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐱𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐁𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐔𝐍 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝟏𝟑 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨 - 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟖, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟎 as a digital download and CD (limited to France and Germany).<br />For the single, a new mix was done by Dave Bascombe, while the album version was mixed by Alan Moulder. The single version would later be included in the<br /><br />𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐧: 𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐱 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.<br />Bright Lights reached #62 in German Singles Chart and #92 in French Singles Chart.<br /><br />The single version of the song is slightly different to the one on the album, as it features backing vocals by Val Etienne & Hazel Fernandes. Apart from the mentioned single version the CD also includes a remix of “Bright Lights” and a live performance of “The never-ending Why”.<br /><br />⭐𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠<br />𝑪𝑫 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆 (𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆/𝑮𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚)<br />Bright Lights (single version)<br />The Never-Ending Why (SFR live)<br />Bright Lights (Randomer Remix-Dub)<br /><br />⭐𝑫𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏𝒍𝒐𝒂𝒅 𝒃𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒍𝒆<br />Bright Lights (single version)<br /><a href="https://spoti.fi/3I2yiMp?fbclid=IwAR2azRMi75P83jRUMwtrFMUmTvOMwM3lt3VLtdxIENbvTdfRnjnaZrCeB_4" target="_blank">https://spoti.fi/3I2yiMp</a><br />Bright Lights (album version)<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3zZSxrh?fbclid=IwAR1sZx8jJIbGAYL2YqRfTvzJFDdYk2Hq6tWKpolHHZEE_Txj6pH_Lhg9G6c" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3zZSxrh</a><br />The Never-Ending Why (SFR live)<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/33wZUKT?fbclid=IwAR2Zueel5wgQ-IWRqWuFTDjNPJ-LHpdS4i32b_PtJxUD6ebCtGO8KiCd97Y" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/33wZUKT</a><br />Bright Lights (Randomer Remix-Dub)<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/31VbzCA?fbclid=IwAR0Odn1CUq9AbcI6DhUrD-pCxbHWXqX-2btI7CYzVuf3FFtZDhMogtxegbo" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/31VbzCA</a><br /><br />⭐𝒊𝑻𝒖𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒖𝒙𝒆 𝒃𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒍𝒆<br />Bright Lights (single version)<br />Bright Lights (album version)<br />The Never-Ending Why (SFR live)<br />Bright Lights (Randomer Remix-Dub)<br />Bright Lights (video)~🔹~🔹~🔹~<br /><br />⭐𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎 – 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧:<br />Written by: Brian Molko, Stefan Olsdal, Steve Forrest, Bill Lloyd<br />Producer: David Bottrill<br />Engineer: James Brown<br />Mixed by: David Bascombe<br />Mastered by: Tim Young<br />Recorded at: Metalworks Studios, Toronto<br />Backing vocals: Hazel Fernandes, Valerie Etienne<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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On former records I used to invent characters, through which I could talk about my feelings and fears. I used these characters as selfprotection and catalysator to express myself. This time I didn't do this. The voice of the storyteller is my own. I think this record is much more honest and personal with these lyrics.“<br />(𝑀𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠, 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑒 6𝑡ℎ 2009)<br /><br />~🔹~🔹~🔹~<br />⭐𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎 - 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎<br />🔹🎬 <a href="https://bit.ly/40Sh3Ib" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/40Sh3Ib</a><br /><br />The video for this song was directed by Heroes for Zeroes and is the 24th official video of Placebo's career.<br /><br />It's an absolute contrast between lived anxiety and rediscovered hope, the duality between darkness and light seems to confirm the theme not only of this song, but of the entire album.<br />🔹💬 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐍: “I mean that there seems to be quite a lot of light and dark themes with this record in terms of the album cover as the beginning. With the solar eclipse, you go to the light from the darkness to light it down. And what we’re trying to do in the video, is playing with the contrast between light and dark, so we’re kind of going from playing in the darkness together, and then we emerging and leaving to play into this quite illuminated backdrop.”<br />(𝑀𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠 𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑜, 2010)<br /><br /><br />𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬, 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐋𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐳𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='520' height='358' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxN3EIENaaT4bxq9pwP23V89sBgRK3HhZJYRa_BgXJyipa4LVzqbh1gvsLn_OnzImNWxyh6qB5c0e7XohnEaw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />🥰Brian's great mood, his smile and his bright eyes when he finds out technical problems with Bill Loyd's non-functioning bass guitar during the song are definitely worth seeing.<br />Hopefully this anniversary post brought good mood to your hearts as well.<br /><br />Post by Marti<br />Silkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11574342315975852620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606514675804874209.post-77783570161128358492023-02-01T21:31:00.000+01:002023-02-01T21:31:03.112+01:00🌛◾ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 - 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕏𝕍𝕀.◾🌜💦𝐇𝐢 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬,💦<br />tonight we symbolically end the lullabies from the 𝙈𝙀𝘿𝙎 𝙚𝙧𝙖 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙚, which is an iconic rock hit in its original fast version. But thanks to Placebo's playfulness and Brian's insistence on not being bored with his music, we can listen to this slow musical gem before falling asleep.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9HjNTc8zIxyeJLWaxsC6OSRq9G6FbCmRQ8t8R5_ZzzdEwuDpoX5Sg-e7qzTRh0m_VvJQzlgkT_LChrwnbQzH4swn7uBrRTuYdgwMQnbItdG_gEZ3RCyw36EgD9ZdrSQBlC95JW2fO5PSeIaNMme1KWu9q8BBFuFGj3Y768S8qZt6h7wTxM1Y4bVTgTg/s2993/placebo%20Benni%20Valsson,%202006%2069_a929fd9d_orig%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2913" data-original-width="2993" height="622" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9HjNTc8zIxyeJLWaxsC6OSRq9G6FbCmRQ8t8R5_ZzzdEwuDpoX5Sg-e7qzTRh0m_VvJQzlgkT_LChrwnbQzH4swn7uBrRTuYdgwMQnbItdG_gEZ3RCyw36EgD9ZdrSQBlC95JW2fO5PSeIaNMme1KWu9q8BBFuFGj3Y768S8qZt6h7wTxM1Y4bVTgTg/w640-h622/placebo%20Benni%20Valsson,%202006%2069_a929fd9d_orig%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Benni Valsson</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>🔹🎶 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐒 - 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3Y9xehQ" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3Y9xehQ</a><br /><br />🔹🎶 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐒 - 𝐀𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3Hrfesu" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3Hrfesu</a><br /><br /><br />⭐𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎:<br />Meds is the opening track of the self-titled album released in 2006.<br /><br />🔹💬 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐒💊:<br />"I wrote it during my stay in India, like 'Song to say goodbye'. 'Meds' is about loosing yourself, not recognizing yourself. You feel lost, desperate, and you don't know what you think anymore, what you really feel. It's a very disturbing feeling, for me and for everyone, and I wanted to express it. I'm glad it's the opening song of the album, it's the 1st time a Placebo record opens with an acoustic chord."<br />(𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔 𝙼𝚊𝚐, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟼)<br /><br />"An addiction is a form of escape: you run away from yourself. It's a way of not facing life, to make things worse. Of course, you can have more or less control over it. It depends on whether the problem is due to your environment or whether it comes from your chromosomes. Sometimes it's hard to face things. To look at yourself with detachment. Living empirically, experimenting, is always easier than "following a path", but at the end of the day, you can't run away forever. At some point, you have to deal with all aspects of your life. Even the most painful ones."<br />(𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙲𝙴𝙱𝙾 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠, 𝙵𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚑 𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝙿𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚎, 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝟸00𝟼)<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPZQ890ZkmyMExZZp9lmB8CgDpsxiPmNa_PJQj7Sq-uMStJOAV7hurSWmIf42dOujWNLfkyhQLX5zKibVEJwY_VUirYugi-6rHqvQfSkkYEM9hwK65XEbKU4HHPbdAcGTWLU_ZWf3cw9xyRaAYrKfOICHhNo6kPRGvU6o3t61i-_cI1Dvfov0jkqYtOA/s1282/placebo%20Chris%20Crisman,%202006%20_orig%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1282" data-original-width="811" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPZQ890ZkmyMExZZp9lmB8CgDpsxiPmNa_PJQj7Sq-uMStJOAV7hurSWmIf42dOujWNLfkyhQLX5zKibVEJwY_VUirYugi-6rHqvQfSkkYEM9hwK65XEbKU4HHPbdAcGTWLU_ZWf3cw9xyRaAYrKfOICHhNo6kPRGvU6o3t61i-_cI1Dvfov0jkqYtOA/w404-h640/placebo%20Chris%20Crisman,%202006%20_orig%20(1).jpg" width="404" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Chris Crisman</td></tr></tbody></table><br />💔𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟...🔥<br />I have a very deep personal connection to this song and will be very open in this post... because I know I'm not the only one whose life has been changed by Placebo music.<br /><br />💊𝙈𝙀𝘿𝙎 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 is something that gave me chills and nausea at one important stage in my life.<br /><br />Maybe you know it too. A song you've known for years suddenly turns into a demon. It's in your ears all the time, day and night...<br /><br />You can't get rid of the notes, the words. They come up in many everyday situations. And you don't want to hear it anymore because because it hurts...<br />It happened when MEDS was already 10 years old. I don't want to share very painful details, but I was going through a period that I wouldn't wish anyone in the world to experience.<br /><br />The mental pain from the situation that totally wounded me was reflected psychosomatically in my physical body... and I cried out for help with every cell of my being and I've only encountered a lack of understanding from those closest to me.<br /><br />I still remember the moment when this slow version first hit me right in the heart. I was listening to music before falling asleep and suddenly I was sitting on my bed crying.<br /><br />💔𝑰 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒛𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆, 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇, 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆. 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄.🔥<br /><br />The outline of the shadow lying beside me was insensitive to my emotions and I suddenly realized the depth of my problem. The fact that I try to maintain an image of my perfect happiness in front of the whole world and yet it was such a lie... It's an image of my addiction. Not on drugs, but on a dysfunctional marriage and family paradigm.<br />🔹'...𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦, 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦... 𝘛𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵,<br />...𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘫𝘰𝘺, 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘦... 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘪𝘤 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦...'<br /><br />The line about meds was suddenly like a mockery to me... 🔹"𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘺..𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘴?"<br /><br />No one cared how I really felt.<br />🔹'...𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘦, 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴,<br />...𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘣𝘺, 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘦, 𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘵...'<br /><br />𝐀𝐭 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, a very deep cleansing process started in my inner world. The process where I got out of the phase of blaming others for my situation and started blaming myself.<br />🔹'...𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦, 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦, 𝘵𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵,..<br />...𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦, 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘪 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘱...'<br /><br />I think that even in psychology these individual phases are described in detail.<br />This unwanted and unwelcome anthem was ringing in my ears every day and I couldn't escape it.<br />If you fight something in anger and hatred, it keeps coming back, even stronger, to finally bring you down.<br /><br />💔Thoughts of suicide appeared... after all, I'm just a burden to everyone and myself.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6lB2BlagrIaGDPbgCZhvuCTcj8ov5h3B4DArE3KjGkBt7Ih1ErscQrL6aqnm_yeIvLxTEFUPyCij3j38sCFHJT9ye1SoWMAAjwblZJww29INxID4Rmp-Z8NOveUsvvAbOYwhjomHaN-DenDVWWfxrZvKzlT_IR4TH34Et_ZCWvt-s_W3g0yGJKyz4pQ/s3000/placebo%20Benni%20Valsson,%202006%20368_16661778_orig.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="2998" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6lB2BlagrIaGDPbgCZhvuCTcj8ov5h3B4DArE3KjGkBt7Ih1ErscQrL6aqnm_yeIvLxTEFUPyCij3j38sCFHJT9ye1SoWMAAjwblZJww29INxID4Rmp-Z8NOveUsvvAbOYwhjomHaN-DenDVWWfxrZvKzlT_IR4TH34Et_ZCWvt-s_W3g0yGJKyz4pQ/w640-h640/placebo%20Benni%20Valsson,%202006%20368_16661778_orig.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Benni Valsson</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>🙏I didn't give up. During this cleansing process, two more very important phases followed -<br />𝐀𝐂𝐂𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒.<br /><br />But Meds for me will always be the song that on a subconscious level broke down the totally barricaded door to my wounded ego that wanted to stay hidden and feel sorry for itself until the very end.<br /><br />Today, the slow version of Meds is a favorite lullaby for me. I love these Placebo acoustic songs and I will be happy if you enjoy this perfection with me tonight.<br /><br />In these videos that I have selected for you, you can see how time went with this song.<br /><br />🔹🎶𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐬 - 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐣𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐨 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐨 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟕<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3jilJ9h" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3jilJ9h</a><br /><br />🔹🎶𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐬 - 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐊𝐎𝐑 𝐖𝐀𝐓 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟖<br /><a href="http://bit.ly/3XT6jad" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/3XT6jad</a><br /><br />🔹🎶𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐬 - 𝐒𝐅𝐑 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟗<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3YbRkYQ" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3YbRkYQ</a><br /><br /><br />🔹🎶And of course - I took 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨'𝐬 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐓𝐕 𝐔𝐍𝐏𝐋𝐔𝐆𝐆𝐄𝐃 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟓, which for me personally is absolutely the best performance (although it is basically on the first position with the video from ANGKOR WAT).<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='399' height='311' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz6cKkgdtaTiZ5kjEdE9SCGUAyEePPYq8eJ4iuMle4cgWedAqe2YlLx2h-gAcIXhPmltpc7kLdDHx5TbF2pow' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>The way the song culminates in a string arrangement by Fiona Brice and the full orchestra, along with the visual sensation of a very beautiful laser curtain, always fills me with awe.<br /><br />Post by Marti<br /><div id="mobile-dialog"></div>Silkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11574342315975852620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606514675804874209.post-57118914025356501852023-01-25T21:00:00.001+01:002023-01-25T21:00:00.230+01:00🎉✨🎈⚡'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)⭐<br />(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙸𝚗 𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚆𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚂𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚘𝚗, 𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝 '𝟿𝟾)<br /><br />Dear friends, today we have a little break in the lullaby series again.<br />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.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRc9Dw_3lrDlUoHVbhPXco_pQb2QRSs_0eWnxbpGmSa_yETD8XdTDkOTkMzp9cmePXP2hmjInUPn50NV9lW5PcwqCtNf-AfnpRKsGOSqtA8Wn1p739SvY1RRue5gARSisYIQYYNImvAiyB7eYwr4a4nbGOVnIEZ6MpiHUNtYKJhazdI1LgQ-GPNnGBKQ/s3072/Placebo%20%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%95%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%91%F0%9D%90%98%20%F0%9D%90%98%F0%9D%90%8E%F0%9D%90%94%20%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%95%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%91%F0%9D%90%98%20%F0%9D%90%8C%F0%9D%90%84%20Anniversary.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="3072" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRc9Dw_3lrDlUoHVbhPXco_pQb2QRSs_0eWnxbpGmSa_yETD8XdTDkOTkMzp9cmePXP2hmjInUPn50NV9lW5PcwqCtNf-AfnpRKsGOSqtA8Wn1p739SvY1RRue5gARSisYIQYYNImvAiyB7eYwr4a4nbGOVnIEZ6MpiHUNtYKJhazdI1LgQ-GPNnGBKQ/w640-h640/Placebo%20%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%95%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%91%F0%9D%90%98%20%F0%9D%90%98%F0%9D%90%8E%F0%9D%90%94%20%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%95%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%91%F0%9D%90%98%20%F0%9D%90%8C%F0%9D%90%84%20Anniversary.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: start;">Photo credit: single cover - Corinne Day, screenshot from video, soundtrack cover, </span><span style="text-align: start;">Edit by Marti</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>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🔹.<br /><br /><br />🔹🎶 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗠𝗘 - 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼<br /><a href="http://bit.ly/3dexwCq" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/3dexwCq</a><br /><br /><br />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.<br /><br /><br />⭐𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐌𝐄 - 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎:⭐<br /><br />🔹“𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘵 '𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘺 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘡𝘰𝘰' 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘦!“<br />(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝚒𝚗 𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚆𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚂𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚘𝚗, 𝙰𝚞𝚐𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟾)<br /><br />🌹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)<br /><br />🌹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.<br /><br />🌹The single managed to chart at number 11 on the UK Singles Chart, number 46 in Australia, and number 99 in Germany.<br /><br />🌹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.<br /><br />🌹The single was released as a 2-CD set and on cassette, but promotional copies on 12-inch vinyl also exist.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2vEhFKGZIIxIWITE0YW0H1h9yVkoFRKKpoJ5I0KmKCH8hey60Aygg__rGS9KRFBkqIP2f4g9WWJQFBHotd-E6PQkrTIXLqJuYTH7xBpOvLqFqWwEnDPoB9QRXyVUBJtOErcwVrhuQuDmixjbverCWzo4wnIVoqzR7yl4DWEvsU1ICB-zYHBw_Qgji8A/s1000/Placebo%20%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%95%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%91%F0%9D%90%98%20%F0%9D%90%98%F0%9D%90%8E%F0%9D%90%94%20%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%95%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%91%F0%9D%90%98%20%F0%9D%90%8C%F0%9D%90%84%20%20(2364).