Placebo Brian Molko french interview with TRANSLATION ! 2009
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- Опубліковано 22 січ 2010
- Many thanks to 'rentedsoul' who translated the entire dialogue!! There you go:
Reporter: You were born in Bruxelles? Is it true?
Brian: Yes, it's true. How come you ask this so directly?
R: Because I always read you were born there.
B: Yes, yes, almost 37 years ago. But I don't really remember it. We didn't stay there for a very long time, so I don't remember living In Belgium. So, when I return to Bruxelles, because I don't have this recollection about living there, It's not really a place with a big resonance for me.
B: I am not saying something bad about it, I am just saying that people often ask me if that place means something to me, but I don't remember, not very much anyway.
R: In Belgium It's a custom to say that when you descend in the South you have a great time, but when you go to Luxemburg, you get bored. That was good for you, because that's the reason you started playing the guitar.
B: Yes, exactly. It's true that in the 80's it was very boring in Lux.
B: Stefan and i , our reaction was to lock ourselves in our rooms, listening to lots of music and learning to play instruments. This idea of escaping that boredom pushed us to have this determination of doing smth artistic with our lives. But we were separated. We were in the same country, going to the same school, but we weren't friends. So our lives were quite similar and when we found each other in London by accident, Voila!
R: [says smth about the band being a second family]
B: Yes, it's just like a second family, a surrogate family. The only difference is that you can choose this family. This is the big luxury and the big difference. I moved to London when i was 17 and I went to a University over there, to study dramatic arts which was my first passion, and only after finishing my studies I made the decision to make music.
B: But I think that our motivation was the fact that the idea of doing the same old routine threw us in such a depressive state that is was really important to us to make smth artistic with our lives.
R: Is it always that crazy excitement to be on stage?
B: yes, yes, me and stefan are 2 guys pretty shy and introverted, so we need a certain exhibitionism, but we need a context for it, and the stage is this context. It's a very basic thing we feel very...uhm, it's a simple, basic thing, it's an immediate response, an immediate energy from the audience that fills you with a sort of euphoria and we hope that every time we go on stage, we'll be able to create a common euphoria in the room.
B: this is what we try to do.
R: Is it true that as an adolescent, when you sat down the toilet, you used to imagine that you were giving interviews?
B: yes, it's true. I have to say, it's nothing personal, but the interviews are not my favorite thing. I haven't talked too much about myself, but yes, it's true. When I was bored, I... yes[cute smile].
[here is a part that I don't quite understand]
R: next to you is a little Buddha. India is a place where you love to go to, isn't it?
B: Yes, it's an incredible country. I really like Asia in general, and, yes, before med, the last album, I spent some time there, like Beach Bum, and it's really a cool place, a country of colors, of extremes. Let's say that when you go to Japan, it's like being allured to the planet Mars, and when you go to India, you're being allured to the planet Mercury.
R: and Cambodia, you went there to play for preventing human traffic.
B: yes, in December 2008, we went to Siam Reap in Cambodia to play a small concert in front of a Buddhist temple from the XII century. All of it was for charity, to stop human traffic for prostitution, etc. It's smth very close to our hearts. I think that human traffic is smth very shocking and without excuse in a so called "civilized, advanced, modern world. We try to show people what need to be avoided, so they don't fall in the trap.
B: Because it's mostly adolescents and adults from Asia and Eastern Europe who are in danger.
R: What do you enjoy doing these days, Brian Molko?
B: When I spend time with my son, it's the best.
R: Thanks a lot.
B: Thank you.
I don't speak french but I could listen to Brian speaking french forever.
lol i see that it made ur bottom lips humificated
Ich verstehe kein Wort, könnte ihm jedoch stundenlang zuhören 😂❤
I don't understand a single word of what he says, but who cares - I just stare at him, his eyes, mouth .... heavenly.
He seems so happy in this interview. Nice to see. I love it when he smiles. It shows in his eyes.
the way brian speaks in french has got me smitten.
could you please explain why ?
