🌛◾ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕍𝕀.◾🌜

☮"𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙣 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙮 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝙢𝙚. 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙄 𝙨𝙖𝙮 "𝙔𝙤𝙪", 𝙄 𝙖𝙢 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙮𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛."☮
(𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙵𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚑 𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚠 "𝙻𝚒𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚝𝚎' - 𝙴𝚐𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚎' - 𝙼.𝙰.𝚄.𝚁.𝙰.𝙳", 𝙴𝚞𝚛𝚘𝚙𝚎 𝟸, 𝟸00𝟺)


Dear soulmates, it's Wednesday again. After last week's break, we continue our favorite series.
What do you think of the opening quote?
In my opinion, it goes very well with today's lullaby, which is so exceptional that I dedicated a separate post to it.

Photo credit: NPA

🎵🔹"𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐈"🔹🎵
𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐈 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐎
🎵 https://bit.ly/3BNXIfr
~🔹~🔹~🔹~

✨𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐈 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐛-𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 “𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐠𝐞” 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟎. ✨
For a long time, it was my absolute favorite Placebo song to end every day.
𝘈 𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘦𝘭 𝘭𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘶𝘯𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘰 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵, 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘴, 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘯 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘱𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘰.
An absolutely perfect, downright sedative lullaby, as the piano accompaniment in harmony with the guitar is full of tenderness and peace compared to the lyrics.


🔹"𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐈" 𝐋𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐒🔹
𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳... 𝘉𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘻𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘬𝘺... 𝘉𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳... 𝘉𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭 𝘦𝘺𝘦...
𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳... 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘭𝘺... 𝘔𝘺 𝘴𝘤𝘪-𝘧𝘪 𝘭𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘺...
𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘳... 𝘉𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘻𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘬𝘺... 𝘐 𝘣𝘦𝘨 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘦𝘳... 𝘔𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘣𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘻𝘦𝘥...
𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘮𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳... 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘶𝘺... 𝘔𝘺 𝘴𝘤𝘪-𝘧𝘪 𝘭𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘺...


A simple text that hides the pitfalls of unfulfilled love. What better way to express the fact that someone finds your love annoying...
Who tramples your admiration like a cigarette butt...
That person knows how to cruelly kill any of your attempts to get closer with his/her a chilling sight.
Perfect verses about suffering, whether love was and ended too soon or never was, but you long for it with all your being and know you'll never have the chance.
But it is quite possible that it is also a description of dominance, not directly physical (BDSM), but rather emotional... The author describes how the object of his interest treats him and in a way he enjoys it himself...
What do you think?

Photo credit: Nick Laham

❓𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐲 "𝐬𝐜𝐢-𝐟𝐢 𝐥𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐲"... ?
Maybe it's related to Brian's trouble sleeping, insomnia is something that drives you a little crazy, and in the time between waking and short-term dreaming, all the demons you have inside of you come out.
I know this from my own experience, I suffered from insomnia for a year and a half.


🔹✨𝐀𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝟓𝟒 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟏-𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟑, 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲.✨🔹

Not only did Brian change the line "𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘮𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳" for "𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳" for the live performances, and added the verse "𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘮𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘦" at the end.

🔹𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟑 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 "𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐈" 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 "𝐒𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐈".🔹
Because Brian changed LENI's original lyrics by adding verses to the then unborn song "𝐒𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐊𝐄𝐘" from the later 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐒 album, giving this lullaby a whole new dimension, which I just love about Brian, I think it's genius.

🔹𝐒𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝟕 𝐨𝐫 𝟖 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝. 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐞𝐦, 𝐈 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐮𝐧𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮:
🎵 🎬 https://bit.ly/3SnjPQI

Placebo at La Medoquine. Photo credit unknown

🔹"𝐒𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐄 𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐈" 𝐋𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐒🔹
I kneel before her,
Beneath this frozen sky
Beneath her shoulder,
Beneath her evil eye

She towers over this male who is a fly
My sci-fi lullaby

I kneel before her,
Beneath this frozen sky
I beg below her,
My limbs are paralyzed
She feels much softer
Than any kind of guy
My sci-fi lullaby

Beside her
Astride her
I die inside her
Forever
And ever
She's born to mesmer
It's sacred
Don't break it
Don't let go
Let me die

Cross my heart
And hope to die
~🔹~🔹~🔹~

Post by Marti

⭐️𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬: 𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐒𝐓⭐️

🎶"𝐓𝐄𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐒𝐓"🎶 is one of the first tracks that Brian ever wrote for the band. 26 years ago today, on 16th of September 1996, it was released as Placebo's third single on CD and as 7' vinyl single. The song, recorded at Westland Studios in Dublin and produced by Brad Wood, reached number 30 on the UK Singles Chart.
It was played live 409 times over the years, and between 1995 and 2017 there was not one single year when it wasn't brought on stage at least once.

Photo credit: Stefan de Batselier, Screenshots from the video / edit by Silke

🎬 𝗧𝗘𝗘𝗡𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗦𝗧 – 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢
🎵 http://bit.ly/2VMY1DI 🎵

The music clip was directed by Trevor Robinson. It shows the band members locked in a red latex cube, all three of them are dressed in the same red colour. Several teenagers also enter this cube and show how anxious they are.


📌 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗣 📌
𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯: “It was sunny, it was a summer day.“
𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯: “I had tonsillitis.“
𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯: “It’s got a very suggestive entrance.“
𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯: “This video was directed by Trevor Robinson, who responsible for the Tango adverts, where the fat orange man slaps people across the faces. I think is the only video he made. Maybe because the experience of working with us must be so traumatic, he’s never made one again.“
𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯: “It was very very hot. It was like a box, so no air conditioning.“
𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯: “As you can see, this is before we start work with professional stylists.“
𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯: “There was a big deal about this guy. His parents had to give permission for us to shave his head.“
𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯: “There was a hoo-ha about the scissors. Because that’s a video police regulation – you can have closed scissors but not open scissors, so the director was nervous, but you can have clippers, obviously.“
𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯: “It’s obviously not shot inside that box.“
𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯: “That was what we call a tongue piercing. Have you had much experience with tongue piercings?“
𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯: “I don’t like them. I don’t like metal against teeth.“
𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯: “I find it quite nice, really. Hot and cold, you know? Kind of fleshy and metal.“
𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯: “Don’t like that either.“
𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯: “It’s quite nice. What the hell are we wearing?“
𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯: “Red. We’re trying to break that latex.“
𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯: “Put that away.“
𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯: “It was very durable.“
𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 & 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦: “This kid is angry.“
𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯:“Yeah, those kids are really angry.“
𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯: “Did that hurt?“
𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯: “No!“
𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦: “He felt nowt.“
(“Once more with feeling“ DVD, 2004)

📌 𝗗𝗘𝗠𝗢 𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡 📌
The demo version of "Teenage Angst" from 1995 includes the line “Well I was suicidal once / but now honestly I am fine“ which was replaced by “Airs and social graces / elocution so divine“ in the version that was finally released. I think the record label wasn't too happy about the lyrics dealing with suicide and so the song text had to be changed.

