⭐𝟐𝟑𝐫𝐝 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘: 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐌𝐄⭐

𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞, the third single from Placebo’s second studio album Without You I'm Nothing, was released on January 25th, 1999.

The song was written by 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 and his friend 𝑷𝒂𝒖𝒍 𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒐𝒏, lead singer of 𝐀𝐂 𝐀𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬. As Brian later said, Paul “helped me out on the lyrics for Every You Every Me on the second album when I had a writer’s block.” (𝑆𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑡 𝐴𝑂𝐿 2004)

Photo credit: Screenshots from the video, edit by Silke

When asked who the song was about, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 replied in his typical ironic style
“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)
(𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝐼𝑛 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑆𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑛, 𝐴𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡 1998)

Along with the rest of the album (apart from Pure Morning), Every You Every Me was recorded in early 1998 at Real World Studios with 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.

Croatian metal band 𝑨𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆 covered Every You Every Me on their 2009 album Songs of the Lost. and in 2017, 𝑳𝒊𝒔𝒂 𝑴𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒍 covered the song on her EP When They Play That Song.

The song was featured on the soundtrack of the famous American movie 𝐂𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 which became another breakthrough moment for Placebo. A lot of people, and in the US particularly, got to know the band thanks to the film and stayed fans ever since.

⭐ 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐂𝐫𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 (𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟗) - 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞
https://bit.ly/3gzikM8

𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: "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)

Single cover

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

⭐ 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

⭐ I also found a couple of other remixes for you.
𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞 (𝐃𝐉𝐊𝐀𝐎𝐒𝟏𝟏 𝟐-𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐏 𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐈𝐗)
https://bit.ly/3FOrLUO
𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞 (𝐋𝐞𝐱𝐲 & 𝐊-𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐱, 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟕)
https://bit.ly/3pKf8Vh

Single cover

There are two versions of the official video, both 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

However, there’s a third video for Every You Every Me (so called 𝐀𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐭 or 𝐄𝐲𝐞𝐬 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧) that 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

📢 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: “The live video was filmed at Brixton Academy. It was first time we used live footage. This song was the theme tune to the film ‘Cruel Intentions’, which was ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ transported to Upper West Side of New York. It’s a teen film. There’s another version where they intercut it with parts from the film. Even though I’m wearing a rather fetching John Richmond dress, which cost a lot of money, I still look silly. It’s one of my many fashion crimes I was guilty of early in our career.
This video’s also a bit of a cop-out, because we made another video, which didn’t involve performance. It was about twins and never got released. It was banned by management. So we had to pull one together from footage that we’d filmed at Brixton Academy.”
(𝑂𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐹𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐷𝑉𝐷, 2004)

Every You Every Me has got a very impressive 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲. It was performed on stage at least 745 times, more than any other Placebo song!

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𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 & 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐌𝐒: 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐬

In this part of my series, let’s take a closer look at the movies which had an impact on creating of some Placebo videos.

Photo credit: screenshots of the videos, film posters / edit by Olga

𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐒 is a film that was an inspiration for the 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 video.
𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 told, “It was inspired by the Grace Kelly film ‘Fourteen Hours’ from the 50's about a guy who stands on the ledge of a building in New York for 14 hours. The police, his parents and his wife come and try to talk him down. You never really know why he’s there. It’s a very good film, check it out. We based the story on that.”
(“𝑂𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔” 𝐷𝑉𝐷, 2004)
𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 is a 1951 American noir drama directed by Henry Hathaway, which tells the story of a New York City police officer trying to stop a despondent man from jumping to his death from the 15th floor of a hotel.
It was the screen debut of Grace Kelly and Jeffrey Hunter, who appeared in small roles. The screenplay was based on an article in The New Yorker describing the 1938 real story of John William Warde suicide.
Noteworthy, the Pure Morning video has got an opposite ending. “And it also has a very important meaning that I don’t die in the end. It shows some hope, I think,” 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 said. (𝑆𝑈𝐵, 1999)

Screenshot from Pure morning video

𝐃𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐍
Telling about 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐃𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐔𝐬 video in the Once more with feeling DVD Brian said that "there’s a ‘Delicatessen’ feel to this."
𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧 is a 1991 French surrealist black comedy directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro.
The film is centered on a post-apocalyptic society where food is in short supply and grain is used as currency. It’s set in a dilapidated apartment building with a delicatessen, a butcher's shop, on the ground floor. It’s run by the landlord, Clapet, who posts job opportunities in the Hard Times paper as means to lure victims to the building, whom he murders and butchers as a cheap source of meat to sell to his tenants. Butcher's daughter and a former clown Louison, who applies for the job, fall in love. Aware of her father's motives, Julie tries to rescue Louison by contacting the "troglodytes", a group of vegetarian rebel sub-group of society who live entirely underground.

𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝐀𝐓 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐁𝐀𝐃 / 𝐋'𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐞́𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐞̀𝐫𝐞 𝐚̀ 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐛𝐚𝐝 is a movie behind a story of the 𝐓𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐧 video.
“…I took inspiration from a film I love, L'Année dernière à Marienbad ('Last Year at Marienbad'),” 𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒂 𝑴𝒄𝑫𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉, director of the video, explained, “Not only was the film's enigmatic narrative structure helpful to look at when creating an ambiguous love affair, but the sort of cyclical quality of the track mirrored this kind of repetitive film device. The video had layers of questionable events - did any of it actually happen and if so, with which one. This kind of fragmented reality was a direct nod to that film but something that I thought fit with the band's image of ambiguity at that time.” (𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡, 2017)
𝐋'𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐞́𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐞̀𝐫𝐞 𝐚̀ 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐛𝐚𝐝 (𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐛𝐚𝐝) is a 1961 French-Italian film directed by Alain Resnais.
Set in luxury baroque hotel, it’s a tale of a woman and a man who may have met the year before at Marienbad and may have contemplated or started an affair. There is a second man who may be the woman's husband. The characters are unnamed. Through ambiguous flashbacks and disorienting shifts of time and location, the film explores the relationships between the three characters.
The film is famous for its enigmatic narrative structure, in which time and space are fluid. No certain conclusion is offered: what is happening to the characters, what they are remembering, and what they are imagining.
The same dreamlike nature was perfectly recreated in Placebo video.

Screenshot from Taste in men video

𝐆𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐀𝐂𝐀 is a film that was an inspiration for the 𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐠𝐞 video.
According to 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏, “aesthetically it was by a film ‘Gattaca’ starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman. It was the film where they met and first fell in love.”
“Cold, beautifully stylish near future, not sci-fi,” described the atmosphere of the video its director 𝑯𝒐𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒈𝒉, “Is it sci-fi, is it whatever? Is it a love story? … If it's not the case, let's build like 'Gattaca', people, they are almost automats in the office – machine or computers but there is one girl who suddenly decides… And ok, that creates a knock-on catalyst effect. So, it started to shred everything, shred, shred, shred… It was colourful, simple and powerful.” (𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡, 2016)
𝐆𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐚 is a 1997 American science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol. The film presents a biopunk vision of a future society driven by eugenics where potential children are conceived through genetic selection to ensure they possess the best hereditary traits of their parents. Characters in Gattaca continually battle both with society and with themselves to find their place in the world and who they are destined to be according to their genes.
The film's title is based on the letters G, A, T, and C, which stand for guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine, the four nucleobases of DNA.

𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐂 𝐕𝐎𝐘𝐀𝐆𝐄 is a film that influenced the making of 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐊 video.
“This is one of my favorites videos.” 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 told. “It’s based on a 60’s movie ‘Fantastic Voyage’. Raquel Welch and a few other people get shrunk and injected into the president’s body and try to save his life. In this video I play Raquel Welch. Unfortunately, the budget didn’t stretch to fake breasts.”
𝑯𝒐𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒈𝒉 who directed the video for Placebo explained his idea, “It was based on a movie, obviously 'Fantastic voyage'. And I always thought that Stefan looked like an android. I remember a guy from 'Fantastic voyage' turned out to be an android and he was trying to kill everybody. And I thought: 'This is twisted. Let try a mini movie which is all about inside something'.” (𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝑆𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑗𝑒𝑐𝑡, 2016)
𝐅𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐕𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐠𝐞 is a 1966 American science-fiction film directed by Richard Fleischer. The film is about a submarine crew who are shrunk to microscopic size and venture into the body of an injured scientist to repair damage to his brain. Almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream, a lot of problems arise on their way.

Screenshot from Special K video

𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐄𝐋 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒: clips from this film are used in one of the versions of 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐌𝐞 video besides the live footage of Placebo from London's Brixton Academy.

𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐋 & 𝐉𝐎𝐄: the scenes from the movie are included in the 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤-𝐄𝐲𝐞𝐝 video. It was directed by the same director as the film, Vanessa Joop. The video was filmed at the Hurricane Festival in Germany with two actors, Jana Pallaske and Robert Stadlober, starring in Engel & Joe.

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Every Me Every You - Placebo - Placebo20 21/01/99

"Every You Every Me" was released as the third single from Placebo's second album, 'Without You I'm Nothing', on 21 January 1999.
It was released as a 2-CD set and on cassette (Who has still this cassette?!), but promotional copies on 12" vinyl exist (and this vinyl, who has it?!).

The single managed to chart at number forty-six in Australia, ninety-nine in Germany and eleven in the UK Singles Chart. The song was featured on the 'Cruel Intentions' soundtrack.
There are two versions of the video, both filmed live at London's Brixton Academy; one includes clips from the movie Cruel Intentions.

PLACEBO - Every You Every Me

PLACEBO - Every You Every Me [CRUEL INTENTIONS]

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.
Croatian metal band 'Ashes You Leave' covered "Every You Every Me" on their 2009 album Songs of the Lost.

Ashes You Leave - Every You Every Me (cover Placebo)

Along with the rest of the album (apart from "Pure Morning"), "Every You Every Me" was recorded in early 1998 at Real World Studios with Steve Osborne.
When asked who it was about, Molko replied with "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."
About his choice to include it in the 'Cruel Intentions' soundtrack, Molko said that he "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."

Track listing

CD 1 and cassette
Every You Every Me (single mix) - 3:35
Nancy Boy (Blue Amazon mix) - 11:29
Every You Every Me (Infected by the Scourge of the Earth mix) - 3:57


CD 2
Every You Every Me (album version) - 3:34
Every You Every Me (Sneaker Pimps version) - 5:08
Every You Every Me (Brothers in Rhythm Glam Club mix) - 9:54


Other remix:
Placebo - Every Me, Every You (Lexy & K-Paul Remix)


The song was also used in EA Sports F1 2000.

The official promo video for 'Every You Every Me' released 21.01.1999
Taken from the album 'Without You I'm Nothing ' available on iTunes
BUY ALBUM : http://www.itunes.com/placebo
www.placeboworld.co.uk/music/singles/every-you-every-me