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🌛◾ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 - 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕏𝕍𝕀𝕀𝕀.◾🌜

⭐“𝙄 𝙬𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙣𝙤 𝙤𝙣𝙚...
𝙣𝙤𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙧”⭐

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Hi soulmates,
it's another Wednesday with no important Placebo anniversary, so we meet again for our series of lullabies.

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.

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.

🎶🔹𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔'𝐑𝐄 𝐆𝐎𝐍𝐄🔹🎶

🔹💬𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗙𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗬 𝗬𝗢𝗨'𝗥𝗘 𝗚𝗢𝗡𝗘”
”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.”
(𝙲𝚕𝚒𝚌 𝙼𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟿)

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.

🔹𝘐𝘯 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘍𝘛𝘚 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘌𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘦 𝘍𝘭𝘦𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥: 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳,

"𝘏𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺 𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘯𝘦" 𝘢𝘯𝘥 "𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦".
🔹Gigwise music magazine included this song among the 11 underrated Placebo songs:
*𝟏𝟏 𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐒: 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎*⭐'𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐧𝐞'
"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."

Photo credit: Scarlet Page

Okay, it could just be another sad song symbolizing the end of a relationship between two people.
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.
And Brian really knows how to get me into these emotions.

Not only with his lyrics, but especially with his voice.

How gently he begins...

🔹"𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴... 𝘛𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘳𝘺..."

When I heard it for the first time, I completely melted into the words...But I had no idea what would follow...

🔹"𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘦... 𝘑𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺...
𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘣𝘺𝘦...
𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴?
𝘕𝘰𝘸 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘺𝘦..."

And then so ironic..
🔹"𝘚𝘦𝘦 𝘮𝘦... 𝘐𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳'𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥...
𝘛𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘺..."

...as if the narrator wanted to say - the memories of what you did to me will haunt you even where you least expect it...

⭐𝗟𝗬𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗦⭐
Breathe me every time you close your eyes
Taste me every time you cry
This memory will fade away and die
Just for today, breathe me and say goodbye
How many times? How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye
Now I can't look you in the eye
How many times? How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye
See me, in the eyes of another's child
Turn away, when you see me walking by
Once in a while
This melody will fade away and die
Just for today, breathe me and say goodbye
How many times? How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye
Now I can't look you in the eye
How many times? How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye
And I don't even want to try
My my
'Cause every word from you is a lie
My my
How many times? How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye
Now I can't look you in the eye
How many times? How many times?
Now I can't look you in the eye

Photo credit: MTV Ema 2009 

Could this be a song about Steve Hewitt's bitter departure from the band? It certainly can, and many of you think so.
Honestly, I don't care whose departure cut such deep wounds in Brian's heart that he wrote this song.

Anyway, Brian has been at pains to point out in concerts 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 '𝑵𝑶𝑩𝑶𝑫𝒀'...

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...
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.

But...
...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💗.

Can this help us to better understand this lullaby?

💦“…𝑰𝒕’𝒔 𝒐𝒌, 𝒈𝒖𝒚𝒔, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒐, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒓𝒚… 𝑾𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒄𝒓𝒚, 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖?.. 𝑫𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖?!”💦

What made Brian make such a tender statement to all the men in the venue?
We probably won't know the exact reason.

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.
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...
And since human consciousness has been undergoing a profound transformation in recent years, it is time to say:

💗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.

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?

Post by Marti

🌠💊 𝙋𝙇𝘼𝘾𝙀𝘽𝙊: 𝙊𝙉 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙍𝙐𝙉 𝙁𝙍𝙊𝙈 𝘿𝙄𝙎𝙀𝘼𝙎𝙀 💊 🌠

✨𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴!
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.

Photo Credits unknown / Edit by Rita 

🔸𝐵𝑦 𝑃𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐽𝑎𝒉𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑𝑡

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.

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.

📞 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐭?
🔹It's 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏's manager who answers, but he quickly hands the phone over to 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏.

📞 𝐇𝐞𝐲, 𝐡𝐨𝐰'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠?
💬 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.

📞 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐫?
💬 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.

Photo credit: Mark C. O'Flaherty

📍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.

💬 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.

💬 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.

📞 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧, 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐰𝐬, 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭?
💬 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.


💫⭐ 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐓 ⭐ 💫
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:

💬 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.

💬 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.

📞 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?
💬 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.