📀 𝗧𝗘𝗘𝗡𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗦𝗧 – 𝗗𝗘𝗠𝗢 𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡 (𝟵𝟱)

🎵 https://bit.ly/3QsDQok 🎵

📌 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗛𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬 📌
“Teenage Angst“ is part of the band's repertoire prior to the release of their debut album in 1996. It has been performed in notably different versions. It was played live 414 confirmed times over the years, and between 1995 and 2017 there was not one single year when it wasn't brought on stage at least once. The first time ever was on January 23rd 1995 at Rock Garden in London. This was also the very first Placebo concert. The last time “Teenage Angst“ was played live was on October 8th 2017 in Dundee, Scotland, during the “20 years“ anniversary tour.
The original version was staged up until 2000. A piano-based version was played during the “Black market music“, “Meds“ and „Battle for the sun“ tours.
During the „Sleeping with ghosts“ tour “Teenage Angst“ was played with a hip-hop inspired drum beat. At the end of the “Battle for the sun“ tour in 2010, the song was performed with a new arrangement. Another rework appeared during the “Loud like love“ tour.

Photo credit: Screenshot from the official video

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗧𝗘𝗘𝗡𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗦𝗧“ 📌
📢 ”That’s a song that refuses to die. That’s a classic, because if you cover it in three different ways, then it has to be a classic [laughs].”
(Vanyaland, October 18th 2013)


📢 "Well, that was something my mother said to me: She was talking about ageing, wrinkling, skin drying up and stuff. This was when I was about 14. She said that as soon as you pop out of the womb you start to deteriorate. I actually found her words quite disturbing but, y'know, she's a religious kind of person."
(Vox, July 1996)

🎬 𝗧𝗘𝗘𝗡𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗦𝗧 – 𝗣𝗜𝗔𝗡𝗢 𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡

🎵 https://bit.ly/3dw6cuy 🎵

📢 “We kind of keep re-writing a lot of songs in order for them to become playable for us so that we can connect with them. Most recently, we’re on our fourth version of “Teenage Angst” from the first album. We have a brand new version of that, which is actually my favorite of the tour. It took 20 years since I wrote that song for us to settle on what I think is the definitive version, but that’s ok.“
(Pure Volume, September 12th 2013)


📢 “When we do stuff from the first album, we try to do different versions. We have an interesting hip-hop version of 'Teenage Angst' at the moment. I am having a lot of fun with it, it gives me a chance to do my Bono bit with a wireless microphone. I am doing that more and more.”
(The Sentimentalist - Issue XII, 2003)


📢 “That's the difference between "Teenage Angst" and the new version of the song, which has become very melancholic, which we transformed more and more to that during our tour. We want to explore the scope of our skills more and more and the tendency is towards melancholy. But we can say about ourselves today, when we go there, we really go in that direction, it's not playing around anymore, the emotions are real, we don't need to pretend to anything. When you see us on stage on our next tour, you really see us. That's Placebo.”
(Discover, September 1998)

Photo credit: Scarlet Page, Screenshots from the video / edit by Silke

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘤 𝘵𝘰 '𝘛𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘈𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘵' 𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥: '𝘚𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘯, 𝘐 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘺...' 𝘈 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦.
📢 "But it's true. As soon as you pop out of the womb, you start to die. It's the paradox that you begin life but you also begin death. The use of toy instruments enables us to communicate that on a sonic level."
(Guitarist, August 1997)

🎬 𝗧𝗘𝗘𝗡𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗦𝗧 – 𝗛𝗜𝗣 𝗛𝗢𝗣 𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡

🎵 https://bit.ly/3dIANW7 🎵

📢 "When I was a teenager, I felt things in more passionate ways, I've gone through rebellion phases. I was feeling depressed, I felt like the world was about to collapse. A sort of alienation towards parents, a rebellion against what they wanted me to become, against growing, going through this kind of changes. My emotions were going in many directions because physically, I was becoming an adult. I was longing for it, but I was still dealt with as a child. Art and creativity were minor things, unknown in my familly. That's surely for that reason, I reacted so violently. I became the ugly duckling: my father wanted me to become a businessman, and my mother wanted me to be a saint. Finally, I satisfied none of them. At this age, music can represent many things, be the last emergency exit. Play guitar was a sort of outlet to my familly troubles, to authority. My parents didn't contribute at all to what I am today and that's marvellous. I am here today only by myself. I need to have success, very selfishly, to refute all people who thought I would not go far in life, to show it to the people who were better than me at school, my rivals in every way, my parents.”
(Les Inrocks, August 13th 1996)


📢 "I've always been a loner. The three of us are like that, we have gone through adolescence locked in our room, playing music. And like many boys this age, I was dreaming to become a star. A city like Luxembourg can be stifling when you try to forge your identity. I couldn't be myself there. I felt secluded there, far from the places where I wanted to be. There was no place where I could have expressed myself, found a feedback. From this isolation, I made songs, 'Teenage Angst' or 'Burger Queen', because fatally that made me a voyeur. It's not the best place to observe the world.”
(Les Inrockuptibles N°169, August 14th 1998)


🎬 𝗧𝗘𝗘𝗡𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗦𝗧 – 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗢𝗡 𝗝𝗢𝗢𝗟𝗦 𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗗 (𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟳)
🎵 https://bit.ly/3JU0Fig 🎵

Photo credit: Screenshot from the official video

📜 𝗟𝗬𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗦
Shine the headlight,
Straight into my eyes.
Like the roadkill,
I'm paralysed.
You see through my disguise

At the drive-in,
Double feature,
Pull the lever,
Break the fever
And say your last goodbyes.

Since I was born
I started to decay
Now nothing ever
Ever goes my way

One fluid gesture,
Like stepping back in time
Trapped in amber, petrified
I’m still not satisfied

Airs and social graces,
Elocution so divine
I’ll stick to my needle
And my favourite waste of time
Both spineless and sublime

Since I was born
I started to decay
Now nothing ever
Ever goes my way

Post by Silke

🎶𝐓𝐑𝐘 𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄🎶

𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙, 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮. 𝙈𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙚𝙭𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙪𝙨. 𝙏𝙧𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙣𝙚𝙭𝙩 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚.”
(Brian Molko, NME, January 11th 2022)

“𝐓𝐑𝐘 𝐁𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄” was released as third download single from “Never let me go” on January 11th 2022. It is a disillusioned, disappointed song about our environment. Brian explains: “It’s about the climate disaster presented in a sort of three-minute Weezer-ish kind of pop-punk thing” (Kerrang, March 23th 2022). Brian says that it's hard for him to be optimistic about the future. It's important to people to have hope, but he “wonders if we're already past the point of no return, unfortunately” (see quotes below).

So if you dig deeper into the lyrics “Try better next time” is not only a warning about what could happen if we don't change our ways, but more a song about a major event and the following extinction of human beings. “It's basically saying 'Good riddance, humanity, try better next time'”, Brian stated in an interview, but is presented in an “extremely jolly, upbeat happy, catchy way which is something that we do quite well, present something quite depressing in an upbeat fashion” (Maniacs, March 25th 2022).

He wanted to express himself honestly about the world we are living in today and capture all the confusion that surrounds it. “Try better next time” is based on the theory of evolution. In the point of view of the narrator in the song this means that nature will eventually take over. What is implicit is that the world we destroy day after day will return to its wild state when we disappear. Brian: “Which at this rate may happen sooner than expected. How can I not get the Monday blues when I think about this?” (My Rock, March 2022).

