⭐🌠𝐓𝐎𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐒 𝟗𝐓𝐇 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘🌠⭐

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Placebo’s first single from their seventh studio album 𝑳𝒐𝒖𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 was released 9 years ago today, on August 23, 2013, on 7” 𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒚𝒍 in Europe and 𝑪𝑫 in only Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Although, it was already available as a digital download since 9 July 2013.

𝐓𝐨𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 (𝐀𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧)
 ➡️ https://bit.ly/3oBv4If

⭐️ Side B on the vinyl and the second track on CD is an instrumental Outro.
𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐨
➡️ https://bit.ly/3Sa067z

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The single was recorded at 𝑹𝑨𝑲 𝑺𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒐𝒔, 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎 and 𝑨𝒊𝒓 𝑺𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒐𝒔, mastered at 𝟑𝟔𝟎 𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈, mixed at North Seven Studios, London.

⭐️ 𝐓𝐎𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐒 seemed to be a reflection of Brian’s not very positive attitude towards social media… but the real meaning is way deeper, of course.
𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆 “𝑻𝒐𝒐 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝑭𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔” 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒎𝒔 𝒂 𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂…

📢 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: "Too Many Friends" is most definitely not a rallying cry against social media. It is a small story about social alienation. I do worry, however, that technology is fast replacing religion as the opium for the people. But we cannot blame the technology itself—people are the problem. After all, guns don't kill people, but people do.
(𝐵𝐾, 𝐴𝑢𝑔'13)

📢 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: “Too Many Friends is based on real events. One day I was at my computer – and I don’t know what I typed into Google… what dodgy porn I was watching… and all of sudden my computer started advertising to me like, you know, I was a gay man into the fetish thing. And I remember saying to myself, ‘My computer thinks I’m gay today’ – what a ridiculous line to start a song (laughs). Around the same time, some friends of mine who use social media, and I should say that I don’t myself because I have enough trouble keeping up with my real friends, said they had to stop taking friend requests because they had too many friends. I started thinking ‘How can we ever have too many friends? Then I wondered how many ‘real’ friends do I actually have and how is the virtual world humans are creating affecting the way we interact with each other?

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📢 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: “Is it creating a new society founded on togetherness or is it simply creating a new form of social alienation? I think it’s very dangerous. People don’t have to communicate face to face anymore – you can do it from behind a screen. You no longer have to have the courage of your convictions – you don’t have to justify what you feel and what you really mean. The virtual world creates an amazing platform for the spineless. It’s both a fascinating and dangerous proposition to consider.”
(𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐, 𝑆𝑒𝑝'13)

📢 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: "I'm quite fascinated with technology. I don't social network – I have a hard enough time keeping up with friends in the physical world. I'm also very aware of the addictive nature of the relationship and the infinite possibilities that present themselves. I'm asking [in the song], is that real or is that an illusion? As someone who's had addictions in the past, it may not be the healthiest thing for me to do. I see all the possibilities."
(𝑌𝑎ℎ𝑜𝑜 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑐, 𝑆𝑒𝑝'13)

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𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐓𝐨𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 (𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐑𝐀𝐊 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨𝐬)
➡️ https://bit.ly/3zI7JuT

📢 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: We thought the self-titled track [Loud Like Love] was probably the most Placebo-ish track. So, we decided to take a little risk and start the promo with something different. To start the campaign with piano notes. […]

… 𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠, 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐬 𝐄𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐞́𝐞𝐬. 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐬 𝐄𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐞́𝐞𝐬?
📢 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: I was looking for something that rhymed with 'gay', that wasn't 'way', 'say', 'play'. So, the Champs Elysées, why not! The French will love it [laughs]
(𝑃𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑏𝑜 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑇𝑟𝑒̀𝑠 𝑇𝑟𝑒̀𝑠 𝑃𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒́𝑒, 𝑅𝑇𝐿, 2013)

⭐️ 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐂 𝐕𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐎 for 𝐓𝐎𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐒, premiered on YouTube on August 9th, 2013, presents a "detective case" regarding a series of events occurring during a pool party. It’s directed by 𝑺𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑲𝒆𝒔𝒉 (𝑺𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑲𝒆𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒓𝒛) and was shot in Los Angeles. American transgressive novelist 𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒕 𝑬𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒏 𝑬𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒔 provides a voiceover in the video as a narrator.
“I've been a fan of his since my teenage years, so it's thrilling to be in cahoots with him,” Brian said in the interview with 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 in August 2013.

