The problem with society is that we’ve allowed our emotions to be so strung out we only identify with music. Music is like drugs for some people. You aren’t supposed to listen to it all the time. You’re addicted to allowing yourself to identify with a song that wasn’t made for you. It’s a generalization of a subgroup. You are an individual. Remember you aren’t a program.
Well.. i believe this song is about when you can see people like you, you can easily know that they're like you, maybe struggling or just have similar personality and same perspective on life.. you see strangers on the road or classmates or walkers by and you can easily know they're just like you. those united blue wires can be a signal.. you can see each other but never dare to speak or be with or there for each other and you feel very frustrated so you all get together united because of your souls and likes and dislikes and thoughts but could never be really connected. this is exactly how i feel and i experience this like everywhere i go
Plus j'écoute Placebo , plus je me rend compte que leurs chansons sont intemporelles ...c'est la marque des tout grands groupes 💪🏻❤😘👍🏻merci beaucoup Brian and co 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻immense groupe avec des chansons exceptionnelles😍😍😍
I had a brain bleeding in march 2015. It's hard to learn all those things again that I was pretty good in. And your music helps me believe in myself. Thanks for the great tune!!!
At a time in my life where it feels as if everything is going too fast, things coming to an end, and I sometimes feel completely empty and alone, this keeps me going.
Placebo are one of the best and most important bands in the history of music. While other bands fade into obscurity they will continue to be discovered generation after generation.
This song sums up most people's lives, living in a Facebook world and don't know at least half of their "friends", this massively applies to me. Quality track by a fantastic band
To my mind this song is about social networks , about people who have 5000 friends on Facebook , 6000 followers on Instagram ,but in fact we are alone..we'll never meet these virtual friends..I don't know if I'm right...
I agree that the human connection is often lost. You see so many people out and about too busy putting their lives on instagram tl actually be in the moment and live it. In Facebook's defence, I have met (yes, in real life) many wonderful people I would never have met otherwise. I'm not sure if its an age thing (I'm 49) that made us all want to meet up in the real world. Could have been a disaster but it was like meeting up with our best friends. That was 5 years ago, we still meet regularly in Birmingham and have the best, real life, time. None of that would have happened without Facebook so I owe a big thank you to Mark Zuckerberg. I also met up with some great people via a Placebo fan site to go see the band in Edinburgh in February. I would have gone alone but it was so much better to do it in the company of like minded faithful
When I heard this song for first time, I thought it was a joke. Now I can realize it has some of he deepest lyrics talking about todays life way. Where the innovation in social culture has ended in the innovation of loneliness. And does loneliness has become the most commun element of the modern world.
Auch nach über 6 Jahren noch aktueller denn je. Leider! Lieber Gott, gib der Menschheit die Analogie zurück! Love, peace and happiness, Peter (62) from Germany
Thank you Placebo, this is so true, you can't have so many real friends if you think about social media and real life, there is no time (especially if you have children etc.)
Im 62...have whilst innocently surfing discovered Placebo and indeed 'Too Many Friends'...spelt correctly too...and if anything it has helped me understand what the hell is going on in my sons head. The electronic age is beyond me but for sure but people watching and the essential link between man and fone becomes clearer by the day. The fone appears to be completely indispensable. All praise to Placebo.
"Applications are the problem" Facebook friends are nothing. You can't be there for them. Pretty straightforward message against the cancer that is social medias. Proud. Listened to them through my teenage years.
that's exactly the kind of music video i'm looking for. visually stunning and perfectly supporting the audio, creating an amazing atmosphere. this right now should be about my fifth or sixth time watching it in a row. amazing work. this videoproducer just gets it.
