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« 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒈... 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒅𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒔𝒖𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒊𝒕. 𝑨𝒅𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒆𝒙 𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒂𝒅𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒉𝒐𝒍 𝒐𝒓 𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒈𝒔, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔... » - 𝔹ℝ𝕀𝔸ℕ 𝕄𝕆𝕃𝕂𝕆 -

🔹 𝘉𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘪𝘯 2013 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 😊

🔹 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘶𝘥 𝘓𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘦𝘳𝘢 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦. 𝘚𝘰 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭, 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘴𝘢𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘐 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘓𝘓𝘓 𝘛𝘝. 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘴, 𝘈 𝘔𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘗𝘪𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴, 𝘉𝘰𝘴𝘤𝘰 𝘰𝘳 𝘙𝘰𝘣 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴.

🔹 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴. 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘵𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘓𝘦𝘵 𝘔𝘦 𝘎𝘰. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘓𝘰𝘶𝘥 𝘓𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘬 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦.
🔹 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸. 𝘌𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺 ! 💋

Photo credit: Screenshot from LLL TV

💦 𝑭𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒍𝒍, 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 ?
𝓑𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷: We're not bad. We're a bit tired, we've just done our first TV show. Loud Like Love TV, on YouTube, a 90 minute show, maybe a bit longer, a way to launch the album live in several cities: London, Tokyo, Los Angeles.


💦 𝑭𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝑳𝒐𝒖𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝑩𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝑺𝒖𝒏, 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒅𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 ?
𝓑𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷: You know it's standard: we record, we release the album, we tour for two years all over the world. We still took six months off before we started working on a new album... Except instead of taking six months to do it, it took eleven.


💦 𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒔𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 ? 𝑾𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕 ?
𝓑𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷: The music not so much, but the lyrics, that was harder for me. I'm getting more and more stringent with myself, from a quality point of view. I don't want to repeat myself, even if it's inevitable, because we have a very strong style but we're always looking for a new meaning, a new way to approach our identity. We threw away a lot more in this album, even melodies that we really liked but that weren't fresh enough. You have to learn to throw away gracefully, not to be precious.
𝓢𝓽𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓷: With six albums, it's always hard not to repeat yourself, sometimes I would come up with melodies, think it's really good, and then it would sound like something we've done before.


💦 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒊𝒙 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎𝒔, 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒆𝒓 ?
𝓑𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷: No, quite the opposite. Because we want to evolve, to get better. If we were a career band, we would have made a lot of songs that sounded like our biggest hits, but we're not interested in that, even though we think that's what some factions of our fanbase would want. We make music to enjoy ourselves and then we hope that other people enjoy listening to us. If we don't enjoy it, it becomes mechanical and soulless... and boring.


💦 𝑫𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒎𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 ?
𝓢𝓽𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓷: If you start to make someone want to please you never reach your goal because you have no emotional conviction. Music is such a personal thing. When we compose, we don't think about the fans, we have to like the songs ourselves first. We also think that we create songs that we're going to play on stage for two years or more, if we don't believe in them a little bit, it's suicide.
𝓑𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷: We actually enjoy confusing our fans !

Photo credit: Sirius XM Studios

💦 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎, 𝑳𝒐𝒖𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆, 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒅 ?
𝓑𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷: Universally, the album has been well received so far. It's proof that if you really do something with passion, it shows and it's heard. And the fans recognize that this album was made with a lot of love.


💦 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒎𝒏𝒊𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎...
𝓑𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷: Love is drug... but it's also an addiction, there are people who suffer from it. Addiction to love and sex is completely different from addiction to alcohol or drugs, but it's something that exists... But we didn't choose a theme for writing this album... It's the creative process itself that dictates that and that becomes the source of inspiration. We create the music instinctively. It's only afterwards that you realise in your subconscious that at that moment you are talking about love. It's more honest to do it that way. I know there are bands that write in a much more intellectual way but that's not really our thing.