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𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 - 𝐓𝐨𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 (𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨)
➡️ https://bit.ly/3be4npX

⭐️ I guess, you’ve noticed that in the video, the phone takes quite a significant part in the sequence of events and is labeled as a “probable trigger for reaction” of attack…
𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 talks about the song and the video in the interview he did with 𝑩𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒘𝒂𝒈𝒐𝒏.𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒂.

𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕 𝑬𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒏 𝑬𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 ‘𝑻𝒐𝒐 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝑭𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔’ 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐?
📢 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: We didn’t actually meet him because of the way these things work, as everyone is really busy, and I think he’s really busy with his new film called The Canyon. The director lives in LA, and Bret Easton lives in New York, and we live in London. So, we flew to LA to film the video with Saman Keshavarz the director, and while we were there, he brought up the idea of having Bret Easton narrate the video and we loved the idea. But by that time, we were on the way back from LA to London, so we never got to meet him but we were very happy to have him on it.

𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑺𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑲𝒆𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒓𝒛?
📢 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: We have seen a few videos he had done previously and that’s why we wanted to work with him. When you work with someone, it’s basically striking a balance between letting him do whatever the hell he wants because you love his work but also to try and steer it into some direction of what we feel comfortable with. It is a collaboration, he would provide ideas and we would say we’re not every comfortable looking like 50 year olds at a barbeque so could you change that a bit? It’s kind of like striking a balance that we feel happy with and at the same time not reining him in. It is insane and I’m still looking at it and going fucking hell. Are you mad? Are you absolutely insane?

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𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂 𝒃𝒊𝒕?
📢 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: I don’t think it’s a literate representation of the song, I think they work on parallel universe. They have certain things in common which are technology and social media and the kind of effect it has on our lives and there’s a certain kind of miscommunication. Like the song is alluding you to, there’s a whole thing about people being isolated but having more friends but these friends are virtual. So, are you closer to the 500 virtual friends you have than the people you sit with having one to one conversation? I think it is dealing with what social media is doing to us.

𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕’𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐?
📢 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧: To me, I know people have different ideas about this. I think it’s very much about what actually happened. Because between you and me, we can see that something happened. But your reality is going to be different from mine and you’re going to think that what you saw is what happened. For me, I think the “assailant” was so high that he was after the sugar rush that he reached out for gummy bear that was placed there by accident. He was obviously too high to place the gummy bear there himself.
(𝐵𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑤𝑎𝑔𝑜𝑛.𝑎𝑠𝑖𝑎, 𝐴𝑢𝑔𝑢𝑠𝑡 30, 2013)

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⭐️ No doubt, the song stays more than relevant NOWADAYS. Brian keeps reflecting on the way social media influence people as a society and every single one of us.

𝑰𝒏 𝑻𝒐𝒐 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝑭𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒂𝒍𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒎𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒂 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒅𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅, 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒆? 𝑰𝒕 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒏𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 “𝒘𝒐𝒏” 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚.
📢 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧: For me, it’s more about seduction, about how we’re seduced by technology and are willing to give away all our personal information to giant corporations and allow them to earn money. And what do we get in return?
We were promised a better future with more connection between people but I’m not sure that’s what happened. Any sociologist or phycologist can tell you that rather the opposite has happened: we’re more disconnected and atomized than we were before.
What is the result of having all these virtual communities and what effects do they have on communities that exist in real world? Are virtual communities more important than real communities for us today? Is virtual world more important that
(𝑅𝑢𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑛.362, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 2022)

⭐️ 𝐓𝐎𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐒 has been performed live very often since its release and now, the song is part of 𝑵𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑳𝒆𝒕 𝑴𝒆 𝑮𝒐 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒓.

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♦️ANNIVERSARY: TOO MANY FRIENDS♦️

Today we celebrate the 𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒓𝒚 of the first single "𝑻𝒐𝒐 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝑭𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔" from 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒃𝒐's seventh album "𝑳𝒐𝒖𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆", which was officially released on August 23, 2013 as a 𝑳𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝑬𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒚𝒍 in Europe, as well as a 𝑪𝑫 only available in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
The song was recorded at 𝑹𝑨𝑲, 𝑨𝒊𝒓
and 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎 𝑺𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒐𝒔, mastered at 𝟑𝟔𝟎 𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈, produced, mixed and engineered by 𝑨𝒅𝒂𝒎 𝑵𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆 and credits of writing include 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑴𝒐𝒍𝒌𝒐, 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝑶𝒍𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒍, 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕 and 𝑩𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝑳𝒍𝒐𝒚𝒅.