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="1000" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2vEhFKGZIIxIWITE0YW0H1h9yVkoFRKKpoJ5I0KmKCH8hey60Aygg__rGS9KRFBkqIP2f4g9WWJQFBHotd-E6PQkrTIXLqJuYTH7xBpOvLqFqWwEnDPoB9QRXyVUBJtOErcwVrhuQuDmixjbverCWzo4wnIVoqzR7yl4DWEvsU1ICB-zYHBw_Qgji8A/w640-h350/Placebo%20%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%95%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%91%F0%9D%90%98%20%F0%9D%90%98%F0%9D%90%8E%F0%9D%90%94%20%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%95%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%91%F0%9D%90%98%20%F0%9D%90%8C%F0%9D%90%84%20%20(2364).png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: start;"> Screenshot from the video</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div> ⭐𝐂𝐃 𝟏 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞:<br />Every You Every Me (single mix)<br />Nancy Boy (Blue Amazon mix)<br /><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F3JAGXaE%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1SSdJIpJAJIkGXcg6-Ku-YhSa7TumggYWCXt4auv48h6aPoMKv22gHWYc&h=AT1GzCKwjQmQQDuKa9HsyuSkg2qUw4ewZj3ytWnIp9RuAn750X8Ja2X_TrRtKRJaw1DenSIvUpKcmK2rMl4YVnWCdnUkBuplnvYTUMaADq49BGVgG3WGD2fTyJDJxUWWx_gi&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT0v-Hum5fjzhqDSfSd38Fy7aC7BQo7tLfjSJ3gfyMDH45fH6__Jtcn4TrFLeopAGxfwSLsB1i_qF_E8TEiUNAVJQjSFIOdPj1bYPhohgqS0D2obsCpNfh_kzltCrsfYU0TcdJIPZ56cR9qZaV4IsAWfKuR0uJ3qp64MP8YfpQ" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3JAGXaE</a><br />Every You Every Me (Jimmy Cauty's Infected by the Scourge of the Earth mix)<br /><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F3qD49fz%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1opDfAonjsl-r_6b54_TDM7czfkKfPmeefRnrCbF8hxx8R9D42i2gIcUE&h=AT0o3WMVwgi_jF3Viyih893wyBqfaL0CNCidyAUWrUhn0Arf2UW6Jwswacyz-rzzvV-Rel5q-YvBS_286MpiuA4wiTmkb7EP5cIGKJ4z0ZP2bLwTRpi6ggFpFtIInz9HvyhD&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT0v-Hum5fjzhqDSfSd38Fy7aC7BQo7tLfjSJ3gfyMDH45fH6__Jtcn4TrFLeopAGxfwSLsB1i_qF_E8TEiUNAVJQjSFIOdPj1bYPhohgqS0D2obsCpNfh_kzltCrsfYU0TcdJIPZ56cR9qZaV4IsAWfKuR0uJ3qp64MP8YfpQ" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3qD49fz</a><br /><br /> ⭐𝗖𝗗 𝟮<br />Every You Every Me (album version)<br />Every You Every Me (Sneaker Pimps version)<br /><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F31hzuvH%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3QVK5QmW6u1Cyyd4rNoVlR07IULRf7AuiO0SAwZ9cNor7gSb8hLDIn964&h=AT2Zk35Goxg0Keo7R4LX6iZ6gJvQokQxOVUEQNdeoRhMPGi7x7XnHz04yOlN9K_LIhuJMb7sbTQMExkvNBIPKGtjiolDptQl6fJsBBoauJF3pVq55yubPvqAj5wwdPHfhoby&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT0v-Hum5fjzhqDSfSd38Fy7aC7BQo7tLfjSJ3gfyMDH45fH6__Jtcn4TrFLeopAGxfwSLsB1i_qF_E8TEiUNAVJQjSFIOdPj1bYPhohgqS0D2obsCpNfh_kzltCrsfYU0TcdJIPZ56cR9qZaV4IsAWfKuR0uJ3qp64MP8YfpQ" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/31hzuvH</a><br />Every You Every Me (Brothers in Rhythm Glam Club mix)<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3HtTYRg?fbclid=IwAR3P-rN8ZeW5QfFDl0AyZI6OtZ--k0apR9kz1Gl-GYtz2A6YeCZUYzKu6so" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3HtTYRg</a><br /><br /><br />🌹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.<br /><br />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.<br />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.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrCnncRsd34e48Tlmih_JnIum8MFMQ2QiSsfT_LFLZ4_CdDodiEDWAgTkdKzmN_RynCbhCJXa_solT-GBIiQd0uqTAYlvq3I6h7IqYHfZWNA_1t11jl5HtnyuN8wSL5cLAA4--LLCkqYL_J1pYUiV3Fs80hwfacoZZ988HBagIwtA2_4VrkiWFPTHLXA/s973/Placebo%20%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%95%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%91%F0%9D%90%98%20%F0%9D%90%98%F0%9D%90%8E%F0%9D%90%94%20%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%95%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%91%F0%9D%90%98%20%F0%9D%90%8C%F0%9D%90%84%20%20(2392).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="973" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrCnncRsd34e48Tlmih_JnIum8MFMQ2QiSsfT_LFLZ4_CdDodiEDWAgTkdKzmN_RynCbhCJXa_solT-GBIiQd0uqTAYlvq3I6h7IqYHfZWNA_1t11jl5HtnyuN8wSL5cLAA4--LLCkqYL_J1pYUiV3Fs80hwfacoZZ988HBagIwtA2_4VrkiWFPTHLXA/w640-h330/Placebo%20%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%95%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%91%F0%9D%90%98%20%F0%9D%90%98%F0%9D%90%8E%F0%9D%90%94%20%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%95%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%91%F0%9D%90%98%20%F0%9D%90%8C%F0%9D%90%84%20%20(2392).png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: start;"> Screenshot from the video<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>🔹💬𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐄𝐋 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒:<br />"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."<br />(𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚕𝚍 𝚂𝚞𝚗, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸𝟿𝚝𝚑, 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟿)<br /><br />🔹🎶𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐂𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 (𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟗) - 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞<br /><a href="http://bit.ly/3WEqOpT" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/3WEqOpT</a><br /><br /><br />🌹𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲:<br /><br />Two versions were filmed live at London's 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒙𝒕𝒐𝒏 𝑨𝒄𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒚 on October 24th, 1998, during Without You I'm Nothing world tour.<br /><br /> 🔹The version with only live footage was released in 1999 at the same time as the single.<br /><br /> 🔹Another one, directed by Matthew Amos, includes clips from 𝑪𝒓𝒖𝒆𝒍 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 and was included into 𝐎𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐕𝐃 (2004).<br /><br />🔹🎶𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞 (𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨) 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟗<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/2SSBvbl?fbclid=IwAR1dU_IePnMXfeXpSXgNZSLHGHfAD34FJgN8v9XXH_IFdgTa6NZE42DLqyc" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2SSBvbl</a><br />🔹🎶𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞 (𝐂𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧)<br /><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F3JrqIfQ%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2Cfq-S0mKI8R6YZ1INqp8WhE7MqhyKOf673QOee8LitPFTN-BYt-95oKw&h=AT3BhFdSdj0F3QuvNCB1PMYbS3n5kVRTl58OXVkNtimkyIAzbifEQPSQhmTxDlvxkA1ULowDQm3AcgcBb9FTdkSOlVq-E5ZrcY6Aa5ZJWIU6uyrLzolE9c_dcqrpd_0Q15aD&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT02UTzgMt1V5tRRkpmHZuHUDITTdoUc6u5PDFPHMhuxMWwTPFCXEf1oZyqAEVFufoXGctsFHEEQn28RLpuIOaOCBYxMDigIAwlSkNrN3ZU01kPCANU9u3cvV0UjjdBHPHDqlTHE4_gqfmoQzZnF1QLqZ6kxS7QqnRAj2LnlPg" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3JrqIfQ</a><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRVYkdFg1QbDGnqCdpO48CyFtGLbTqrO20bqJcgjby0ToL7vXoI2WeLKkR7hR2Gr59UyW5jjL6z6qXsFaumN_WcxLcHdZ4MNQrRlbWJJgiSW7curaQUVXHRsqF5q0mjrP_8VjZ8sxAUzqVDrZOyLGUJWNIRO5WpC4I-telOo65tkHGfQLitVFN7pJiMQ/s958/Placebo%20%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%95%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%91%F0%9D%90%98%20%F0%9D%90%98%F0%9D%90%8E%F0%9D%90%94%20%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%95%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%91%F0%9D%90%98%20%F0%9D%90%8C%F0%9D%90%84%20%20SS%20EYEM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="958" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRVYkdFg1QbDGnqCdpO48CyFtGLbTqrO20bqJcgjby0ToL7vXoI2WeLKkR7hR2Gr59UyW5jjL6z6qXsFaumN_WcxLcHdZ4MNQrRlbWJJgiSW7curaQUVXHRsqF5q0mjrP_8VjZ8sxAUzqVDrZOyLGUJWNIRO5WpC4I-telOo65tkHGfQLitVFN7pJiMQ/w640-h436/Placebo%20%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%95%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%91%F0%9D%90%98%20%F0%9D%90%98%F0%9D%90%8E%F0%9D%90%94%20%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%95%F0%9D%90%84%F0%9D%90%91%F0%9D%90%98%20%F0%9D%90%8C%F0%9D%90%84%20%20SS%20EYEM.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: start;"> Screenshot from the video, HD edit<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div> 🔹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!<br /><br />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.<br /><br />🔹🎶𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞 (𝐮𝐧𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨)<br /><a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2RTnQ2n%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1w27_0Szo18PTl24xTrUMvm3PHLXn3GX8hdjPtsTPR8b_vQNThwh-vKE0&h=AT2lpj4bgbcgdX8o6FnFAcImFppntNUSUHgZcaOp_jrV7tMX6LuuLYTA6fJ8-VYTj-temCHauKiBWzlAf1VCYkx628s-whHOrrHLlKO5wvHaDpj2QNsb1V9lfoTxHEQQB-WU&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT02UTzgMt1V5tRRkpmHZuHUDITTdoUc6u5PDFPHMhuxMWwTPFCXEf1oZyqAEVFufoXGctsFHEEQn28RLpuIOaOCBYxMDigIAwlSkNrN3ZU01kPCANU9u3cvV0UjjdBHPHDqlTHE4_gqfmoQzZnF1QLqZ6kxS7QqnRAj2LnlPg" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2RTnQ2n</a><br /><br /><br />🌹𝐌𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬...🌹<br />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...<br /><br />And to enjoy this evening even more - here you can see how time went with '𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐌𝐄' live:<br /><br />🔹🎶𝐖𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟏<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3mBFy92" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3mBFy92</a><br /><br />🔹🎶𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐀𝐦 𝐑𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟑<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/402UpMM" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/402UpMM</a><br /><br />🔹🎶𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟔<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3kxH66u" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3kxH66u</a><br /><br />🔹🎶𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟗<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3iZxwcr" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3iZxwcr</a><br /><br />🔹🎶𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟑<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3JhQDcf" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3JhQDcf</a><br /><br />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:<br /><a href="http://bit.ly/40eBdvF" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/40eBdvF</a><br /><br />Post by Marti<br />Silkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11574342315975852620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606514675804874209.post-14859735460820802712023-01-18T21:00:00.001+01:002023-01-18T21:00:00.212+01:00🌛◾ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 - 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕏𝕍.◾🌜⭐„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.“⭐<br />(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠, 𝚁𝙴𝙰𝚇, 𝙹𝚞𝚕 𝟸00𝟽)<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZoOVoy6Z1t0-2QNq2UbJbX4SVHXclpikyE2XH0hKTZAc-lV8P-Nlv99Ab_ttMw6sa7lkGaS787bvYSqgHHVQpGLxTUanRuYhrxaItVWQGJYtiCwNdzae5NB8Kw6DsQHSeutH1uvnF9p_80iH7xguRuz8eKPCpkfd2YZfguQ4ZP7a5cBmJMzrZX2GFug/s800/Placbo,%20Charlie%20%20Cravero.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZoOVoy6Z1t0-2QNq2UbJbX4SVHXclpikyE2XH0hKTZAc-lV8P-Nlv99Ab_ttMw6sa7lkGaS787bvYSqgHHVQpGLxTUanRuYhrxaItVWQGJYtiCwNdzae5NB8Kw6DsQHSeutH1uvnF9p_80iH7xguRuz8eKPCpkfd2YZfguQ4ZP7a5cBmJMzrZX2GFug/w640-h480/Placbo,%20Charlie%20%20Cravero.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Charlie Cravero</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>Dear friends, many of us experience these winter days worse than the rest of the year.<br /><br />Short sunshine, cold weather, snow and frost...<br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />For today's post, I have chosen a song that is the perfect anthem for all broken hearts.<br /><br />🔥...𝘐𝘧 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨<br />𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥<br />𝘐'𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨<br />𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘥... 🔥<br /><br />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...<br /><br /><br />🔹🎶𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐃🎶🔹<br /><br />𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3HeGcF6" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3HeGcF6</a><br />~🔹~🔹~🔹~<br /><br /><br />⭐𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎:<br /><br />“𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐃” was written and recorded around 2002 when Placebo were working on covers with producer Dimitri Tikovoi.<br /><br />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." <br /><br />BLIND has been performed live 179 times, five of which were part of the setlist at intimate shows in 2022.<br /><br />Lucky everyone who experienced this anthem about unrequited love live.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB4TgMUHsYYpAL-NrBGUAyascyqd9Gle4i6lR_2ZygWZTBIrUnit2uLmJ0FWxWMn2VcTT5o3MfklZx0bfdum4dTT2f-SsHRO90CLi-JqbAN9TxKxuda_inf3mkCP-y7ak_G5Fcq_VRrloQ7JbBZlF-YTjNDRq-2VASDGLSC6ttHwlIwE9fjxM5fWAQIA/s3000/Placebo%202006%20%2010%20March%20-%20Columbiahalle%20%20%20e04_orig.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="1823" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB4TgMUHsYYpAL-NrBGUAyascyqd9Gle4i6lR_2ZygWZTBIrUnit2uLmJ0FWxWMn2VcTT5o3MfklZx0bfdum4dTT2f-SsHRO90CLi-JqbAN9TxKxuda_inf3mkCP-y7ak_G5Fcq_VRrloQ7JbBZlF-YTjNDRq-2VASDGLSC6ttHwlIwE9fjxM5fWAQIA/w388-h640/Placebo%202006%20%2010%20March%20-%20Columbiahalle%20%20%20e04_orig.jpg" width="388" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit unknown</td></tr></tbody></table><br />⭐𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 "𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐃"<br />" 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."<br />(𝚂𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚜 𝟸00𝟼)<br /><br />⭐𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐃<br />𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏: It's a song for the girls.<br />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.<br />(𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝙾𝚕𝚜𝚍𝚊𝚕, 𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔 𝙼𝚊𝚐 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟼)<br />“One of the tracks you write for all the ladies out there.”<br />(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝚇𝙵𝙼, 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝟸00𝟼)<br />~🔹~🔹~🔹~<br /><br />Okay, so anyone who thought this song came from Brian's broken heart, might be wrong.<br /><br />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.<br />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...<br /><br />🔹💬𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏? 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒃𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉?<br />"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."<br />(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔 𝙼𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚎, 𝙳𝚎𝚌 𝟸00𝟻)<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsTTbSxvAlGQQwvuPn1Pa5zRyFLyVTV_4bCjoMVrrNVkvhV2CsYcOqVr0VYlucogJsDdV-GLsot5WuJCkpViYiVS5rmE_dg0BnfGsLchaucCIsgmzcDDFbt15mZEjkdmdON6nIfM95Vo0ayg0m_k8jQEGXHa9fIYbQd6tHkVO1EY4jcfyFrWxi5xu7fQ/s2464/Placebo%202006%20-%20Virgin%20Megastore%20(London,%20England)%20003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2464" data-original-width="1632" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsTTbSxvAlGQQwvuPn1Pa5zRyFLyVTV_4bCjoMVrrNVkvhV2CsYcOqVr0VYlucogJsDdV-GLsot5WuJCkpViYiVS5rmE_dg0BnfGsLchaucCIsgmzcDDFbt15mZEjkdmdON6nIfM95Vo0ayg0m_k8jQEGXHa9fIYbQd6tHkVO1EY4jcfyFrWxi5xu7fQ/w424-h640/Placebo%202006%20-%20Virgin%20Megastore%20(London,%20England)%20003.jpg" width="424" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Virgin Megastore London, England</td></tr></tbody></table><br />I think that even the verses for Blind were created as a team, partly by Stefan, supplemented and completed by Brian. .. maybe...<br /><br />🔹💬 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.<br /><br />You will tell me if my choice is right.<br /><br />'...𝙄'𝙙 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙯𝙚 𝙪𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 /...𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 /<br />...𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙚𝙮𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙜𝙡𝙪𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙚...'<br /><br />𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘭𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮.<br />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.<br />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.<br />(𝙿𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚋𝚘 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠, 𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚛𝚝 𝙿𝚛𝚒𝚟𝚎' 𝙼𝟼, 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝟸00𝟼)<br />~🔹~🔹~🔹~<br /><br />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💔<br /><br />⭐For me, this ballad has always evoked my personal memory of a relationship between lovers that was affected by drug addiction.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />🔹🎶 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗻'𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗽 𝘆𝗲𝘁, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗶𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲:<br /><a href="http://bit.ly/3QL7PbW" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/3QL7PbW</a><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='433' height='360' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwfNR1Lu_wP08hXKigli8-y3ZvzPeATT_L3sRL20AUnge71NWLrQoL_BeJfQ7LfBnanGzkEM7Pyfr4L7iqKxw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />For the end of today's post I have chosen a live performance from ⭐𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐮𝐱 𝐉𝐚𝐳𝐳 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟕, that is really very emotional...<br />It seems as if for Brian the microphone is the materialization of all his painful breakups...<br /><br />🔥'...𝘋𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘨𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘦 ...𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘥...'🔥<br /><br />Post by Marti<br />Silkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11574342315975852620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606514675804874209.post-50337010172947627652023-01-11T22:00:00.003+01:002023-01-11T22:00:00.221+01:00🌛◾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..."⭐<br />(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙻𝚎𝚜 𝙸𝚗𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚞𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜, 𝙼𝚊𝚢 𝟸𝟼𝚝𝚑 𝟸00𝟿)<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUM8u66PK_rtyJeuxMaPlKPKNhbCnzDfH2XXzaFzqMHCI6-JTgYdwJO_zgxsaIDvZmgEbvgNe1MUwY3HuI7r6BflRoM4ImWh5sP0Fv4NOUMFhubsSaqypQQgumvRQKJ5BJ6JhgtjQIrLYgPy2lpVI8f-rbgDcOaHEER6Lub-meFRIt8eYmL-nPkJGoPA/s336/Placebo%202006%20Stuart%20Mostyn%20(3145).png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="238" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUM8u66PK_rtyJeuxMaPlKPKNhbCnzDfH2XXzaFzqMHCI6-JTgYdwJO_zgxsaIDvZmgEbvgNe1MUwY3HuI7r6BflRoM4ImWh5sP0Fv4NOUMFhubsSaqypQQgumvRQKJ5BJ6JhgtjQIrLYgPy2lpVI8f-rbgDcOaHEER6Lub-meFRIt8eYmL-nPkJGoPA/w454-h640/Placebo%202006%20Stuart%20Mostyn%20(3145).png" width="454" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Stuart Mostyn</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>Hello soulmates,<br />after a break caused by several important anniversaries, today we return to our beloved Placebo Lullabies.<br /><br />Tonight is going to be special. I have two gems that give the term Placebo lullaby its true meaning.<br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><br />𝙇𝙚𝙩'𝙨 𝙜𝙤 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩 𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙜...<br /><br />A ballad that I just had to listen to over and over again...<br />And even now, I play it several times in a row when I'm feeling down.<br /><br />🔹🎶 '𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 '🔹🎶<br />🔹𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3XfUZog" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3XfUZog</a><br /><br />The 12th track from the dark album MEDS.<br />Apart from the album version there's also a demo with slightly different lyrics which can be found on the “Meds” Special edition.<br /><br />🔹'𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 ' 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3k397mh" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3k397mh</a><br /><br /><br />So dark, so melancholic, so intense... almost hypnotic... Leonard Cohen's influence is absolutely clear in this song.<br />I'm always struck at first by Brian's low-pitched voice, full of total surrender to bitter reality.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='386' height='321' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwj8KgR5BC_cT3OtWUiI-vyU7s1UgpvPeLHNdRrm078lX66Vivf3nkyNAaSjQMMt4GQZ7brBF-_aq5EN_-hYg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>🔹💬𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 '𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆'<br />“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.”<br />(𝚇𝙵𝙼, 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝟸00𝟼)<br /><br />"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."<br />(𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔 𝙼𝚊𝚐, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟼)<br /><br />For me, ⭐'𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆'⭐ is a recurring misunderstanding of the narrator's life journey...<br /><br />As if, thanks to a certain loop in reality, he kept experiencing the same thing...<br />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...<br />Everyone else wakes up to normal life...<br />And he again judges his experience as the height of hypocrisy, because it was yet another night as an escape from himself...<br /><br />🔹„...𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 ...𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦'𝘴 𝘺𝘢𝘸𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 ...𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩<br />...𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 ...𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘬 𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩<br /><br />...𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘴 ...𝘈 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘦<br />...𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘳, 𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳, 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘰'𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘦 ...𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵...“🔹<br /><br />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.<br />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.<br /><br />Hope for another day.<br />That everything I failed again will pass with the sunrise and I can try again.<br />And that I don't have to repeat the same mistake again.<br />For me personally, it's a beautiful and honest ballad about hope.<br />In the morning I will hear the kettle with hot water whistling again and the day will begin full of new opportunities for change.