💦 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒊𝒔 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒆, 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓, 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆, 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒄, 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 ?
𝓑𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷: We didn't want it that way. But what's true is that for every album we don't want to do the same thing as the last one. Not to use the same methods: that's where we start. But we don't choose the atmosphere or the subjects we're going to tackle. It doesn't reflect a state of mind but rather a discipline, i.e. it's by creating that inspiration comes. We are not the kind of artists who wait for inspiration to come, it comes through the work.


💦 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 ?
𝓢𝓽𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓷: Loud Like Love and Begin The End came very quickly, but we had a hard time with A Million Little Pieces.
𝓑𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷: It took us a long time to find the right style for that song. It finally clicked in rehearsal with our producer. He almost became a fourth member of the band. During the writing process we were so emotionally involved that we had no perspective. It's essential to have someone more objective, someone from the outside to tell you: "Well, you've got it or not, it's not there yet". And a good producer doesn't tell you how to do it, but insists that you go on and find out for yourself where you want to go.

🎶 𝗔 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗣𝗶𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀
https://bit.ly/3yLVEV3

Photo credit: Screenshot from LLL TV

💦 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎, 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒐, 𝒂 𝒑𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒐 𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒅, 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒑𝒖𝒓𝒆. 𝑻𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒖𝒔 𝒂 𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚.
𝓑𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷: It's about a tragic love affair, torn apart by addictions. It's also about the search for redemption, and asking for forgiveness. What's interesting is that the first song on the album Loud Like Love and the last Bosco were written at the same time. On the one hand you have the big, saturated, punk, upbeat guitars, on the other hand a tragic story. We thought we had all the spectrums of emotions to explore between these two songs.

🎶 𝗕𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼
https://bit.ly/3OZVmz2


💦 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒂 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒂𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈. 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍, 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 ?
𝓑𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷: The saddest songs are the most tender songs, but not always. The most beautiful is extremely subjective and depends on what you find beautiful. Personally, it's the sad songs and melancholic tunes that touch me the most, but in a very positive way. I feel very alive listening to them because they provoke very strong emotions, like with this Beatles song, Yer Blues written by John Lennon. It's an extremely sad song, completely depressing, but the music is quite violent, hard blues that lets out a lot of frustration and anger. It comes with sadness... We are big Beatles fans.
𝓢𝓽𝓮𝓯𝓪𝓷: There are different degrees of sadness. If there is hope then it can be very poetic. Bosco for example touched me a lot because it's a very sad song with little hope, it's very heavy. But it's also beautiful.


💦 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒅𝒐𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝑹𝒐𝒃 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒏𝒌...
𝓑𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷: (𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑠) yes it's not a song about the financial crisis as many people think. You have to look a little bit under the surface! It's actually a song about carnal obsession, about jealousy. The narrator of this song says: "You can rob banks, make fun of the disabled, behave in an anti-Semitic way, I don't care, as soon as you get home, be satisfied. But if you look at someone else the way you look at me, watch out! Obsession and jealousy are two things that interest me: how to talk about love, without talking about its brutal and violent side?

🎶 𝗥𝗼𝗯 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸
https://bit.ly/3AlilAp


💦 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒓, 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒍 ?
𝓑𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷: There is so much more to do! We are aware that we are in a very privileged position. We're lucky that we can still do what we love after twenty years and that people still listen to us. Let's hope it lasts, because we don't know how to do anything else. (𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑠)
✔️ 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠 𝚋𝚢 𝚂𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚗 𝙱𝚘𝚞𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚕 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝙼𝚎́𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚠𝚜

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🌟 𝘽𝙊𝙎𝘾𝙊 🌟

"𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙚, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝘽𝙤𝙨𝙘𝙤."
(𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯 𝘖𝘭𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘭)

🔸 𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒐 is the last track of 𝐿𝑜𝑢𝑑 𝐿𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒, the 7th album by 𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜. It's an almost 7 minute long piano melody composed by 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑓𝑎𝑛 𝑂𝑙𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑙. It is one of the first song to be written for 𝐿𝑜𝑢𝑑 𝐿𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒, with the eponymous track.