Oooh i love your music. .you saved my live so many times. ..thanks for your wonderful music your georgeous voice and lyrics. .Brian you are sweet as sugar ..love love u♥
LYRICS: My computer thinks I'm gay I threw that piece of junk away On the Champs-Élysées As I was walking home This is my last communicate Down the super highway All that I have left to say In a single tome I've got too many friends too many people That I ll never meet, I'll never be there for I'll never be there for, 'cause I'll never be there If I could give it all away, would it come back to me someday? Like a needle in the hay, or an expansive stone I've got a reason to declaim, Applications are to blame, for all my sorrow, My pain, feeling so alone I've got too many friends too many people That I ll never meet, I'll never be there for I'll never be there for, 'cause I'll never be there Too many friends too many people That I ll never meet, I'll never be there for I'll never be there for, 'cause I'll never be there My computer thinks I'm gay What's the difference anyway? When all the people do all day It staring into a phone I've got too many friends too many people That I'll never meet, I'll never be there for I'll never be there for, 'cause I'll never be there Too many friends too many people That I ll never meet, I'll never be there for I'll never be there for, 'cause I'll never be there I'll never be there, I'll never be there I'll never be there, I'll never be there
Should be a hit world wide . Might yet . I'm sure if the radio stations play it. mabi it will someday. Awsome listing . Awsome band . Bigdog Australia.
Yes ok, I saw many comments of the meaning of this song about social media and actual situation of “devices” but I love the sense of freedom of listening music like in the end of the video 🙂 Sorry for my english, I’m italian 🙂
A beautiful song must absolutely be a mix of music and lyrics that speak of everyone's life, which is not only love but also the pain and hardness of life itself. This helps to live it intensely and Placebo is this.
I think I just found the saddest song of my life, on a Saturday night that I'm spending even more alone than the girl in the video. The odd part is that I haven't missed human contact for a few years now, but this randomly reminded me of all of those great people I'm missing to meet just because I'm too happy by myself, being too comfortable in other things than in socializing enough. It makes me think that this song could make me hurt in the future. Maybe I need to suffer a bit from consequences of the outside world... I mean, it's been a while since I truly suffered over something in real life. This feels or makes me feel a bit guilty with myself in some way, but mostly for feeling selfish for all the others that don't live happy by themselves since it's normal with so many people. Maybe I feel that it's not common to find people that feel mostly free like I do. Here's where I wonder if I will ever get to know somebody with this perspective on life, somebody who lives trying to make positivity a permanent state of mind, proving it's actually possible to share that reality with other people. I guess I'm just excited about finally having grown up into adulthood while I'm still young, and I say it because I trained myself to have a really nice perspective of things, involving a rare desire for maturity as a goal to achieve. It's weird but I've been wanting to become an adult ever since I can remember, therefore, I've lived faster than probably most people. But I stopped complaining about that ever since I got to this point of feeling complete although there's still much more way to go, which is something that finally feels great to acknowledge :) (And sorry for any bad English, I'm just writing for my own pleasure).
I still think about this song all these years later... and everytime i come back to listen to it, i get dragged down a long road of Placebo music and i absolutely love it still!
....real friends are in our daily routine..not in the internet....they laugh...they share...they give us emotions and moments to remember...love you my friends.....
Dear Knoka, through my comment I mean that social media have made us superficial, we don't pay attention to real life, we only care about our profile status and not about our real character...for me the essence of life is in the live communication....
Great video, great lyrics, one super great song of a great band, maybe the best R'n'R group after 2000. Like Jagger said at 1974, It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
Waouw...It's been long time, but this video is always moving me to tears....8 years....! I left Facebook, Twitter, and even whattsapp......I knew from the beginning the "too many friends"...but it's a reel addiction.....Long time ago, i had other addictions while listening "Without you I'm Nothing" and yet, it helped me to stop averything, specially "Pure morning"......There must be a Placebo effect for me LOL... LOve this band, with Radiohead and OK computer, they saved my life...I'm grateful to you.....
I am german and we've heard this in english class . This Song is just amazing, it should be in the Charts of 2019 instead of the thounsands love Songs :D
Placebo is like that lifelong friend that you can call up to help you feel better no matter how long it's been.