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEica7rhWRJv5Hc5HURoO2yTyhKQ-9QDiFeo00pD7hjeHpF8P1Tma3qAV4kBBQUl-ORjCx9XgzDvgPW11V86kd46ICDZHHrX3sGWgygEQ2lHiqHcomNRV68cRzUPmQnnekEezPSQPI38NtSFPSWnZ1ERa20vR32HYdt1r3IRC7o51D2anDGRMYpiGW_mPw/s804/Placebo%20Vincent%20Lignier,%202006%20%C3%BCpp.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="804" data-original-width="601" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEica7rhWRJv5Hc5HURoO2yTyhKQ-9QDiFeo00pD7hjeHpF8P1Tma3qAV4kBBQUl-ORjCx9XgzDvgPW11V86kd46ICDZHHrX3sGWgygEQ2lHiqHcomNRV68cRzUPmQnnekEezPSQPI38NtSFPSWnZ1ERa20vR32HYdt1r3IRC7o51D2anDGRMYpiGW_mPw/w478-h640/Placebo%20Vincent%20Lignier,%202006%20%C3%BCpp.jpg" width="478" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Vincent Lignier</div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br />If the first ballad is about hope, the second one is about pure human pain and knowing other forms of love.<br /><br />🔹🎶'𝐏𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐋𝐎𝐖𝐍'🔹🎶<br /><br />The ninth track from MEDS.<br /><br />🔹𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3ZqIDLM" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3ZqIDLM</a><br /><br />🔹𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3QvF82m" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3QvF82m</a><br /><br /><br />🔹💬 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 “𝐏𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐋𝐎𝐖𝐍”✨<br />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...<br /><br />𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏: (teasing) That's what you do!<br /><br />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? "<br />(𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔 𝙼𝚊𝚐, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟼)<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='398' height='331' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzijDZaWpL-MlbQZM7P_SN-R-VPSrYCmrRYy0GiSsvbiRzJRB9NvuRXqv0JNau2p-icr_NY_gkLz0cCofmt1Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />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...<br />Brian's voice expressing the story of the narrator.<br /><br />🔹„𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘥, 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸, 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥.<br />𝘒𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥, 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯....“🔹<br /><br /><br />Thanks to the clear message in the text, we don't have to doubt the desperation of this story...<br />But we can only speculate if Brian experienced the weight of physical abuse first hand.<br /><br />🔹„𝘙𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘥 𝘴𝘢𝘺, 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸, 𝘢𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘸 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥...“<br /><br />„...𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮, 𝘪 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘱𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮, 𝘪 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘬𝘪𝘴𝘴,<br />...𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮, 𝘪 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴...“🔹<br /><br />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.<br />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.'<br /><br />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.<br /><br />⭐'𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆' was played live only 4 times and ⭐'𝐏𝐈𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐋𝐎𝐖𝐍' 6 times.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><br />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.<br /><br />🌛◾Have a good night and take care of yourselves.◾🌜<br /><br />Post by Marti<br />Silkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11574342315975852620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606514675804874209.post-67441909912870843612023-01-06T19:12:00.001+01:002023-01-06T19:12:47.534+01:00🎉 💎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. <br /><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUN4rkXfbt41lfX_9_Zc3Cpr7jFcucIWyIS7n_qfLRQQgB_cIqvEUMn-pt6HJ_VmZRB8rZcrmOzV_rwAY2L4n7lqv4d7ommDWIksD876HuyU46rpc2N9RpcLB6KO7H2V1TTLYHcr5ShpXb4injdEHadoUS-r9MKUGPewUq8SG2IoqI0vbfd6HFDN2VSw/s4096/Syd%20Barrett%20and%20Placebo%202023_20230106_001748881.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4096" data-original-width="4096" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUN4rkXfbt41lfX_9_Zc3Cpr7jFcucIWyIS7n_qfLRQQgB_cIqvEUMn-pt6HJ_VmZRB8rZcrmOzV_rwAY2L4n7lqv4d7ommDWIksD876HuyU46rpc2N9RpcLB6KO7H2V1TTLYHcr5ShpXb4injdEHadoUS-r9MKUGPewUq8SG2IoqI0vbfd6HFDN2VSw/w640-h640/Syd%20Barrett%20and%20Placebo%202023_20230106_001748881.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: start;">Photo credits: Mick Rock (2), Lili Wilde // Edit by Rita</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>📍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.<br /><br />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. <br /><br />Several artists have acknowledged 𝑺𝒚𝒅 𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕's influence such as 𝑩𝒍𝒖𝒓, 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝑼𝒃𝒖, 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒄 𝑩𝒐𝒍𝒂𝒏, 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑳𝒊𝒑𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑩𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒆. <br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBGhOPyfG-caoUr6LT7y26Ri1LP-Fbmsqkkri9cslIiAb8-DvxftjxJX9vpmHkXYvrHdseiCkIl6wpkV2gRnB3PaNv3wJq5QEdTF-BWuF_9J61P7f8Mg4wSLjm5Sl7VGFX8QMJfP-ILyCuQG4swdrdyzx0z6pQfNos6m8sEzSe_-Jp8aNZN2VOkSpZ-A/s720/Syd%20Barrett%20%20097077.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBGhOPyfG-caoUr6LT7y26Ri1LP-Fbmsqkkri9cslIiAb8-DvxftjxJX9vpmHkXYvrHdseiCkIl6wpkV2gRnB3PaNv3wJq5QEdTF-BWuF_9J61P7f8Mg4wSLjm5Sl7VGFX8QMJfP-ILyCuQG4swdrdyzx0z6pQfNos6m8sEzSe_-Jp8aNZN2VOkSpZ-A/w640-h640/Syd%20Barrett%20%20097077.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit unknown</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>🎤"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."<br />▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙱𝙱𝙲 𝚁𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 6 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙵𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚃𝚒𝚖𝚎, 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟼. <br /><br /><br />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, <br /><br />🎶 𝘐'𝘮 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘌𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘮𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘯<br />𝘐 𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 🎶, <br /><br />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. <br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTE3tWDaQplZ2KWT_mysr6Mirsgj1yTDrzmFObCHziA2nhweryJ-dapZrguGUMePQbd0sd70wx2aRx2zkvk5hzlb-TyfknpHS_VosVrerc1qZ_Dv1hV-JIk2Gw2eB7BlMG-IMIly6oQUCT8S1I6d8ulIx0gFbcafD8MnKSvqHSZrwETLh8WzVjO1laxQ/s622/Placebo%20by%20Robin,%201996ca_orig.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="431" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTE3tWDaQplZ2KWT_mysr6Mirsgj1yTDrzmFObCHziA2nhweryJ-dapZrguGUMePQbd0sd70wx2aRx2zkvk5hzlb-TyfknpHS_VosVrerc1qZ_Dv1hV-JIk2Gw2eB7BlMG-IMIly6oQUCT8S1I6d8ulIx0gFbcafD8MnKSvqHSZrwETLh8WzVjO1laxQ/w444-h640/Placebo%20by%20Robin,%201996ca_orig.jpg" width="444" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Robin</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>💎𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬, 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲? <br />🎤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.<br />▪️𝚂𝚢𝚍 𝙱𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚝, 𝙼𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚍𝚢 𝙼𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚛, 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝟸𝟽, 𝟷𝟿𝟽𝟷. <br /><br /><br />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.<br /><br />🔊 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐞 - 𝐒𝐲𝐝 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭 🎵<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/2YG4hv8" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2YG4hv8 </a><br /><br />🔊 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐞 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 🎵<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/2WhzgQH" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2WhzgQH</a><br /><br />🔊 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐞 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐆𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐀𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟕 🎵<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3Co1eOL" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3Co1eOL </a><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2q6A60nbiZQWvMnYk1tUrFbYA-XlYJdv27RwNamswF2916Zt6mDM-4kuc9inmiyjQ3P1jcBH72IUc4B7vBB_ihvrlpXiEZL3Vb3Y7Lj5wcxQKUxExp4M7xcRzTs00TFmPtJqdn1gaV5d9tDxUl7AVAWbksVVuCaZU3rynQPXMo9hBDBkxu_2Gv-04qA/s900/Syd%20Barrett%20%2036TE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="900" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2q6A60nbiZQWvMnYk1tUrFbYA-XlYJdv27RwNamswF2916Zt6mDM-4kuc9inmiyjQ3P1jcBH72IUc4B7vBB_ihvrlpXiEZL3Vb3Y7Lj5wcxQKUxExp4M7xcRzTs00TFmPtJqdn1gaV5d9tDxUl7AVAWbksVVuCaZU3rynQPXMo9hBDBkxu_2Gv-04qA/w640-h426/Syd%20Barrett%20%2036TE.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit unknown</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>🎶💫⭐ 𝐋𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 ⭐💫🎶<br />𝘖𝘩, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘰𝘸<br />𝘗𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘧?<br />𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦<br />𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 <br /><br />𝘔𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘬𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥<br />𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯, 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥<br /><br />𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦, 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦, 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘵 𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥<br />𝘐'𝘮 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘵<br />𝘖𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴, 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭<br />𝘞𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘮𝘦? 𝘞𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭?<br /><br />𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘺 𝘣𝘪𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘺<br />𝘚𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘸𝘪𝘨𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥<br />𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘥<br />𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘦<br /><br />𝘔𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘬𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥<br />𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯, 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥 <br /><br />𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦, 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘵 𝘢 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥<br />𝘐'𝘮 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘌𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘮𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘯<br />𝘐 𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺<br />𝘞𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘮𝘦? 𝘞𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭?<br /><br />•.☆♫•♬•*・゚♡・゚*•♬•♫☆.•<br /><br />Post by Rita<br />Silkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11574342315975852620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606514675804874209.post-18569120541774073202023-01-04T15:39:00.002+01:002023-01-04T15:39:28.171+01:00💗🎉✨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<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsWwtQKzJYXF0qcEeDarNHkv5ej3PFA5QYkdRlmKJe6CJK98hzj-vV5Jbj33ZDtSrr6ukOPY6TY1yawi0I5PFTKm53pY692_928dWqLKNVdrfHz584gIofAsCcaJojxwOwvkT4XUtDenk9MmrYvQ3_O3TGQ-vVtwZbscvQB3KJna9IAC-MBaD8dO2dhA/s3072/Michael%20Stipe%20and%20Placebo%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Placebo and R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe." border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="3072" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsWwtQKzJYXF0qcEeDarNHkv5ej3PFA5QYkdRlmKJe6CJK98hzj-vV5Jbj33ZDtSrr6ukOPY6TY1yawi0I5PFTKm53pY692_928dWqLKNVdrfHz584gIofAsCcaJojxwOwvkT4XUtDenk9MmrYvQ3_O3TGQ-vVtwZbscvQB3KJna9IAC-MBaD8dO2dhA/w640-h640/Michael%20Stipe%20and%20Placebo%201.jpg" title="Placebo and R.E.M. singer Michael Stipe." width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: start;">Photo credits: Michael Stipe - Jenn Five, screenshots from video, Michael and Brian from Brixton Academy 1997 - Justin Thomas / Edit by Marti</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>Dear soulmates,<br />today we have another important date.<br />𝟲𝟯 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗴𝗼, 𝗼𝗻 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟰, 𝟭𝟵𝟲𝟬, 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗻 -<br />- 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗻, 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗿, 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗥.𝗘.𝗠. ⭐𝗝𝗢𝗛𝗡 𝗠𝗜𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗘𝗟 𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗣𝗘⭐.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: center;"><b>⚡🌹💗🎉✨ℍ𝔸ℙℙ𝕐 𝔹𝕀ℝ𝕋ℍ𝔻𝔸𝕐 𝕋𝕆 𝕐𝕆𝕌, 𝕄𝕀ℂℍ𝔸𝔼𝕃!✨🎉💗🌹⚡</b></h3><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXNs3_dVaC9YaNUJRRzkZ7Rz7W9ZLl8uBLzVgx3xfP-SOI6RpqeC1BizXAIWY3L5Fm04MXUwy6paZePX_lG_gxSamWhHqvWThuM1k6SFRGFK6HzUbTp-tyVS7e3YBpxp4XWm1PpQ0VO0ZcujagK2N3HhqFZ8jKfnWZNYh6SOBsTadxOFFnYtRb4gCqvg/s330/Michael%20Stipe%20Noam%20Galai%20-%20Getty.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="330" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXNs3_dVaC9YaNUJRRzkZ7Rz7W9ZLl8uBLzVgx3xfP-SOI6RpqeC1BizXAIWY3L5Fm04MXUwy6paZePX_lG_gxSamWhHqvWThuM1k6SFRGFK6HzUbTp-tyVS7e3YBpxp4XWm1PpQ0VO0ZcujagK2N3HhqFZ8jKfnWZNYh6SOBsTadxOFFnYtRb4gCqvg/w640-h640/Michael%20Stipe%20Noam%20Galai%20-%20Getty.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Noam Galai </td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><br /></div>Let's summarize in this post the most important things about this charismatic man.<br /><br />⭐𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬<br />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”.<br /><br />🔹𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲:<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3GxYXmp" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3GxYXmp</a><br /><br /><br />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.<br /><br />In this article, Michael admits to being a member of the climate change movement 🔹'𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧'🔹 and enjoying the ongoing nonviolent protests:<br /><br />🔹💬“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.”<br />(𝑁𝑀𝐸, 𝑅.𝐸.𝑀. 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 25 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 ‘𝑀𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟’: “𝑊𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑤𝑎𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑟 – 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑎𝑤”, 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 2019)<br /><br />~🔹~🔹~🔹~<br /><br />⭐𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐝𝐨𝐥<br />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.<br /><br />Michael managed to sing with Patti on the same stage several times. Enjoy these two amazing videos:<br /><br />🔹🎶𝐑.𝐄.𝐌. 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐢 𝐒𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐡 : "𝐄-𝐁𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫" (𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖)<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3VDiq9C" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3VDiq9C</a><br /><br />🔹🎶 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<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3WHS6MJ" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3WHS6MJ</a><br /><br /><br />⭐𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨: 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐢 𝐒𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐡<br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8y2gAEplJqBqnJJxMzt2KBQ_CUVm_0CB9TXuB5DNUOnsMECjqi9eSkxU-m6gZJy-LP7tZlWHk2SKQrQ8nELOGkVXmHIxq3lNfdfJHS4meW5vthX9N8FczLNKZf2emRqK0X8QoXIXRXphzw3_BAsW5FyJD5ufik7q6py59kf3ouURjBqUHXEQBo6p7OQ/s1303/Michael%20Stipe%20and%20Placebo%20-%20Justin%20Thomas%202_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1303" data-original-width="1068" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8y2gAEplJqBqnJJxMzt2KBQ_CUVm_0CB9TXuB5DNUOnsMECjqi9eSkxU-m6gZJy-LP7tZlWHk2SKQrQ8nELOGkVXmHIxq3lNfdfJHS4meW5vthX9N8FczLNKZf2emRqK0X8QoXIXRXphzw3_BAsW5FyJD5ufik7q6py59kf3ouURjBqUHXEQBo6p7OQ/w524-h640/Michael%20Stipe%20and%20Placebo%20-%20Justin%20Thomas%202_n.jpg" width="524" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Justin Thomas</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>⭐𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑.𝐄.𝐌.<br />In 1980 Michael formed the band R.E.M. with three of his friends: drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck and bassist Mike Mills.<br /><br />R.E.M. was pivotal in the creation and development of the alternative rock genre.<br />AllMusic stated, "𝘙.𝘌.𝘔. 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵-𝘱𝘶𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬."<br /><br />Alternative bands such as Nirvana, Radiohead, Coldplay, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Alice in Chains, have drawn inspiration from R.E.M.'s music.<br /><br />🔹💬𝐊𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐑.𝐄.𝐌.:<br />"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."<br />(𝐾𝑢𝑟𝑡 𝐶𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑖𝑛: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤)<br /><br />𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐱 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐊𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞.<br /><br />He tried to help Kurt in his battle with depression and drug addiction. He was even godfather to their daughter, Frances Bean.<br /><br />The deaths of both close friends hit Michael hard.<br />𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟒 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐑.𝐄.𝐌. 𝐝𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 "𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝐌𝐞 𝐈𝐧" 𝐭𝐨 𝐊𝐮𝐫𝐭.<br /><br />🔹🎶𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥-𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐄𝐌'𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐊𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐢𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐊𝐮𝐫t:<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3VIsbn8" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3VIsbn8</a><br /><br />🔹💬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?<br />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’.”<br /><br />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.”<br />(𝑁𝑀𝐸 𝑅.𝐸.𝑀. 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 25 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 ‘𝑀𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟’: “𝑊𝑒 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑤𝑎𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑟 – 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑟𝑎𝑤”, 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 2019)<br /><br />About the music and legacy of R.E.M. I could write for a very long time.<br />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.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXbrrwaCqhh_rrNB2sv-SPI1sRnzWCyZ-AvoRdriPywIwUq8afTgo7_vULLMAnt4fC2VjAGS-9YhJPyWqdXlsXkitb0e4Ludsi-N-wgzpRQYwWuBICNtt-GSnZKRWoGN4HceQrcUU6_Fis-fL3fvr0nrWITW9MCRfsU4yjjddJ23BUjO87PzpYE-mCAg/s600/Michael%20Stipe%20REM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="337" data-original-width="600" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXbrrwaCqhh_rrNB2sv-SPI1sRnzWCyZ-AvoRdriPywIwUq8afTgo7_vULLMAnt4fC2VjAGS-9YhJPyWqdXlsXkitb0e4Ludsi-N-wgzpRQYwWuBICNtt-GSnZKRWoGN4HceQrcUU6_Fis-fL3fvr0nrWITW9MCRfsU4yjjddJ23BUjO87PzpYE-mCAg/w640-h360/Michael%20Stipe%20REM.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit unknown</td></tr></tbody></table><br />⭐𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫<br />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.<br /><br />In 2019, Michael published the second photo book 🔹'𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬'🔹 with his friend Douglas Coupland.<br /><br />🔹💬"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.<br />𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘷𝘶𝘭𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘪𝘤, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘮."<br />(𝑀𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑒𝑙 𝑆𝑡𝑖𝑝𝑒: ‘𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜 𝑑𝑢𝑚𝑏’, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛, 𝐴𝑝𝑟 2021)<br /><br /><br />🔹𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰: 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬: 𝐀 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3Z8yjry" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3Z8yjry</a><br /><br />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.<br />🔹💬 <a href="https://bit.ly/3XlIMhR" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3XlIMhR</a><br /><br />~🔹~🔹~🔹~<br /><br />⭐𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬<br />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.<br /><br />In 2018, Michael expressed his opinion in this interview for the BBC:<br />🔹💬 “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.”