The character in the song is calling for redemption because of his bad habits due to alcohol addiction and nasty behaviour towards his loved one. According to 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛, 𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒐 is the most personal song he had ever written and his apology is directed " 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑦𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑠 ". 🔸

Bosco 🎥 https://bit.ly/3o9nkg1 🎵

Photo credit: Jospeh Llanes, Screenshots from the video, edit by Laetitia

⭐ 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎𝐒 ⭐

🔸 The video was directed by 𝐾𝑦𝑙𝑒 𝑆𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑧𝑎𝑟 and and released on March 2014. It tells a very interesting and tragic story: the worst disappointments and desillusions in love.

Alternate video 🎥 https://bit.ly/3wq2qNq 🎵


🔸 The song has been played only once live, during the 𝑀𝑇𝑉 𝑈𝑛𝑝𝑙𝑢𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑑 session. Recorded on 19 August 2015 at The London Studios. 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 said about this recording:

"We wanted to do something extraordinary, something that would challenge us. The process has been interesting, because we were creating something while we were performing it. That was something we had never done before. The simultaneity of the performance and the creation process was completely new for us.”

(𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥)

Live MTV Unplugged 🎥 https://bit.ly/3BTTxN9 🎵

🔸 There are many quotes from the band about 𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒐 which give lots of details on what the song is about and how important this particular song is for 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛, also on the writing process.

𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚, 𝙗𝙚 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙦𝙪𝙤𝙩𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙝 𝙞𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 ! 🔸

Photo credit: Joseph Llanes

⭐ 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 ⭐

📢 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒂 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒐. [...] 𝒀𝒐𝒖'𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒓 𝒏𝒐𝒕, 𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒂 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒄 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 ?

💬 Very melancholic. It's about a relationship that is completely torn apart by addiction. It's not a depressing song. The fact that the narrator asks for forgiveness is very significant, as I said before, it's a desire to find some redemption.
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 - 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘵𝘳𝘦̀𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘦̀𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦́𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘙𝘛𝘓2 - 2013)


📢 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒐. 𝑾𝒉𝒐 𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒅𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 ?

💬 This is my apology to a very special person who must remain anonymous but... I am in all honesty, there is no story and no narrator. Therefore, it is still very difficult for me to hear Bosco without tears coming to my eyes.
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰, 𝘒𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘳)


📢 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒊𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒓 ?
💬 Bosco .

📢 𝑨𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒊𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒓 ?
💬 For me, 𝐵𝑜𝑠𝑐𝑜 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡. It sounds the least like Placebo. It is a piano song with strings. There's hardly any guitar on it. It's very minimalist. It's very long . I think it's the one song that can transcend our identity and exist in its own context, without the necessary context of the band to give it meaning . Every band tries to write that one classic song and if you're lucky, you get to do it once in your career . Fleetwood Mac have done it many times, but they're geniuses. We may have got close to that classic song with Bosco. It may not be super classic because it's seven minutes long but that felt like the right amount of time to tell the story that needed to be told.
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 - 𝘝𝘪𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘰 𝘐𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢, 2013)

📢 𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒐 " 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒎 ...
💬 This is a very sad song , tragic, the devastating effect of addiction on a relationship. This song makes me cry. This is one of the most honest and vulnerable song in our career. We managed to create a song that can exist outside the context of Placebo.
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 - 𝘓𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘪𝘳)

💬 It is probably the most honest I have ever been in a song. It's a process of catharsis and absolutely and very much directed at one person in particular.