Photo credit: Marc Gommans 

So the lyrics suggest that it is not going to be the end of the world, but the end of the human species. According to Brian “'Try better next time' is kind of saying ‘Just give it up, give it back to the animals. They were here first'. He thinks that it’s “the profit motive itself that’s going to spell the end of our species. As we continue to deify money and the creation of wealth over altruism, we’re getting more and more lost” (DIY, February 18th 2022).

“Try better next time” was recorded at RAK Studios in London and produced by Adam Noble and Placebo. Pietro Garrone of the Italian band Husky Loops played drums on it. Bill Lloyd was involved in the engineering and programming. The song was mastered by Robin Schmidt at 24-96 Mastering in Karlsruhe, Germany. It's an interesting fact that Brian's son Cody is singing the backing vocals on this track.

The song is part of the current “Never let me go” tour. It was first performed live in Paris on March 23rd 2022 at one of the intimate album release shows before the official start of the tour. The shared video of “Try better next time”was recorded at the concert in Mantova, Italy, on June 29th.

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗧𝗥𝗬 𝗕𝗘𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗡𝗘𝗫𝗧 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘" 📌
𝘐𝘯 '𝘛𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦' 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 “𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦”, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤, 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨?
📢 “Yes, absolutely. As I said before, it seems that virtual communities have become more important that the ones that exist in our real world. And I think that this aspect has worsened during the pandemic. It is not unusual for people to scroll while watching what is now called ambient TV, for example. When we do that, we're not actually doing anything. We are living in a new place and in a new condition of anesthesia, we are avoiding our thoughts and emotions. In this context, social network become a drug, to the point that people walking along the streets keep looking at their phones, endangering themselves and others. I recently saw what happened to a person who was crossing the street while looking at their phone. She did not survive. It seems that we are on a constant state of escaping. I am not surprised, considering what we have experienced over the last two years, but this anesthesia can only lead us towards disaster and accelerate the extinction of our species. Constantly running away is not good for our mental health, as it is constantly silencing our emotions. Social media addictions are very common today. Even I, with all my cynicism, found myself addicted to Instagram about five years ago. I now limit my time on that platform only during my morning's bowel movement, and it seems appropriate.”
(Rumore, March 2022)

Photo credit: Anieck 

📢 “It’s not going to be the end of the world. It’s just going to be the end of the human species. We call it the end of the world in our incessant hubris and narcissism. 'Try better next time' is kind of a rallying cry saying: ‘Just give it up, give it back to the animals.’ They were here first.”
(The Guardian, November 12th 2021)

📢 “Fuck me. The thing is, these guys, they’re trying to turn themselves into proto conquistadors of outer space. If we get to another planet, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk will have us paying for our air and poor people won’t be able to breathe. This is the brilliant future that they’re offering us. I mean, it’s already ridiculous that we have to pay for water. Water isn’t a luxury, you know, you can’t live without it. Is there nothing left we haven’t monetised? I’m bored of how everything has to be about making a deal.”
(DIY, February 18th 2022)

📢 “When I talk about the environment, I really don't think that people should listen to me because I have climate depression… I look around and it's difficult for me to get optimistic. I think it's important for people to have hope, and I don't want to come across as some kind of harbinger of doom, but I do wonder if we're already past the point of no return, unfortunately.”
(Vice Magazine, January 17th 2022)

📢 “It’s basically saying, ‘Good riddance humanity, try better next time you come back and get a chance to live on this beautiful planet. It’s a very disillusioned song about the climate disaster presented in a sort of three-minute Weezer-ish kind of pop-punk thing. If you dig deeper, it’s one of the more disturbing songs because it’s talking about an extinction event, you know, the extinction of human beings.”
(Kerrang, March 23th 2022)

Photo credit: Mary Alz 

📢 ”'Try better next time' for me is very much my song about the environment. You know, it's a disillusioned, disappointed song. It's very disappointed in humanity. It's basically saying, 'Good riddance, humanity, try better next time', you know, next time you come back and get a chance to live on this beautiful planet, you know, try better. It's a story about people who live underground, about growing fins and going back to the water. It's a very disillusioned song about the climate disaster presented in a sort of three minute Weezer-ish kind of pop punk thing. If you dig deeper, it's one of the more disturbing songs because it's talking about an extinction event next, you know, the extinction of human beings, but is presented in in in an extremely jolly, upbeat happy, catchy way which is something that we do quite well, present something quite depressing in an upbeat fashion.”
(Maniacs, March 25th 2022)

📢 “Like the other tracks, I wanted to express myself more honestly about what I think of the world today. I wanted to capture all the confusion that surrounds it. This song is based on the theory of evolution. An animal or an insect adapts to its environment, while a human being adapts it according to his moods. What is implicit in this, even beyond what my lyrics or the cover of this record suggest, is that nature will always eventually take over. The world we destroy day after day will return to its wild state when we disappear, which at this rate may happen sooner than expected. How can I not get the Monday blues when I think about this?”
(My Rock, March 2022)

Photo credit: Franz Reiterer

📜 𝗟𝗬𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗦
At the core of the earth
It's too hot to breathe
There's nothing much to eat
And everybody leaves
There's a place in the forest
Where the animals dance
Carefree and joyous
Like nobody's watching
And nobod#neverletmego
So they laugh and they dance around mahogany trees
Completely unawares they're gonna end up as meat
And nobody's watching

Wake up, wake up
Try better next time
Wake up, wake up
Cry better next time
Wake up, wake up
Try better next time
Wake up, wake up

So, you know me
Understand me
Is that what you think?
You haven't met the monster who wakes up when I drink
I was born out of time
I'm not meant to be here
With the weight of the world
And the weight of a tear
Are exactly the same

Wake up, wake up
Try better next time
Wake up, wake up
Cry better next time
Wake up, wake up
Try better next time
Wake up, wake up

There's a spot in the ocean
And that's where we'll meet
Somewhere far away
Where fish can nibble at our feet
And we can grow fins
Go back in the water
Grow fins, go back in the water
Grow fins, go back in the water
Grow fins, go back in the water

Wake up, wake up
Try better next time
Wake up, wake up
Cry better next time
Wake up, wake up
Try better next time
Wake up, wake up

It's a gas, it's a party
On this planet of flakes
Somebody take a picture
Before it's too late

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✨💎𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐊 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐘💎✨

⚡🌠 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒆
𝑹𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏… 🎶⚡

Today's post is dedicated to "𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐊 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐘" because I think it's an underrated but a brilliant 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 song, which was released as a 𝑩-𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 on the single "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑬𝒏𝒅"" on March 10, 2003, years later was included on the unofficial compilation "𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐 𝑩-𝑺𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒔: 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟔 - 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟔" on March 7, 2011 and finally, appeared on the digital compilation "𝑺𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝑩-𝑺𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒔" released on February 19, 2016.

Photo credit: JB Mondino / Edit by Rita

🎵"𝑫𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒚" was engineered by 𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒏, mixed by 𝑫𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒓𝒊 𝑻𝒊𝒌𝒐𝒗𝒐𝒊 along with 𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒏 and produced by 𝑫𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒓𝒊 𝑻𝒊𝒌𝒐𝒗𝒐𝒊.