 Photo Credit: Single cover, /Kevin Westenberg / Edit by Rita

🎬 𝐓𝐨𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 (𝐀𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧) 
https://youtu.be/p21YfobjaVA

💿 𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐨 
https://youtu.be/2ftK8NooN9E


𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗠𝗢𝗟𝗞𝗢 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗢𝗢 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗬 𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗦 
𝐋𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞. 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞? 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐭, 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭!
🎤 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐨: Thank you very much! We are very grateful. We wanted to do something different.

𝐓𝐨𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬, 𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐭.
🎤 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 : We thought the self-titled track was probably the most Placebo-ish track. So we decided to take a little risk and start the promo with something different. To start the campaign with piano notes.

𝐘𝐞𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐢𝐭. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐩𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐲…
🎤 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 : When you think 'Placebo', you think 'guitar'. We didn't want to confuse the genres but to create a little bit of interest with something different. To take a little risk. That's what we did and it worked out really well actually.

𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥. 𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠, 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐬 𝐄𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐞́𝐞𝐬. 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐬 𝐄𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐞́𝐞𝐬?
🎤 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 : I was looking for something that rhymed with 'gay', that wasn't 'way', 'say', 'play'. So the Champs Elysées, why not! The French will love it [laughs]

𝐈𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞, 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤. 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥.
🎤 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 : Merci.
𝙿𝚕𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚋𝚘 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠 𝚃𝚛𝚎́𝚜 𝚃𝚛𝚎́𝚜 𝙿𝚛𝚒𝚟𝚎́𝚎 𝚁𝚃𝙻, 𝟸𝟶𝟷𝟹.

Photo credit: Screenshots from the video / edit by Silke

📘 𝐋𝐲𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 
My computer thinks I'm gay
I threw that piece of junk away
On the Champs-Elysées
As I was walking home
This is my last communique
Down the superhighway
All that I have left to say
In a single tome

I got too many friends
Too many people that I'll never meet
And I'll never be there for
I'll never be there for
'Cause I'll never be there

If I could give it all away
Will it come back to me someday?
Like a needle in the hay or an expensive stone
But I got a reason to declaim
The applications are to blame
For all my sorrow and my pain
Of feeling so alone

I got too many friends
Too many people that I'll never meet
And I'll never be there for
I'll never be there for
'Cause I'll never be there

My computer thinks I'm gay
What's the difference anyway
When all the people do all day
Is stare into a phone

I got too many friends
Too many people that I'll never meet
And I'll never be there for
I'll never be there for
'Cause I'll never be there

Too many friends
Too many people that I'll never meet
And I'll never be there for
I'll never be there for
'Cause I'll never be there
I'll never be there.


 𝑬𝒙𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒑𝒕 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒚 𝑳𝒂𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒂 𝑬𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒂.
𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒆: https://bit.ly/3rHYnJC

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𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬: 𝗧𝗢𝗢 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗬 𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗦

”𝐓𝐎𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐒” from the album “Loud like love” was made available as download eight years ago today on 9th of July 2013. On August 23rd it was also released as vinyl in Europe and additional as CD in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. It peaked no. 14 in the German Singles Chart.

The song was recorded at RAK, Air and Strongroom Studios, all located in London. Adam Noble was responsible for producing, engineering and mixing.

🎬 𝗧𝗢𝗢 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗬 𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗦 – 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢
🎵 http://bit.ly/2EWek89 🎵

Photo credit: Screenshots from the video, edit by Silke

The lyrics raise the question of whether these new social network sites are actually bringing people closer together or making people more distant from each other. ”Too many friends” is based on a real event that happened in Brian's life (see quotes below). It had driven him to the thoughts of what a friendship really means these days: “This song is about alienation, false promises that are carried through the social networks. It is responsible for solidarity but also for the new form of loneliness” (Rock & Pop Czech Republic, November 2013).

