Light up the Void  

In 2003, Placebo entrusted Gaspar Noé with the direction of the music video for "Protège-moi," the French adaptation of "Protect Me from What I Want," translated by Virginie Despentes . The filmmaker, already basking in the shock of "Irreversible," delivered a brutal, sensual, and overtly sexual work , populated by naked bodies and explicit acts.

Conceived within the "pornographic-lyrical" aesthetic favored by Noé, the video quickly proved unusable for music channels . Deemed too explicit, it was rejected and unofficially remained confined to the fringes of the web and cinephile circles.

Faced with this censorship, the group replaced the video with a live excerpt from the Soulmates Never Die DVD. As a result, Noé's music video was never officially released , but it became a cult object , both phantom and emblematic of the encounter between melancholic rock and radical provocation.