#placeboworld

[miztashacool]

Brian blowing bubbles, 1998

[drinkyoupretty]

stunt girl!

[ashtray-heart-666]

My world

[placebofever]

[beatle-capaldi]

brian molko has been alive for 51 slutty, slutty years

[jetblackhope]

SERVING CUNT 🧛

[agnusatanae]

the reason i survive

[marlasingeruniverse]

[nzmistressv]

Cast your mind back to the days,

When I pretend' I was OK.

I had so very much to say,

About my crazy livin'.

~~~~~~~~~~~

Now I am tryin' to break free,

Be in a state of empathy.

Find the true and inner me,

Eradicate this schism.

No-one can take it away from me.

Placebo - Bright lights

[starboystudios]

Finally finished this drawing of a jojo-ified Placebo!! These are design concepts I was working on for a while, mostly because I wanted to think about what their stand powers may be if they had those.

Stef's stand is POLICY OF TRUTH - named after the Depeche Mode song, it manifests as a bass guitar that has the ability to prevent those affected by its power from speaking, unless they are speaking truthfully.

Brian's stand is ANDROGYNOUS MIND - named after the Sonic Youth song, it manifests as a winged humanoid figure that has the ability to project onto others intense emotions such as confusion, anger, or impassionment.

concept and process sketches and design influences below the cut!!

policy of truth :

the reason i decided to go for a bass for stef's stand as opposed to brian's more humanoid stand is related to stef's more technical angle on music/composing as opposed to brian's more instinctual approach.

the heartbeat motif on the bass and mouth was suggested to me by my friend @27thfirefly in reference to lie detectors. what i ultimately want to incorporate from that with the mouths of those affected will look as though they are loosely sewn shut* with that same motif. I'm also imagining that stef's bass' "heartbeat" would pulse like a heartbeat monitor, but that isn't something i can convey through a still drawing.

*and if you want to connect it back to a placebo track, there's that "we're sewn together" line from space monkey. (and if that line is stef's stand, would the following "she's born to mesmer" line reflect brian's stand's powers?)

androgynous mind:

a lot of brian's stand design combines existing placebo music videos/associated visuals, mostly bruise pristine and this picture. I really like the jewelry some of the models wear in the bruise pristine video, and find it incorporates well into the more robotic type of design humanoid stands tend to have.

the floral motif idea came from @27thfirefly again, as i had mentioned the placebo song lady of the flowers, and through both that and the stand's name relating to androgyny, it relates back to the jean genet novel the placebo song is named after. The colour of the flowers was inspired by the dead flowers in that 1996 photoshoot by pat pope.

i was originally just going to come up with stand ideas but in true jjba spirit, i decided i wanted to jojo-ify their appearances as well, and ultimately a full drawing (the composition of/poses for which was hard to decide on, noted by the sketch thumbnails):

by the time i had completed the illustration in my sketchbook, i wasn't sure if i wanted to colourize it traditionally or digitally, and ultimately, i'm glad i opted to digitize it entirely, because that allowed me to experiment with the colours and composition from that angle much more than it would have had i coloured it traditionally.

[nievz]

50 FCKIN YEARSSSTEF

[miztashacool]

Brian Molko, Placebo, 1997 photos by Steve Double

[drinkyoupretty]

it's not a want it's a need!!!

[ashtray-heart-666]

[placebofever]

Brian has Bowie tattooed in the Blackstar alphabet (the alphabet created for Bowie's final album Blackstar). Haven't noticed this tattoo before, not gonna lie I've got a bit emotional over this.

[beatle-capaldi]

shakes brian molko by the shoulders. what. is happening. in 2024. twenty years to go until what. until what brian. brian. mx molko. please