Too Many Friends

"Too Many Friends"
Single by Placebo
from the album Loud Like Love
Released23 August 2013
RecordedRAK Studios, London
GenreAlternative rock
Length3:35
LabelUniversal
SongwritersSteve Forrest, William Patrick Lloyd, Brian Molko and Stefan Olsdal
ProducerAdam Noble
Placebo singles chronology
"Bright Lights"
(2010) 		"Too Many Friends"
(2013) 		"Loud Like Love"
(2014)

"Too Many Friends" is a single by alternative rock band Placebo, the first single off of their seventh studio album Loud Like Love.[1] The single was released on 8 July 2013, as a digital download but was actually released on 23 August 2013 in physical format as a limited edition CD and 7" single in Germany.

Composition

The song deals with people on the internet and being far closer to friends on the internet, rather than off the computer. It is also about loneliness, which Placebo frontman Brian Molko said was the "modern version of, 'I’m sitting by the phone, waiting for you to call'".[2][3][4]

Music video

The band went to Los Angeles to make the music video with filmmaker Saman Kesh.[5] American transgressive novelist Bret Easton Ellis provides a voiceover in the video as a narrator.[6] The video, which premiered on YouTube, presents a "detective case" regarding a series of events occurring during a pool party.[7]

Track listing

Digital download
  1. Too Many Friends – 3:35
iTunes EP
  1. Too Many Friends – 3:35
  2. Outro – 2:24
  3. Too Many Friends (The Bloody Beetroots Remix) – 3:48
Limited CD and 7" single
  1. Too Many Friends – 3:35
  2. Outro – 2:24

Charts

Chart (2013) Peak
position
French Singles Chart 31[8]
German Singles Chart 14[9]
Swiss Singles Chart 36[8]
Belgian Singles Chart 26[8]
Austrian Singles Chart 51[8]

References

  1. ^ "Track Listing & First Single for 'Loud Like Love' Announced". Placeboworld.co.uk. 17 June 2013. Archived from the original on 20 June 2013. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  2. ^ Dave Simpson (12 September 2013). "Placebo: Loud Like Love – review". The Guardian.
  3. ^ "INTERVIEW: STEFAN OLSDAL OF PLACEBO". Bandwagon. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
  4. ^ "Placebo's Brian Molko on Transgressive Love, Technology and Disconnect, and That "My Computer Thinks I'm Gay" Line". Pure Volume. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
  5. ^ "SINGLE: Too Many Friends – Available From 08.07.13". Official Placeboworld.co.uk Forum (User rougevelvet). Archived from the original on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
  6. ^ Bret Easton Ellis (5 July 2013). "Twitter: Bret Easton Ellis, 5 July 2013". Retrieved 6 July 2013.
  7. ^ "Placebo – Too Many Friends". PlaceboVEVO. 9 August 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
  8. ^ a b c d "Placebo– Too Many Friends". Swisscharts.com.
  9. ^ "Placebo – Too Many Friends". Offiziellecharts.de.

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