🔊 𝑺𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒆 & 𝑴𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒆 - 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨𝒕 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟎 🎶
https://bit.ly/2nYinIe

Photo credit: Mark C. O'Flaherty

📞 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲?
💬 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?

📞 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?
💬 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.

📞 𝐒𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐭𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟?
💬 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.

📞 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐈 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫-𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐭?
💬 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.

⭐ 𝘿𝙞𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙛𝙖𝙣❓✨
🇸🇪 𝐁𝐨𝐫𝐧: 31 March 1974 in Gothenburg

🌠 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 and 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏's nickname for 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 is "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑽𝒖𝒍𝒄𝒂𝒏", taken from 𝑴𝒓 𝑺𝒑𝒐𝒄𝒌 from 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓 𝑻𝒓𝒆𝒌, logical and serious. 🖖

🎸 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏's first electric guitar was yellow and he named it "𝑩𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒂". 🍌

🎵 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬: Depeche Mode and Abba
▪️ 𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝙾𝚕𝚜𝚍𝚊𝚕, 𝚉𝚎𝚛𝚘 𝙼𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚎, 𝟸𝟶𝟶𝟷.𝟶𝟷.𝟷𝟷.

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.

✨🎶🎸 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑨𝒕 𝑨𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒌𝒂 𝑭𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 𝟏𝟑.𝟎𝟕.𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟏 🎶✨
https://bit.ly/3YBi4Cx

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🌛◾ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 - 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕏𝕍𝕀𝕀.◾🌜

🌹𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬,🌹
tonight we're going to enjoy another evening with Placebo lullabies.

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"⭐.
The release of this special edition was proudly announced by the band:
🔹💬“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.
𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤ℎ𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦."

Photo credit:  Benni Valsson

𝐈. ⭐𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒⭐
To avoid confusion, I should put everything about this song in perspective:
𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒 is a rockier, more guitar driven version of the studio song 𝐒𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 from the 2003 same-titled album.
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.
However, we all know this version from concerts, because Placebo included it in the setlist instead of the original Sleeping With Ghosts.

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.

🔹🎶𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒 - 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨
https://bit.ly/3Eaw1iH


🔹💬𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦“ 
"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."
(𝙻𝚎𝚜 𝙸𝚗𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚞𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙽°𝟹𝟾𝟸, 𝙼𝚊𝚌𝚑-𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟹)

Photo credit: Thomas Rabsch

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.
Brian changed the order of the verses in the chorus a little bit to make this lullaby absolutely perfect.

At the beginning there are only simple piano notes... After a while, Brian's voice joins in, full of tenderness and so vulnerable...
🔹"𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘢'𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 ...𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦...
𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥𝘴 𝘸𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨... 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘬𝘺...
𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘴 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯... 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦...
𝘏𝘶𝘴𝘩... 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘰𝘬𝘢𝘺...
...𝘋𝘳𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘺𝘦
...𝘋𝘳𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘺𝘦"🔹

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...

🔹"𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯... 𝘛𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘦...
𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥'𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯... 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘦...
𝘋𝘢𝘮𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵... 𝘋𝘢𝘮𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨... 𝘋𝘢𝘮𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴...
𝘏𝘶𝘴𝘩... 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘰𝘬𝘢𝘺...
...𝘋𝘳𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘺𝘦
...𝘋𝘳𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘺𝘦"🔹

Brian repeats these lines very gently a few times before he concludes

🔹"'𝘊𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘦...
...𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘦...
...𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘦... ...𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘦..."🔹

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...
𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐲 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰:

🔹🎶𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒 - 𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐔𝐗 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧
https://bit.ly/40ScRbn

Today's second lullaby is just as beautiful as the first.
It comes from a song that in its fast, I would say almost rock punk form, reminds me of Placebo from the first album...

Photo credit:  Joseph Llanes

𝐈𝐈. 🌛𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑🌜
- 11. track from the album Battle For The Sun form 2009.

🔹🎶𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨
https://bit.ly/3lHelFi

As I wrote above - this song was also reworked into a slower version for the "𝐁𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐋𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐔𝐍 𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐔𝐗 𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍" in 2010:

🔹💬" 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. ”
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 - 𝚅𝚊𝚗𝚢𝚊𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍, 𝟸0𝟷𝟹)


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.

