🌛◾ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 - 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕏𝕍𝕀𝕀𝕀.◾🌜

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

Photo credit: Scarlet Page

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

Post by Rita

✨🎉💦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 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.“⭐
(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.

Photo credit unknown

⭐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...'🔥

Post by Marti

🔹🌛ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕏𝕀𝕀𝕀.🌜🔹

𝐇𝐢 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬,
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.
My main goal is to continue to take you through slow versions of Placebo's fast rock hits.
Today's choice fell on a song from the 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐒 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦:

🔹🎶"𝐁𝐄𝐂𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐈 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔"🎶🔹
𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨
https://bit.ly/2Heus6K

Photo credit: Thomas Rabsch

⭐𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠:
... 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.”
(𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑥 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑒, 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑦 2007)

🔹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.

⭐"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.
.../***/
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."
(𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜, '𝑅𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑅𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠' 𝑉𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑔. 2016)

Photo credit: Robin Kim

🔹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.

🔹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.
Suddenly the lyrics is more speculated.. More contradictory...
Do you feel the same way?
That the rhythm and musical arrangement will change your perception of the text?

🔹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...
🎶"𝘋𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮
𝘋𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨
𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘰
𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 ..."

🔹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.
🎶"𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪 𝘩𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦, 𝘤𝘰𝘻 𝘐'𝘮 𝘢𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘦..
𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦"
And that's why he's trying to tell her that she should end it, because he can't...
🎶"𝘛𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘸𝘰
𝘐𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘥𝘰
𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰..."

🔹But love is difficult precisely in how ambiguous it is and what difficult decisions and tests it brings...
Maybe the narrator is saying -
I'll give up alcohol '𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪...'💗

Photo credit: Scarlet Page

🙏𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬, 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬.
The true meaning of Christmas is not to try to be perfect in the eyes of others.

𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫💗.
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐮.

Post by Marti

✨🌠 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.
📍𝐹𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑦 𝑃𝑎𝑢𝑙 𝑀𝑖𝑡𝑐𝒉𝑒𝑙𝑙

📸Photo Credit: Franck Juery, 2009

⭐ 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?
🎤 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'.

⭐ 𝑫𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒐 𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈?
🎤 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.

⭐ 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?
🎤 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.

⭐ 𝑰𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒆𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒆 '𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏' 𝒂 𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒌𝒚 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆?
🎤 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.

Photo credit: Scarket Page

⭐ 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆'𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕?
🎤 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.

⭐ 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?
🎤 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.


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.
▪️𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚗𝚢, 𝙽𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸𝟺, 𝟸𝟶𝟶𝟿.

𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴!

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. ⭐🎶

Photo credit: Taratata TV show, 2009

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.


🔊 𝐋𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐆𝐨 𝐓𝐨 𝐁𝐞𝐝 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐈-𝐃𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟖 🎶
https://bit.ly/3W4YkpQ

🔊 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐬 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 (𝐀𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜) 🎶
https://bit.ly/3FVKVe7

🔊 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞𝐚 𝐇𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐥 - 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨 (𝐋𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫) 🎶
https://bit.ly/3BGNHRV


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. 🌏

🔊 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐓𝐫𝐲 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 🎶
https://bit.ly/3HGYm2G


Post by Rita

🟥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?.

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?

𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 (𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐊 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃, 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟑)

Photo credit: Carole Epinette / Edit by Silke

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?


𝟏. 🔻𝐕𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐘🔺
“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.“


𝟐. 🔻𝐄𝐍𝐕𝐘🔺
“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.“

Photo credit: Franck Courtès

𝟑.🔻𝐆𝐋𝐔𝐓𝐓𝐎𝐍𝐘🔺
“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.“

𝟒. 🔻𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐓🔺
“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.“

𝟓. 🔻𝐖𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐇🔺
“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.“

Photo credit: David Willis

𝟔. 🔻𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐃🔺
“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.“


𝟕. 🔻𝐒𝐋𝐎𝐓𝐇🔺
“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!“
(Rock Sound, 2003)

Post by Silke

⚡🔹"𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐄𝐒" 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘🔹⚡

🔹"...𝙄 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙖 𝙁𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙖, 𝙄 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙜𝙤 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙢𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬, 𝙄 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙙𝙤 𝙖 𝙨𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙃𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙤 𝙤𝙧 𝙄 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙮 𝙛𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙮 𝙤𝙣 𝙨𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙖. 𝙄 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙢𝙮 𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩, 𝙄 𝙙𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙮 𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙚𝙩 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙢𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙢𝙚.”🔹
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚊𝚌𝚜, 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝟸𝟻𝚝𝚑 𝟸0𝟸𝟸)

Photo credit: PlaceboWorld, Jon Stone / Edit: by Marti

Dear friends,
after last Wednesday, when I shared with you my review of the unique Halloween concert, today we have another break from Placebo lullabies.