So true
Specialy this one
The problem with society is that we’ve allowed our emotions to be so strung out we only identify with music. Music is like drugs for some people. You aren’t supposed to listen to it all the time. You’re addicted to allowing yourself to identify with a song that wasn’t made for you. It’s a generalization of a subgroup. You are an individual. Remember you aren’t a program.
Finally a comment from somebody that has HEART , SOUL and a BRAIN 👍💕👏
@@oliverwouk2845 much love, my friend 🧡
This is pure gold. Brilliant song, brilliant lyrics, brilliant Placebo
0:02 Truly one of the opening lines of all time
I also love the "superhighway" bit because people actually called it that back in '95.
Been with Placebo since '96, it's been a great ride.
Always been a special band
@@jayjaymcfly7475 I agree. Many of us sitting in the same boat, staring at the same holes that are letting the water in.
Placebo confirm that good music is still alive
So true!!!
and still it is
Daisy Porisini well, the lyrics are really good but the music itself? not for me..
Maybe its an placebo effect, hehe
its always been there all you have to do is find it
(:
Well.. i believe this song is about when you can see people like you, you can easily know that they're like you, maybe struggling or just have similar personality and same perspective on life.. you see strangers on the road or classmates or walkers by and you can easily know they're just like you. those united blue wires can be a signal.. you can see each other but never dare to speak or be with or there for each other and you feel very frustrated so you all get together united because of your souls and likes and dislikes and thoughts but could never be really connected. this is exactly how i feel and i experience this like everywhere i go
That is nice
Plus j'écoute Placebo , plus je me rend compte que leurs chansons sont intemporelles ...c'est la marque des tout grands groupes 💪🏻❤😘👍🏻merci beaucoup Brian and co 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻immense groupe avec des chansons exceptionnelles😍😍😍
I had a brain bleeding in march 2015. It's hard to learn all those things again that I was pretty good in. And your music helps me believe in myself. Thanks for the great tune!!!
+Jens Leduc I wish you all the best man!
@Seth Wellington Cause it hurt, seth. It... hurt.
Wish u strength
I know this is 5 years late but I really hope you're doing much much better 🌸
We are involuntary twins. In march 2015 I had a mortal anemia. It's hard all over..... but we are still here ❤️
Bellissima canzone, verità assoluta e significativa sui nostri tempi.colonna sonora della mia riflessione.
Capolavoro assoluto. viva l' italia e i placebo
my passed away friend send me all the songs. his name was juanito. rest in peace. placebo remembers me of him of all eternity. Best gift ever
Placebo..You're truly amazing!
My phone thinks I'm a man lol
you are amazing
Thank you Brian. So actual. Why I always need to hear your voice? You are a kind of drug for my ears. Don't stop please🙏
Ok the video is clearly trying to send a message...........BRAVO PLACEBO!!!
they all had the mark,bleak future
Yes, your computer knows your sexual preference.
What makes almost every placebo songs beautiful is the voice of the vocal
I love placebo's music. I just started listening recently.
Check out Passive Aggressive & Prodigal Son ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
At a time in my life where it feels as if everything is going too fast, things coming to an end, and I sometimes feel completely empty and alone, this keeps me going.
This song is 8 years old how is it even more relevant now.
🤦♂️
@DonPascquale What is your problem? Why do you have to diminish people? Who hurt you?
@@ЕлияГенчева because your comment makes no sense. 🤷♂️ technology is moving forward not backwards, ofcourse it gets worse.
@@DonPascquale Fine
Placebo are one of the best and most important bands in the history of music. While other bands fade into obscurity they will continue to be discovered generation after generation.
Une chanson qui fait des frissons est une vraie belle chanson. Merci Placebo
If you get thru life without any scars, you have not lived
that's the deepest comment on this page
an entire music video with headphones that aren't Beats, it's beautiful
Das ist so ein super Song. Den könnt ich mir den ganzen Tag reinziehen so super ist der Song. Danke Plazebo
In case you didn't know, the tattoo in 0:45 is two Chinese characters, meaning "Freedom".