Mo Ya Most likely because it's cute. Like I don't have a goddamn clue what he's saying, but it sounds twice as cute as it would in English.
Also just because attractive celebrities who can fluently speak another language is attractive as hell for reasons unbeknownst to me.
i love him speaking french. i think french suits brian better than english. it just sounds natural. ♥
Oh! mon dieu! Les yeux de Brian Molko sont si beaux!
Still watching in 2023 ❤
son sourire et son rire c'est la plus belle chose du monde.
Hi, there you are :-) I commented under the orphanage :-))
Какой же он прехорошенький ♥️ Я сейчас заплачу, как можно быть таким чудесным.
🥀Il a une tessiture de voix, une aura, un charisme qui nous emportent au-delà de TOUT. Il est Talentueux et cependant si Humble…c’est troublant et beau et touchant❤️❤️❤️C’est une belle interview tout en simplicité et en douceur, très pure💎💎💎
Il est vraiment atypique Brian, ça le rend magnifique.. toujours humble, timide , et naturel, et son rire.. Et ses fautes de syntaxe et ses expressions quand il parle français ahah
Yes, in french he's saying "Et puis voilà" all the time, wich is almost the same thing (I mean that we use this expression in the same context)
This video is like my fairytale before going to bed :D Amazing Brian + speaking French....oh, dear....
this guy is a legend
When Brian speaks english, he's saying his "y' know" all the time. I wonder if he has similar habit when he speaks french...
Un homme (et une famme) irresistible!!
I love how he sounds in French. He's such a beautiful man....
Brian Molko + French = heaven ^^
Le fait qu'il parle français le rend assez irrésistible
damn those eyes.. its soo easy to get lost in them.. XD
Je viens de découvrir cette vidéo, dommage que ne l'ai pas vu plus tôt car elle est vraiment très intéressante, et Brian parle si bien ! Ses phrases sont toujours dites intelligement et de manière très profonde. Il a l'air vraiment sincère, c'est si mignon un artiste avec une telle popularité qui n'a apparement pas pris la grosse tête ! Brian est un homme incroyable !
I don't understand a word but like i always say Brian looks gorgeous speaking french and he looks so handsome in this particular interview. Thanx for uploading :)
truly?? I give a damn what he says, I just love his french speech, his velvet voice... SO SEDUCTIVE! ♥
he looks really good, healthy, comfortable, content..happy. :)
magnifique interview avec pour une fois un journaliste intéressant ...
B: Stefan and i , our reaction was to lock ourselves in our rooms, listening to lots of music and learning to play instruments. This idea of escaping that boredom pushed us to have this determination of doing smth artistic with our lives. But we were separated. We were in the same country, going to the same school, but we weren't friends. So our lives were quite similar and when we found each other in London by accident, Voila!
No entiendo ni una mierda de lo que esta diciendo!! pero, oh por Dios, que es hermoso !!
Pour ceux d'entre vous qui ne comprennent pas le francais, Brian vient de dire qu'il a une envie irresistible de m'embrasser. 😁
Il est si mignon, mon Dieu!
I love you trop, Brian ❤️
C'est un plaisir de l'écouter parler français.
oooohhh he's soooooooooo sweet & cuuuuuuteeeeeee
Anything sexier than watching BRIAN speak French?
Marina Verdi NO!
Thank you so much for the translation!
Oh Bri is so so so cute andsweet whe he speaks French! J'adore !!
Brian's jawline is perfect my gosh! i can`t beieve but i think this man is more beautiful than Brad Pitt really,love him so much!!!
I'll never get tired of watching this video!
I watched 10 mins of french!! ....if he was my frech teacher i would enjoy it!
its like im listening to a placebo track called "French Molko"
I love him....