Placebo shot the official music clip with filmmaker Saman Kesh in Los Angeles. American author Bret Easton Ellis (“American Psycho”, “Less than zero”) provides a voiceover as a narrator. Brian said that he felt it was “very appropriate, considering how much Bret tweets and how active he is on social media. It fitted in really well (Diffuser, October 2013). The video presents a “detective case” regarding a series of events occuring during a pool party.

🎬 𝗠𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢
👀 http://bit.ly/2WS7pa5

Photo credit: Joseph Llaned

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗧 𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗡 𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗦 📌
The American author, screenwriter and director was born on March 7th 1964. He is most (in)famous for “American Psycho“, which was said to be one of the most disturbing books ever written when it was published in 1991. It became cult, especially after its movie adaption in 2000.
Ellis' first novel “Less than zero“ was released in 1985. It is a story about disaffected, rich teenagers in Los Angeles. One of the its main characters, a heroin addict named Julian, was supposedly the inspiration for the Placebo song “Julien“.
Other controversal novels by Ellis are “The rules of attraction“ and “Lunar Park“. His latest work “Imperial bedroom“ is a sequel to his first book “Less than zero“.


📌 𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗙𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗩𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗢 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗣 📌
📢 ”We didn’t actually meet Bret Easton Ellis because of the way these things work, as everyone is really busy and I think he’s really busy with his new film called The Canyon. The director lives in LA, and Bret Easton lives in New York and we live in London. So we flew to LA to film the video with Saman Keshavarz the director, and while we were there, he brought up the idea of having Bret Easton narrate the video and we loved the idea. But by that time we were on the way back from LA to London, so we never got to meet him but we were very happy to have him on it.”
(Bandwagon, August 2013)

📌 𝗕𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗢𝗡 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗧 𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗡 𝗘𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗦 📌
📢 “We felt that it was very appropriate, considering how much he tweets and how active he is on social media. It fitted in really well. But also, for me, I was very excited about the fact that he would be involved with Placebo in any way. When I was a teenager, I read his first two books, “The Rules Of Attraction“ and “Less Than Zero.“ They had a big impact on me. He sort of captured a kind of lost-at-sea nihilism that was present in the ‘80s. Just from a fan’s point of view, it was a very attractive project for me. I am genuinely a fan.“
(Diffuser, October 2013)

Photo credit: Joseph Llanes

📌 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗢𝗡 “𝗧𝗢𝗢 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗬 𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗦“ 📌
📢 "'Too many friends' is most definitely not a rallying cry against social media. It is a small story about social alienation. I do worry, however, that technology is fast replacing religion as the opium of the people. But we cannot blame the technology itself – people are the problem. After all, guns don't kill people, but people do.”
(Brian, BK, August 22nd 2013)

📢 ”I think musically that song is a bit of a celebration of our love of big anthemic eighties pop, like ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’. We kind of went all out there musically for that track. And I think in terms of lyrical subject, it definitely touches upon the effect of technology and on the way that we interact. It’s a phenomenon that’s occurring right now and we’re just asking a few questions like, ‘is it actually bringing people closer together? Creating a lot of cyber friends – what does that actually mean? Does it mean that you have more friends or does it mean you’re creating some kind of virtual existence?’”
(Stefan, Hunger, August 8th 2013)

📢 ”I don’t remember what I was googling but one day my computer started to attack me with links as I was some kind of a very active member of a community of gays, fetishists or what else. „Wow, my computer thinks I’m gay!“ I was thinking. And immediately I thought that it could be an awesome slogan for Placebo. Our relationships with technology have come to a very personal level... That exact week, few of my friends – to sort it out, not I, for me the social networks are still an unknown – were trying to refuse the ‚friend requests‘ of people who were trying to be the friends with them on the Internet. Simply they have had too many of them already. And I asked „How can you have that many friends?“ And I had started to count how many friends do I have. I mean the real friends, and I can say that there wasn’t any number close to 500 or 1000. It had driven me to the thoughts of what a friendship really means these days and how much the perception of the interpersonal relationships has changed. This song is about alienation, false promises that are carried through the social networks. It is responsible for solidarity but also for the new form of loneliness.”
(Brian, Rock & Pop Czech Republic, November 2013)