As soon as you listen to the melody you can tell that this is one of 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's most melancholic songs. The lyrics seem to describe that the main character is really depressed, as he is no longer enthusiastic about the same things he used to like (𝑺𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒈𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝑺𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒕… 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒆…),

he also feels quite lonely (𝑷𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝑺𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒆…)

[ 𝘗𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳. 𝚂𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚎: 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚢.𝚌𝚘𝚖 ], and is reflecting on the dreadful things that take place every day in the world while people go on as if nothing is happening (𝑯𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒚 𝑵𝒖𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒆…).

According to the 𝑼𝒓𝒃𝒂𝒏 𝑫𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒚, '𝒕𝒐 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒉𝒊𝒎 (𝒚𝒐𝒖) 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒚' is a southern colloquial phrase that means "𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒏𝒌 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒚", so in conclusion, the character of the song prefers to be lied to rather than to see the harsh reality.

🎤 Another interesting thing in "𝑫𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒚" is the contrast of 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐's voice, since he recites the verses with a deeper tone and even his voice sounds a bit distorted while on the other hand, he sings the chorus with a more melodic tone.

🎧 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐲 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 🎵
https://bit.ly/3xcEQVP

Photo credit: Tracey Griffin

✨🎶🌠 𝐋𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 🌠🎶✨
𝑺𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒅𝒓𝒖𝒈𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒕
𝑺𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒕
𝑺𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒏
𝑯𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔

𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒆
𝑹𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏
𝑷𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒐𝒏𝒆
𝑺𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒆

𝑳𝒊𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆
𝑰𝒕 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒊𝒎
𝑻𝒐 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒚

𝑳𝒊𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆
𝑰𝒕 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆
𝑻𝒐 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒚

𝑯𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒚
𝑵𝒖𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒆
𝑱𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒐𝒔 𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒉 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅
𝑮𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒔𝒂𝒇𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅

𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕
𝑶𝒓𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒏 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕
𝑪𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒕
𝑫𝒐𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒋𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒑𝒐𝒕 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚

𝑳𝒊𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆
𝑰𝒕 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆
𝑻𝒐 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒚

𝑳𝒊𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆
𝑰𝒕 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆
𝑻𝒐 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒚

𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐, 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒚, 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐
𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐, 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒚, 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐
𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐, 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒚, 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐
𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐, 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒚

𝑳𝒊𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆
𝑰𝒕 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆
𝑻𝒐 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒚

𝑳𝒊𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆
𝑰𝒕 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆
𝑻𝒐 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒚
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🌛▪️ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆 𝕃𝕌𝕃𝕃𝔸𝔹𝕀𝔼𝕊 ℙ𝔸ℝ𝕋 𝕀𝕍.▪️🌜

💫𝐇𝐈 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒,💫
I am so glad that my lullaby series is so successful.. I'm enjoying the ride with you thanks to your feedback.
So let's continue!
I have some really tough choices for you today, I'm sure.
💎𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐬, 𝐮𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞.💎

Photo credit: Scarlet Page

The very first song is a beautiful and very sad ballad, which is available in two versions.

🎵🔹𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐃🔹🎵

🎶𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐎 🎶
https://bit.ly/…NAi
🎶𝐃𝐄𝐌𝐎 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 🎶
https://bit.ly/…DCO

This song was officially released as
𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁-𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 “𝐍𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐨𝐲” 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟕 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 „𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐁-𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟔-𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟔“.

🔹𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐃🔹 is a track which was written and produced by Brian. The song is actually older than Placebo itself, in an interview Brian said that he wrote and recorded it in 1993.

🎵🔹𝐋𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐒🔹🎵
You don't know me... And you never hold me
Like your little piece on the side
My mother told me... That you're never lonely
When you're laughing, all the time
Inside-out and outside-in
You bring eyesight to the blind
Crying, is a crime

Slowing down the metronome... Slowing down
Slowing down the metronome... Slowing down

You don't know me... And you never hold me
Like your little boy in blue
My father told me... That you're always lonely
When they're all laughing at you
Inside-out and outside-in
You bring jesus to the jew

Slowing down the metronome... Slowing down
Slowing down the metronome... Slowing down

You don't love me... And you never hold me
Like your little piece on the side
Inside-out and outside-in
You bring eyesight to the blind
~🔹~🔹~🔹~🔹~

Photo credit: Corinne Day

I feel a great sadness about this song. It's about deep human loneliness, but maybe also about the betrayal of someone the author loved very much.
...Maybe everyone around knows that the person is being cheated on by his lover... and that's why they laugh behind his back, how can he be so blind... “𝑴𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒎𝒆... 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒍𝒚... 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚'𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖...”

Brian's reference to religion from his early years is certainly reflected there - Jesus who brought sight to the blind, performed miracles...

Anyway, I see a reproach to parenting there - "𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒎𝒆... 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒎𝒆", “𝒎𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒎𝒆... 𝒎𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒎𝒆”, but also in the verse "𝑪𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒆" ...
Big boys, big girls don't cry...did your parents tell you that too? Don't complain and don't cry, you're big now. It's about a wounded soul who finds comfort nowhere, not with his love, not with his loved ones.
"𝑺𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒎𝒆... 𝑺𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏..."
A metronome is a thing that makes a regular rhythmic sound, used by musicians. Maybe it's a broken heart that feels completely useless in this world...

💫🔹𝗜 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟰 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲, 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺.🔹💫
~🔹~🔹~🔹~🔹~


💎So dear friends,
let's go to the second musical gem:💎

🎵🔹𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐃𝐒 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐌𝐄🔹🎵

🎶𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐎 🎶
https://bit.ly/…Vu4

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 (𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟕) 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐁-𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐒𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 (𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟑) 𝐚𝐬 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐁-𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬.

💗This is a song whose lyrics are so difficult for me that it is quite impossible to find the right meaning and very soon I decided that it is not even necessary...
...Because listening to Brian's voice over the sound of his passionate guitar is beyond all the meanings in the world.💗
Don't you think?

Unfortunately, this song, like the previous one, was never performed live.
💬🔹𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐪𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬:🔹
𝘖𝘬, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 «𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥𝘴 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘦»
𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍: Hmmm.... yes, but it's not a band song. ‘The clouds’ are basically based on a solo song. So, I'm not gonna stand on stage playing an acoustic guitar by myself.
𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵?
𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍: No, ‘cause we are a band. We all should be on stage.
(𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑎𝑡 𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑤𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑎𝑙 2004)

𝘚𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 "𝘌𝘺𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘥" 𝘢𝘯𝘥 "𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦" 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 - 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘢 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮?
𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍: Yeah maybe; but there should be a third one as good as the other two. These songs, I wrote and recorded them four years ago. They’re from the past!
(𝐿𝑎 𝑅𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑒 𝑑𝑢 𝑅𝑜𝑐𝑘, 𝐴𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡 14𝑡ℎ 1997)
~🔹~🔹~🔹~🔹~

Photo credit: Corinne Day

💎Well, now we come to today's last pearl.💎

𝐀 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐈'𝐦 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝟗𝟒 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬.
💗𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟗 – 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟏.💗

🎵🔹𝐌𝐘 𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐓 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐄🔹🎵

🎶𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐎 🎶
https://bit.ly/…KOi


𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥, 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰.
I will always be fascinated by the combination of human pain describing lost love with hunger for drugs and escape from reality.