I could listen to this for ever.
merci pour la vidéo!! génial!! brian a de ses yeux!!!
l'interview est trés bien tenu,les questions interessantes ;)
thank You so muuuuuch RENTEDSOUL for translating all interview!!!!muaa!!:*
R: [says smth about the band being a second family]
B: Yes, it's just like a second family, a surrogate family. The only difference is that you can choose this family. This is the big luxury and the big difference. I moved to London when i was 17 and I went to a University over there, to study dramatic arts which was my first passion, and only after finishing my studies I made the decision to make music.
Thanks for the translation :)
he sounds GREAT!!!!!
He handles French so well even if there are some little defaults but he's so good and his accent is not too exagerated. I really think he's perfect (in all ways...)
I love everythig of him!
thank u so much for the translation!!! :D
Agree! Love his haircut! And see you in Argentina too!
B: But I think that our motivation was the fact that the idea of doing the same old routine threw us in such a depressive state that is was really important to us to make smth artistic with our lives.
( I'll try to continue tomorrow. it's midnight, I'm tired and this reporter is getting on my nerves. he talks so fast, and french it's not my first language. I hope I'll manage to finish this translation)
what a beautiful smile!
thanks 4 sharing
^^
is it weird that i like how he looks like he''s sweating?
Man, such a voice. Very very nice❤
Mais ce king j’adore quand il parle français srx
Awwww he looks so happy
Thanks for the translation
whoaa! this is awesome!
damn, can't stop saying I ♥ Bri!
thanx for your vids!
I adore you! xD
Génial ce mec.
I agree. It makes him even more beautiful.
tout le monde adore brian malko et placebo
Brian is one of a kind!
I don´t understand what he say but I love him!!!
Que ce qu'il est mimi 💖
sooooo sweet when he smiles ^^
he have some problems with the french but he's have an amazing smile n laugh...
brian the gorgeous one....
awwwwww i'm melting
oh, ok , got it! thank you very much! :)
True, I'm french too, French is a quite difficult language :/ But as I said Brian's saying "Et puis voilà" all the time, in other french interviews too.
B: Because it's mostly adolescents and adults from Asia and Eastern Europe who are in danger.
R: What do you enjoy doing these days, Brian Molko?
B: When I spend time with my son, it's the best.
R: Thanks a lot.
B: Thank you.
Don’t understand a word just listening 💗
oh. I'm so glad I helped a few people understand what he says.
@meineLouise3: if you want me to translate other of his french interviews [cause I saw you have some on your channel], I would gladly do it. This way, I can practice my french. Just let me know what interview and I'll give it my best, as long as they don't speak on fast forward :))
kisses
@petitchachou Thank you for replying and also for giving me an excuse to watch the video again ;)
B: yes, in December 2008, we went to Siam Reap in Cambodia to play a small concert in front of a Buddhist temple from the XII century. All of it was for charity, to stop human traffic for prostitution, etc. It's smth very close to our hearts. I think that human traffic is smth very shocking and without excuse in a so called "civilized, advanced, modern world. We try to show people what need to be avoided, so they don't fall in the trap.
mado' che figoooo !
Get better soon, beautiful one.
B: Yes, it's an incredible country. I really like Asia in general, and, yes, before med, the last album, I spent some time there, like Beach Bum, and it's really a cool place, a country of colors, of extremes. Let's say that when you go to Japan, it's like being allured to the planet Mars, and when you go to India, you're being allured to the planet Mercury.
R: and Cambodia, you went there to play for preventing human traffic.
Te amo Brian molko
Nyaaa! He is sooo cute when he speaks french! *_______*
you're welcome! hugs.
OH MY LORD !!!!
I REALLY would like to speak english as well as he speaks French ! (j'aimerais tellement parler aussi bien anglais qu'il parle français !)
R: Is it always that crazy excitement to be on stage?
B: yes, yes, me and stefan are 2 guys pretty shy and introverted, so we need a certain exhibitionism, but we need a context for it, and the stage is this context. It's a very basic thing we feel very...uhm, it's a simple, basic thing, it's an immediate response, an immediate energy from the audience that fills you with a sort of euphoria and we hope that every time we go on stage, we'll be able to create a common euphoria in the room.
Mon dieu ! ill est trés unique.