There is so much truth in those verses that touches me personally so I always feel very moved when I listen to this song.
You can read the lyrics to the song here:

🔹𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐑 - 𝐋𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐒🔹
https://bit.ly/3YJeuGm

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐞𝐦 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐨𝐬 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝐔𝐒𝐀 𝐢𝐧 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟑.
Lucky those who were there...
Here's a mention of this song from a review of a concert at Terminal 5, New York City:

🔹💬"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."
(𝑀𝑐𝑃ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑆𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑙, 𝑂𝑐𝑡 17, 2013, 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑏𝑦 𝐾𝑦𝑙𝑒 𝐷𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔)

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."

And today you can watch this breathtaking version that I uploaded for you.
Take a moment for yourself and share your open hearts with me.💖

Post by Marti

⭐🎉 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.

Photo Credits: Javier Alonso & Marina Sanz, Patrick Slesiona // Edit by Rita

✨ 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.

⭐🥳🎉 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐌𝐈𝐆𝐔𝐄𝐋! 💖🎁🎈✨
from Rita and the whole Placebo Anyway team.💜

📍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

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.

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.

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).

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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".

🔊 𝐇𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐥 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚 "𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐊𝐢𝐝𝐬" - 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟏 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐱 🎶
https://bit.ly/3JYBDjU

🔊 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 "𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐈𝐬 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝" - 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟏 + 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐥𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐱 🎶
https://bit.ly/40C995k


🌠 𝑴𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒍 and 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍 started working together in 2012, naming this hybrid project of electronic music and string quartet simply 𝑫𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝟐𝟏 + 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍.

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.

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🎙️"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.
▪️𝙳𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚕 𝟸𝟷, 𝙼𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚂𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚛𝚘, 𝟷𝟻.𝟷𝟸.𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟷.

🔊 𝐓𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 - 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟏 + 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐥𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐥 (𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨) 🎶
https://bit.ly/3RLoQDp

🔊 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 (𝐀𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦) 🎶
https://spoti.fi/3Ymulef

⭐ 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:

💠 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)...
💠 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…)
💠 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘣𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 21 + 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯 𝘖𝘭𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘭.
𝘚𝘰 𝘐 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 2023 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴.

🔹𝑶𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕: https://bit.ly/3XsQfLG

✨ We wish him all the best and hope to hear from him soon. 🙏💗💞🌟✨

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🌟 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟏 🌟
🔹𝐅𝐁: https://bit.ly/3XiXJk7
🔹𝐓𝐖: https://bit.ly/3RKz0El
🔹𝐈𝐆: https://bit.ly/3xckT1a
🖱️𝐖𝐄𝐁: www.digital21andstefanolsdal.com

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✨🎉💦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.⭐

Photo credit: Joseph Llanes

Dear friends,
today is a very beautiful day to celebrate the release another 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞, this time from the album 𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐧:

✨𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐒✨
🔹🎶𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨
http://bit.ly/40E3tb6

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.

🔹💬𝗜 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡'𝗦 𝗾𝘂𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗯𝘂𝗺:
"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."
(𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜, 𝑀𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤: 𝑃𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑁𝑜 𝑅𝑒𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 2010)

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.

⭐𝐋𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝, 𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞.⭐

Photo credit: Torsten Roman

💦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).
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

𝐁𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐧: 𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐱 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.
Bright Lights reached #62 in German Singles Chart and #92 in French Singles Chart.

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”.

⭐𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠
𝑪𝑫 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆 (𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆/𝑮𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚)
Bright Lights (single version)
The Never-Ending Why (SFR live)
Bright Lights (Randomer Remix-Dub)

⭐𝑫𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏𝒍𝒐𝒂𝒅 𝒃𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒍𝒆
Bright Lights (single version)
https://spoti.fi/3I2yiMp
Bright Lights (album version)
https://bit.ly/3zZSxrh
The Never-Ending Why (SFR live)
https://bit.ly/33wZUKT
Bright Lights (Randomer Remix-Dub)
https://bit.ly/31VbzCA

⭐𝒊𝑻𝒖𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒖𝒙𝒆 𝒃𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒍𝒆
Bright Lights (single version)
Bright Lights (album version)
The Never-Ending Why (SFR live)
Bright Lights (Randomer Remix-Dub)
Bright Lights (video)~🔹~🔹~🔹~

⭐𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎 – 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧:
Written by: Brian Molko, Stefan Olsdal, Steve Forrest, Bill Lloyd
Producer: David Bottrill
Engineer: James Brown
Mixed by: David Bascombe
Mastered by: Tim Young
Recorded at: Metalworks Studios, Toronto
Backing vocals: Hazel Fernandes, Valerie Etienne

