Placebo bleah!

We have two new singles from Placebo – remember that biblical verse, more exactly as a ‘Chop Suey’ lyric: ‘’oh God, why have you forsaken me’’?!Well it feels that way! ‘Ashtray Heart’ and ‘The Never Ending Why’, first one for everyone and the second track only for UK and Norway, or in other words darker shit for most of the world and a lighter shit just for the Brits and some Nordic people. Yes, we are talking about Placebo, that band that we placed in the ‘vox dei’ category, it is they that offer these two … songs.

‘Ashtray heart’ is beyond awful, it’s got lyrics in Spanish , we love Spanish but why would you put as chorus a foreign synonym for the word ‘ashtray’?! FYI: ‘cenicero’ is ashtray in Spanish. Moving forward into the awfulness, the rest of the lyrics are beyond mysterious, they really make no sense, and I one am a master in metaphors and not even I don’t get it. And then there is the background, wow I almost didn’t hear it there! That mediocre is.

‘The Never Ending Why ‘ is a lighter shit , because on a loud volume it does well, it’s catchy, the negative succeeds in effectiveness and Mr. Molko keeps up quite decent. Should I say something about the lyrics?! I am too bored and too tired from listening to these songs to try to make some sense, let alone decide if there is something out there.

The only thing I have left is hope, hope that the new decade will bring some sort of epiphany and inspiration for Placebo! Because, gentlemen this simply will not do.