| Placebo – Bosco Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Steven Forrest said in an interview: "It’s more or less about a failed relationship" Forrest revealed that “Bosco” was actually a working title that came from a plugin, like a pedal, which touring member Bill Lloyd had brought. “The song has got much more depth; so it’s kind of fun because the song gave the word a meaning.” Also, from a Stefan Olsdal interview: "For me, the song that has a special place in my heart is ‘Bosco’. I remember the time that we wrote that song and it was in a very early stages of the album. I wrote the music and Brian was “that is very beautiful. I have to write something that matches that.” So when he came in that day he said “Stef, I written the lyrics and let me know what you think?” And he sang that song and I felt like my heart has been crushed, In a good way. Bosco is melancholic and beautiful at the same time. I think it’s that fine line about being in a dark place or sort of tackling that dark side of our emotions but doing it in a poetic way. And it’s about accepting those are the kind of feelings we all experience and rather than trying to shut them out by some form of substance or blocking them out with denial, it just tells you to let yourself to live through the process and moment. I think lyrics do that for him (Brian) as well. It’s a way for him to open up." |
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| Placebo – Too Many Friends Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Brian Molko explains in an interview: "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? 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." |
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| Placebo – Loud Like Love Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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My first impression was that it's about children, too, but some lines don't fit in. Like "For all of our youth, we have craved them" - young people normally don't crave children... Anyway, I think it's the most optimistic Placebo song ever :) |
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| Placebo – Too Many Friends Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The song may be about some abstract person, or Brian himself. He is sick of this modern social networks thing and having lots of online friends that he will never meet and such "friendships" being meaningless compared to the real thing. But the real thing lost it meaning too, since people prefer to stare into their phones instead of communicating in real life. With such people around him and useless virtual friends, he feels lonely ("The applications are to blame For all my sorrow and my pain And feeling so alone") Seems more likely to me that Brian is singing about himself, this way "my computer thinks I'm gay" fits in, since he surely reads such opinions about himself online. Also, a rock star is more likely to have a home near Champs-Elysees than just some abstract guy :) |
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