<br />(𝑆𝑝𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑔., 𝑆𝑒𝑝 2018)<br /><br />But in November 2022, Michael certainly pleased a lot of his fans:<br />🔹💬 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐓𝐨 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐓𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐓𝐨 𝐕𝐨𝐭𝐞<br />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:<br /><br />“𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢 4𝘺𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺…𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘴!”<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvT6M3bOlSjykaKsuUBIJRkAAC_Mj-OtzBkJG104bru8Vnl0bhTq_mK55esJcO0inbGCOgvWzP1QJtXpFou8aLpM10tefxtaM8lPWUSmx9DkxbOa-61qDBBbmL6ZYw24xRlxq9QcqknUlUyazC5VOAPxiApoTPfz9DjnlaPN2QDfLuNjqwSdeZMvJPgw/s980/Michael%20Stipe%20Adam%20Berry,%20Getty%20Images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="653" data-original-width="980" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvT6M3bOlSjykaKsuUBIJRkAAC_Mj-OtzBkJG104bru8Vnl0bhTq_mK55esJcO0inbGCOgvWzP1QJtXpFou8aLpM10tefxtaM8lPWUSmx9DkxbOa-61qDBBbmL6ZYw24xRlxq9QcqknUlUyazC5VOAPxiApoTPfz9DjnlaPN2QDfLuNjqwSdeZMvJPgw/w640-h426/Michael%20Stipe%20Adam%20Berry,%20Getty%20Images.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: start;">Photo credit: </span>Adam Berry/Getty Images</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>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.<br />Patti Smith even replied in the comments: “𝘈𝘸𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦. 𝘑𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶.”<br />As should we all.<br />(𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘰𝘨𝘶𝘮, 𝘕𝘰𝘷 8, 2022)<br /><br />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.<br />~🔹~🔹~🔹~<br /><br />⭐𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎<br />Brian, Stefan, Steve (Hewitt) and Michael have known each other since the late 90ies because they both performed at a lot of festivals.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />🔹💬 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥:<br />“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.<br /><br />How did you get on with Michael Stipe?<br />“𝘏𝘦’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘉𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘩𝘢 𝘐’𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘵,” 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘴 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯. “𝘏𝘦’𝘴 𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭. 𝘏𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺.”<br /><br />Everyone turns to look at Stefan, who raises an eyebrow, glances away, throws a peanut in his mouth and chews with studied innocence.<br /><br />“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.”<br />(𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰, 𝘕𝘔𝘌 𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘶𝘴𝘵 1998)<br /><br /><br />In 2006 Placebo invited Michael to collaborate on the Meds album and together they recorded the absolutely stunning ballad 🔹"𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞"🔹.<br />I can imagine that Brian checked off another dream come true then.<br /><br />🔹🎶 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - '𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞'<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3VKoA7R" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3VKoA7R</a><br /><br /><br />🔹💬 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧:<br />“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.<br />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.”<br />(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙽𝙼𝙴, 𝙽𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 2016)<br /><br /><br />⭐𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎:<br />"𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥!"<br />(Michael Stipe 09.28.2016)<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGysm4G5UpNNPjt5T5OjUd-Z8fs7O4ZhGEDDSjmd4Br3NTuOhLKOL_slQkftF550pwF0pTaAqEOdia1Drvhu7GvsjkZGBXWnHTr7KSH8BYEDd35rhdzPNgCc1VxLHFCAbj5FAA9dWEopj3LNo9fmBkeKlx6UaVT1fpFZcJPTVXLTMYOtyyHgcDzkpKnA/s1300/Michael%20Stipe%20and%20Placebo%20-%20Justin%20Thomas%20IMG_0411.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1247" data-original-width="1300" height="614" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGysm4G5UpNNPjt5T5OjUd-Z8fs7O4ZhGEDDSjmd4Br3NTuOhLKOL_slQkftF550pwF0pTaAqEOdia1Drvhu7GvsjkZGBXWnHTr7KSH8BYEDd35rhdzPNgCc1VxLHFCAbj5FAA9dWEopj3LNo9fmBkeKlx6UaVT1fpFZcJPTVXLTMYOtyyHgcDzkpKnA/w640-h614/Michael%20Stipe%20and%20Placebo%20-%20Justin%20Thomas%20IMG_0411.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: start;">Photo credit: </span> Justin Thomas</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>⭐𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐫<br />Michael refers to himself as a queer individual in his intimate relationships.<br />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.<br /><br />🙏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.<br /><br />🔹💬𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐞: 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠<br /><br />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. .../.../<br /><br />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..../.../<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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!”<br />(𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛, 𝑂𝑐𝑡. 2014)<br /><br />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.<br />𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘦𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵.<br />🌹𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨, 𝘣𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧. 🌹<br />~🔹~🔹~🔹~<br /><br />👉Michael Stipe YouTube channel: <a href="https://bit.ly/3ChB6on" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3ChB6on</a><br />👉Michael Stipe's website - <a href="https://michaelstipe.com/" target="_blank">https://michaelstipe.com/</a><br />👉R.E.M. on Spotify - <a href="https://bit.ly/3Ciwf6w" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3Ciwf6w</a><br />👉Michael Stipe on Spotify - <a href="https://bit.ly/3VOy3Ls" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3VOy3Ls</a><br />👉Michael Stipe on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/michaelstipe/" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/michaelstipe/</a><br /><br />Post by Marti<br />Silkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11574342315975852620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606514675804874209.post-67573922242178160742022-12-25T11:32:00.000+01:002022-12-25T11:32:10.957+01:00🎸 PLACEBO ANYWAY CALENDAR 2023 🎸 <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHe72biaHrUb7VgXJ86VSQcgVQT80onA-kUruQ8jnfC8GCCrnBamAxPtutgYYmylky1nKq9U_jsUEEcayzEY5mt8G1VtOAiYtiqUTMFnhvPnA5kOSFoZg-efEoFDgq4on2ZW9MBibVFSmdvEBaNfztZsoOFaLlQ3Rdd4JIyczUfDqcgWPqsOwiQie2/s2048/1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1337" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHe72biaHrUb7VgXJ86VSQcgVQT80onA-kUruQ8jnfC8GCCrnBamAxPtutgYYmylky1nKq9U_jsUEEcayzEY5mt8G1VtOAiYtiqUTMFnhvPnA5kOSFoZg-efEoFDgq4on2ZW9MBibVFSmdvEBaNfztZsoOFaLlQ3Rdd4JIyczUfDqcgWPqsOwiQie2/w418-h640/1.png" width="418" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3I1ecFN">LINK TO PLACEBO PAGE </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Download the calendar on our Facebook page.<br /><br />Photo credits on every picture. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>SusanneCkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11371866015745555808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606514675804874209.post-5880076553122846172022-12-22T05:38:00.001+01:002022-12-22T05:40:43.596+01:00🔹🌛ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕏𝕀𝕀𝕀.🌜🔹𝐇𝐢 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬,<br />Do you notice how we gradually move from the earliest Placebo albums to the next ones? I may have missed some songs, but this is a pilgrimage of lullabies that please my soul, and of course not everyone necessarily agrees with my choice.<br />My main goal is to continue to take you through slow versions of Placebo's fast rock hits.<br />Today's choice fell on a song from the 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐒 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦:<br /><br />🔹🎶"𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐈 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔"🎶🔹<br />𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/2Heus6K" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2Heus6K<br /></a><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrIrxf5icFHU9KAzhzrO32yjmgApmCeLumAjASxTrrdwrgEcIKVdseDoOPJcHosRHZPT5gv32MeXtVytqBqDEon4WBoIsbpqM45VgowkkZMjTmBnqbzLLgx5MsbYUs5hASnSxmmvyZgRXZegO2EZgdHnhFse7--FlUhivhNpXk-amu9wKX1xas0FtAGA/s2979/Placebo%20%20Thomas%20Rabsch,%202006%20a01a3b77_orig%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1836" data-original-width="2979" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrIrxf5icFHU9KAzhzrO32yjmgApmCeLumAjASxTrrdwrgEcIKVdseDoOPJcHosRHZPT5gv32MeXtVytqBqDEon4WBoIsbpqM45VgowkkZMjTmBnqbzLLgx5MsbYUs5hASnSxmmvyZgRXZegO2EZgdHnhFse7--FlUhivhNpXk-amu9wKX1xas0FtAGA/w640-h394/Placebo%20%20Thomas%20Rabsch,%202006%20a01a3b77_orig%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Thomas Rabsch</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>⭐𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠:<br />... it’s “𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘦. 𝘞𝘦’𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘺, 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴. 𝘔𝘢𝘺𝘣𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘷𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘴… 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘸𝘢𝘺.”<br />(𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑥 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑒, 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑦 2007)<br /><br />🔹But we all know that the entire Meds album is full of darkness, the deepest fall to the bottom of humanity... which is always followed, if we really want, by a return to the light.<br /><br />⭐"𝘞𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦. 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘵 𝘶𝘱 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘺𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘰 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘚𝘰 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘮𝘢. 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘴. 𝘐𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦.<br />.../***/<br />𝘔𝘺 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺, 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘨𝘨𝘺 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘥. 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘐 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵. [𝘓𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘴] 𝘐𝘯 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵, 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘰𝘯."<br />(𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜, '𝑅𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑅𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠' 𝑉𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑔. 2016)<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDIPvLsdOsuZ8OQsP7rlbuBDVm9PoC5F8QZIH7Gj0GkF_BwbTLzgc2xkv-bBArcugntJCzPeKsoyDX7rGib5vdvHI2mz13ClbmSkPA9CiqvN9w2iycwYjgDG4fdQ72-pk4WEdQIIBQ6KLRQMPEQdSBWxwy5yNA9ube44Sb8VvknYG2JAkbiKyeBCHa7A/s417/Placebo%20%20Robin%20Kim,%20july%202006%20e1_straygreen%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="417" data-original-width="383" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDIPvLsdOsuZ8OQsP7rlbuBDVm9PoC5F8QZIH7Gj0GkF_BwbTLzgc2xkv-bBArcugntJCzPeKsoyDX7rGib5vdvHI2mz13ClbmSkPA9CiqvN9w2iycwYjgDG4fdQ72-pk4WEdQIIBQ6KLRQMPEQdSBWxwy5yNA9ube44Sb8VvknYG2JAkbiKyeBCHa7A/w588-h640/Placebo%20%20Robin%20Kim,%20july%202006%20e1_straygreen%20(2).jpg" width="588" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Robin Kim</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>🔹When I first heard this song on the Meds album, it seemed like a clear straight return to the old Placebo. A great song with not too complicated text that again, as is usual with Brian's lyrics, can be interpreted in multiple ways.<br /><br />🔹But true love only came with the slow version that I heard for the first time - in a live performance at the M6 Private concert in 2006.<br />Suddenly the lyrics is more speculated.. More contradictory... <br />Do you feel the same way? <br />That the rhythm and musical arrangement will change your perception of the text?<br /><br />🔹Originally a very brisk song, it seems to indicate a clear solution - things are the way they are (narrator's alcoholism) and you, my love, make your choice, because you know I want you anyway...<br />🎶"𝘋𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮<br />𝘋𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨<br />𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰<br />𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 ..."<br /><br />🔹But once the rhythm of the song slows down, the narrator's greater indecision becomes apparent. He knows that his actions (alcohol) are destroying their beautiful relationship. <br />🎶"𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪 𝘩𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦, 𝘤𝘰𝘻 𝘐'𝘮 𝘢𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦..<br />𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦"<br />And that's why he's trying to tell her that she should end it, because he can't...<br />🎶"𝘛𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘸𝘰<br />𝘐𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘥𝘰<br />𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰..."<br /><br />🔹But love is difficult precisely in how ambiguous it is and what difficult decisions and tests it brings...<br />Maybe the narrator is saying -<br />I'll give up alcohol '𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪...'💗<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqfWiwJMmXFSW-dUKq5THXbbOVzeuCVKW_Y8olfiWbFrACzCXyVHNgIiRVUKxPxI7_o1lsBIDoyATyvn2riGd2tGCVMesIe0RDihnC6BpUohPhBT1lGvdr5L2ZjfRd6T9kRwGHZ5R8Jdir7jaxjW0robir_-RqIFqC13GLImYkrYQgkLnnsJPiZzVKXw/s609/Placebo%20Scarlet%20Page%20ffIMG_0570.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="607" data-original-width="609" height="638" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqfWiwJMmXFSW-dUKq5THXbbOVzeuCVKW_Y8olfiWbFrACzCXyVHNgIiRVUKxPxI7_o1lsBIDoyATyvn2riGd2tGCVMesIe0RDihnC6BpUohPhBT1lGvdr5L2ZjfRd6T9kRwGHZ5R8Jdir7jaxjW0robir_-RqIFqC13GLImYkrYQgkLnnsJPiZzVKXw/w640-h638/Placebo%20Scarlet%20Page%20ffIMG_0570.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Scarlet Page</td></tr></tbody></table><br />🙏𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬, 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬. <br />The true meaning of Christmas is not to try to be perfect in the eyes of others.<br /><br />𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫💗. <br />𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐮.<br /><br />Post by MartiSilkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11574342315975852620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606514675804874209.post-3352781929282983702022-12-17T18:23:00.000+01:002022-12-17T18:23:00.105+01:00✨🌠 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐋𝐊𝐎 𝐄𝐅𝐅𝐄𝐂𝐓 🌠✨𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒚 recently sat down for a pint with 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐, the outspoken singer and songwriter with the consistently popular alternative rock band 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐, to ask about the secret of their long-standing success.<br />📍𝐹𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑦 𝑃𝑎𝑢𝑙 𝑀𝑖𝑡𝑐𝒉𝑒𝑙𝑙 <br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfN5fAE5SHU9wnRsSuflaBG4xEj2PBCtDxt7Hlu7Lc1c3v4OKyT5T_NZKOdUk9Qq_Sqoza5zM90La8oSs5jxjFlk_LcpYhPBx3CvmvrwfYZaHaSL-XYYLrTFTtJkWn-dwEth5B-5LyPFvw2bNBv4iEJwanSEZ6jbdoLZWUu6c-ea4VfmhYotFRo5VQCQ/s1078/Placebo%20Brian%20Molko%202009_20221217_020329317.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="1078" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfN5fAE5SHU9wnRsSuflaBG4xEj2PBCtDxt7Hlu7Lc1c3v4OKyT5T_NZKOdUk9Qq_Sqoza5zM90La8oSs5jxjFlk_LcpYhPBx3CvmvrwfYZaHaSL-XYYLrTFTtJkWn-dwEth5B-5LyPFvw2bNBv4iEJwanSEZ6jbdoLZWUu6c-ea4VfmhYotFRo5VQCQ/w640-h640/Placebo%20Brian%20Molko%202009_20221217_020329317.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: start;">📸Photo Credit: Franck Juery, 2009</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>⭐ 𝑮𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒅 (𝟏𝟓 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈), 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒆 - 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒉 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒆𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒂𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒄? <br />🎤 Well, that's the challenging equilibrium you try and strike every time you make a new record: trying to push the boundaries and limits of your sound without repeating yourself. You have to try to do something new, exciting and fresh with the band's sound and play with the band's conceived identity, but at the same time not disregarding what makes you uniquely 'you'. <br /><br />⭐ 𝑫𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒐 𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈? <br />🎤 I think so! The greater the body of work, the more difficult it becomes to write a fresh song; it becomes a lot more challenging. As far as longevity is concerned, I think if you look at the careers of the likes of The Cure or Depeche Mode - I use those examples because they both released albums this year, 30 years into their career - well they've made music, since day one, purely on their own terms, unaffected, unconcerned by trends, movements and fashion in music. They followed their own path and stuck to their guns, and I think that's why they're still making records which are still worthwhile listening. We're 15 years in, and that's where I'd like to be in another 15. It's not like we have any other options; we're basically unemployable, you know, so this is it. <br /><br />⭐ 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐'𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒅𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆, 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒔, 𝒔𝒂𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒆, 𝒉𝒆𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒎 𝒆𝒕𝒄. 𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒓? <br />🎤 I started looking back on my career around the time of Meds [fifth studio album, released in 2006]. As a lyricist I thought I was using a great deal of gimmicks. For example, the whole chemistry/medicine cabinet routine that is Commercial for Levi or a song title that screams 'Look at Me!' that is Nancy Boy! I made a decision that I wanted to stop using gimmicks and address the bigger questions in more everyday language where possible, and try and simplify it, I suppose. Say more by saying less, that's kinda the trip I'm on right now.<br /><br />⭐ 𝑰𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒆𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒆 '𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏' 𝒂 𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒌𝒚 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆? <br />🎤 Everybody who writes wants to write stuff that's timeless and doesn't date, really. I think you have to be very careful if you want to do that. You have to tap into the spirit of the age but at the same time write something that transcends it. I don't think that using incredibly culturally specific language enables you to do that. So, I'm trying to transcend that and write something that can stand up to the music that I grew up listening to. Take Leonard Cohen, for example. There's a universality in his music and a simplicity which makes it appreciable and meaningful in any decade, any century really. I think that's what I'm trying to do, hopefully in some way making a difference. <br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtfqN_K7HPTl4YIuHj1cGLIG6qZ6FY6r1lSojHjazJ1KDCAbm1QoEpQG3VLqCHS1XJkRQtq5hRR3PfE4WD2lJxddCVYvMp0aTlV6RHXt5Efm38Xh_-A9xx1hwhNEPch_2_zyJyF6_0Z3WmtCMBcrpySfKRH2hrX4_7chp9FDs6Ud1YCbjCtt4rwQEfgQ/s400/Placebo%20Brian%20Molko%20Scarlet%20Page,%20April%202009%2000a6_d25c68b9_orig%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="265" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtfqN_K7HPTl4YIuHj1cGLIG6qZ6FY6r1lSojHjazJ1KDCAbm1QoEpQG3VLqCHS1XJkRQtq5hRR3PfE4WD2lJxddCVYvMp0aTlV6RHXt5Efm38Xh_-A9xx1hwhNEPch_2_zyJyF6_0Z3WmtCMBcrpySfKRH2hrX4_7chp9FDs6Ud1YCbjCtt4rwQEfgQ/w424-h640/Placebo%20Brian%20Molko%20Scarlet%20Page,%20April%202009%2000a6_d25c68b9_orig%20(2).jpg" width="424" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Scarket Page</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>⭐ 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆'𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕? <br />🎤 Right now I'm just wondering how the hell am I going to survive the next two years of this touring schedule and pull out of this in one piece.<br /><br />⭐ 𝑶𝒏 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒕𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒂𝒇𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝑼𝑺 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒚. 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒅, 𝒊𝒇 𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍? <br />🎤 It's good to have an intelligent person running one of the most powerful countries and someone who generally cares. I'm less sympathetic towards the economic problems that exist right now than some people might be, because I have never been able to understand the whole culture of living beyond your means. I mean, I've been unemployed for a long time, I've been homeless, I've slept in train stations and I didn't spend money that didn't belong to me. So I find it difficult to be incredibly sympathetic with the culture of avarice that has got us into this position. <br /><br /><br />The other thing that annoys me about this whole focus on our economic woes is that nobody is talking about the environment anymore, and if anything is going to get us in the ass, it's going to be that. The hole in the ozone layer is still there, 20 years after they discovered it, and it's getting bigger and bigger, yet this isn't news. I want to be involved in the world. I think it comes from being a parent; you want to try and contribute to make a place for your children to grow up in that's hopefully a little bit better than where you were. Unfortunately, it seems that we are heading straight towards some form of environmental armageddon, and perhaps we deserve to go the same way as the dinosaurs for our treatment of the planet.