Every one has zonked out and stopped communicating. Technological overload. A fabulous song! 💕
Totally agree, Covid S*** made it even worse...
This song sums up most people's lives, living in a Facebook world and don't know at least half of their "friends", this massively applies to me. Quality track by a fantastic band
To my mind this song is about social networks , about people who have 5000 friends on Facebook , 6000 followers on Instagram ,but in fact we are alone..we'll never meet these virtual friends..I don't know if I'm right...
MisterProdigy89 Or first life... Depressing. I agree with you.
+Anais Anaiss if you have the wisdom to see, hope youre not a facebook user yourself then
I agree that the human connection is often lost. You see so many people out and about too busy putting their lives on instagram tl actually be in the moment and live it. In Facebook's defence, I have met (yes, in real life) many wonderful people I would never have met otherwise. I'm not sure if its an age thing (I'm 49) that made us all want to meet up in the real world. Could have been a disaster but it was like meeting up with our best friends. That was 5 years ago, we still meet regularly in Birmingham and have the best, real life, time. None of that would have happened without Facebook so I owe a big thank you to Mark Zuckerberg. I also met up with some great people via a Placebo fan site to go see the band in Edinburgh in February. I would have gone alone but it was so much better to do it in the company of like minded faithful
+thosegreengentlemen It's okay to use facebook but don't live on it
Anais Anaiss i agree
Потрясающая песня и видеоряд!
Слушаю ее снова и снова....
What a great song. Absolute underrated. Placebo. 4 Ever
спасибо за пласибо, за то что вы есть. глубокий анализ самого себе и понимание самого себя у Брайана на высочайшем уровне
Thank you Placebo, You speak for the universe on this song. Great work.
Really love this song. It's a great feeling. All the songs on this album are epic.
When I heard this song for first time, I thought it was a joke. Now I can realize it has some of he deepest lyrics talking about todays life way. Where the innovation in social culture has ended in the innovation of loneliness. And does loneliness has become the most commun element of the modern world.
This song is so true for thousands of people including myself, such a true and amazing song, loved seeing it performed live at Soundwave :')
I think the same 😊
В песню я влюбилась с первых строк, а в клип - с первых кадров. Это.. Волшебно! Восхитительно ^-^
У Placebo очень много офигенных песен. Я стал их слушать с песни Where is My Mind.
Это не их песня. Это песня группы "The Pixes", а они просто сделали на нее кавер.
Лина Ли, +
@@egorantipov4768 ньюфаг)
@@trueTinLit 4 года прошло, кто знает, что с ним стало)
Песня с большим смыслом. С уважением к вашему творчеству!
Auch nach über 6 Jahren noch aktueller denn je. Leider! Lieber Gott, gib der Menschheit die Analogie zurück! Love, peace and happiness, Peter (62) from Germany
nee danke, roboter an die macht!!
Love this song
Sensual video... The best music by Placibo... Very very good...
The message is pretty strong in this. Bottom line, we've kinda lost the human connection. We're all connected through wires now.
Biba
lost the human connection? nope.. actually, it was like this from day 1.. wires just made you see it..
Toma Cristian what good are human connections¿
Get over it bruh this is how the world works now
Johny Karibou which is shit
Palais theater 2014 you were awesome tis song was perfect !
Thank you Placebo, this is so true, you can't have so many real friends if you think about social media and real life, there is no time (especially if you have children etc.)
Im 62...have whilst innocently surfing discovered Placebo and indeed 'Too Many Friends'...spelt correctly too...and if anything it has helped me understand what the hell is going on in my sons head. The electronic age is beyond me but for sure but people watching and the essential link between man and fone becomes clearer by the day. The fone appears to be completely indispensable. All praise to Placebo.
this voice he has is golden!!