You can write as many songs as you want to make amends to people you have hurt in your life but truthfully, the only amends that count is the living amend. It's how you behave in the future.
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 - 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴.𝘤𝘰𝘮.𝘢𝘶)

💬 "I think every band tries to replicate their own identity in their songs . I would say that Bosco is definitely one of those songs."
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 - 𝘒𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘦.𝘢𝘵)

📢 𝑾𝒉𝒐'𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒏𝒌... ?
💬 (long awkward silence) It's hard, very hard to answer this question. It's such a personal text ... It's full of regrets ... I think it's the most intimate and honest song I have ever written. The song is a way to offer my sincere apologies to someone ... It would be too difficult for me to tell more about it, I'm unable to give more details. I've never been this vulnerable in a song. With hindsight, I believe in the "Nancy Boy" era, in the 90's, I never thought our band would be able to do a song like "Bosco". It's so far from where we started ...
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 - 𝘙𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘔𝘢𝘨, 2013)

📢 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎. 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆, 𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓, 𝑱𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒉 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒊𝒔 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒉𝒆’𝒔 𝒏𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏.
💬 I didn’t know that…

📢 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆 ‘𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒐’ 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 ? 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒉𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔, 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒔 𝑫𝒐𝒏 𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒐, 𝒂 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔𝒕, 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑩𝒆𝒍𝒈𝒊𝒖𝒎…
💬 Yeah, in Spain too. I think it’s also an Italian wine; it means ‘forest’ in Italy. In fact since Stefan started playing the piano on this song, he chose to give this name to the melody; then I wrote the lyrics. We couldn’t find a better title so we thought we should keep it; it’s quite abstract…there’s some sort of mystery in it. It can be interpreted in hundred ways and we love that ambiguity, the mystery that surrounds it. So we kept it.
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 - 𝘗𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘍𝘔, 2013)

💬 It's about a tragic relationship , torn by addiction . It also speaks of the search for redemption , and asking for forgiveness .
(𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 - 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘰 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴)

Photo credit: Joseph Llanes

⭐ 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐍 ⭐

💬 For me, the song that has a special place in my heart is Bosco. I remember the time that we wrote that song and it was in a very early stages of the album. I wrote the music and Brian was: “That is very beautiful. I have to write something that matches that.” So when he came in that day he said “Stef, I written the lyrics and let me know what you think ?” And he sang that song and I felt like my heart has been crushed, In a good way. Bosco is melancholic and beautiful at the same time. I think it’s that fine line about being in a dark place or sort of tackling that dark side of our emotions but doing it in a poetic way. And it’s about accepting those are the kind of feelings we all experience and rather than trying to shut them out by some form of substance or blocking them out with denial, it just tells you to let yourself to live through the process and moment. I think lyrics do that for him (Brian) as well. It’s a way for him to open up.
(𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯 𝘖𝘭𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘭 - 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳)


⭐ 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐕𝐄 ⭐

"𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝑰 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒓𝒚"... Our dear 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑣𝑒 had to precise this has nothing to do with mosquitoes or vampires ! 😄
💬 “It’s more or less about a failed relationship, maybe. Brian writes the lyrics so he can tell you more in depth but I don’t think it’s about a mosquito.”

Photo credit: Joseph Llanes

⭐ 𝐀 𝐁𝐈𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐔𝐌𝐎𝐔𝐑 ⭐

🔸 All these quotes are very, very serious but.... have you ever read that funny answer by 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 at Linea Rock in 2013 ? When Barbara Caserta asked 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 about the song, he replied in an ironic and amused tone:

💬 "We wrote that in an Italian forrest, that's why it's called Bosco.

📢 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒂 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈. 𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝑩𝒐𝒔𝒄𝒐, 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 ?
💬 We built campfire, we took magic mushrooms and we put face paint on and we did a sort of shamanic ritual in the Italian forrest and people from the other side, from another universe, sort of came and they took our hands and they placed them on a little miniature piano and we wrote that way"
(𝘓𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘢 𝘙𝘰𝘤𝘬 - 2013)

𝐻𝑢𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑑 𝑡𝑜𝑜 ! 😄 🔸

🔸 The vocals and lyrics provide this track a total sincere and touching dimension, as if it were all a matter of life and death (by which I mean mental). The call for redemption is emphasised by the dominant piano and the strings which add a genuine and honest dramatic inflection. All this adds depth to the theme of alcoholism and the harm it can do to a couple.

We will never know if the person Brian is talking to has forgiven him...

I hope so. 🔸

Post by Laetitia