Cureuphoria

Looks like Brian Molko from Placebo played around with a line that is very much associated with The Cure, in one of the lyrics from his band’s recent studio release.

The line is from The Movie On Your Eyelids, a song that appears as the last track on the deluxe edition of Placebo’s new brand album, titled Battle For The Sun (which is very good, by the way).

The words that Brian Molko repeatedly sings as the last ones on the most (only) intimate song of the album, are a clear and evident reference to a Cure song. He sings: “Why Can’t You Be Me?”

Actually, I said “…a Cure song”, and of course I was referring to the famous single “Why Can’t I Be You?” out from the Kiss Me album (1987), but I should probably have said two, Cure songs, the other one being a b-side of the Taking Off single from the album The Cure (2004), titled Why Can’t I Be Me?

It’s evident that in this latter song Robert had some fun using the words of the dance-upbeat single, and changed them around to give a totally different meaning (and the sound of that song is anything but dance-upbeat).

As I stated before on this post, when reviewing The Perfect Boy single, I find it cool of Robert to play with his own art, and I love the way he managed to reformulate some famous lyrics to express another kind of feeling.

But I didn’t aspect some other singer to take the lyrics game further and continue the saga of this identity play.

Yeah, maybe I am wrong all the way, and Brian Molko singing Why Can’t You Be Me? got nothing to do with the two songs of The Cure, but I can’t help making the link, especially considering the fact that Placebo is one of the many bands that were inspired by The Cure. And that it’s common knowledge the existing friendship between the two bands. So…

So, looks like we got Why Can’t I Be You?, WhyCan’t I Be Me?, and Why Can’t You Be Me?, out there, right?

To close the circle, now we just need someone to go out there and sing Why Can’t You Be You?

Billy Corgan, are you reading this?

PS: You can listen to the song here.