𝘌𝘹𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘨𝘰 𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘓𝘦𝘵 𝘔𝘦 𝘎𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮, 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘯𝘰 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵.

⚡🔹"𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐄𝐒" 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘🔹⚡

🎶🎬𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐫
https://bit.ly/3TrNw2S


It is the second single (after Beautiful James) preceding the release of 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐋𝐄𝐓 𝐌𝐄 𝐆𝐎 and the sixth track of the album. It was also available as a digital download and later released on Mint color vinyl along with "Beautiful James" - on 25th of March, 2022.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐑𝐀𝐊 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐀𝐝𝐚𝐦 𝐍𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞. 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐍𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐋𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐝.

Do you remember that night, soulmates?
⭐𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 🎶𝗦𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝘆 𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗲𝘀🎶 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗶𝗱𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟵, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭.⭐

My memory is still very vivid. Our whole house was already asleep, I was sitting in bed buried in pillows, the lit candles materialized the shadows and the incense stick made the perfect atmosphere.

And at exactly midnight, something fantastic came. Pure Placebo like a cut diamond. The lyrics, which didn't make much sense, still filled me with a dark melancholy. The strange sound of the drums in the middle of the night was absolutely hypnotic, Brian's voice repeating the monotonous verses brought me almost to the edge of a trance. And the ending with the piano was simply "Wooow... I didn't expect that...". Since then I wanted to hear it again and again.

Photo credit: Jon Stone

𝐓𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐈 𝐚𝐝𝐝 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐍'𝐬 𝐪𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞:
🔹💬“𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘢 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘷𝘪𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨, 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘴𝘱𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬. 𝘐 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘹 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘰𝘴, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩-𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘮'𝘯'𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘰 𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭.”
(𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚏𝚊𝚗 𝙾𝚕𝚜𝚍𝚊𝚕, 𝙱𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚋𝚘𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝙹𝚊𝚙𝚊𝚗, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸0𝟸𝟸)

So let's now celebrate this one year birthday by telling you everything we already know about this song and maybe a little something new.

This song was based on Brian's realization that he was being spied on by his neighbors who did not respect his privacy.. Unfortunately, this always happens when you live near a celebrity. However, with the advent of technology, virtually every smartphone owner has become a potential paparazzo.

🔹𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 "𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐄𝐒"🔹
“We sleepwalk through the city, unaware of the fact that you can be followed from your doorstep to your destination. I thought to myself, ‘If good neighbours of mine can do this, then what else is going on?’ It’s just a microscopic version of what’s happening everywhere.” (𝚁𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚂𝚝𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚄𝙺, 𝙵𝚎𝚋𝚛𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟷𝚜𝚝 𝟸0𝟸𝟸)

“I began to ponder the countless ways in which our privacy has been eroded and stolen since the introduction worldwide of CCTV cameras that now employ racist facial recognition technologies; the rise of the internet and the smartphone, which has turned practically every user into a paparazzo and a spectator in their own life, and how we have mostly all offered up personal information to enormous multinationals whose sole intent is to exploit us.”
(𝚂𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚢 𝟸0𝟸𝟸)

"I've moved since then, but my old neighbours thought it was okay to spy on me because I was famous... That triggered something in my head about global surveillance, about cameras filming us. The question I ask in this album is: what is the human price to pay for all this progress? But I don't have the answer.”
(𝙻𝚎 𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚒𝚎𝚗, 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝟸𝟻𝚝𝚑 𝟸0𝟸𝟸)

Photo credit: Jon Stone

Thanks to Brian giving us an explanation for this song, we have a clearer idea of why it was created.