The song is all the more heartbreaking if we connect the listening with the visual manifestation.
💔𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐇𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟏 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭.💔
🎬🔹 https://bit.ly/…pjB 🔹🎬


My Sweet Prince is a song about the end of two relationships that almost turned into tragedy in both cases. It's about one lover's broken heart and drug addiction - more specifically, heroin, as Brian has mentioned in many interviews.

There are many references in the song to the use of this drug („𝘔𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝙙𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙤𝙣 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺...“, „𝘔𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝙫𝙖𝙡𝙪𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥...“ , „𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝙁𝙞𝙭 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺...“ ), which Brian is simply brilliant at. But above all, the song conveys a truly lived pain that none of us would want to experience.
~🔹~🔹~🔹~🔹~

💬🔹𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝘆 𝗦𝘄𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲
.../***/ “These are words someone had smeared with lipstick on the wall of my house before doing something very stupid. They made a deep impression on me. My Sweet Prince is another song that wrote itself. It all happened at a time when someone very close to us was experiencing a personal tragedy. It was about our friend and my ex-girlfriend who had come close to death. It was very sad and hard to swallow."
(𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 (𝑁𝑂𝑁)𝑆𝐸𝐶𝑈𝑅𝐼𝑇𝑌 𝑍𝑂𝑁𝐸, 𝐵𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑛, 𝑀𝑎𝑦 2003)

.../***/ It was a very dark period of my life. I mean, and yeah, the song is essentially about a choice, about a breakdown between two romances. One with a person, and one with the ... with a substance. .../***/
And I’d never been responsible before for anyone’s attempted suicide and well, that was very difficult for me to deal with. That song, I just, well, it sort of vomited itself forward, it had to be written. It happened while we were demo-ing the second album and that song wrote itself about a week after the fact. Basically it really really affected us in a very big way, all of us." .../***/
(𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑀𝑜𝑙𝑘𝑜, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒)
~🔹~🔹~🔹~🔹~

Photo credit: David Tonge

𝐁𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 - 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞?
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝟏𝟐-𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐉𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟗.
As a fan completely devoted to the Placebo legacy, the director used three Placebo songs in the soundtrack: 𝐓𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭, 𝐇𝐊 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐃𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐨.
Here you can read what Jason himself writes about his film:
“𝘈𝘴 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘹𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘗𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘣𝘰 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘩𝘶𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦. 𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘯 𝘖𝘭𝘴𝘥𝘢𝘭’𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘹𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘓𝘎𝘉𝘛𝘘+ 𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘺 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘯𝘰𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘮 𝘔𝘺 𝘚𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘮. 𝘛𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘥𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘦, 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮!”

🎬🔹𝐏𝐥𝐨𝐭:🔹
Alcopops, VHS tapes, cigarettes, boys, MSN Messenger, Placebo - this is 2003. Set on the Isle of Wight, fragments of the director's own teenage video diaries collide with the fictional story of 15-year-old Tommy in this short film about a boy's search for connection in the advent of the internet age. Infatuated with his best friend's boyfriend and unable to truly reveal himself to anyone, Tommy feels an overwhelming sense of isolation on the small chalk island he calls home. Desperate to be seen, he logs on to family computer, clicks connect and opens MSN.

🎬🔹𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞, 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠:🔹🎬
https://bit.ly/…aL5


Dear soulmates, it was clear from the beginning that Placebo lullabies would reveal painful themes, often connected to our personal experiences.

Post by Marti

💫𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗲, 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟬.💫

🔷 "𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄" 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘 🔷

🔹 𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟒𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦 𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐛 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐬, 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟑𝟏, 𝟏𝟗𝟗𝟖.

Photo credits:  Neil Cooper, Unknown, Billy Chic cover / Edit by Laetitia

𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑭𝒊𝒍𝒎 𝑪𝒍𝒖𝒃 - 𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒕. 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐

🎥 https://bit.ly/2LybImg 🎵

🔹 𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑭𝒊𝒍𝒎 𝑪𝒍𝒖𝒃 is a rock band founded in London in 1995 by Michael Sheehy, Andrew Park, Laurence Ash and Alex Vald, and split in 1999. 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑺𝒐𝒎𝒆, 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒄 𝑬𝑷. Dream City Film Club, whose Michael Sheehy and Andrew Park are former band mates of 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝑯𝒆𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒕 in Breed, often toured with Placebo in their early days, without the same success.

🔹 The year 1997 was the springboard for Dream City Film Club. The band had the opportunity to go on a small tour in Europe where they followed Placebo.

🔹 They recorded their second album which was released in 1999 and was called 𝑰𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈, which inspired Placebo for the 12th track on the Placebo album Meds. A nice wink ! 😄

Photo credit: Karen Mason Blair

🔹 𝐴 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑐𝑘 𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒: 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑡𝑜 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑷𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒃𝒐𝒚 𝑡-𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑎 𝐷𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚 𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝐹𝑖𝑙𝑚 𝐶𝑙𝑢𝑏 𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑔.

𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝑪𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑭𝒊𝒍𝒎 𝑪𝒍𝒖𝒃 - 𝑷𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒃𝒐𝒚
🎥 https://bit.ly/3PzyVAx 🎵


𝘼 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙖𝙜𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙫𝙤𝙡𝙫𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢 𝘾𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙁𝙞𝙡𝙢 𝘾𝙡𝙪𝙗 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙚.
💬 They're friends of mine, in fact Steve was playing with Andy, the bass player, in Breed. The singer, Michael, wrote something and just asked me to come and sing. (Laughs.) I liked it, I got to do my Pj Harvey.
📍 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 - 𝙼𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚌 ! 𝚗°𝟸𝟹 - 𝙾𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟾


💬 We opened a couple of gigs for them, before they became famous, and that's how the idea came about... It was a bit cynical on our part. We thought: "Let's get this little chick to sing on our record, and maybe we'll sell a few more". I don't know if it totally backfired or not. I remember some reviewers were more interested in trashing Brian than the record itself.
📍 𝙼𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚎𝚕 𝚂𝚑𝚎𝚎𝚑𝚢 - 𝙳𝚎𝚜 𝚌𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚜 𝚎𝚝 𝚍𝚎𝚜 𝚖𝚊𝚞𝚡 𝚋𝚢 𝚂𝚎́𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚗 𝙼𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚞𝚍

Photo credit: Carole Epinette

📜 𝑳𝒀𝑹𝑰𝑪𝑺
𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮
𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦
𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦
𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦
𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩
𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘭
𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭

𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵
𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦
𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯
𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘯𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘶𝘴𝘦
𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘺
𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯
𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯

𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘶𝘯
𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘦
𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘥
𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘴
𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘥
𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺’𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵
𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦
𝘕𝘰𝘸 𝘐’𝘮 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦

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♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸ 𝐍𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐂 ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪

♪♫▪𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐩𝐢𝐜 is the eleventh track on the 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 album released on October 9, 2000 and is a song with a quiet, almost lullaby-like melody. 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 annotated this song before choosing the title as "𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝑫𝒓𝒖𝒈𝒔 𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝑩𝒊𝒈 𝑷𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘".

Photo credit: Stefan Malzkorn

🎥 𝙉𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙚𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙘 (𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙤 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣)
https://bit.ly/3pAp3Mn 🎵


♪♫▪ The title is inspired by the name of a disease, narcolepsy, which is a disease that manifests itself daily in bouts of sleep that can't be controlled.