<br />▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚗𝚢, 𝙽𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸𝟺, 𝟸𝟶𝟶𝟿.<br /><br />𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴! <br /><br />Now I bring to you an interview with 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐, which is a gem from beginning to end as once again he talks to us from his side as a songwriter about how his songwriting style has changed over time, the challenges he faces and what he aspires to achieve in his songs. ⭐🎶 <br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsIfYPrFYXPS889dcrREM9bM9OdRilBh9yUc_JiLJdFO4-auwDL2rfhHvPdsyugBfB3o5kLJ8h18wySGKstUz9Y1o1IpqZDczKg8zD32gN5JBR95uNhKH_t0_TSGVhQlJuglhCmHROZnyCqsgf12eRc7k2wEpp6OBfMF7-ItijFjuThsgte6AqyMzrzg/s512/Placebo%20Brian%20Molko%20Taratata%202009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="512" height="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsIfYPrFYXPS889dcrREM9bM9OdRilBh9yUc_JiLJdFO4-auwDL2rfhHvPdsyugBfB3o5kLJ8h18wySGKstUz9Y1o1IpqZDczKg8zD32gN5JBR95uNhKH_t0_TSGVhQlJuglhCmHROZnyCqsgf12eRc7k2wEpp6OBfMF7-ItijFjuThsgte6AqyMzrzg/w640-h540/Placebo%20Brian%20Molko%20Taratata%202009.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Taratata TV show, 2009</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 also mentions some of the bands and artists he admires and has covered at some point, so it seemed like a good idea to listen to those songs this afternoon. <br /><br /><br />🔊 𝐋𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐆𝐨 𝐓𝐨 𝐁𝐞𝐝 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐈-𝐃𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟖 🎶<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3W4YkpQ" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3W4YkpQ</a> <br /><br />🔊 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 (𝐀𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜) 🎶<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3FVKVe7" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3FVKVe7</a> <br /><br />🔊 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞𝐚 𝐇𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐥 - 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 (𝐋𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫) 🎶<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3BGNHRV" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3BGNHRV</a> <br /><br /><br />Another thing that caught my attention in this interview is that 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏's last answer reminded me of what he mentioned about the environment in the Placebo interviews we read earlier this year. A pity that 13 years later things have not changed much, so it is worth remembering that we must take care and value our planet every day with habits that are kind to nature. 🌏<br /><br />🔊 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐓𝐫𝐲 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 🎶<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3HGYm2G" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3HGYm2G</a> <br /><br /><br />Post by Rita<br /><br />Silkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11574342315975852620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606514675804874209.post-12357549179499142502022-12-16T21:10:00.002+01:002022-12-16T21:10:28.957+01:00🟥𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗠𝗢𝗟𝗞𝗢 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝟳 𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗟𝗬 𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗦🟥I'm a big fan of unconventional interviews like this one with Brian about the Seven Deadly Sins and which of them he is guilty of. I find such unusual approaches always very interesting and worth reading, how about you?. <br /><br />Vanity, envy, gluttony, lust, wrath, greed and sloth... can you guess Brian's favourite sin? And which ones are the sins you commited from this list? Not to brag, soulmates, but it seems I only left out one of the seven capital sins in my life so far. In other words: My score is 6/7. And yours?<br /><br /><h2 style="text-align: center;">𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 (𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐊 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃, 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟑) </h2><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBC0iRkja8GUadb2t-ftoCSQCx6PkDQoO4TL84B3HHndj6wjf-0Ldc_VERMJqEvz5FfxUdfKDhhYeRUlP_udNGLoQOXZTcjFcNv6v5B1h7s5YzrZl1KiYN7lUFGsDJputy3-mOfhbDv03giUKjuIjWqoorN3TvMtevL5exHkW882l21xEgWK-JSg5hbA/s800/PLACEBO%20Brian%20Molko.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="707" data-original-width="800" height="566" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBC0iRkja8GUadb2t-ftoCSQCx6PkDQoO4TL84B3HHndj6wjf-0Ldc_VERMJqEvz5FfxUdfKDhhYeRUlP_udNGLoQOXZTcjFcNv6v5B1h7s5YzrZl1KiYN7lUFGsDJputy3-mOfhbDv03giUKjuIjWqoorN3TvMtevL5exHkW882l21xEgWK-JSg5hbA/w640-h566/PLACEBO%20Brian%20Molko.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: start;">Photo credit: Carole Epinette / Edit by Silke</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>Outspoken in the press, dolled-up on stage and once one of the most notorious party animals on the scene, Brian Molko isn't shy of breaking a few rules. Who better then, to quiz about the Seven Deadly Sins? <br /><br /><br />𝟏. 🔻𝐕𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐘🔺<br />“That's a good one. I'm the vainest of the band, definitely. Myself and Stefan spend a lot of time in front of the mirror playing with our hair and worrying about our clothes. I have a lot of “Does my bum look big in this?“ moments. I think it winds Steve [Hewitt] up a bit, but he's a vain guy too, only in a more masculine way. It's a very big part of what we do I suppose and a very big part of what pushes you to go on stage. I don't think there'd be as much dressing up on stage if there weren't a great deal of vanity involved. So I'm 100 percent guilty.“<br /><br /><br />𝟐. 🔻𝐄𝐍𝐕𝐘🔺<br />“Envy makes me think of that moment in Spinal Tap where the band meet some rock star who's bigger than them and they're all nice and friendly. Then when he walks away they call him a wanker. I'm guilty of that moment as well, though the bands it's with will remain nameless. But I'm envious of lots of things. I'm envious of people with better bodies than me, people who are taller than I am.“<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb0HnriYrnawqAn9k9cwNYNNmy_X3NbedxE3JRSWCiG5UnbJ0o5miHF0Qj-muRl4h5CRT9atDhBb8xN_B6I_OEefdFenjXbWVPFF2c3InALBbtY1e-X3zrbl8I7n1sje1t9s8Bm3h6j0NKrXVXxXeg59cZbVtuH89Z1de9PM8OQr1WBMdS2DQiePVWbA/s500/Franck%20Court%C3%A8s,%20march%20PLACEBO%20Brian%20Molko%202003%20IMG_3109.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb0HnriYrnawqAn9k9cwNYNNmy_X3NbedxE3JRSWCiG5UnbJ0o5miHF0Qj-muRl4h5CRT9atDhBb8xN_B6I_OEefdFenjXbWVPFF2c3InALBbtY1e-X3zrbl8I7n1sje1t9s8Bm3h6j0NKrXVXxXeg59cZbVtuH89Z1de9PM8OQr1WBMdS2DQiePVWbA/w640-h640/Franck%20Court%C3%A8s,%20march%20PLACEBO%20Brian%20Molko%202003%20IMG_3109.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Franck Courtès</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div></div>𝟑.🔻𝐆𝐋𝐔𝐓𝐓𝐎𝐍𝐘🔺<br />“I think I'm coming out of my secret over-indulgent stage. That was basically most of my 20ies where I'd take anything that was going and too much of it at any opportunity. I think it was very much a case of trying to numb a lot of my insecurities and low self-esteem by putting myself in a haze and avoiding reality. I'm better now, thankfully.“<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>𝟒. 🔻𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐓🔺<br />“Oh, my favourite! I'm a very lustful person, mainly towards other people. My lust means I have huge moral dilemmas on a daily basis. It's got me into far too much trouble. But unfortunately, no matter how much make-up I put on my face I can't alter the fact that I'm a man.“ <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />𝟓. 🔻𝐖𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐇🔺<br />“I don't get angry that often, but when I do it's in a way that's quite particular to people who are small in stature – when they lose it they really fucking lose it. It's a bit like a pressure cooker, I have a tendency to let it build up inside of me then really blow and go apeshit. I start throwing stuff around and screaming. It's not very healthy and it's not a pretty sight. I get very upset when people treat us with disrespect in life in general. I have this feeling that people treat me like a kid a lot and look down their noses at me. That makes me very angry. But I think it's a kick back to things from my childhood that I haven't got over.“<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDnmvy1is5TT61QmVYY9y7etNm5Z11_9IHuW1FVrl4tjo3FlGrKoH02TJ-lkOqE99-M3RtjDL-41SWJJu2A0sisotr07rRO3dHA1J0QgZXxKyNe4VcAWjfpzV9fiyN0UvJsQm5RtpVt8bnYrhX9TUHYMkYBxhZBdIwp7yXGRa66wzacOYHMLLEuf7WrQ/s384/PLACEBO%20Brian%20Molko%20David%20Willis,%202003%20e2fc_a56f50db_orig%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="334" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDnmvy1is5TT61QmVYY9y7etNm5Z11_9IHuW1FVrl4tjo3FlGrKoH02TJ-lkOqE99-M3RtjDL-41SWJJu2A0sisotr07rRO3dHA1J0QgZXxKyNe4VcAWjfpzV9fiyN0UvJsQm5RtpVt8bnYrhX9TUHYMkYBxhZBdIwp7yXGRa66wzacOYHMLLEuf7WrQ/w556-h640/PLACEBO%20Brian%20Molko%20David%20Willis,%202003%20e2fc_a56f50db_orig%20(2).jpg" width="556" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: David Willis</td></tr></tbody></table><div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /><br /></div>𝟔. 🔻𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐃🔺<br />“I'm not a particularly greedy person, I'm actually quite generous towards the people that I love and care about. I'd like to be filthy rich but then everybody would. I'm not obsessed with material possessions that much apart from records and clothes. I just don't see the point really. Being in a band doesn't make you greedier, it makes you more ambitious because every time you meet a challenge you have to set new ones and try and rise to those.“<br /><br /><br />𝟕. 🔻𝐒𝐋𝐎𝐓𝐇🔺<br />“I go through stages but in general I'm a hard worker, I always have been. I find it difficult to take breakes because I'm so used to each day being full, I just get restless and I have to force myself to relax. But when I do get the chance I just do absolutely nothing. I'll sit around for days and try to shut my brain off, watch Neighbours twice a day. You feel a bit lost when you come off tour because there's no one to make your coffee for you or light your cigarettes!“<br />(Rock Sound, 2003)<br /><br />Post by Silke<br /></div>Silkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11574342315975852620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606514675804874209.post-87703918727917601442022-12-14T22:55:00.006+01:002022-12-14T22:55:59.155+01:00⭐🎉💝𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘, 𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐄!💝🎉⭐Today, the beautiful and charismatic French-English music, film and fashion icon ⭐𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝟕𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐝𝐚𝐲⭐.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkOQIf6fJ3jI0b-WZCQNHiuJigdFwIvWdwIxiZyAH1yscL8Ptd2aZn_L8ebTbmJNXI9RqBGUiwQyPgNUNw25k1KJJ1SnxG_ZmbVpaIbv9gnDEAJdC9YxnUNQoiV3jWNv1oP5FT9_tlnKWHeXZmqQ7768aIjTnM6acsyD8VlWbcRiVqivPG9SkKhnkrFg/s843/Jane%20Birkin%20and%20Placebo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="843" data-original-width="843" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkOQIf6fJ3jI0b-WZCQNHiuJigdFwIvWdwIxiZyAH1yscL8Ptd2aZn_L8ebTbmJNXI9RqBGUiwQyPgNUNw25k1KJJ1SnxG_ZmbVpaIbv9gnDEAJdC9YxnUNQoiV3jWNv1oP5FT9_tlnKWHeXZmqQ7768aIjTnM6acsyD8VlWbcRiVqivPG9SkKhnkrFg/w640-h640/Jane%20Birkin%20and%20Placebo.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credits: Jun Sato/Wire Image, <span style="text-align: start;">Bentley Archive/Popperfoto, </span><span style="text-align: start;">Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Getty Images, </span><span style="text-align: start;">Photo edit by Marti</span><br style="text-align: start;" /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Many themes are associated with the name Jane Birkin.<br />We remember her birthday because she is a woman that Brian adores, and 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟒 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 ⭐“𝐒𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐄” 𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 “𝐑𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐳-𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐬”. <br /><br />🎶🔹𝐒𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐄 - 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3G1NVpv" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3G1NVpv</a><br /><br /><br />🔹💬𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐊𝐈𝐍 <br />𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘪𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯. 𝘐 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 ...<br />”Working with her was more than an honour. She has a dignity, a presence and incredible generosity. She is very English, but as a lady, actually. For me, she is like a member of the royal family.”<br />(𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑈𝑝 𝑛°110, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑠 2006)<br /><br /><br />🔹💬𝗝𝗔𝗡𝗘 𝗕𝗜𝗥𝗞𝗜𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 <br />"It is unexpected to hear Brian Molko from Placebo on your album.<br />"Oh no! He knows Serge songs, he has already made a version of Melody Nelson, he played my part in a version of Je t'Aime Moi Non Plus. It's a very well-read boy, very clever. I thought only the French were so careful with the words, as with the English we just have to understand the title and we can dance. Brian Molko wrote a very strong, sassy song, in which he often has the cunning as Cole Porter, to throw a word on the next verse. Even my mother was absolutely delighted with the keeness of the thing: it is not a reverent song."<br />(𝑅𝐹𝐼 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒, 2004)<br /><br /><br />𝐎𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝟏𝟗𝟒𝟔 ⭐𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧, 𝐔𝐊. 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝟐𝟎.<br /><br />Jane's first known film was 1966's ⭐𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐖 𝐔𝐏, made while she was still living in England. After separating from her first husband John Barry (with whom she had a daughter Kate), she moved to France in 1968 to audition for the film ⭐𝐒𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐀𝐍. There she met ⭐𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐠 and this legendary relationship lasted 12 years.<br /><br />Serge is the father of her second daughter, Charlotte Gaisnsbourg, a well-known musician and actress.<br />After their breakup, Jane married the director Jacques Doillon and with him has a third daughter - Lou.<br /><br />Dear soulmates,<br />read a few points below for a more detailed description of this very wonderful and inspiring woman.<br />I wish you a lovely evening...maybe spent watching one of Jane's films.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2i4A7aNKq5syxrOJBuUfZDF1Jv3i32EzHLkZf_xCIO4DTj62Blx38Dvq35wtf5CzaR5CJ-Rf4t6jkKxHtcg28OhynlOedXr9ztVPL0nbKU1oWUYlSwHrz6qNmImM9qmggzwE-26MidmwirR35Y9m3WYO9vqYeUVmYxbjShqZlSmwgNnuUNd4CpQUXMg/s2200/Jane%20Birkin%20full%20AFP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1238" data-original-width="2200" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2i4A7aNKq5syxrOJBuUfZDF1Jv3i32EzHLkZf_xCIO4DTj62Blx38Dvq35wtf5CzaR5CJ-Rf4t6jkKxHtcg28OhynlOedXr9ztVPL0nbKU1oWUYlSwHrz6qNmImM9qmggzwE-26MidmwirR35Y9m3WYO9vqYeUVmYxbjShqZlSmwgNnuUNd4CpQUXMg/w640-h360/Jane%20Birkin%20full%20AFP.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: AFP</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>⭐𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐄 𝐀𝐒 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑<br /><br />During her career, she released 13 albums and collaborated with artists from all over the world, in the form of duets – for example with Brett Anderson (Suede), Bryan Ferry, Etienne Daho, Françoise Hardy.<br /><br />𝘐𝘯 1969 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 “𝘑𝘦 𝘵'𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘪 𝘯𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘭𝘶𝘴”, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘢 𝘈𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘯 2002.<br />🔹🎶 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐠, 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧 - '𝐉𝐞 𝐭'𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞... 𝐦𝐨𝐢 𝐧𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐥𝐮𝐬' – 𝐎𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐩 𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟗<br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3AX6t7d" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3AX6t7d</a><br /><br /><br />🔹'𝐉𝐄 𝐓'𝐀𝐈𝐌𝐄... 𝐌𝐎𝐈 𝐍𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐋𝐔𝐒' 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘🔹<br />"Jealousy drove me to perform the song. I remember that Serge was getting a television crew and journalists to listen to the version he’d made with Bardot, which was never released, and there was a very pretty girl in a kilt lying on the sofa. When I saw how proud he was to get the journalists and the girl on the sofa to listen to it, I thought I’d better be the one to sing it, especially that other actresses were interested. Mireille Darc asked him: ‘So, Sergio, what has become of that little song ?’ I didn’t want him to end up in a telephone box with a beautiful girl recording another version of Je t’aime… moi non plus, as he’d done with Bardot. When he suggested I do it, I agreed immediately. We met up in a huge studio in Marbella and in two takes we had the final product. Back in Paris, we went for dinner in the wine cellar of the Hôtel des Beaux Arts. There was a record player, and without saying a word, Serge put the song on and all of a sudden all the couples around us stopped talking, their knives and forks in mid-air. Serge pinched me and said: ‘I think we’ve got a hit record.’ We never thought for a moment that the song would become such a symbol of freedom all over the world. People listened to it in secret, from Spain to Argentina. The Pope banned it, BBC banned it too, and in Italy, the head of Phonogram Records was thrown into jail. I was making another bad film in Oxford and every day we saw Je t’aime… moi non plus climbing higher in the charts. It was crazy.”<br />(𝑉𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑔., 𝐴𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑙 2019)<br /><br />~🔹~🔹~🔹~<br /><br />⭐𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐄 𝐀𝐒 𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐎𝐑<br /><br />Jane has had a varied film and stage acting career.<br /><br />Among my favorite films I can name - the already mentioned 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐮𝐩, 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐨𝐨𝐥 with the very attractive Alain Delon, the controversial “𝐉𝐞 𝐭'𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐢 𝐧𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐥𝐮𝐬” as Serge Gainsbourg's first directorial effort from 1976.<br /><br />~🔹~🔹~🔹~<br /><br />⭐𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐄 𝐀𝐒 𝐀 𝐅𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐂𝐎𝐍<br /><br />Jane's fashion style was very casual and also very bold. She didn't try to hide her beautiful body.<br /><br />She did not hesitate to wear a dress back-to-front at prestigious events. Her style was unique, she looked very charming even in plain jeans, a shirt unbuttoned to the waist and converse sneakers.„𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘑𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘚𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘭𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤̧𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘗𝘢𝘤𝘰 𝘙𝘢𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘩. 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘵. 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 ... 𝘐 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘩 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴' 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘢. 𝘐𝘧 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯, 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴!<br />…/.../<br />𝘐 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘺. 𝘐 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘴, 𝘢𝘨𝘯𝘦̀𝘴 𝘣 𝘮𝘦𝘯'𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘴, 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘶𝘱𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴. 𝘖𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 𝘔𝘦𝘯'𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳. 𝘞𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘭𝘦. 𝘈𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴' 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘶𝘱, 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘨𝘦, 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘴. 𝘖𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘦, 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨."<br />(𝑉𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑔., 𝐴𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑙 2019)<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg34xa22ogldclbrSd1K5neRiPbdUnb1hSYhwpDegRd7SG76KCeua2u2RInI8GMFKKQsUxTNAihrfb-T0NxYKIvg7ctrUspu5Bgow5TILnkE-FlRORjjRGVSH0mwz2DEz7GQQLhOoJtDPQ0Na5Wb3Nmw0jRrdTcoIEz-G0627PLGQjxOo0QGjJ1LntGZg/s1200/Jane%20Birkin%20und%20Placebo%203.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg34xa22ogldclbrSd1K5neRiPbdUnb1hSYhwpDegRd7SG76KCeua2u2RInI8GMFKKQsUxTNAihrfb-T0NxYKIvg7ctrUspu5Bgow5TILnkE-FlRORjjRGVSH0mwz2DEz7GQQLhOoJtDPQ0Na5Wb3Nmw0jRrdTcoIEz-G0627PLGQjxOo0QGjJ1LntGZg/w640-h640/Jane%20Birkin%20und%20Placebo%203.