Photo credit: Jean-Baptiste Quentin

⭐𝐋𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐒
Cast your mind back to the days
When I’d pretend I was okay
I had so very much to say
About my crazy living
Now that I’ve stared into the void
So many people I’ve annoyed
I have to find a middle way,
A better way of giving

So I haven’t given up
But all my choices, my good luck
Appeared to go and get me stuck
In an open prison
Now I am trying to break free
Be in a state of empathy
Find the true and inner me
Eradicate the schism

No-one can take it away from me
And no-one can tear it apart
Because a heart that hurts is a heart that works
A heart that hurts is a heart that works

A heart that hurts is a heart that works

No-one can take it away from me
And no-one can tear it apart
It may be elaborate fantasy
But it’s the perfect place to start

Because a heart that hurts is a heart that works
A heart that hurts is a heart that works

Photo credit: Steven Vincent

🔹💬𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐒:
“The lyrics are very autobiographic, a complete confession from my point of view. 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.“
(𝑀𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠, 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑒 6𝑡ℎ 2009)

~🔹~🔹~🔹~
⭐𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎 - 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎
🔹🎬 https://bit.ly/40Sh3Ib

The video for this song was directed by Heroes for Zeroes and is the 24th official video of Placebo's career.

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.
🔹💬 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.”
(𝑀𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝐿𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠 𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑜, 2010)


𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬, 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐋𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐳𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟐.

🥰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.
Hopefully this anniversary post brought good mood to your hearts as well.

Post by Marti

🌛◾ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 - 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕏𝕍𝕀.◾🌜

💦𝐇𝐢 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬,💦
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.

Photo credit: Benni Valsson

🔹🎶 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐒 - 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨
https://bit.ly/3Y9xehQ

🔹🎶 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐒 - 𝐀𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧
https://bit.ly/3Hrfesu


⭐𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎:
Meds is the opening track of the self-titled album released in 2006.

🔹💬 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐒💊:
"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."
(𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔 𝙼𝚊𝚐, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸00𝟼)

"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."
(𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙲𝙴𝙱𝙾 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠, 𝙵𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚑 𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝙿𝚑𝚘𝚜𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚎, 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝟸00𝟼)

Photo credit: Chris Crisman

💔𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟...🔥
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.

💊𝙈𝙀𝘿𝙎 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 is something that gave me chills and nausea at one important stage in my life.

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...

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...
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.

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.

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.

💔𝑰 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒛𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆, 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇, 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆. 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄.🔥

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.
🔹'...𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦, 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦... 𝘛𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵,
...𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘫𝘰𝘺, 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘦... 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘪𝘤 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦...'

The line about meds was suddenly like a mockery to me... 🔹"𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘺..𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘴?"

No one cared how I really felt.
🔹'...𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘦, 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴,
...𝘗𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘣𝘺, 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘦, 𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘵...'

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.
🔹'...𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦, 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦, 𝘵𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵,..
...𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦, 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘴 𝘪 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘱...'

I think that even in psychology these individual phases are described in detail.
This unwanted and unwelcome anthem was ringing in my ears every day and I couldn't escape it.
If you fight something in anger and hatred, it keeps coming back, even stronger, to finally bring you down.

💔Thoughts of suicide appeared... after all, I'm just a burden to everyone and myself.

Photo credit:  Benni Valsson

🙏I didn't give up. During this cleansing process, two more very important phases followed -
𝐀𝐂𝐂𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐒.

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.

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.

In these videos that I have selected for you, you can see how time went with this song.

🔹🎶𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐬 - 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐣𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐨 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐨 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟕
https://bit.ly/3jilJ9h

🔹🎶𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐬 - 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐊𝐎𝐑 𝐖𝐀𝐓 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟖
http://bit.ly/3XT6jad

🔹🎶𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐬 - 𝐒𝐅𝐑 𝐒𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟗
https://bit.ly/3YbRkYQ


🔹🎶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).

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.

Post by Marti

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

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

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

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

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


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


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


⭐𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐌𝐄 - 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎:⭐

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

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

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

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

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

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

 Screenshot from the video

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

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


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

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

 Screenshot from the video

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

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


🌹𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲:

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

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

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

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

 Screenshot from the video, HD edit

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Photo credit: Charlie  Cravero

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

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

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

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

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

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


🔹🎶𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐃🎶🔹

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


⭐𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎:

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

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

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

Lucky everyone who experienced this anthem about unrequited love live.

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

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

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

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

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

Photo credit: Virgin Megastore London, England

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

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

You will tell me if my choice is right.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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