♪♫▪ The song describes a relationship that is getting bogged down, where routine and contempt have set in, and from which it's necessary to regain control in order not to let things fall inexorably asleep or to realise that it is necessary to face things instead of remaining in a state of lethargy in a relationship that leads nowhere, where love is dead.

♪♫▪ Like 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐊, 𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐩𝐢𝐜 uses the metaphor of drugs to parallel the drowsy state in which the character finds him or herself and the love situation that is obviously coming to an end, and which the character doesn't realise, or doesn't want to realise.

♪♫▪ 𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐩𝐢𝐜 was first play at 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒁𝒐𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒄 𝒊𝒏 𝑶𝒙𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝑱𝒖𝒍𝒚 20𝒕𝒉, 2000 and was performed for 32 times during the Black Market Music tour. The video I am sharing with you today is from the concert at 𝑶𝒍𝒚𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒂 𝒊𝒏 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝑵𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 4𝒕𝒉, 2000, one of the concert I watched the most. 😊 💖

🌟 𝘽𝙍𝙄𝘼𝙉 𝘼𝘽𝙊𝙐𝙏 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙎𝙊𝙉𝙂
📜 Appearing at the tail-end of 2000’s experimental ‘Black Market Music’ album, ‘Narcoleptic’ uses the disorder as a metaphor for the stupor brought on by drug abuse, with a lackadaisical arrangement of lilting drums and meandering guitar suiting the mood perfectly. Here’s what Brian said “𝐷𝑟𝑢𝑔𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑏𝑖𝑔 𝑝𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑠𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑏𝑢𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒, 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔.”
✔️ 𝙶𝚒𝚐𝚠𝚒𝚜𝚎 - 𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝟸𝟿, 𝟸0𝟸𝟸

💬 When I first wrote down the tracklisting of the album, I wrote underneath each track a second title. They didn't make their way on to the album, but they were a summing up in one phrase of what those songs represent to me. And the one I wrote for "Narcoleptic" was "Love And Drugs Are One Big Pillow". Again, like "Special K", it explores the link between drugs and love. "Special K" is uppers and the rush of falling in love. "Narcoleptic" is more like downers and more like relationships, relationships that reach that point of familiarity breeding contempt.
✔️ 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘, 𝙼𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚍𝚢 𝙼𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚛, 𝟸0 𝚘𝚌𝚝𝚘𝚋𝚛𝚎 𝟸000

💬 It's a song about passing love... Drugs and love are one big pillow and they can make you forget about so many things and they can make you forget about living and put you into a somnambulist state, like sleep walking.”
✔️ 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 - 𝙳𝚎𝚜 𝚌𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚜 𝚎𝚝 𝚍𝚎𝚜 𝚖𝚊𝚞𝚡 𝚋𝚢 𝚂𝚎́𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚗 𝙼𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚞𝚍

Photo credit: Mark C. O'Flaherty

🌟 𝙇𝙔𝙍𝙄𝘾𝙎

𝘚𝘭𝘪𝘱 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘴
𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘦
𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘴, 𝘐 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦
𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘦

𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮
𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮

𝘊𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘴
𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘦
𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩, 𝘐 𝘴𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴
𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘦

𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮
𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮
𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮
𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮

𝘐𝘧 𝘸𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘮𝘰𝘳
𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘳
𝘐𝘧 𝘸𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘶𝘮𝘰𝘳
𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘳

𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮
𝘐𝘵 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮

𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬
𝘖𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘢 𝘸𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘬
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘶𝘱
𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬
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𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬
𝘖𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘢 𝘸𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘬
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𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬
𝘖𝘳 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘢 𝘸𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘬
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘶𝘱

𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬
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𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘤𝘬
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📜 ℙ𝕃𝔸ℂ𝔼𝔹𝕆'𝕊 𝕃𝕐ℝ𝕀ℂ𝕊 📜

🔸 Beyond the melodies, Placebo's songs are full of provocative, romantic, ambiguous, melancholic, subversive, tender, hopeful or anguished lyrics. The images and metaphors are often inspired by biblical symbols and figures, or by Brian's personal experiences, literature or current events. All this is conveyed in a poetry with tormented, captivating, ambivalent contours. As far as the writing is concerned, there is no denying that Brian has a certain talent and a certain skill ! All this undoubtedly contributes to the success the band has had throughout its career.

Brian has often said that writing requires discipline but is mostly cathartic for him.

🔸 Today, I want to share with you the Placebo lyrics that, for me, are the most significant, both in their turn of phrase and in their meaning.

Photo credit: Mads Perch / Edit by Laetitia

🎸 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙊𝙉𝙇𝙔 𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝘾𝘼𝙉 𝙍𝙀𝙇𝙔 𝙊𝙉 𝙄𝙎 𝙏𝙃𝘼𝙏 𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝘾𝘼𝙉'𝙏 𝙍𝙀𝙇𝙔 𝙊𝙉 𝘼𝙉𝙔𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙉𝙂 🔶 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗘

🔸 These are by far my favourite lyrics because they represent the naked truth. Relying only on yourself to achieve what you want and be what you want. I always have it in the back of my mind. It is also a way to protect myself from the various abuses (serious or not) that I might encounter in my life.

💬 It's one of Placebo's classic themes of what we explore. It's a song about individuality [...] and the metaphor of Plasticine as Play dough is, do not allow yourself to be moulded by society, find your own voice. Don't forget to be the way you are, because it's natural. Don't feel that simply because you do not conform to an archetype that there is essentially something wrong with you. Vive la différence !!
✔️ 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 - 𝚂𝚒𝚕𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚁𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚝 - 𝙸𝚜𝚜𝚞𝚎 #𝟷𝟻 (𝙰𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚕 - 𝙹𝚞𝚗𝚎 𝟸00𝟹)

🎵 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 (𝐋𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧) 🎵
🎥 https://bit.ly/3SGY275


🎸 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙒𝙊𝙍𝙇𝘿 𝙄𝙎 𝙍𝙐𝙉 𝘽𝙔 𝘾𝙇𝙊𝙒𝙉𝙎 𝙒𝙄𝙏𝙃 𝙏𝙍𝙄𝙂𝙂𝙀𝙍 𝙃𝘼𝙋𝙋𝙔 𝙃𝘼𝙉𝘿𝙎 🔶 𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗚𝗘𝗥 𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗬 𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗦

🔸 Although this song was inspired by the war in Iraq and the title inspired by a friend of Brian's, I think that the more time passes, the more I realise that this sentence is not current, but a reality that has lasted for centuries. Times change but the methods remain the same.

💬 Naturally the subject turned to the war in Iraq, which I had taken to the streets of London to protest against, and we all began to get angry. In his disarmingly heavy italian accent, Juri turned to me and said: "the world is run by clowns with trigger happy hands." A light went off in my head. The next morning as i sat on the Eurostar, nursing a hangover as heavy as a loaded gun, a wave of inspiration came over me, as it does, and I began to write, the lyrics to what was to become a song vomited themselves forward fully formed and remain unchanged to this day.

✔️ 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 - 𝙱𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚂𝚞𝚗 𝚁𝚎𝚍𝚞𝚡 𝙴𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 - 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟶.

🎵𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬 (𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐭 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟎) 🎵

🎥 https://bit.ly/3dmwJig

🔸 In response to these lyrics, I would add behind those of 𝐈.𝐊.𝐘.𝐖.𝐒: 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒓𝒑𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆 / 𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆

🔸 Being trigger-happy has terrible, irreversible consequences, but those in their "𝑖𝑣𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑠" don't care...