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credits: unknow (Birkin), Renaud Monfourny, Sebastien Dolidon, Screenshots (2), booklet of "Rendez-vous" / edit by Silke</td></tr></tbody></table><br />⭐𝐇𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐬, 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐊𝐈𝐍 𝐁𝐀𝐆𝐒.<br /><br />'In 1981, Birkin was on a short flight from Paris to London. Carrying her famous straw basket, she placed it in the overhead compartment of her seat. However, the lid of the basket opened, and the contents spilled all over the floor and on the seats around her. Sitting next to her and assisting her in retrieving the contents of her basket was the late executive of Hermès, Jean-Louis Dumas. Birkin complained to Dumas that she was unable to find a suitable leather weekend bag that she liked. According to folklore, the remainder of the flight consisted of the pair designing a bag together and sketching ideas on an air sickness bag. …/.../<br /><br />Since the creation of the very first Birkin bag, Jane Birkin has always carried one. However, true to her unique style and fashion, she has continually customized her bags with beads, trinkets, protest stickers, and other titbits to create a unique look.<br /><br />…/.../ Birkin bags is now a modern and trendy pastime practiced by celebrities including Kim Kardashian, Tamara Ecclestone, and many others.'<br />(𝐵𝑎𝑔ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠 𝐵𝑙𝑜𝑔)<br /><br />~🔹~🔹~🔹~<br /><br />⭐𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐘<br /><br />𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤, 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐦𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐚𝐠𝐬<br /><br />Currently on her fifth bag after auctioning the first four for charity, Birkin’s philanthropy work is well documented. She often works with Amnesty International on humanitarian issues and donates her yearly royalties for the Birkin bag (approximately $50,000 per year) to a charity of her choice. In 2015, she had a brief disagreement with Hermès regarding the farming methods of alligators and crocodiles used to make the bags. Birkin’s request to remove her name from crocodile bags was swiftly met with a series of measures taken by the luxury manufacturer which satisfied Birkin and resulted in her dropping the request to remove her name from the bags.<br /><br />(𝐵𝑎𝑔ℎ𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐼𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠 𝐵𝑙𝑜𝑔)<br /><br />~🔹~🔹~🔹~<br /><br />⭐𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐄 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐘<br /><br />𝘔𝘺 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴<br />"I suffered a lot because of my physique, especially at boarding school. The others said I was half boy, half girl. I had no breasts, not even a developing bosom. It was horrible. I was extremely lucky to meet Serge. When he was a student at the École des Beaux Arts, he drew a girl, who looked just like a boy, except that she had breasts like mine. He took me to the Louvre to show me Cranach’s paintings and explained that I was a Cranach and that big breasts frightened him. He was exaggerating though. He had just come out of a relationship with Bardot, but Cranach’s was the type of beauty he preferred. After the misery of the boarding school and my marriage, it was incredible meeting someone who found me beautiful and decidedly erotic. He reconciled me with myself. When a man loves you, it changes everything.”<br />(𝑉𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑔., 𝐴𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑙 2019)<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFAHBqO1Uur-_9xUhcv_fqN0Mj0JUkVQsS1GOd8jSRUVJgqHXeeswyfhTIT6gUd9l5vNNNWeShjQHYfY3YGsWb5Gw48OkQjC1TYVWPQEsInifGHNWCGt3zZLZo4WV8603Hnp0vLeOtgvpaFNgx4jjvYEolDihg88-jEPtPwO2Yd1mvoP8_PEegJkYhig/s960/jane-birkin%20160%20%20Getty%20Images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="960" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFAHBqO1Uur-_9xUhcv_fqN0Mj0JUkVQsS1GOd8jSRUVJgqHXeeswyfhTIT6gUd9l5vNNNWeShjQHYfY3YGsWb5Gw48OkQjC1TYVWPQEsInifGHNWCGt3zZLZo4WV8603Hnp0vLeOtgvpaFNgx4jjvYEolDihg88-jEPtPwO2Yd1mvoP8_PEegJkYhig/w640-h426/jane-birkin%20160%20%20Getty%20Images.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit unknown</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>⭐𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐆 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐊𝐈𝐍, 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐏𝐋𝐄<br /><br />“𝘠𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘒𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥𝘺𝘴! 𝘞𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘺-𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘨𝘢𝘱, 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘺𝘭𝘦, 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘵 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘒𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘭𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘺, 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘴 [ … ]. 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘺: ‘𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘱𝘭𝘦’.”…/.../<br /><br />“𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘦, 𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵. 𝘛𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩, 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘸 𝘢 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥; 𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘨𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘹. 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵-𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥, 𝘴𝘰 𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘢 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘬𝘦𝘱𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵. 𝘐𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘶𝘱, 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦. …/.../<br />𝘐’𝘮 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘴. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘢 𝘨𝘶𝘺 𝘯𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘯, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘴 𝘨𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘺. 𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺, 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥, 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘵 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘴, 𝘐 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘦𝘯’𝘴 𝘱𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳. 𝘐 𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦. 𝘏𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘧𝘭𝘢𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘵 𝘩𝘪𝘮. 𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘮𝘱𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘳. 𝘐 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘫𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘴𝘰.”<br />(𝑉𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑔., 𝐴𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑙 2019)<br /><br />~🔹~🔹~🔹~<br /><br />⭐𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐄'𝐒 𝐐𝐔𝐎𝐓𝐄 𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐍𝐃<br /><br />𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘺<br />"I don’t believe in destiny. I think we can change everything all the time. Accidents are the best things in existence. They force you to leave a route that seemed to be mapped out, and it’s often when you branch out that you meet some incredible guy who changes your life or an unusual project that turns your career on its head. It’s often when things aren’t going well that we are forced into doing them differently and they suddenly become interesting.”<br /><br />Post by Marti<br />Silkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11574342315975852620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606514675804874209.post-28690776804593737042022-12-07T21:00:00.003+01:002022-12-07T21:30:40.743+01:00◾🌛ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 – 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕏𝕀𝕀.◾🌜⭐𝐇𝐢 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬,<br />it's Wednesday and therefore our favorite topic can continue again.<br /><br />The first lullaby puts you in the mood for a gentle evening mainly thanks to Brian's voice, even though the lyrics take us again to the dark depths of the human ego.<br /><br /><br />🔹🎶„𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐏𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄“🎶🔹<br />the second single from Placebo’s fourth studio album "𝑺𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒔".<br />Maybe you know it, maybe you don't, but this rock-punk version has an older sibling.<br /><br />⭐„𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐏𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄“⭐ was originally written as a piano ballad but while in the studio, changed into a rock song. This latter version was included into the album. Luckily, an original version wasn’t also lost. Its live performance for 𝑹𝑻𝑳2 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑨𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑺𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 was released on This Picture DVD single.<br /><br />🔹🎶𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 - 𝐀𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 <br /><a href="https://bit.ly/3HmtTH5?fbclid=IwAR21Y9jqqwJNeFzCo0n8uKkdf12gbG8bQLO8Ag8f93EvSmPwBwvuGiR4aiQ" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3HmtTH5</a><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWTzv6bFyQKoHrQPiY_K_m-rWRPcgDtYvCdAuyBznA5KhFgbf2Pj-balBAnFEXH4UK0VdG2FxZXKIQkOW1y9bB1KsNSFjxiC_l6ZLpCzT9ZEx3loaTiPZYqlj-hz4osWgXPMrH9HMb2C2MJW4vAOD4gJwQRxB7lBqI058kxY0XbYzvSY_WIdruaG5OLQ/s1480/Placebo%20This%20Picture%20Screenshot%20(1357).png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="834" data-original-width="1480" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWTzv6bFyQKoHrQPiY_K_m-rWRPcgDtYvCdAuyBznA5KhFgbf2Pj-balBAnFEXH4UK0VdG2FxZXKIQkOW1y9bB1KsNSFjxiC_l6ZLpCzT9ZEx3loaTiPZYqlj-hz4osWgXPMrH9HMb2C2MJW4vAOD4gJwQRxB7lBqI058kxY0XbYzvSY_WIdruaG5OLQ/w640-h360/Placebo%20This%20Picture%20Screenshot%20(1357).png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Screenshot from the official video</td></tr></tbody></table><br />𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 „𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐏𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄“ (acoustic version):<br />🔹💬„We wrote it on tour and it was a very REM piece, an atmospheric piano thing, quite abstract. Then we were in the studio, and we covered it in a pretty punk way...“<br />(𝑃𝑜𝑝 𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑅𝑇𝐿2, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 28𝑡ℎ, 2003)<br /><br />🔹💬“Those are images that keep following us around no matter where we go. You see them when you least expect it and at times when you don't really need it. It brings back everything because of a certain smell, song or place. I find it very interesting, the way things follow us around. And I'm very open: I live the genre of the song. When you look back on certain relationships you can see who the person really was, which you couldn't at the time you were in it. You understand reality and you see that the memories you have can make a person seem very different.“<br />(𝐷𝑁𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑥, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 2003)<br /><br />🔹💬"Outwardly, 'This Picture' is crammed with basic SM imaging, but behind the metaphor, it denounces the self-destructive love relationships. It was a way to say that this state of mind doesn't interest me anymore. I've been damaged enough in such relationships in the past and now I've got nothing more to do there. I changed, I quit."<br />(𝐿𝑒𝑠 𝐼𝑛𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑁°382, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ-𝐴𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑙 2003)<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCG5Jq1tDgiy9UITQtxpfm6B6ySP-UfohLMJJvrPOPblHbvRpbLwQFHZCc5RKqnjlwlWMZmkEcxcyMEycizC1lKmPP44ihB4ZYj73c4_JlA9Xo2DdjPvcANwdhkz-rosgy-tQI8zH4Tj2eC9sfUIGwkbDruICG4qJ9BT0EujHZ0LAW1Ju6mLLKbIew2g/s1470/Placebo%20This%20Picture%20Screenshot%20(1359).png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="1470" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCG5Jq1tDgiy9UITQtxpfm6B6ySP-UfohLMJJvrPOPblHbvRpbLwQFHZCc5RKqnjlwlWMZmkEcxcyMEycizC1lKmPP44ihB4ZYj73c4_JlA9Xo2DdjPvcANwdhkz-rosgy-tQI8zH4Tj2eC9sfUIGwkbDruICG4qJ9BT0EujHZ0LAW1Ju6mLLKbIew2g/w640-h360/Placebo%20This%20Picture%20Screenshot%20(1359).png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Screenshot from the official video</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>This piano ballad is a beautiful intimate confession of saying goodbye to my old self who was subject to self-destructive relationships. There are a lot of references to my old life... and some moments I'm really not proud of...<br /><br />Sometimes I too 'burned' emotional cigarettes on the chest of the man who loved me. Such relationships are always self-destructive for both parties, because no matter how inflated your ego is, your heart will always show you that you have not behaved properly.<br /><br />That's why I initially took this song as a mirror setting. That's what Placebo music can do. We are not always the victim in a relationship, sometimes it is necessary to admit that we have played the game on our side of the field and don't always play by the rules.<br /><br />Today I know that self-awareness is the most important part of lived experiences. What my role was, what should I have understood from this situation and how important it is to be able to forgive, both myself and others.<br /><br />„𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐏𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄“ 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨.<br /><br />It is important to know what we are willing to do to preserve a certain image we have of ourselves.<br />And it's important to remember that how we see ourselves can be different from how others see us.<br />~🔹~🔹~🔹~~🔹~🔹~🔹~~🔹~🔹~🔹~~🔹~🔹~🔹~~🔹~🔹~🔹~~🔹~🔹~🔹~~🔹<br /><br /><br />Let's go to the second gem of the evening. In order to share some live video, I chose a non-Placebo song.<br /><br />The original version comes from unique singer Sinéad O'Connor. Do you already know which song we are talking about?<br /><br /><br />🔹🎶„𝐉𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐈𝐄“🎶🔹<br /><br />”𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐞” 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐲 ⭐𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐞́𝐚𝐝 𝐎'𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐫⭐ 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟕 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 ⭐“𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐛𝐫𝐚”⭐.<br /><br /> Placebo covered the song in 2003 and released it on their single DVD “This Picture”. It can also be found on the album “Covers”.<br /><br />It's Brian's very favorite cover, did you know?<br />🔹💬𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒐𝒇 𝑪𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔. 𝑰𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒇𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆?<br />𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨: „I guess my favorite was "Jackie," the Sinead O'Connor track, which is why I chose to include it in our MTV Unplugged performance. […]“<br />(𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑉𝑖𝑐𝑒, 𝑅𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑅𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠, 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 13, 2016)<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Wppl4T41VHg0O5EQfWrOus8R5w-JeNJxrYSO-Jo5X6jogZ5RfN03b2LSl7nN4qhdV4j1OSb4mw5W-8U12ASzsHnTVEXRA6P6QSoQC-1__FVTbSfUjF3TtXGkDQ2qu1acyp1PkTwMDUzkBxH6zhX6bgjH4xqqtz9uo3K3QOueQRTCNZVKlKMGUhUHuw/s412/Placebo%20Scarlet%20Page,%202003%206955f_bda2x14b7_orig%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="226" data-original-width="412" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Wppl4T41VHg0O5EQfWrOus8R5w-JeNJxrYSO-Jo5X6jogZ5RfN03b2LSl7nN4qhdV4j1OSb4mw5W-8U12ASzsHnTVEXRA6P6QSoQC-1__FVTbSfUjF3TtXGkDQ2qu1acyp1PkTwMDUzkBxH6zhX6bgjH4xqqtz9uo3K3QOueQRTCNZVKlKMGUhUHuw/w640-h352/Placebo%20Scarlet%20Page,%202003%206955f_bda2x14b7_orig%20(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Scarlet Page</td></tr></tbody></table><br />𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 '𝐉𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐈𝐄':<br />🔹💬𝑱𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒆 𝒃𝒚 𝑺𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝑶'𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒓. 𝑨𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑲𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑩𝒖𝒔𝒉, 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕...<br />𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐥𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐥: A great artist who, I understand, decided to give it all up definitely. A pity ... Still, this song is beautiful. It is for a man who is leaving her. By covering it, as the three of us are guys, we somewhat perverted the meaning and we like that. It adds a sexual ambiguity that looks like us...<br />(𝑀𝑖𝑑𝑖 𝐿𝑖𝑏𝑟𝑒, 27𝑡ℎ 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 2003)<br /><br />This epic story can be interpreted in different ways, in any case, performed by Brian, it's a breathtaking lullaby.<br /><br />This song always connects me to my meditative moments by the sea.<br />I live inland, but I have been to the sea many times and I return with love every time. I always need to find a quiet place where I can sit undisturbed, watch the waves move, feel the sand moving under my feet and just be... part of the whole universe...<br /><br />And when I look at that amount of untamed water that has tremendous power, I can imagine the pain of millions of people who have lost a loved one at sea. This great mass of water gives and takes life.<br /><br />Although Sinead's original Jackie is beautiful, Brian makes me feel more of the pain, the non-acceptance of reality, the denial that it can't be over yet. The false hope that everyone must have been wrong. My love is still alive and coming for me.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='456' height='380' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwoxkum5LmNQM4wctWvWjwNj5AHtOy8vzkLA-Iro6LwoyHFXsyYGtSwtiHQ-VpPRmYhl3b4pt5odvBxNXH4Gw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Enjoy a great live performance of Jackie from ⭐𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐌𝟔 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟔 and I'm really looking forward to<br /><br />Post by Marti<br /><br /><br /><br />#Placebo #PlaceboWorld #PlaceboBand #PlaceboLive #PlaceboHistory #PlaceboAnyway #Soulmates #PlaceboCover #PlaceboLullaby #PlaceboLullabies #Lullabies #BrianMolko #StefanOlsdal #Molko #MolkoQuote #OlsdalQuote #Jackie #ThisPicture #Acoustic #AcousticSong #AcousticVersion #SineadOConnor<br />Silkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11574342315975852620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606514675804874209.post-77140297421647066442022-12-01T07:00:00.007+01:002022-12-01T07:00:00.177+01:00🎄 Placebo Anyway Advent Calendar 2022 🎄<p> </p><iframe src="https://calendar.myadvent.net/?id=vlydjtk9wqxjrkq6dtzjjakxegtz5k5a" class="myadvent-calendar" frameBorder="0" scrolling="no" style="width: 100%; min-height: 600px"></iframe><script src="https://code.myadvent.net/autoResize_1.0.0.min.js"></script>SusanneCkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11371866015745555808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606514675804874209.post-79553833304927969142022-11-30T21:00:00.007+01:002022-11-30T21:00:00.207+01:00🌛◾ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 - 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕏𝕀.◾🌜⭐𝑯𝒊 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔,<br /><br />After two weeks, we can return to our favorite series:<br />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.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='439' height='365' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz3KgwB9HNJeQ9EWJEnVfB60OqD0uZjvcO7jHUOiBPWx9lWSk_1JJAzr_Z6dOr09829Fe1Z-Qzyxw2XrILRVg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>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.<br /><br />🎶🔹„𝐉𝐞 𝐓'𝐀𝐢𝐦𝐞 . . . 𝐌𝐨𝐢 𝐍𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐥𝐮𝐬“🔹🎶<br />𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴, 𝘢𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘵, 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨?<br />𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘪𝘵? 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴?<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />⭐𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎:<br />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.<br /><br />𝘓𝘦𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩:<br />✨🔹𝐒𝐲𝐥𝐯𝐢𝐞 𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐭🔹✨<br />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. …/.../<br /><br />𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐠<br />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. …/.../<br /><br />'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'<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgClPm8UooxrDrtTq-Ek_8VXPX4Y3gQ0yeKVclEGarfqMTWhXmblj_S9EBOoPxhZgo5vx0jlarmwa3ZY6HOZuLZC9tW6QCH79mcjHRajL2I3hhhfCfmVFJdTa0_UQMZPY8Yaa83JjK0_oqJU9psuA-RxABO9nFeMlUCrR_791kaJPKYFzk1wjhEZ6y94A/s448/Trash%20Palace%2010.08.2002,%20Saint%20Malo,%20France%20hssga.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="352" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgClPm8UooxrDrtTq-Ek_8VXPX4Y3gQ0yeKVclEGarfqMTWhXmblj_S9EBOoPxhZgo5vx0jlarmwa3ZY6HOZuLZC9tW6QCH79mcjHRajL2I3hhhfCfmVFJdTa0_UQMZPY8Yaa83JjK0_oqJU9psuA-RxABO9nFeMlUCrR_791kaJPKYFzk1wjhEZ6y94A/w502-h640/Trash%20Palace%2010.08.2002,%20Saint%20Malo,%20France%20hssga.jpg" width="502" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Trash Palace, August 2002, Saint Malo, France. Photo credit unknown </td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>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".<br /><br />…/.../ 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.