{"id":5022,"date":"2013-10-29T18:40:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T01:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5022"},"modified":"2013-11-09T18:40:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T01:40:46","slug":"frey-rocks-placebo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/29\/frey-rocks-placebo\/","title":{"rendered":"Frey Rocks Placebo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtvhive.com\/2013\/10\/29\/rock-lit-placebo-cops-inspiration-from-james-freys-controversial-memoir\/\" target=\"_blank\">from MTV<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Rock Lit: Placebo Cops Inspiration From James Frey\u2019s Controversial Memoir<\/h1>\n<div>by\u00a0<a title=\"View all posts by Emily Zemler\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mtvhive.com\/author\/emily-zemler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">Emily Zemler<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtvhive.com\/2013\/10\/29\/rock-lit-placebo-cops-inspiration-from-james-freys-controversial-memoir\/placebo-2013-keren-poznansky-lead-shot-2-640\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-85017\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo credit: Keren Poznansky\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mtvhive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PLACEBO-2013-keren-poznansky-LEAD-SHOT-2-640.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/a><em>Photo credit: Keren Poznansky<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The inspiration for a song on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/artists\/placebo\" target=\"_blank\">Placebo<\/a>\u2019s latest album,\u00a0<em>Loud Like Love<\/em>, comes from an unlikely place: James Frey\u2019s controversial account of drug addiction that drew headlines for its falsified passages. For frontman Brian Molko, the book tapped into something he wanted to pursue musically. And it\u2019s not the first time the musician has used his interest in reading to inspire a song.<\/p>\n<p>Molko has released seven albums with Placebo since their self-titled 1996 debut and often takes a literary approach to songwriting. The band\u2019s new disc, which recently came out via Universal, extends their lengthy and darkly moody discography, exploring serious subject matter like drug addiction. For Molko, books are a way to tap into new ways of expressing ideas and aid songwriting by learning new words and turns of phrase.<\/p>\n<p>The songwriter and musician spoke with Hive about his experience with books, what sort of literature he prefers and just why he\u2019s so compelled by James Frey.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtvhive.com\/2013\/10\/29\/rock-lit-placebo-cops-inspiration-from-james-freys-controversial-memoir\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at MTV<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from MTV Rock Lit: Placebo Cops Inspiration From James Frey\u2019s Controversial Memoir by\u00a0Emily ZemlerPhoto credit: Keren Poznansky The inspiration for a song on\u00a0Placebo\u2019s latest album,\u00a0Loud Like Love, comes from an unlikely place: James Frey\u2019s controversial account of drug addiction that drew headlines for its falsified passages. For frontman Brian Molko, the book tapped into something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}