🎵𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐈 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 🎵

🎥 https://bit.ly/3SDU4fP

Photo credit: Jamie Beeden

🎸 𝙒𝙀 𝘾𝘼𝙉 𝘽𝙐𝙄𝙇𝘿 𝘼 𝙉𝙀𝙒 𝙏𝙊𝙈𝙊𝙍𝙍𝙊𝙒 𝙏𝙊𝘿𝘼𝙔 🔶 𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗔𝗞 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗨𝗘𝗦

🔸 Brian's favourite song from the Battle For The Sun album, these lyrics are a breath of fresh air in Placebo's entire repertoire, which tends to point to the flaws and foibles of the human spirit, as well as the malaise and unhappiness. These lyrics give me hope and confidence in the human race, but also give me courage on a more personal level, which would make me "𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒" 😉

📢 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎?

💬 Speak In Tongues. It starts off sounding like cocktail hour at the mental hospital, and half way through it becomes this really big stadium anthem. The hook of that song is the phrase that goes, 'we can build a better tomorrow today', and I think that kind of embodies the attitude behind this record.
✔️ 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 - 𝙾𝙺! 𝙼𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝙰𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚊 - 𝙹𝚞𝚗𝚎 𝟸00𝟿

💬 On this one it would be ‘Speak in Tongues’ because of the refrain ‘We can build a new tomorrow today’, which is essentially what the album is about: hope for a better tomorrow, for yourself.”
✔️ 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 - 𝙷𝚘𝚝 𝙿𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜 - 𝙳𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟸00𝟿

💬 I also really like the line: “We can build a new tomorrow, today,” from ‘Speak In Tongues’. I sincerely believe it’s a call to arms to build a more tolerant future. But the change has to start within ourselves first; we all have the choice to live our lives with more compassion and kindness. I see it as karma – the more you give selflessly, the more comes back your way.
✔️ 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 - 𝙿𝚊𝚌𝚑𝚊 𝙼𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚎 - 𝚂𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟺, 𝟸0𝟷𝟺

Photo credit: Pat Pope

🎸 𝙒𝙀𝙇𝙇 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙋𝙍𝙄𝙀𝙎𝙏 𝙄𝙎 𝘼𝙏 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙋𝙐𝙇𝙋𝙄𝙏 𝙏𝙀𝙇𝙇𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙈𝙀 𝙄'𝙈 𝙒𝙍𝙊𝙉𝙂 𝙏𝙀𝙇𝙇𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙈𝙀 𝙄'𝙈 𝙎𝙄𝘾𝙆𝙀𝙉𝙄𝙉𝙂 /𝙏𝙊 𝘽𝙀𝙇𝙄𝙀𝙑𝙀 𝙃𝙄𝙈 𝙄𝙎 𝙏𝙊 𝙁𝙊𝙍𝙁𝘼𝙄𝙏 𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙍𝙔𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙄 𝘼𝙈 𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙍𝙔𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙄'𝙇𝙇 𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙍 𝘽𝙀 🔶 𝗞𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗔𝗥𝗢𝗢 𝗗𝗜𝗘𝗗

🔸 A bit like Plasticine later on, these verses are a shout for independence and individuality. To be yourself without worrying about what others want you to be, to be yourself and to live your life unaffected by how society might look at you. When Brian said that Placebo is a band for outsiders by outsiders, I think these words are totally appropriate. It is society that makes people outsiders, not the other way around.

💬 Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.
✔️ 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘

🎵𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 - 𝐊𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐨 𝐃𝐢𝐞𝐝 🎵
🎥 https://bit.ly/3dnuCe3


🎸 𝘼 𝙃𝙐𝙂 𝙄𝙎 𝙅𝙐𝙎𝙏 𝘼𝙉𝙊𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙍 𝙒𝘼𝙔 𝙊𝙁 𝙃𝙄𝘿𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙔𝙊𝙐𝙍 𝙁𝘼𝘾𝙀 🔶 𝗛𝗨𝗚𝗭

🔸 I have to admit, these lyrics are some of my favourites as they were inspired by the Doctor Who series, and being a Whovian myself, the reference jumped out at me on first listen.

🎬 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐚 🎬
🎥 https://bit.ly/3zRxvLX

Photo credit: Alfred Steffen

🔸 But that's not the only reason... I must say that this is a technique I have used a lot in my life. When tears come to your eyes, there's nothing better than sticking your head on the shoulder of the person you're talking to... Just in case it goes unnoticed ! 😅

💬 Hugz for me fulfills part of the remit of what I wanted to do on this record, I wanted to talk about a kind of self-loathing which I've kind of touched on a lot in the past, but in terms of the sonics with Hugz, it very much reflects my reaction to what we've done before, our last tour, our last single, our last album, Hugz kind of epitomises the sort of the sonic brutality that I wanted to kind of inhabit on this record. And the initial inspiration comes from Doctor Who because it's a line that Peter Capaldi says, when he's hugging his companion, she wants a hug and so he gives her a hug, but he says it's just a way of hiding your face. And the first time I saw that episode of Doctor Who, I just went, OK, thank you, you know, there we go that's just perfect. I'm going to make a song out of that. A hug is just another way of hiding your face. It's that kind of duality that's interesting for me, you know, an act which is meant to be intimate also, it's about hiding yourself."
✔️ 𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚘𝚕𝚔𝚘 - 𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚊𝚌𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎.𝚌𝚘𝚖 - 𝟸𝟻.𝟶𝟹.𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟸.

🎵𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐇𝐮𝐠𝐳 🎵
🎥 https://bit.ly/3papbC2


🎸 𝘼𝙎 𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝙒𝘼𝙆𝙀 𝘿𝙊𝙀𝙎 𝙃𝙀 𝙎𝙈𝙊𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙍 𝙔𝙊𝙐 𝙄𝙉 𝙆𝙄𝙎𝙎𝙀𝙎 𝙇𝙊𝙉𝙂 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝙏𝙍𝙐𝙀 ? 𝙙𝙊𝙀𝙎 𝙃𝙀 𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙉 𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙉𝙆 𝙏𝙊 𝘽𝙊𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙍 ? 🔶 𝗘𝗫𝗜𝗧 𝗪𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗦

🔸 I know a lot of fans love that song and I understand that because a lot of them have been in that situation of lack, anger, extreme sadness.

🔸 For me, this song was liberating to the point that it changed my life for the better. Those lyrics freed my mind from the evils that imprisoned it. Goodbye guilt. Welcome happiness ! The exact opposite effect of the song's theme.

📢 𝑨𝒃𝒚𝒔𝒎𝒂𝒍 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒎𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒏 "𝑬𝒙𝒊𝒕 𝑾𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒔".

💬 In "Exit Wounds" we have already arrived at the next step. Here someone has been abandoned and is thinking about whether he wants to go on living in general. People see the album title "Loud like Love" and think "Aha, all right, love songs." I would like to stress that this is not the case. Or that it is the case in a different way. Love, for me, is not just about the initial rush of infatuation and the blissful, cosy feeling of companionship. Love can also be very violent, brutal and insane. Love can destroy everything and everyone, not least yourself. The new songs undoubtedly contain more drama than optimism.
✔️ 𝙳𝚎𝚛𝚆𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗 - 𝚂𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝟿,.𝟸0𝟷𝟹

🎵𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐄𝐱𝐢𝐭 𝐖𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬-𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐲 (𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟑) 🎵
🎥 https://bit.ly/3PeJ6KJ

 Photo credit: Gill Flett

🔸 I like very much this expression from 𝐴𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑛: "𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒍, 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒔". Placebo has often found the words I was missing. 💗

🔸 Many of their lyrics play an essential role in my life, sometimes being reminders or simply written in my life's story like a diary written by someone else.