<br /><br />If you wish to know how this story continues with the wonderful ⭐𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐊𝐈𝐍⭐, read on here:<br />⭐◾ <a href="http://bit.ly/3gMjedQ" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/3gMjedQ</a><br /><br /><br />And here you can listen to both versions that Serge Gainsbourg recorded with these star ladies:<br /><br />🎶🔹𝐉𝐞 𝐓'𝐀𝐢𝐦𝐞- 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐨𝐭<br /><a href="http://bit.ly/3ETeo6L" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/3ETeo6L</a><br /><br />🎶🔹𝐉𝐞 𝐓'𝐀𝐢𝐦𝐞- 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐁𝐢𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧 - 𝐎𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐩<br /><a href="http://bit.ly/3AX6t7d" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/3AX6t7d</a><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZG2J3mG6Esi-VGkhDMixj3aS2aqPmAFLmTQpRAmqMX9cNUpJ8DmQcii1xzhCq8tB9Vir58ywqJmq7wxk4i56K-Gx6LreZ93OUKHJ3HegnQlQ0J4vM1c9HTMoc29Isje47SqL2o_k_mCCqaQWhOg3jZdFsBSewjcZJvVRAWs5DXEoHTgm1kNT2gWHlQA/s400/Trash%20Palace%20feat%20Brian%20Molko%20Lucille%20Brausch%201.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="270" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZG2J3mG6Esi-VGkhDMixj3aS2aqPmAFLmTQpRAmqMX9cNUpJ8DmQcii1xzhCq8tB9Vir58ywqJmq7wxk4i56K-Gx6LreZ93OUKHJ3HegnQlQ0J4vM1c9HTMoc29Isje47SqL2o_k_mCCqaQWhOg3jZdFsBSewjcZJvVRAWs5DXEoHTgm1kNT2gWHlQA/w432-h640/Trash%20Palace%20feat%20Brian%20Molko%20Lucille%20Brausch%201.jpg" width="432" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit; Lucille Brauscks</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>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.<br /><br />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:<br /><br /><br />𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐒𝐇 𝐏𝐀𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄:<br />🔹💬“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."<br />(𝘓𝘦𝘴 𝘐𝘯𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘶𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴, 2002)<br /><br />🔹💬”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”.<br />(𝘔6 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤, 2001)<br /><br />The result was the album ⭐'𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒'⭐, released in 2002, on which Brian lent his voice to three tracks:<br />🎶„𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺“ ,<br />🎶 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗞𝘆𝗹𝗶𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗴𝘂𝗲'𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴 "𝗖𝗮𝗻'𝘁 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗢𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝘆 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗱“<br />🎶 𝗮𝗻𝗱 „𝗝𝗲 𝗧'𝗔𝗶𝗺𝗲 . . . 𝗠𝗼𝗶 𝗡𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗹𝘂𝘀“.<br /><br />🔹💬𝐃𝐈𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐑𝐈 𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒:<br />“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.“<br />(𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘤𝘰𝘮, 𝘈𝘶𝘨𝘶𝘴𝘵 2006)<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKOia_lPNZOaTVMaf2r9wNrXmHXPpTHcEt6wYYkHjvOOHKKAX4DZQjavndkxDVYFBUgWBzSFpZJ6LRDlPChvq_Q-bmkhRBPwokXx77JS4G2ZU6ZpORGvWbGLE076RuVk9QelfTWjvXCX009w0OFD7WrQnB96D25okhMhWdTDBB7CtRVAYqaLx6X-gm9A/s853/Dimitri%20Tikovoi%20insta.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="853" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKOia_lPNZOaTVMaf2r9wNrXmHXPpTHcEt6wYYkHjvOOHKKAX4DZQjavndkxDVYFBUgWBzSFpZJ6LRDlPChvq_Q-bmkhRBPwokXx77JS4G2ZU6ZpORGvWbGLE076RuVk9QelfTWjvXCX009w0OFD7WrQnB96D25okhMhWdTDBB7CtRVAYqaLx6X-gm9A/w640-h640/Dimitri%20Tikovoi%20insta.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit; Dimitri Tikovoi's Instagram </td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>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:<br />🔹💬„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.“<br /><br />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.<br /><br />„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.<br /><br />„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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />„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.“<br /><br />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.<br />(𝘋𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘳𝘪 𝘛𝘪𝘬𝘰𝘷𝘰𝘪, 𝘏𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘒𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘎𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘦, 2004)<br /><br />Do you also find Dimitri's idea of switching the roles of the lovers as brilliant as I do?<br />I admit that the video from the concert, where both Brian and Argenta are so sexy, is breathtaking and dazzling for me.<br />„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.<br /><br />Post by Marti<br />Silkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11574342315975852620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606514675804874209.post-10299741127323373832022-11-25T15:00:00.001+01:002022-11-25T15:00:00.211+01:00🟨𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐁𝐄𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑: 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐄𝐓 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂🟨Let’s continue talking about Placebo album covers and today, it’s 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐄𝐓 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂’𝐬 turn.<br />I hope you don't mind that I swapped this one with 𝐒𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 which we've alreadt discussed<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmGo7yOnYZmuc2z4TA0pQIf-lRbsCsrkyzd3tEncmAbGsDr8T6R9xlKbRlycMaqiEJTySxk4D9A0BGUSFLQFVjgUw-J0GM1WVVT60c4ZV6SSV50qkrrzm2thc7A6nbAKgmfLhhI8sT0NbHgMmHlJIDeiZ0qjTQK5nwDrAAbtikuQpi_XB3_eqgEhGdVg/s2048/Placebo%20Taste%20in%20men%20cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmGo7yOnYZmuc2z4TA0pQIf-lRbsCsrkyzd3tEncmAbGsDr8T6R9xlKbRlycMaqiEJTySxk4D9A0BGUSFLQFVjgUw-J0GM1WVVT60c4ZV6SSV50qkrrzm2thc7A6nbAKgmfLhhI8sT0NbHgMmHlJIDeiZ0qjTQK5nwDrAAbtikuQpi_XB3_eqgEhGdVg/w640-h640/Placebo%20Taste%20in%20men%20cover.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: start;">Photo credit: Kevin Westenberg, Black Market Music cover, Discogs / edit by Olga</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>🟨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.<br /><br />𝐍𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐲: 𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆?<br />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.<br /><br />𝐍𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐲: 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓.<br />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.<br />(𝑉𝑖𝑐𝑒, 𝑅𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑅𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠: 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜 𝑆𝑘𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑅𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜’𝑠 𝐸𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝐿𝑃𝑠, 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 13, 2016)<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUxlxtKhQImjRwj9eNKjWmOx1oaK91BJIOtl5a5BWt53VuhPt2nAoDm_I14KUBeUXgYX04sb1Hub3Hr7HIO495uzgFWvwURzjRwJiCwdUtD1uz_1Yo6tzmSxYGO6aZjRl1Z_psWcwgv3cbJdmm2WGkPkOdhYrs5GLCcEWtc1ZUqRvFklNFT7jVITVz_g/s1200/Placebo%20by%20Kevin%20Westenberg,%202000%20_73bd4bb_orig%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="589" data-original-width="1200" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUxlxtKhQImjRwj9eNKjWmOx1oaK91BJIOtl5a5BWt53VuhPt2nAoDm_I14KUBeUXgYX04sb1Hub3Hr7HIO495uzgFWvwURzjRwJiCwdUtD1uz_1Yo6tzmSxYGO6aZjRl1Z_psWcwgv3cbJdmm2WGkPkOdhYrs5GLCcEWtc1ZUqRvFklNFT7jVITVz_g/w640-h314/Placebo%20by%20Kevin%20Westenberg,%202000%20_73bd4bb_orig%20(2).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: start;">Photo credit: Kevin Westenberg</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>🟨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.<br /><br />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]?<br />𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: Musical instruments, but very specific, very, very old and very, very heavy.<br />(𝐹𝑈𝑍𝑍, 𝐽𝑢𝑙-𝐴𝑢𝑔'00)<br /><br />"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.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinN2pGLLQOXeCFc_1j1z5qQWCAS1I8OIZtfvBAzIu7YeKweFNnhbcCm8FOsWAvCy7zkVhaXffj7fRpG_t9-w-hpAcQm1Q7HHCMvl_Be8MQAHv3hrKxoWG4OH2_Jqttd_BgKj5ghOg1QGDlttCNe2p3PSVkDPMe-Glc70ENFXIU1J_rsIb9V8wKH4Ki2g/s500/Placebo%20by%20Kevin%20Westenberg,%202000%204ff04_72461439_orig%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="296" data-original-width="500" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinN2pGLLQOXeCFc_1j1z5qQWCAS1I8OIZtfvBAzIu7YeKweFNnhbcCm8FOsWAvCy7zkVhaXffj7fRpG_t9-w-hpAcQm1Q7HHCMvl_Be8MQAHv3hrKxoWG4OH2_Jqttd_BgKj5ghOg1QGDlttCNe2p3PSVkDPMe-Glc70ENFXIU1J_rsIb9V8wKH4Ki2g/w640-h378/Placebo%20by%20Kevin%20Westenberg,%202000%204ff04_72461439_orig%20(2).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: start;">Photo credit: Kevin Westenberg</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>"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."<br />"But this cover sucks so much! " 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 complete."<br />(𝑉𝑂𝑋𝑃𝑂𝑃, 𝐽𝑢𝑛-𝐽𝑢𝑙'09)<br /><br />🟨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.<br />Captivating images of Brian, Stefan, and Steve Hewitt used as the booklet photography became quite iconic and loved by all Placebo fans.<br /><br />Post by Olga<br />Silkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11574342315975852620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606514675804874209.post-30399527084440231832022-11-23T21:00:00.001+01:002022-11-23T21:00:00.211+01:00⭐ℍ𝔸ℙℙ𝕐 𝔹𝕀ℝ𝕋ℍ𝔻𝔸𝕐, 𝔸𝕃𝕀𝕊𝕆ℕ!‼💝🎸🍾🥂Hi friends,<br />our lullaby series will be interrupted again by another important date.<br />Today is the birthday of the girl who gave her voice to one of the most iconic Placebo songs - 🔹𝑴𝑬𝑫𝑺: ⭐𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐍 '𝐕𝐕' 𝐌𝐎𝐒𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐓⭐.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFZUG05ZWTG0lbBHxVM3ms3s2cVhoCDHpT7UukyFyrsLEB3Wh-RjUlhJul5y6MIi7lPXlFohvKhKXGIOrioR9OOxUfmDFeHwpD3x_Hq63f0IZld25zYkIcL4LhipKb7lywz7sWGqP4IE4pXL43dA9WHjQpNxyhYlnmNG48eYZvy3J3v5lPNAf9tlHHDQ/s3072/Placebo%20and%20%F0%9D%90%8C%F0%9D%90%A8%F0%9D%90%AC%F0%9D%90%AC%F0%9D%90%A1%F0%9D%90%9A%F0%9D%90%AB%F0%9D%90%AD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="3072" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFZUG05ZWTG0lbBHxVM3ms3s2cVhoCDHpT7UukyFyrsLEB3Wh-RjUlhJul5y6MIi7lPXlFohvKhKXGIOrioR9OOxUfmDFeHwpD3x_Hq63f0IZld25zYkIcL4LhipKb7lywz7sWGqP4IE4pXL43dA9WHjQpNxyhYlnmNG48eYZvy3J3v5lPNAf9tlHHDQ/w640-h640/Placebo%20and%20%F0%9D%90%8C%F0%9D%90%A8%F0%9D%90%AC%F0%9D%90%AC%F0%9D%90%A1%F0%9D%90%9A%F0%9D%90%AB%F0%9D%90%AD.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: start;">Photo credit: Dave Kotinsky /Getty Images / E</span><span style="text-align: start;">dit by Marti</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>💬🔹𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐒𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐓:<br />◾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.<br />(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."<br /><br />◾𝑨𝒔𝒊𝒂 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒐𝒐.<br />"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."<br />(𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 „𝐼'𝑚 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒“, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 2006)<br /><br />◾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?<br />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.<br />(𝐺𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝐵𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑒 "𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜, 𝑙𝑎 𝑏𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑒", 𝑀𝑎𝑟-𝐴𝑝𝑟'06)<br /><br />◾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.<br />(𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑀𝑎𝑔, 𝐴𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑙 2006)<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg50W23hTd8JHOsJorwlyitHnCWIBlol4Y6hr4J4dR_4h373AZnhJZlh7SCWUNkYkT9kihJmM6lkjYzfWRRnD9obfOKvKjDYonOAsZd5MNccIyHegj_-BrhxiPQTL8SSc05asLkzEMKMwdB51FbQDqxPzbVCgZXSTNiUXz7L433Am66DJTmg7BN3JXzw/s2038/Placebo%20Thomas%20Rabsch,%202006%202e_929c8f6b7_orig.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1672" data-original-width="2038" height="526" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg50W23hTd8JHOsJorwlyitHnCWIBlol4Y6hr4J4dR_4h373AZnhJZlh7SCWUNkYkT9kihJmM6lkjYzfWRRnD9obfOKvKjDYonOAsZd5MNccIyHegj_-BrhxiPQTL8SSc05asLkzEMKMwdB51FbQDqxPzbVCgZXSTNiUXz7L433Am66DJTmg7BN3JXzw/w640-h526/Placebo%20Thomas%20Rabsch,%202006%202e_929c8f6b7_orig.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: start;">Photo credit: </span>Thomas Rabsch</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>⭐𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐒𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐓⭐<br />𝐴 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟, 𝑔𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡, 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑟, 𝑓𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑓𝑎𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟.<br />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.'<br /><br />💦𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 🔹𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐞 '𝐇𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐥' 𝐇𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞🔹, 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐝𝐮𝐨 ⭐𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟏.<br />Let's talk about what we know about Alison:<br /><br /><br />🔹𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎:🔹<br />💦𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐭 was born on November 23rd 1978 in Verona Beach, Florida, USA.<br /><br />💦Her rock career started at the age of 14, when as a teenager she used to go singing in bars with her skateboarding friends.<br /><br />💦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.<br /><br />💦After Discount disbanded, Alison moved to London in 2000, where the charismatic 🔹𝐉𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐄 lived in the flat above her.<br /><br />💦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:<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH6EStTx2eJY2P6xBZVQtVYL-7-yppeo2siGP7pEMFOaN3Zt_dz6g8tsHebzDc4C21EUtCeyhV0_xQIqzaY4EMkZlUAKxvYG1y-3rgcUKnkfkAqEZEUjaTRoypEfOPcWS20yQGs7a5neOs6Xr2knFUjxvdhvNItKp5KixXvVncO1dLCT6H3SbZpSPntA/s592/mosshart%20c_Ben%20Grieme.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="395" data-original-width="592" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH6EStTx2eJY2P6xBZVQtVYL-7-yppeo2siGP7pEMFOaN3Zt_dz6g8tsHebzDc4C21EUtCeyhV0_xQIqzaY4EMkZlUAKxvYG1y-3rgcUKnkfkAqEZEUjaTRoypEfOPcWS20yQGs7a5neOs6Xr2knFUjxvdhvNItKp5KixXvVncO1dLCT6H3SbZpSPntA/w640-h428/mosshart%20c_Ben%20Grieme.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: start;">Photo credit: </span>Ben Grieme</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>💬🔹𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐒𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐅𝐎:<br />◾𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝑺𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒇𝒐? 𝑫𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒊𝒎? 𝑰𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒎𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 "𝑳𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝑶𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒔"?<br />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.<br />(𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑠𝑢𝑟 𝑙𝑎 𝑅𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑑𝑢 𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘, 14𝑡ℎ 𝐴𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡 1997)<br />~🔹~🔹~🔹~<br /><br />💦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.<br />𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘒𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 2001. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴.<br /><br />❓𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 '𝐕𝐕' 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐞 '𝐇𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐥' 𝐇𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞?<br />💬🔹What’s the story behind the nickname Hotel?<br />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.<br />(𝐴𝑛 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐽𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑒 𝐻𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐾𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑠, 𝐿𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑂𝑢𝑡, 𝑀𝑎𝑦 2009)<br />~🔹~🔹~🔹~<br /><br />💦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.<br /><br />💦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'.<br />~🔹~🔹~🔹~<br /><br />💦𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧'𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐬.<br />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...<br /><br />💦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.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidl_1_pLiY3vKTEqz8JQKgRA93s80TNLaubWa1MCNzsr5_tysRYf5BrZyTdY3oC0wgkatWZeHNPLxkI4H_yEmu_VWiQ-WeRJv4x3y-omsut5U4fsn2nKd-Z4mCXweZf9x8WhIr9qQ2hOaVD3n0ApuUUfTyHzIbmVg_hmRYnn7ebC4tSlIcWwbMrN2yqQ/s1151/Placebo%20Vincent%20Lignier,%202006%20e3a2_fc072e84_orig%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="1151" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidl_1_pLiY3vKTEqz8JQKgRA93s80TNLaubWa1MCNzsr5_tysRYf5BrZyTdY3oC0wgkatWZeHNPLxkI4H_yEmu_VWiQ-WeRJv4x3y-omsut5U4fsn2nKd-Z4mCXweZf9x8WhIr9qQ2hOaVD3n0ApuUUfTyHzIbmVg_hmRYnn7ebC4tSlIcWwbMrN2yqQ/w640-h468/Placebo%20Vincent%20Lignier,%202006%20e3a2_fc072e84_orig%20(2).jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: start;">Photo credit: </span>Vincent Lignier</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>💦𝐀𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭, 𝐈'𝐦 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐠𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐨𝐆𝐮𝐦 𝐦𝐚𝐠. 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎.<br /><br />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:<br /><br />…/***/ 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.”<br /><br />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?<br /><br />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]<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7EBGy88_kxlVxQNM73Ah_DjyvsrgG2DPhN-qBKOfoq0PN1agWUytj8sXE7WstuKoL2aP3qeYMBakDMENU2J0km4Xzs0Tj3xz0GM7vTNXCd7NCaZoUsBZKg655lcKQwLNA-RhU1jShAoE3KpXcujys89WFuYKxY1dwPrs1DqYsh1APtd2Ul9eZSk2hqA/s1024/Mosshart%20by%20Getty%20Images,%20Mark%20Metcalfe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1024" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7EBGy88_kxlVxQNM73Ah_DjyvsrgG2DPhN-qBKOfoq0PN1agWUytj8sXE7WstuKoL2aP3qeYMBakDMENU2J0km4Xzs0Tj3xz0GM7vTNXCd7NCaZoUsBZKg655lcKQwLNA-RhU1jShAoE3KpXcujys89WFuYKxY1dwPrs1DqYsh1APtd2Ul9eZSk2hqA/w640-h450/Mosshart%20by%20Getty%20Images,%20Mark%20Metcalfe.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: start;">Photo credit: </span>Getty Images, Mark Metcalfe</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>You can follow ⭐𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐌𝐎𝐒𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐓⭐ on these accounts:<br />🔹Twitter: @_alisonmosshart<br />🔹Instagram: @amosshart<br />🔹Facebook: www.facebook.com/WMosshart/<br />~🔹~🔹~🔹~~🔹~🔹~🔹~~🔹~🔹~🔹~~🔹~🔹~🔹~<br /><br />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:<br /><br />🔹🎶 <a href="http://bit.ly/3Xk5wiO" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/3Xk5wiO</a><br /><br />Post by Marti<br />Silkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11574342315975852620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606514675804874209.post-19063933738477450802022-11-22T21:00:00.001+01:002022-11-22T21:00:00.209+01:00⭐𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘: 𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐑 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐀𝐈𝐒⭐💥... & 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 ‘𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨. 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐬𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞’, 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏, 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝟏💥<br />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.<br />➡️ <a href="https://bit.ly/3ALV9Zw" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3ALV9Zw </a><br /><br />In its original English version, the song is the 12th track on 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐈’𝐦 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 album.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn4PIdauFqYENCQNc80nVpu9CEjuNKRhvajipVwA-8hF4EOcENNxHpEKt0rUBSqbojicLE32wrQEQNnID9_8y9qX-XyCOzHRneJC0wICJWNTDg8kBlUxgPNHxDHMZnluBzjy-mVpyVeVvox2PPePcYzOsoxKIRuYcNZBFYR4ideL24gEAnBJRZdoPO5A/s1920/Placebo%20Burger%20Queen%20Francais%202211.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1920" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn4PIdauFqYENCQNc80nVpu9CEjuNKRhvajipVwA-8hF4EOcENNxHpEKt0rUBSqbojicLE32wrQEQNnID9_8y9qX-XyCOzHRneJC0wICJWNTDg8kBlUxgPNHxDHMZnluBzjy-mVpyVeVvox2PPePcYzOsoxKIRuYcNZBFYR4ideL24gEAnBJRZdoPO5A/w640-h640/Placebo%20Burger%20Queen%20Francais%202211.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: start;">Photo credit: Rudy Leonet, Radio 21; single cover / edit by Olga</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>⭐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.<br />⭐Adaptation of Brian’s lyrics into French was done by Brian’s friend Nicholas Elliot. 🔶𝑵𝑰𝑪𝑯𝑶𝑳𝑨𝑺 𝑬𝑳𝑳𝑰𝑶𝑻🔶 <br />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.<br />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.<br />Later, Nicholas Elliot moved to New York to pursue his film career and join the band Turkish Love Circus as a singer.