From this song, I sense an indictment of all of us for allowing these technologies to take over our daily lives. Not only do we silently suffer from CCTV in big companies because we care about money, about our livelihood. Not just that cameras in the streets have crept into our actual reality and intimacy. But we ourselves contribute to it very frivolously by sharing the details of our lives with 'Big Brother' on a daily basis. The mobile phone has become our most faithful companion, searching for a contact with a live person is second only.

🔹💬 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐎𝐍:
“I'm a child of the 80s. In my days there were no surveillance cameras every few meters and the phones were still connected to the wall by a cable. My son's world can not compared to mine. He enjoys the progress. But what is the bill for this motley present and future that is waiting for him at some point. He has lost the freedom to walk down the streets without ending up in the sights of a surveillance camera.
I hate these things. And his cell phone is de facto a control medium. It holds him hostage but of course he doesn't see it. He only knows the dopamine kick that calls him to scroll again and again.“
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 𝚂𝙻𝙰𝙼, 𝙸𝚜𝚜𝚞𝚎 𝟷𝟸𝟷, 𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 𝟸0𝟸𝟸)
~🔹~🔹~🔹~

𝐀𝐥𝐬𝐨, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐎 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥 𝐋𝐞𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐠 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟖, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏, 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭:

📌The video for ‘Surrounded By Spies’ is shot from the perspective of CCTV cameras. Their faces — filtered and warped — appear on the artwork for the first time ever, for singles ‘Beautiful James’ and ‘Surrounded By Spies’. Nowhere in the material do you see Molko or Olsdal clearly, which feeds into the ever-present theme of surveillance, either by security cameras (London, after all, is the most surveilled city on Earth outside China), by your neighbours, or by your own hyper-vigilance. However, it was also a more practical choice.

“It was born out of a certain inherited shyness,” Molko admits. “We found ourselves after four or five years not really having done a photoshoot, looking around, and understanding that nobody puts a picture of themselves out into the world without manipulating it. We all hide, we all project an image of ourselves that isn’t really our true selves. And so the idea came to take this aesthetic and push it to the extreme, [to become] a very clear comment on aesthetics today.”
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠, 𝚁𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝟸0𝟸𝟸)

🔹🎬"𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐄𝐒" 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨
https://bit.ly/3WOZ9ny

Photo credit: Jon Stone

Let's move further in the information about this single. With another quote, 𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 taught us the term "𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦":

“It's a true story told through a lens of paranoia, complete disgust for modern society’s values, and the deification of surveillance capitalism. The narrator is at the end of their tether, hopeless and afraid, completely at odds with our newfound progress and the god of money.”
(𝙰𝚖𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚂𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚛, 𝙽𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸0𝟸𝟷)

The term surveillance capitalism was coined by American author ⭐𝙎𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙖 𝙕𝙪𝙗𝙤𝙛𝙛⭐ in her 2019 masterwork of original thinking and research - as defined by the Financial Times - ⭐'𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿'⭐.

In short, it can be described in the following words:
⚡𝗪𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀, 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹𝘀 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝘁𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁.⚡

📌Our dear 𝐄𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐚 elaborated on this topic in her post here:
https://bit.ly/3Gihq71

Photo credit: Jon Stone

Brian's concern about the enormous impact of these technologies led me to yet another term.

Do you know the term 🔹𝐋𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐦 and the resulting 𝐍𝐞𝐨-𝐋𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐦?🔹

🔹𝐋𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 - members of a secret organization of English textile workers in the 19th century. They protested the boom in the textile industry by destroying the newly invented weaving machines for fear of losing their jobs.
From this comes the term 🔹𝐍𝐞𝐨-𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐦 - used to describe someone who is opposed or resistant to new technologies.

Maybe it's a completely new term for you, but I have to tell you that 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘪𝘯 1996, 𝘢 𝘓𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘥, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘴 "𝘢 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘈𝘨𝘦 ".

Could Brian go so far in his thoughts as to agree to this movement?
And how do you perceive it?
~🔹~🔹~🔹~

Of course, Stefan's thoughts on this single are also very interesting.