📢 “'Too many friends' is based on real events. One day I was at my computer – and I don't know what I typed into Google… what dodgy porn I was watching… and all of sudden my computer started advertising to me. Like, you know, I was a gay man into the fetish thing. And I remember saying to myself, 'My computer thinks I'm gay today' – what a ridiculous line to start a song. (laughs)
(Brian, The Music, September 2013)

📢 ''Some friends had said they'd stopped accepting friends on social networks because they had too many. And I thought, how is it possible to have too many friends, and how many do I have in the real world and what is the nature of friendship today now that people spend so much time communicating with people that they've never met in cyberspace? So I put the two ideas together and that was how I came up with the song.''
(Brian, Bangkok Post, August 18th 2013)

📢 ”I was aware of the fact that it would probably polarize opinions quite a bit. I’ve never shyed away from doing that in the past. At the time, I thought, “Do I have the courage to do this?,” because it is so brazen that people are either gonna love it, get it or hate it. Do I still have the courage to do that, almost 20 years down the line? At the end of the day, I feel that to a great degree, fortune favors the brave, and I mustered up the courage to just go for it.”
(Brian, Pure Volume, September 12th 2013)

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𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎 & 𝐉𝐄𝐒𝐂𝐀 𝐇𝐎𝐎𝐏: 𝐓𝐎𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐒 𝐚𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 & 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 𝐨𝐧 𝐀-𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤

Dear soulmates,
It’s not the first time when I’m back to a pretty much remarkable 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐛𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝟓 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐘𝐂. After not playing in the States for six years, they wanted their two only US shows in October 2013 to be really special.
This time, Placebo’s choice of the support artist wasn’t obvious enough.

⭐️𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚 "𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚" 𝐇𝐨𝐨𝐩 (born April 21, 1975, in California) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, who writes and performs in diverse musical styles. She has released five studio albums of her own, as well as live, acoustic and dual albums with others.
Hoop's style has been characterized as largely experimental with folk, rock, and electronic influences. Her early mentor, Tom Waits, described it as, "like a four-sided coin. She is an old soul, like a black pearl, a good witch or a red moon. Her music is like going swimming in a lake at night".

But we’re rather interested in what 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 thinks of her, don’t we, soulmates?😉
Just a few days later after Placebo were back to London from the US Brian started his three-part program 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒊𝒙𝒕𝒂𝒑𝒆 on British radio station XFM. Every Sunday evening, for an hour, he shared his favourite tracks from different artists and talked about them. About Jesca Hoop, Brian said that she’s “𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅, 𝑰 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒅𝒎𝒊𝒕, 𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒆, 𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒔.”

So now, before you’re going to watch the video I’m sharing with you tonight, please go and listen to this very song, an acoustic version of 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐜 𝐈𝐧 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧, which Brian chose to play on the radio as his favoutite by Jesca Hoop.
🎶 https://bit.ly/2OrtZUw
If you want some more, try this one…
𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚 𝐇𝐨𝐨𝐩 - 𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐨𝐧𝐬)
🎶 https://bit.ly/3tW7OpQ

✨But back to 𝐍𝐘𝐂 𝐨𝐧 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟓𝐭𝐡, 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟑: some hours before Placebo took the stage at Terminal 5 they performed an 𝐚𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐎𝐎 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐒 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐚 𝐇𝐨𝐨𝐩 and sat down for an 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 on the music program 𝑨-𝑺𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒔.
You probably can’t hear the whole beauty of Jesca Hoop’s voice while she’s doing backing vocals but you can definitely appreciate warm and charming atmosphere of this performance, as well as notice genuine respect between Brian and Jessica.

Placebo at Terminal 5 in 2013. Photo credit: Artistree.fm

📍Jon Chattman from A-Sides, who interviewed Placebo, made a great 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 to the chat.
📢"Music bloggers often fall into the trap of labeling artists or jamming them into a genre they have no business being in. In the end, the game of band word association proves pointless and ring false. Readers (and music lovers) are more sophisticated then given credit for. I pride myself in not going there, but for those that do, rockers Placebo make it nearly impossible to do so. Since they debuted, the stellar UK band have switched up their sound but keep it rocking throughout the journey with their signature sound and sharp-as-a-machete lyrics. Last month, the trio dropped their seventh album entitled Loud Like Love. It’s their first new album in four years, and it’s another ear murderer. Hours before they took the stage at Terminal 5 in NYC on Oct. 15, Brian Molko, Stefan Olsdal, and Steve Forrest performed a track off the album (with Jesca Hoop) and sat down for a brief interview on A-Sides. During the course of the chat, the band chatted about their new record, a recent YouTube “LOUD LIKE LOVE TV” show they put on, and thanks to this guy (points to self), Miley Cyrus."
(thisisasides.com)
📍And here’s my 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 for you.