🔸 There's also a commitment against dogma and world politics that Placebo appeals to. It's great to hear these kinds of words and ideas being circulated. Music and art are much more than entertainment or an external support to our inner self. 𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘭.

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🎶”𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗦” 🎶

This song is the opening track on Placebo's eight studio album “Never let me go”, released on March 25th 2022. It was actually also the song their work on that record started with in 2016. Brian and Stefan were in the studio and Brian programmed the beat on a drum machine. On this device he was able to change it and put it on to any orchestra instrument. “So I put the drum beat on a harp and I distorted it and put some delay on it. And then you've got that loop from 'Forever Chemicals' that opens the album, and it's kind of cool [...]”, Brian explained in an interview. Stefan summarized it as an example of a “happy accident that happened in the studio” (see quotes below).

Initially the song was planned to be about police brutality. Brian tried to put himself into the mind of somebody who had lost a loved one, but several people warned him to deal with this topic. Brian: “And I'm kind of glad they did because it forced me to go into sort of a more ambiguous territory with 'Forever Chemicals'. What it's actually about, I think, is that it is up to the listener” (Maniacs, March 25th 2022).
Stefan described the track as the key point of “Never let me go” and a song with a lot of emotion in it. In his opinion it's “a great way to start off the album”(Billboard Japan, April 2022).


“Forever Chemicals” was recorded at RAK Studios in London and produced by Adam Noble. It was written by Brian, Stefan and Steve Ludwin, who is also the co-writer of Placebo's “Ashtray heart” from the album “Battle for the sun” and “Hypnotized by Jane”, a song Brian and him wrote for the German band Cinema Bizarre. Both tracks were done together with American singer-songwriter Jordan Page on a vacatation in Nicaragua.


Interesting fact: Ludwin, a “semi-retired punk musician”, (Business Insider, 2021) from Connecticut who lives in London since the 80ies is not well-known for his music but (in)famous for injecting himself with potentially deadly snake venom. He does this since 30 years, first for the supposed anti-aging effect and then also for medical research. Sounds quite crazy, doesn't it?
𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦:
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Placebo at Bearded Theory 2022. Photo credit:Pete Connor

Another interesting fact is the origin of the song title. PFAS (Per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances) are often called Forever Chemicals because they hardly degrade in the natural environment and are very mobile in water, which means that they remain intact for a very long time and can be transported over long distances. PFAS are the most persistent synthetic chemicals and have been found in the blood and breastmilk of people and wildlife all around the world. The substances can be toxic.
Well, when I read the title “Forever Chemicals” that surely was not what came to mind first related to Placebo. But it perfectly fits with the theme of the album.


The shared live performance of the song was recorded at Milton Keynes, UK, on May 19th 2022. It was one of three shows that Placebo opened for My Chemical Romance (isn't the band name a strange and fitting coincidence too?) before they started their own current “Never let me go” tour.



📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗙𝗔𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗦” 📌
📢 “There was something about that loop which was a real statement of intent. It’s melodic and it’s catchy, but it’s also a bit brutal. It was a ‘start as you mean to go on’ moment for us.”
(Rolling Stone UK, February 1st 2022)


📢 “Well, 'Forever Chemicals' was probably the first track on the album that we started working on, and that's probably why it's the first. In around 2016, I was sat in my studio with Stef, on the iPad, I had this drum machine, and I quickly programmed the beat, just like that. Then I realised that you could take that beat with this drum machine and put it on to any instrument from an orchestra. So I put the drum beat on a harp and I distorted it and put some delay on it. And then you've got that loop from 'Forever Chemicals' that opens the album, and it's kind of cool because it was sort of slightly reminiscent of 'Infra-Red', but more brutal kind of a statement of intent sonically, for the record, to kind of start with that and 'Forever Chemicals' is one of the songs that I rewrote over and over and over again lyrically. It started off as a song about police brutality and I tried to put myself in the heart and soul of somebody who had lost someone, uh, who'd been murdered by the police, then as I spoke to more people I was I was kind of advised not really to go there and I wondered if I was going to be inviting a great deal of aggro into my life. And I'm kind of glad they did because it forced me to go into sort of a more ambiguous territory with 'Forever Chemicals'. What it's actually about, I think, is that it is up to the listener.”
(Maniacs, March 25th 2022)

Placebo at Bearded Theory 2022. Photo credit:Pete Connor

📌 𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗙𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 “𝗙𝗔𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗦” 📌
📢 “The song 'Forever Chemicals', with its harp loop and distortion, is an example of a happy accident that happened in the studio. Our album opens with this strange-sounding song to surprise the fans as they surprised us.”
(Moustique Magazine, March 25th 2022)


𝘞𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘦𝘺 𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮?
📢 “I would have to say "Forever Chemicals" at the beginning of the album. It was the first song we worked on for the album, and it starts out as a weird drum loop I had on my tablet, but I had a lot of trouble finishing it. It's a song with a lot of emotion and it's a great way to start off the album.”
(Billboard Japan, April 2022)


📢 “A lot of times things don't work the way they should work. You turn on a device and it doesn't sound like it used to, and sometimes you don't know why. Or you don't have the login, or things like that. On that track the sound that opens the song was at first a drum machine, but somehow it changed to the sound of a harp and that really caught our attention and we thought it was a much more interesting sound. So we put it on a distortion machine (you know a lot of times the industrial sound comes from distortion, from a signal that's too hot and too saturated), because we've always really liked that kind of sound and our guitars are often distorted. Thus, that harp seemed to us the perfect way to start the album. We also like, speaking of equipment, to put together things that shouldn't be connected in principle (laughs). For example, a pedal board that goes to a guitar, but instead of putting everything in the right order we put it backwards. Or plugging a keyboard directly into the speaker. That kind of experimentation has always pleased us. I think since the third album we started using the studio more as part of the process of making an album.”
(Mondo Sonoro, April 2022)

Placebo at Bearded Theory 2022. Photo credit:Pete Connor

📜 𝗟𝗬𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗦
The memory drugs make memory snow
I think but I forget
My imagination doesn't know where to go
So it goes to sleep instead


The memory tapes of memory fucking
Fill me with regret
Now my memory shapes forgot their own names
And I can't get out of bed, shit


My memory body, my memory skin
I wanna kiss your pretty face
The memory drugs are a discipline
So I can know and keep my place


And it's all good, when nothing matters
It's all good, when no one cares
It's all good, when I feel nothing
It's all good, when I'm not there


And with friends like you (oh), who needs enemies?
And with friends like you (oh), who needs enemies?
With friends like you (oh), who needs enemies?
Friends like you


And it's all good, when nothing matters
It's all good, when no one cares
It's all good, when I feel nothing
It's all good, when I'm not there

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