"Applications are the problem"
Facebook friends are nothing. You can't be there for them. Pretty straightforward message against the cancer that is social medias. Proud. Listened to them through my teenage years.
that's exactly the kind of music video i'm looking for. visually stunning and perfectly supporting the audio, creating an amazing atmosphere. this right now should be about my fifth or sixth time watching it in a row. amazing work. this videoproducer just gets it.
great Song - great Video - no Words
Placebo is one of my favorit bands!
No matter what, you are a special person and never ever cut or harm yourself ! The strong is is in you ! Be the butterfly !
Amazing songs, Amazing sound, Amazing band, Amazing Brian Molko ! Love your musical legacy !
Amazing !
love the melody
Oooh i love your music. .you saved my live so many times. ..thanks for your wonderful music your georgeous voice and lyrics. .Brian you are sweet as sugar ..love love u♥
Wow! 😳
New album, please Placebo!!
Vu deux années de suite en concert à la fête du bruit. Génialissime
LYRICS:
My computer thinks I'm gay
I threw that piece of junk away
On the Champs-Élysées
As I was walking home
This is my last communicate
Down the super highway
All that I have left to say
In a single tome
I've got too many friends too many people
That I ll never meet, I'll never be there for
I'll never be there for, 'cause I'll never be there
If I could give it all away, would it come back to me someday?
Like a needle in the hay, or an expansive stone
I've got a reason to declaim,
Applications are to blame, for all my sorrow,
My pain, feeling so alone
I've got too many friends too many people
That I ll never meet, I'll never be there for
I'll never be there for, 'cause I'll never be there
Too many friends too many people
That I ll never meet, I'll never be there for
I'll never be there for, 'cause I'll never be there
My computer thinks I'm gay
What's the difference anyway?
When all the people do all day
It staring into a phone
I've got too many friends too many people
That I'll never meet, I'll never be there for
I'll never be there for, 'cause I'll never be there
Too many friends too many people
That I ll never meet, I'll never be there for
I'll never be there for, 'cause I'll never be there
I'll never be there, I'll never be there
I'll never be there, I'll never be there
Is* staring into a phone
@@vanyaagrigorashchenko Is stare* into a phone
this girl play fabulous!
Placebo siempre será la banda que cambie todo mi estado de ánimo.
❤️
Jajajaj tal cual a mi también me pasa :)
🌬️🍁
Yo también. Me encanta mucho placebo. Mi banda favorita
Confirmo y bien dicho amiga 👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍😁😃😩😔😭💯💯💯💯💯
How beautiful is this song...
I’m in fact enjoying this song while staring into a phone; it really depends on how you use tech to connect rather than being isolated
I love this Placebo song - Too Many Friends music 🎶 video. 😀💕
Placebo has such an unique style
Saw this live Yesterday and it was awesome 😍❤️
wow she's stunning.
amazing!
Yes amazing actress
Should be a hit world wide . Might yet . I'm sure if the radio stations play it. mabi it will someday. Awsome listing .
Awsome band .
Bigdog Australia.
Yes ok, I saw many comments of the meaning of this song about social media and actual situation of “devices” but I love the sense of freedom of listening music like in the end of the video 🙂
Sorry for my english, I’m italian 🙂
A beautiful song must absolutely be a mix of music and lyrics that speak of everyone's life, which is not only love but also the pain and hardness of life itself. This helps to live it intensely and Placebo is this.
Man, the actress in this is great. Such an expressive face.
brian ,quand un nouvel album???i m waiting,c est magnifique ,on attends des pepites identique
Best fan song ever made! Thank you for being there!!!
Love placebo and this song makes me know why!
Such a great violin in 2:29
its the best clip i've seen for long time. thx
Good song
so beautiful
this song makes me weepy, Its like they wrote it to show me i'm not the only one with too many "friends"
I really love these headphones, can't find any headphone cable similar to the one in the video
this girl///// awesome!
