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[2022]

Lyrics and music / Testo e musica / Paroles et musique / Sanat ja sävel:
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Album: Never Let Me Go

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Ho quindi iniziato a riflettere sugli innumerevoli modi in cui la nostra privacy è stata erosa e rubata dall’introduzione delle telecamere in tutto il mondo che ora utilizzano tecnologie di riconoscimento facciale razziste; l’ascesa di Internet e del telefono cellulare, che ha trasformato praticamente ogni utente in un paparazzo e spettatore della propria vita, e come abbiamo per lo più offerto informazioni personali a enormi multinazionali il cui unico intento è sfruttarci.
Ho usato la tecnica del cut-up inventata da William S Burroughs e resa popolare nella canzone moderna da David Bowie. È una storia vera raccontata attraverso la lente della paranoia, completo disgusto per i valori della società moderna e per la deificazione del capitalismo di sorveglianza. L’io narrante della canzone è allo stremo, disperato e impaurito, completamente in contrasto con i nostri nuovi progressi e con il dio del denaro. [Brian Molko, frontman dei Placebo]
“I began to ponder the countless ways in which our privacy has been eroded and stolen since the introduction worldwide of CCTV cameras that now employ racist facial recognition technologies; the rise of the internet and the smartphone, which has turned practically every user into a paparazzo and a spectator in their own life, and how we have mostly all offered up personal information to enormous multinationals whose sole intent is to exploit us.”
I used the cut-up technique invented by William S Burroughs and popularized in modern song by David Bowie. It’s a true story told through a lens of paranoia, complete disgust for modern society’s values and the deification of surveillance capitalism. The narrator is at the end of their tether, hopeless and afraid, completely at odds with our newfound progress and the god of money . [Brian Molko, Placebo frontman]
I saw you jump from a burning building
Saw you jump from a burning building
I've seen your moves, like Elvis set on fire
Seen your moves, like Elvis set on fire

This search for meaning is killing me
This search for meaning is killing me
This search for meaning is killing me
This search for meaning

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

Suspicious bag on the platform
Suspicious bag on the platform
Suspicious bag on the platform
Suspicious bag on the platform

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

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

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

I gave my heart, now I want it back
Gave my heart, now I want it back
I gave my heart, now I want it back
I gave my heart, now I want it back

I am surrounded by spies
I am surrounded by spies
I am surrounded by spies
I am surrounded by spies

Dead fly on the national anthem
Dead fly on the national anthem
Dead fly on the national anthem
Dead fly on the national anthem

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

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

I am surrounded by spies
I am surrounded by spies
I am surrounded by spies
I am surrounded by spies

I am surrounded by spies
I am surrounded by spies
I am surrounded by spies
I am surrounded by spies

I am surrounded by spies
I am surrounded by spies
I am surrounded by spies
I am surrounded by spies

Spies
Spies
Spies…

inviata da Riccardo Gullotta - 18/7/2023 - 23:40




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