B: I am not saying something bad about it, I am just saying that people often ask me if that place means something to me, but I don't remember, not very much anyway.
R: In Belgium It's a custom to say that when you descend in the South you have a great time, but when you go to Luxemburg, you get bored. That was good for you, because that's the reason you started playing the guitar.
B: Yes, exactly. It's true that in the 80's it was very boring in Lux.
Yes, you're right but I think otherside that he has to do a reflexion before answering, that's normal. I'm french and when I speak french I lost my words too sometimes, mainly when someone asks me questions :)
(Sorry if there are mistakes)
First, I watch him and listen to the language.. i do not know french and then I read an interview in English haha
I speak french but sometimes I can not understand what the interviewer is saying, he speaks really fast. On the other hand I can understand what Brian says.
Me too.
That's because he speaks with really complicated and raffined words. I'm French and he speaks slowly honestly
@SweetMintPie555 Yup.
J'ai découvert PLACEBO au lycée, mes parents écoutaient "France Inter", l'émission de Bernard Le noir......MILLE MERCI à Bernard Lenoir: Brian est une personne tellement délicieuse. Quand j'ai entendu "Every You, Every Me" les 2 premières fois de ma vie à la radio, sur la route, dans la voiture de mes parents, je me demandais vraiment si c'était un homme ou une femme qui chantait......je n'avais pas encore du tout vu l'image du groupe, et celle de Brian......mais QUEL CHOC MUSICAL, VOCAL, CET UNIVERS RESONNAIT TELLEMENT EN MOI, COMME SI J'AVAIS TROUVE UNE SORTE DE GRAL MUSICAL....j'ai retenu le titre et acheté l'album Without You I'm Nothing.
Donc, dans ma chambre d'internat, au lycée, on était 3 filles de 17 ans: les 2 premières affichaient des pages arrachées de magazines avec des mannequins féminins extrêmement maquillées.....et moi, j'avais le lit en bout de chambre, avec sur le mur en face de mon lit, des pages arrachées au Rock'n Folk du moment, avec un homme magnifique maquillé: yeux, ongles, cheveux noirs au carré.......et oui, j'étais la seule à afficher Brian!
Et j'ai su très vite qu'il s'exprimait très bien dans notre langue: il sait être subtil, très drôle (voir interview en 2001 je crois sur le plateau de Nulle Part Ailleurs, où il fait une blague sur la clope/et sa 1ère rencontre avec David Bowie), vraiment fin, distingué, éloquent, cultivé et référencé dans l'expression de ses propos: il parle la langue de Molière tellement mieux que certain(e)s hommes, femmes qui sont eux, francophones de langue maternelle. Il m'a beaucoup inspirée, au niveau du look: je me suis enfin extravertie, car je recherchais ce "type" de style depuis la classe de 3ème....et là, même s'il était un homme, j'avais trouvé MON modèle. Je l'ai vu en concert évidemment, et 2 fois dans une petite salle (un vrai choc tonitruant la 1ère fois/normal c'était aussi mon tout 1er concert....et j'en ai bien mieux profité la 2nde fois, dans la même petite salle, devant, un peu sur le côté, bien placée avec une copine, un peu loin du gros pogo/expérience que mon petit gabari et pogo, cela finit par une sortie par les pompiers + sucre + tu dégages au fin fond de la salle..... Un bonheur d'écouter Brian, son engagement, sa délicatesse intellectuelle qui fait tellement de bien. MERCI BRIAN, COMME TU L' AS DIT TOI MÊME (je crois) un jour: "Petit, oui, mais parmi les Grands". Nous aurons toujours besoin d'hommes tels que Brian, et de toutes les personnes qu'il parvient à inspirer.
Je suis juste un p’tit con qui fait de la musique tu sais..🤣
C'est vrai qu'il a dit ça!!!! j'ai adoré: la bise aux filles, quelques hugs sur la musique de Bitter End, et même à un moment: "Houla les filles!....on ne le voyait presque plus, tellement il était entouré de fans qui, certaines, se mettaient à pleurer... et c'est après ce petit déferlement émotionnel qu'il a dit qu'il n'était "qu'un p'tit con qui joue de la musique!" Un moment de télé génial.