I think I just found the saddest song of my life, on a Saturday night that I'm spending even more alone than the girl in the video. The odd part is that I haven't missed human contact for a few years now, but this randomly reminded me of all of those great people I'm missing to meet just because I'm too happy by myself, being too comfortable in other things than in socializing enough. It makes me think that this song could make me hurt in the future. Maybe I need to suffer a bit from consequences of the outside world... I mean, it's been a while since I truly suffered over something in real life. This feels or makes me feel a bit guilty with myself in some way, but mostly for feeling selfish for all the others that don't live happy by themselves since it's normal with so many people.
Maybe I feel that it's not common to find people that feel mostly free like I do. Here's where I wonder if I will ever get to know somebody with this perspective on life, somebody who lives trying to make positivity a permanent state of mind, proving it's actually possible to share that reality with other people.
I guess I'm just excited about finally having grown up into adulthood while I'm still young, and I say it because I trained myself to have a really nice perspective of things, involving a rare desire for maturity as a goal to achieve. It's weird but I've been wanting to become an adult ever since I can remember, therefore, I've lived faster than probably most people. But I stopped complaining about that ever since I got to this point of feeling complete although there's still much more way to go, which is something that finally feels great to acknowledge :)
(And sorry for any bad English, I'm just writing for my own pleasure).
Fukin brilliant
Мурашечки от песни и видеоряда
I can't speak russian but:
Nice! XD
мурашечки от взгляда главной героини, красивые глаза
Peut de groupes avec le regretter shester de linking park arrivent à procurer autant d’émotions merci de continuer Brian ❤
That's powerful.
Un très bon groupe rock ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I still think about this song all these years later... and everytime i come back to listen to it, i get dragged down a long road of Placebo music and i absolutely love it still!
I hate that guy Brandon is dead I'm dead o shit
....real friends are in our daily routine..not in the internet....they laugh...they share...they give us emotions and moments to remember...love you my friends.....
+Marina Griva what if your internet friends can make you laugh and happy in even stronger ways than the ones right in front of you?
Dear Knoka, through my comment I mean that social media have made us superficial, we don't pay attention to real life, we only care about our profile status and not about our real character...for me the essence of life is in the live communication....
oh! agreed! sorry, i misunderstood
Don't feel sorry, we are free people and we can express ourselves and our opinions...thanks for our communication...have a nice day...!
you too :D
One of most beatutiful songs ever. 🖤
in love with the song and the video.
So true, unfortunately...
Great video, great lyrics, one super great song of a great band, maybe the best R'n'R group after 2000. Like Jagger said at 1974, It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
Moja ulubiona piosenka Placebo. ♥
Polska pozdrawia :D
tres beau ce clip. A méditer
Einfach nur Gänsehaut Mukke, das ist doch ein geiles Placebo ?!!!!+!
Wow ein german comment
@@whiterose1973 Und dazu noch ein Dummer. Traurig.
GREAT UNIQUE VOICE😊❤
The most UNDERRATED band ever.
Waouw...It's been long time, but this video is always moving me to tears....8 years....! I left Facebook, Twitter, and even whattsapp......I knew from the beginning the "too many friends"...but it's a reel addiction.....Long time ago, i had other addictions while listening "Without you I'm Nothing" and yet, it helped me to stop averything, specially "Pure morning"......There must be a Placebo effect for me LOL... LOve this band, with Radiohead and OK computer, they saved my life...I'm grateful to you.....
I am german and we've heard this in english class . This Song is just amazing, it should be in the Charts of 2019 instead of the thounsands love Songs :D
Try Bad Religion. Those Panks has it all - music, lyrics full of sense...
Beautiful girl 👍🏻
Brian is so damn right with this song, love it
Too Many Friends
This gave me chills. Gotta love Placebo!
Yep.
Das beste was ich je gehört habe.
amo Placebo !