Placebo: Brian interview article from Sziguet

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http://recorder.blog.hu/2014/08/19/_azt_uzenem_tarlosnak_hogy_sajnalom_ot_brian_molko_placebo_-interju

My message for Tarlos is that I feel sorry for him! -

Brian Molko (Placebo) interview

Well, your band does exist now for 20 years. Your music and also you personally have changed a lot. You have stopped drugs and have got a wonderful son. Do you think if the Brian 20 years ago could be proud of the Brian from nowadays?

Brian Molko: I really hope so. But I believe it is bad looking back. There is a good quote which says: yesterday is the past, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift. I life for the nowadays. It isn’t necessary to look back if the today is good and the future too.

So are you happy?

Brian Molko: Happiness is relative. I am happier.

I’ve seen you have a tattoo on your wrist, but I thought you are afraid of it.

Brian Molko: No, I never had such a phobia. I only fear the height. It is my first tattoo and for sure not the last.

What are you planning?

Brian Molko: I really like tattoos with something written. [like a quote or something] so I think the next is coming soon.

The band has three very different personalities. As you said: Stefan is the closed and rigid, Steve the funny and very happy, and yourself are the emotional one in the band. How do you get on with each other?

Brian Molko: A band is like a family: you love each other, but you don't really know why you do this. We are very different but we understand and feel how precious the things are, we create together. So, we stopped being individualties and formed something close together.

And what is it in what you are similar?

Brian Molko: (he is thinking a long time) Maybe our love for art. I don't speak only about music, also about every kind of art, like painting for example. It doesn't matter if it’s good or not that good, if it’s famous or not. That it’s what us keeps us together.

Let's talk about the new album. The lyrics are very strong, you've created characters. Do you also think that your writing skills have improved?

Brian Molko: Yes, That's what I feel. Well, I would even say I’m getting better with the writing stories! This is a paradox a thing. As more you write stories, create more realistic characters, the more you have to be honest with yourself. In the past didn't really cared about what I've written. But now I try to focus more on the audience, what do they feel, what touches them. In this way I can connect more to the audience by just simply telling my opinion in different point of views. As a narrator you can better see through the things, you are more open and more honest. The writer always is the "eye" of the story.

In an interview in the past you said each song is a separate story. What keeps them together?

Brian Molko: As I started writing Loud Like Love songs it wouldn't have been very "Placebo-like". Each song is a love song, but that doesn't matter. In public we just didn't want to sound like as a Justin Bieber song. As I said, I needed a theme that touches everybody. And what is left beside politics? Love. And that's so much more important.

To each song there was a video, either official or made by an alternative director. Why was this necessary?

Brian Molko: The record label wanted it. Today no one buys music that's a fact. But people have to understand that music isn't free. That's the point of capitalism. If everything was free, soon no one would have anything. For every preparation you need money. For everything. It ‘s not enough to sell only your music, you also have to make these videos to make people happy.

You did a behind the scenes video of the ‘LLL’ video. also just business?

Brian Molko: I will tell you a secret about these video shootings: they are unbelievably boring. To make such a behind the scenes video really looks good you have to be a great editor. You just sit around, stand up for a few minutes and do something and then you can sit around again.

The song ‘Too Many Friends’ criticizes the social networks and the way of impersonal communication. But I am sure when you are on tour you are also forced to use this kind of way to stay in contact with your beloved ones. Don't you feel a contrast between the song and your life?

Brian Molko:

I feel a contrast but not a connection. For me it is difficult to stay in contact with my family and beloved ones. Then why the f*ck would I need 1000, 2000 or even 5000 Facebook friends? Whom I will never meet anyway!

But I would like to say two very important things. First, the song isn't about technology, it is about being alone. Second, technology is very important, for example for the evolution in medicine. I think that is something wonderful and I am not against it. If i would be, I would be a hypocrite. But I am not. This song is about being alone and the human side of this technology world.

And it’s about the social network which destroy the connection between people. The generation from nowadays are using these platforms without questioning anything. They just say the world will be better through it. In my opinion that is very naive. They think just by going on facebook they do something good. But in reality they just make money from all these for very few people. That's what it is with the whole Facebook, Google and the stuff is about.

So you don't use these sites? How do you look after something?

Brian Molko: That's impossible. I do use Google sometimes but that's different to Facebook, where people share unbelievable things about themselves and their private life. Come on, that it is, whatever just share it! Don't keep it to yourself! What does that mean to you? Nothing. and with that it loses the real values.

But nowdays on the Placebo

Facebook

site there are many petitions.

Brian Molko: Yes, I only use it for this. For maybe making this world a little bit better.

You have just finished the Russian tour which was an important experience. What would change if you could?

Brian Molko:

I believe people are still wonderful in hating. They hate what they don't understand, they hate each other. No matter what anyone says, this world is still not a bit more tolerate than it was before. Racism, sexism, homophobia...

And how was your experience during the Russian tour? This famous intolerant place...

Brian Molko: To each place we go we take a special message with us. The message is love, tolerance, understanding and compassion. We go to places which need this kind of messages.

in 2001 the major of Obuda [aplace in Hungary] made a homophob attack to which you responded on stage, I think you even called him a...... [sorry I don't really know which English curse word would fit here] I have bad news for you, he is now Lord major.

Brian Molko: Can you see it? This just proves what I said before.
Would you like to send him a message?
Yes. I really feel sorry for you. You have to be a very unhappy person. I’m so sorry!

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SNS 얘기는 꺼낼 때마다 뭔가 앞뒤가 안 맞는 채로 끝나는 거 같은 ㅋㅋㅋ 듣는/읽는 사람도 지겹다, 이젠...

그나저나 헝가리 정치인인지 뭔지 하여간 호모포비아 헝가리인,

몰코가 무대 위에서 욕까지 했던 사람이 지금 더 높은 지위를 갖게 됐나보다 ㅋㅋㅋ

페북 얘기는 사실... 맞는 얘기이긴 하다. 하지만 한 번 시작하면 그냥 그러려니 하게 된다는 ㅋㅋㅋ

같이 얼굴 볼 일도 없는 사람들을 페친으로 가지면서 쓸데 없이 개인적인 일들 사진 찍어 올리는 게 

페북 안 하는 사람들이 보면 진짜 몰코 같은 생각이 들 수밖에 없을 듯 ㅋㅋㅋ 

그런 측면에선 몰코는 참 아날로그적 감성의 소유자 ㅋㅋㅋ

그니까 실제로 얼굴 보고 만날 일 없는 사람들하고는 온라인 상에서라도 알 필요가 없다는 얘기.

근데 또 다른 시각에서 보자면 인터넷이 아니었다면 서로의 존재도 모르고 살았을, 

유럽에 사는 나의 페친들과 플라시보 팬 페친들.

몰코 관점에서라면 그런 사람들을 실제로 오프에서 만날 일이 없으니까 그냥 모르고 살아도 된다는 얘기인데

나는 오프에서 얼굴 볼 일 없더라도 알게 되어 기쁘다. 음악 관련해서 공유하는 게 월매나 많은데! ㅋㅋㅋ

몰코는 그냥 팬서비스가 귀찮은 게야 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 내가 슈퍼스타가 아니라서 모르겠지만 왠지 이해는 간다 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

어쨋든 TMF 얘기는 이제 쫌 그만 나왔으면. 내가 그리 좋아하는 곡도 아니공... -_-