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In response to
"my 'P's"
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mud
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I read an article that said that Portishead doesn’t like it that people have sex to their album “Dummy.”
Posted by
Qale (aka Qale)
Jun 9 '20, 07:44
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The songs from “Dummy" ended up in a lot of movies.
BARROW Terrible movies, yes. But the thing is that we never really wanted to work with unethical brands. We all have got a fairly good living out of music. We don’t need to use a fashion company, or an oil company or a petrol company or whatever that basically are actively crushing poorer people and the planet and use our music to it. So we had a fairly strong vibe about that. We’ve basically turned down tens of millions of pounds, I think. Someone’s got to say “no” at some point. And a lot of people don’t.
But when it came to films, we had a bit of an open policy. As long as they’re not trying to make Beth out to be singing some kind of sexy song, which always used to happen with “Glory Box.” There was always some kind of producer saying, “Yeah, we want to use ‘Glory Box’ over this scene.” Is it a sex scene? And they would go, “Yes, it’s really sexy” and we’re like, “No thanks.”
UTLEY I think we’ve turned down probably 95 percent of the things that people have asked us to do. A few have slipped through the net without us realizing, actually. I saw a Nicolas Cage film, called “Lord of War.” I was in the cinema, watching it, there’s basically, a sex scene and it was my guitar solo off “Glory Box.” My girlfriend looked ’round at me and went, “Did you clear this?” And I went, “I don’t think so.” And I jumped up and ran out and rang our manager, and she said, “Yeah, you cleared it.” That slipped past us without even realizing what the hell we’d done.
People seem to like having sex to this record.
BARROW I couldn’t tell you, ’cause I never have.
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