✨𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐂𝐄𝐁𝐎: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀-𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐒 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖✨
𝑳𝒐𝒖𝒅 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝑻𝑽 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈! 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕?
📢𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍: We wish that we could take credit for the idea but the idea was trapped up by two younger guys who work at our management, so… It was born out of this idea kind of ’how could you play in every country that you’re releasing an album, how could you show this’. Maybe back ten years ago, certainly 20 years ago when we started, it would be impossible at all. So they trapped up this idea, and it’s just kind of snowballed, and snowballed, and snowballed to what was gonna be ambitious portrays. We ended up linking up to Tokyo and LA and London.

𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒃𝒖𝒎 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒈𝒐?
📢𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍: People are buying less records than they used to! I guess the latest way that people are consuming music is streaming services, and it’s a big debate at the moment whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing, I don’t know.

Placebo at Terminal 5 in 2013. Photo credit unknown

𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑲𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑩𝒖𝒔𝒉 𝑪𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈! 𝑨𝒏𝒚 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔? 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒔 𝑴𝒊𝒍𝒆𝒚 𝑪𝒚𝒓𝒖𝒔’ “𝑾𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑩𝒂𝒍𝒍”?
📢𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍: I don’t think you could really compare those two artists, certainly we could not compare Miley Cyrus to Kate Bush at all (smiling). We grew up listening to music in the 80s. Pop music in the 80s had real kind of avant-garde edge to it, you know… If you listen to Ashes to Ashes by David Bowie or Kate Bush’s work or Peter Gabriel’s work, it’s all mainstream pop music but it was really quite weird and kooky and quite avant-garde. And since … it’s sort of come from really powerful thing into all these horrible TV shows around the world to behold an idea what pop music is and what it should be, changed from actually took this into being kind of karaoke. I think in a lot of people’s minds pop music equiles a specific way of singing, that’s either singing like a boy-band or like Mariah Carey, so that’s a real shame.

𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒏’𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆?
📢𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍: That’s a great deal! You have a very dysfunctional relationship to out back catalogue. Normally, the show that we perform live at any given time is pretty much the songs that we can bear to play over that specific time when you come to see us. That’s simply because there’re a lot of songs you just have no emotional connection to anymore, and often they are your most commercially successful. But we feel that to play them, even if the fans may want them, would be a mechanical act, it wouldn’t be a truthful act, we would feel like we’re lying. We need to have an emotional connection to what we’re performing otherwise it just feels wrong.

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Placebo - Loud Like Love

Falta muy poco para el nuevo album de Placebo que se llamará "Loud Like Love".
Después de tantos años esperando a un nuevo disco, todos los fans y amantes de la banda del flamante cantante Brian Molko están contando los días!



Para calentar motores os quiero dejar una entrevista con Brian.
Es preciosa. Como siempre sale guapísimo, dice cosas muy interesantes y sobre todo me encanta la forma de expresar que tiene tan elegante y culto...siempre con un toque muy sexy!

A parte os dejaré una chispa del nuevo vídeo clip "Too Many Friends".


A disfrutar !!!!

Placebo - Too many friends

No sé si se puede tener demasiados amigos "Too many friends", pero lo que si sé es que Placebo siempre me sorprenden, enamoran y tanto la melodía como la letra de la canción me encantan. Adoro a Brian Molko &Company.

Aquí tenemos ‘Too Many Friends’ como primer single de su nuevo álbum, Loud Like Love, que estará en el mercado el próximo 16 de septiembre.

Los títulos del nuevo disco y el teaser de Loud Like Love

1. Loud Like Love

2. Scene Of The Crime

3. Too Many Friends

4. Hold On To Me

5. Rob The Bank

6. A Million Little Pieces

7. Exit Wounds

8. Purify

9. Begin The End

10. Bosco

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