Placebo
Every You Every Me

THE REVIEW

"…to the ones who had the displeasure of sleeping with me"

Brian Molko closed the nineties with the writing of this piece, the third single from the successful Without You I’m Nothing.

The 1800s offspring's nihilism pervades with an incessant critique of fairy tale love. The inevitability of corrosion is attributed to an extinguished fire, exaggerating negativity as usual in the Placebo world.

Trivial love opens every verse, a partner who wrinkles and clings to the banality of things.

“My heart is a whore, your body is for sale – my body is broken, yours is tired”

From a musical point of view, a devious riff introduces the driving drums of Steve Hewitt (more essential in the single mix version and slightly beefed up in the album version).

The film Cruel Intentions uses the piece as the opening credits soundtrack, perfectly fitting the plot (which the band leader already knew having read the novel from which the film is adapted, Dangerous Liaisons).

This year, an unreleased version of the music video, originally discarded in 1999, was published on the Placebo social channels. In it, the band members are accompanied by their clones/doubles inside a dark casino (in all their androgynous style), with Brian subsequently escaping into an Orwellian setting as the song ends.

“Every you, every me” refers exactly to the dynamics of the pointless relationship carried on by habitual clichés. Personalities impossible to silence and tamed as if they were dogs.

Every You Every Me is the perfect anti-love song that only the likes of Molko, Brett Anderson or Greg Dulli could have conceived with such class in that decade.