🔹𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐍 "𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐄𝐒":🔹
”Maybe we don't see so clearly where we are going until it's too late, right? And that's a little bit what we want to explore in the song 'Surrounded by Spies' as you said, which is a little bit of chaos and a little bit of losing control but still, I think what we have to do as musicians and as people, is try to surf what's going on without going crazy (laughs) and have a little bit of vigilance so that we don't get sucked into technology or what's going on and keep a little bit of humanity.”
(𝙰𝚕𝚏𝚊 𝟿𝟷,𝟹 𝙵𝙼 – 𝙼𝚎𝚡𝚒𝚌𝚘, 𝙵𝚎𝚋𝚛𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟷𝟿𝚝𝚑 𝟸0𝟸𝟸)

🔹💬𝘏𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯'𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘷𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴? 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 '𝘗𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘰𝘮' 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮 𝘉𝘔𝘔. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘢 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮. 𝘋𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵?
“You see, I haven’t seen it from that angle, that’s interesting. This track is kind of claustrophobic because, you know, it’s hard to avoid unkind eyes nowadays. It’s kind of crapped off on us. The character of 'Surrounded by Spies' feels that pressure of modern age, what it can do to you, how it can slowly turn your world very dark. And it can start to feel at times that there’s no escape. There’s some kind of darkness in this song. We wanted music to be very expressive, evil… We’re trying to find the hope, trying to find the cracklings of light in our songs but I think that 'Surrounded by Spies' is probably one of the darker moments. When it comes to Placebo lyrics, generally, on all the albums there were elements of personal, emotional honesty. I think that we’ve realized that it’s what makes the song universal - if you make it personal, sing of what you’ve experienced on this planet, whatever the feeling may be. We always discovered the darkest sides of human psyche and human’s emotions which are not easy to talk about, to acknowledge that we have sometimes. So I think this track is continuing in that way.“

𝘙𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘴, 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘚𝘉𝘚 𝘪𝘴 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯 '𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪-𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦'?
“I think life would be too safe without taking risks. We’ve got very eclectic taste fan base, they don’t like one type of music. 'Surrounded by Spies' is very different to our first song, 'Beautiful James'. But it’s still us. It was good to do things slightly different, not to make two same songs, to let the fans taste yourself what’s to come. But as I said, it’s all still Placebo.“
(𝚁𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 𝟹𝟻𝟽, 𝙽𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟿𝚝𝚑 𝟸0𝟸𝟷)
~🔹~🔹~🔹~

But in the end let's go back to the very specific lyrics of the song which I purposely inserted without repetition to make it obvious how confused the text sounds:

Photo credit: Jon Stone

🔹🎶"𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐄𝐒" 𝐋𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐒🎶🔹
𝘐 𝘴𝘢𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘫𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 2𝘹
𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴, 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘌𝘭𝘷𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦
𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴, 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘌𝘭𝘷𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦 3𝘹
𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨

𝘗𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘵 2𝘹
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 2𝘹

𝘚𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 4𝘹

𝘌𝘹-𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘳'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵 2𝘹
𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘳 2𝘹

𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘦 2𝘹
𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳, 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘸𝘰, 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 2𝘹

𝘞𝘦 𝘨𝘰 𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘸𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘣 2𝘹
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘺 2𝘹

𝘐 𝘨𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵, 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘬 4𝘹

𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘴 4𝘹

𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘧𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 4𝘹

𝘐 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘳 3𝘹
𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦

𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵? (𝘚𝘩𝘶𝘵 𝘶𝘱) 4𝘹

𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘴 12𝘹
𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘦𝘴...

Photo credit: Jon Stone

In my opinion, with this song and the seemingly unrelated verses of the lyrics, Brian is expressing his concern about our being overwhelmed by all the different virtual media we have let into our lives.

When you read the verses, they don't seem to put together any story. It's as if headlines and bits of news from various sites across the internet are running in front of our eyes.

Can you see that now? It's another one of the masterpieces of the last Placebo album.

To create this song, Brian used a special method - the ⭐"cut-up technique"⭐, which was used by the writer and representative of the 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐦 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐬, and which the unforgettable icon David Bowie fell in love with, and even made his own computer program for this method of creation.

⭐🎬𝐂𝐮𝐭 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞- 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐁𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐞
https://bit.ly/3UFmaar


It works by simply taking the finished text and cutting it into individual parts. Then you play with how you put random parts of the text back to create something completely different and new. For creators who don't want to be limited by anything, it's a fantastic and very liberating way to create.

🔹𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐨 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐦 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐥𝐚'𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭:🔹
https://bit.ly/3UzTkbO

Post by Marti