Diana Vcult houla les 👧 filles.. 😂 exactement..oh oui grand moment..
@dierckeatlas I can tell you his French is excellent. I am French of course, trilingual and trust me... wow he has a perfect accent zand his range of vocab is awsome.
it seems that in that "blank" part he says that he didn't know what exactly had been on his mind when he had been pretending to be interviewed in toilet, but he thought he had known that by the time they were speaking he would have had to get used to answer different kinds of questions )
B: this is what we try to do.
R: Is it true that as an adolescent, when you sat down the toilet, you used to imagine that you were giving interviews?
B: yes, it's true. I have to say, it's nothing personal, but the interviews are not my favorite thing. I haven't talked too much about myself, but yes, it's true. When I was bored, I... yes[cute smile].
[here is a part that I don't quite understand]
R: next to you is a little Buddha. India is a place where you love to go to, isn't it?
Ohhh he speaks french,it's soooo hot .....
@ZulKoji he isn't bilingual so he has to pay more attention to what the interviewer is saying, also the pauses he makes are normal for someone at a fluent level and would be made in his native language of english anyway, if you look at his vocabulary in french you can see he is having little problem :) he does look a little more nervous than normal though!
In response to Opal Moner: I have noticed he generally tends to sweat profusely. In interviews, he is always sweating when nobody else is. I have always found face-makeup (pancake) is very hot and uncomfortable, but I think it is more than just the makeup. Some people just perspire more. When I saw Placebo live in Los Angeles last year, I was close enough to see the makeup that rubbed off on the collar of his black shirt. He walked out on stage cool and calm, hair and makeup perfect. By the end of the first song, his shirt was drenched, the eyeliner was melting off his face and his hair was soaked. He performed the rest of the concert like that. I felt bad for him. Steve Forrest was too far away to see, plus, I'm sure it helps to have your shirt off.... Stefan never once broke a sweat. Incredible. I can imagine this condition must cause Brian embarrassment -- especially when he was still drinking alcohol, because the smell of the alcohol (even vodka) comes out in your perspiration.
:-) sweeeeet
I know! i was just talking in general ha ha
Thanx anyway my dear ;)
@jihan27able Please people,can someone tell me what it is wrong with Brian? I hear everywhere things like "Brian get well soon,I hope you'll be fine" ...is he sick or something? I'm getting kinda worried
@mmmartynaOO
I don't think so, but he often said "Err...And...Errr...Hum" and i find this really funny ;) But btw he speaks french very well, and french isn't an easy languague, believe me ! :D (moreover sorry if i made mistakes, i'm french and not so bilingual as Brian !)
I just LOVE him. really. but can someone please tell me what the interviewer said at 5:37? thanks.:)
It s true that when u was teenager u set in the toilet and u imagine that u makes an interviews
If only he made songs in French, that aren't just translations of his songs with English lyrics.
Whenever people speak a language fluently that is not necessarily their native language or the language they use everyday or no longer use everyday, I wonder how good they really are.
I'm German, I know enough French to understand him, but I can't judge how natural he sounds to a native speaker. Are there native speakers here? What do you think?
...of course, to my ears he sounds aboslutely perfect, he's Brian Molko after all xD
He is really good at speaking French, to me it sounds natural, more than it was at his beginnings on the French TV a few years ago.
Brian, very sexy speaking French, OMG
Il a presque pas d'accent en plus :o
Reporter: You were born in Bruxelles? Is it true?
Brian: Yes, it's true. How come you ask this so directly?
R: Because I always read you were born there.
B: Yes, yes, almost 37 years ago. But I don't really remember it. We didn't stay there for a very long time, so I don't remember living In Belgium. So, when I return to Bruxelles, because I don't have this recollection about living there, It's not really a place with a big resonance for me.