<br /><br />⭐𝑹𝑬𝑳𝑬𝑨𝑺𝑬𝑺⭐<br />▪ 𝑻𝒘𝒐 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒐 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒗𝒆: <br />Burger Queen Français<br />Aardvark<br />Every You Every Me live from the End Session on April 10, 1999<br />&<br />Burger Queen Français<br />Pure Morning video<br /><br />▪ 𝑺𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆 (𝒅𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒌 / 𝒋𝒆𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒆)<br />Burger Queen Français<br />Aardvark<br />Every You Every Me live from the End Session on April 10, 1999<br /><br />▪ 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒓<br />Burder Queen Français<br />The Crawl (Live Version Radio 21)<br /><br />▪ 𝑳𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒐𝒙 𝒔𝒆𝒕 that includes 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑰'𝒎 𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 album and 𝑩𝒖𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄̧𝒂𝒊𝒔 single was also released only in France.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD-UK9-30HepNwt5llwRHE_smPp-yp7DGZGhClwu4m07CK7gDfPmuv5zCYP1cR8GRptjT7rapM9dm_RY3ZC3uhBKIRlLBxO6ZBPBbWaagBCX9xg8ym7uSB8wiYfj8z1tpJkx8xbxNA55BtbFbuGGilKkuaN9NDAqy-FmG3eiT2oh58mD46FSOZWTQhbg/s808/Placebo%201999-06-19%20Madrid%202%20%20Francis%20Tsang.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="808" data-original-width="607" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD-UK9-30HepNwt5llwRHE_smPp-yp7DGZGhClwu4m07CK7gDfPmuv5zCYP1cR8GRptjT7rapM9dm_RY3ZC3uhBKIRlLBxO6ZBPBbWaagBCX9xg8ym7uSB8wiYfj8z1tpJkx8xbxNA55BtbFbuGGilKkuaN9NDAqy-FmG3eiT2oh58mD46FSOZWTQhbg/w480-h640/Placebo%201999-06-19%20Madrid%202%20%20Francis%20Tsang.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: start;">Photo credit: </span>Francis Tsang</td></tr></tbody></table><br />⭐The single was recorded at the Real World Studios and Matrix Studios, mixed at Whitfield Street Studios and Matrix Studios.<br /><br />⭐𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑾𝑶𝑹𝑲 is by Risto Bimbiloski based on photography by Corrine Day.<br />🔶𝑻𝑰𝑻𝑳𝑬🔶 <br />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.<br /><br />📢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."<br />(𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑆𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤, 1997)<br /><br />⭐The 𝐋𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐒 are inspired by Brian’s lonely adolescence in Luxembourg.<br />📢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."<br />(𝐿𝑒𝑠 𝐼𝑛𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑢𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑁°169, 14 𝑂𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 1998)<br /><br />▪ ▪ ▪<br />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'...<br />📢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.<br /><br />𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐧: I bet it's also the first time caesarean section's been used in a pop song!<br />📢𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: I know, I'm so, so proud of that. I'm so proud of that one. (laughs)<br /><br />𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐧: Is that song based on a real person?<br />📢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."<br />(𝐼𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑆𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑛, 𝐴𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡 1998)<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxi-p89V4ew3ZWEvsvURywa6cRHa0wkcWIlOST6iSi_nXrPATwS29_KZ7LuBmE8Iet3ZI4TQXYhCmgko3sk-nkVClddfB2E4jFljqBG0RdqCf7TJJKuqa9Q9jP56xdq6YQMb_kk3-Laab04IA-rTbiTI2TD96VlbZn4Z2tYt8CwdGWL2FtB_x-rdYazQ/s794/Placebo%20Scarlet%20Page%20kvktg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="759" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxi-p89V4ew3ZWEvsvURywa6cRHa0wkcWIlOST6iSi_nXrPATwS29_KZ7LuBmE8Iet3ZI4TQXYhCmgko3sk-nkVClddfB2E4jFljqBG0RdqCf7TJJKuqa9Q9jP56xdq6YQMb_kk3-Laab04IA-rTbiTI2TD96VlbZn4Z2tYt8CwdGWL2FtB_x-rdYazQ/w612-h640/Placebo%20Scarlet%20Page%20kvktg.jpg" width="612" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: start;">Photo credit: Scarlet Page</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>💥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.<br /><br />🔸 ▪ 🔸 ▪ 🔸 ▪ 🔸<br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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)<br />[…]<br />“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)<br />[…]<br />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. <br />“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)<br /><br />“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)<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT90NdgmjTbBgEx5b0C9yy35d68-ybU3Mx3nrrOjPp5T6wMk9a8dyCNz-Ar5ITZ7nstkE6blNQNoZXuGrwO22sGCk6GZKwbdB4-BOHSdP-eDiNpm02EKuFaS8baaxZANri6t7yTail7iqg5VcKDK5FFMZFdMYTGMm7P9oVd5DglgM7090wJ-NlMoLRZg/s604/Placebo%20Robin%20Sellick%208974082553610240.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="604" data-original-width="401" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT90NdgmjTbBgEx5b0C9yy35d68-ybU3Mx3nrrOjPp5T6wMk9a8dyCNz-Ar5ITZ7nstkE6blNQNoZXuGrwO22sGCk6GZKwbdB4-BOHSdP-eDiNpm02EKuFaS8baaxZANri6t7yTail7iqg5VcKDK5FFMZFdMYTGMm7P9oVd5DglgM7090wJ-NlMoLRZg/w424-h640/Placebo%20Robin%20Sellick%208974082553610240.jpg" width="424" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: start;">Photo credit: </span> Robin Sellick </td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>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.<br /><br />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<br /><br />“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) <br /><br />“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)<br />(𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑦 𝐷𝑒𝑠𝑎𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑠 ‘𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜. 𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘 𝑠𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒’)<br /><br />Post by Olga<br />Silkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11574342315975852620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606514675804874209.post-62379523614156141622022-11-17T02:09:00.004+01:002022-11-17T02:09:50.088+01:00🌛◾ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕏.◾🌜Hi friends,<br />today we are going back to lullabies.<br />Did you miss them? Are you looking forward to today's episode?<br />Let's do it, I believe you won't regret it.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir_6K6PBTA6WXUt1mWFVXc3AcDMEx_k__y5yKZdJmp5qVNGSe__4qku-fiCwAe9zSG5upOxKLga8OI_25_Qf_z5KLzt9VZR0n0TESND05gwRojhB4T4XYk32O0v5VEZTPG78t7GS1vlwpuop0D7yAJdncV_RsGteb6MztKiKoRfm05nLiS8vVfp7SiRA/s2871/Placebo%20Carole%20Epinette,%202003%20%C3%BC%C3%BC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Placebo lullabies part X" border="0" data-original-height="2871" data-original-width="2340" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir_6K6PBTA6WXUt1mWFVXc3AcDMEx_k__y5yKZdJmp5qVNGSe__4qku-fiCwAe9zSG5upOxKLga8OI_25_Qf_z5KLzt9VZR0n0TESND05gwRojhB4T4XYk32O0v5VEZTPG78t7GS1vlwpuop0D7yAJdncV_RsGteb6MztKiKoRfm05nLiS8vVfp7SiRA/w522-h640/Placebo%20Carole%20Epinette,%202003%20%C3%BC%C3%BC.jpg" title="Placebo lullabies part X" width="522" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Carole Epinette</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘓𝘌𝘌𝘗𝘐𝘕𝘎 𝘞𝘐𝘛𝘏 𝘎𝘏𝘖𝘚𝘛𝘚 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮.<br /><br />🔹𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 „𝐒𝐋𝐄𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐆𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐒“𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦:🔹<br />"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.“<br />(𝙸𝚗𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚜 𝟸00𝟹)<br /><br />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.<br />𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲'𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐲, 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐈 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞.<br /><br /><br />🎶🔹„ℙ𝕃𝔸𝕊𝕋𝕀ℂ𝕀ℕ𝔼“🔹🎶<br /><br />🔹𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 '𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐄':🔹<br />“The one song that doesn’t fit into the relationships theme. A classic Placebo song with a classic Placebo theme – individuality.“<br />(𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔 𝚂𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟹)<br /><br />📌𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘑𝘪𝘮 𝘈𝘣𝘣𝘪𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘴 7𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘎𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮.<br /><br /><a href="https://tinyurl.com/y7bnuvrc" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/y7bnuvrc</a><br /><br />📌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.<br /><br /><a href="https://tinyurl.com/yhpk5b2y" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/yhpk5b2y</a><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgad5yYx4Uf2hbFR7Kr1GhYDC40YskIphGGCzCRHc2ogRBtSdglVKFPzUzUu6aeZMAY82QRviODO335teSHjt3cd9_gAztFlrVoF75UbtKFHFMw1NReN82s-cilNjQ0lLq2gnglTsQy930eTz1N0o0k34fCHnPsdswW-yYo8Jt6mEoNt-0kWKHoOUFRHw/s1280/Placebo%20%20Ngel%20Crane%20IMG_5376.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="931" data-original-width="1280" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgad5yYx4Uf2hbFR7Kr1GhYDC40YskIphGGCzCRHc2ogRBtSdglVKFPzUzUu6aeZMAY82QRviODO335teSHjt3cd9_gAztFlrVoF75UbtKFHFMw1NReN82s-cilNjQ0lLq2gnglTsQy930eTz1N0o0k34fCHnPsdswW-yYo8Jt6mEoNt-0kWKHoOUFRHw/w640-h466/Placebo%20%20Ngel%20Crane%20IMG_5376.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Nigel Crane</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>🔹𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎:🔹<br />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").<br /><br />The very first song and such a gem.<br />I'm talking about the slow version, of course, even though the original fast rock version is just amazing.<br />𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐄 -𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧...<br />Unfortunately, this song was never performed live either.<br />When you hear the verse ⭐"...𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦"⭐ for the first time, it's pure perfection put into a unique voice.<br /><br />Brian's voice makes this song something absolutely tender, soft, something that wraps you in angelic wings and you wish it would never end.<br />At least that's how this song makes me feel.<br /><br />The lyrics could support teenagers in their difficult time when they are trying to draw attention to their uniqueness.<br />It's a time when everyone feels the need to be more or less a rebel, to stand up for themselves.<br /><br />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".⭐<br /><br />But this song lovingly suggests to each of us to reflect on our lives.<br />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?<br />I leave that reflection to you.<br /><br />I lived most of my life to please everyone around me...mother, husband, children, boss at work...<br />Until I got seriously ill and it made me realize where my uniqueness had been lost.<br /><br />Rebel anarchist in my youth, but suddenly I didn't recognize myself...<br />Yeah, that was a tough test.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><br />⭐𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐞:⭐<br />𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯... 𝘐𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨...<br />𝘋𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘨𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘮... 𝘋𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦...“<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Waww8iXUXmBzhrFUTx-K1Vt6IXWSE56sDmB2SLEnszcDotdGPoMUkQJtILH8uIBEX5e6su1ipvkwamG2IUSO3ojzZwpan2KKCWSEQsrcVfubmeqU5YxBSfFnJNW-g6BQOjiJtKkpdsrQHabLkW5dYxKWIjq-87eNkWAzBaTvq3lbm-w661L3AXYtZw/s2282/Placebo%20Tracey%20Griffin,%20september%202003%20ff.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Placebo lullabies part X" border="0" data-original-height="2282" data-original-width="1527" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-Waww8iXUXmBzhrFUTx-K1Vt6IXWSE56sDmB2SLEnszcDotdGPoMUkQJtILH8uIBEX5e6su1ipvkwamG2IUSO3ojzZwpan2KKCWSEQsrcVfubmeqU5YxBSfFnJNW-g6BQOjiJtKkpdsrQHabLkW5dYxKWIjq-87eNkWAzBaTvq3lbm-w661L3AXYtZw/w428-h640/Placebo%20Tracey%20Griffin,%20september%202003%20ff.jpg" title="Placebo lullabies part X" width="428" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Tracey Griffin</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>And now we have another song from the series of „acid lullabies“:<br /><br />🎶🔹"𝕀'𝕃𝕃 𝔹𝔼 𝕐𝕆𝕌ℝ𝕊" 🔹🎶<br />📌"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."<br />(𝙿𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚋𝚘, 𝙱𝙱𝙲 𝚁𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 𝟷, 𝟸00𝟹)<br /><br />🔹𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎:🔹<br /><br />The song '𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬' was also released in two versions.<br />📌"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!"<br />(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙻𝚎𝚜 𝙸𝚗𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚞𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙽𝚘.𝟹𝟾𝟸, 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑-𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟹)<br /><br />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!<br /><br />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.<br />Even this beginning is a foreshadowing that this is no romantic sweet lovesong.<br /><br /><br />'𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬' 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨<br /><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4kj3t5kb" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/4kj3t5kb</a><br /><br />While the second version with piano may confuse us because it sounds more tender, the lyrics belie that impression.<br /><br />'𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬' (𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟒 𝐀.𝐌.)<br /><a href="https://tinyurl.com/ac3dzv67" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/ac3dzv67</a><br /><br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5V3IoEkC8tT9WlMNQWrFMNVp0rJhoKGwR7J6YAdwdKgiu4EbGCgrO-JS5Zba43SdmTj7rLbVtZAFWvf0jLRJiHStTH_-kqgB2Ygdl1X3bpKyi6Yu6Scm-ZfacGBIPOdw8oLnYxkmsQe16Z-S3I3AyJffjBkFviI4T8zcNtjYYCN3fgbk3Z-__U-V6sg/s1764/Placebo%20%20Wembley%20Arena%20c_Nigel%20Crane,%202004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Placebo lullabies part X" border="0" data-original-height="1764" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5V3IoEkC8tT9WlMNQWrFMNVp0rJhoKGwR7J6YAdwdKgiu4EbGCgrO-JS5Zba43SdmTj7rLbVtZAFWvf0jLRJiHStTH_-kqgB2Ygdl1X3bpKyi6Yu6Scm-ZfacGBIPOdw8oLnYxkmsQe16Z-S3I3AyJffjBkFviI4T8zcNtjYYCN3fgbk3Z-__U-V6sg/w392-h640/Placebo%20%20Wembley%20Arena%20c_Nigel%20Crane,%202004.jpg" title="Placebo lullabies part X" width="392" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Nigel Crane</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>🔹𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 "𝐈'𝐋𝐋 𝐁𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒":🔹<br />„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."<br />(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙻𝚎𝚜 𝙸𝚗𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚞𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙽𝚘.𝟹𝟾𝟸, 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑-𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟹)<br /><br />”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.”<br />(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔 𝚂𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟹)<br /><br /><br />„𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳... 𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯...𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘭𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘥 𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘦...<br />𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘳... 𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯...𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦...<br /><br />𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳...𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳..<br />𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳... 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴... 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴...<br /><br />𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘳... 𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘦...<br />𝘚𝘰 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘰𝘳... 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺...“<br /><br /><br />To me, this song is an expression of the cruel boundless dependence of one person on another.<br />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.<br />These are dark threats, just whatever you do, I'll lovingly hold you in my arms so you can't breathe.<br /><br />For me it's like -<br /><br />I'll be your water, I'll clear your thoughts and I'll keep a good eye on you so you don't escape.<br />I'll be your anchor, I'll hold you so you never leave these shores.<br />I'll be your drug, the demons don't stand a chance because you have me.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIncp_x2OY8vH-ghzsmvI3mGDOuU5TqkmohcyvkDLOZYACzvvX5rr8jQX5o63XMFtDkw81649twu334HdTuWmUPS_40N1zQgg63-IxV0e7dQs7vtQEkOaQYxO1744FT_L78oyQeqzxUy-PKl7-pQowGuiFX080KYa9itAFM3TXrQxKz9t6_B9SRGEAkA/s1000/Helena%20Berg%20dc6ccbe75.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Placebo lullabies part X" border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="1000" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIncp_x2OY8vH-ghzsmvI3mGDOuU5TqkmohcyvkDLOZYACzvvX5rr8jQX5o63XMFtDkw81649twu334HdTuWmUPS_40N1zQgg63-IxV0e7dQs7vtQEkOaQYxO1744FT_L78oyQeqzxUy-PKl7-pQowGuiFX080KYa9itAFM3TXrQxKz9t6_B9SRGEAkA/w640-h336/Helena%20Berg%20dc6ccbe75.jpg" title="Placebo lullabies part X" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Photo credit: Helena Berg<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>The third treasure at the end.<br />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.<br /><br /><br />🎶🔹"ℂ𝔼ℕ𝕋ℝ𝔼𝔽𝕆𝕃𝔻𝕊"🔹🎶<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.“<br /><br />These verses ⭐"𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘥... 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘥... 𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 …"⭐ are full of poison.<br /><br />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...“<br /><br />It's about self-degradation, total humiliation at any cost.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />It meant a lot of despair and crying nights for me...<br /><br />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.<br /><br />🔹𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐅𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐒:🔹<br />”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.”<br />(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔 𝚂𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟹)<br /><br />”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.”<br />(𝙻𝚎𝚜 𝙸𝚗𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚞𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜, 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑-𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟹)<br /><br />“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.”<br />(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔 𝚂𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟹)<br />~🔹~🔹~🔹~<br /><br /><br />Dear soulmates, - the song 'Centrefolds' was played live only 69 times in total in 2003-2004.<br /><br />Enjoy today's last lullaby in a live performance shared from 𝐃𝐕𝐃 „𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐢𝐞“ 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟑.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='474' height='454' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dw-NmFC4VkZ4ZAQfiT__O8-w580vdf186s9Hz4StibM2ayuwv0_0ttEkUHMpbeX7769C66DIDWnHTIjZtfx7g' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Post by Marti<br /><br /></div>Silkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11574342315975852620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8606514675804874209.post-61281780549633903452022-11-14T01:18:00.000+01:002022-11-14T01:18:03.888+01:00🎉🌹A NEW MILESTONE FOR PLACEBO ANYWAY🌹🎉With big steps we're making it towards reaching 20.000 fans on Facebook. <br />Today we hit a new milestone on the way and welcomed our 19.000 follower!<br />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.<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpTGgLE9JIBr10BQ6cofTPaZ3amAgWrPh22YNiAvYGtASSQOxdNqgFtjj-LhCj-RgRe9rDltvv9jplCajMhU_UWI-y8BRAwbUVjv6VTguTg6OYhlIQ3a1A4EY2xFhzxNDL-dGjExcEvYTtYiUUgkY_gS5Mna6WtiHlm7corFHuuVrhtpgX2K6zpxArag/s733/19000%20MadsPerch-2022%20IG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="733" data-original-width="650" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpTGgLE9JIBr10BQ6cofTPaZ3amAgWrPh22YNiAvYGtASSQOxdNqgFtjj-LhCj-RgRe9rDltvv9jplCajMhU_UWI-y8BRAwbUVjv6VTguTg6OYhlIQ3a1A4EY2xFhzxNDL-dGjExcEvYTtYiUUgkY_gS5Mna6WtiHlm7corFHuuVrhtpgX2K6zpxArag/w568-h640/19000%20MadsPerch-2022%20IG.jpg" width="568" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="text-align: start;">Photo credit: Mads Perch, edit by Silke</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><b>So once again we'd </b>𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 the 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐚 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐭<br />💖𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐊 𝐘𝐎𝐔💖<br />𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮. <br /><br />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. <br /><br /> In short: Thank you all very much for your great daily support.<br /><br />Always remember:<br /><b>WITHOUT YOU WE'RE NOTHING AT ALL!</b>🙏<br />Your Placebo Anyway Team<br /><br /><br />FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK:<br />👉 https://www.facebook.com/PlaceboAnyway <br /><br />WE ARE ALSO ON INSTAGRAM AND TWITTER:<br />👉 https://www.instagram.com/placeboanyway<br />👉 https://twitter.com/placeboanyway<br />Silkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11574342315975852620noreply@blogger.com