| "We're in This Together" | ||||||||||||
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| Single by Nine Inch Nails | ||||||||||||
| from the album The Fragile | ||||||||||||
| Released | September, 1999 | |||||||||||
| Format | CD | |||||||||||
| Genre | Industrial rock, industrial metal | |||||||||||
| Length | 16:11 (CD 1) 18:39 (CD 2) 19:36 (CD 3) 54:26 (TOTAL) |
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| Label | Nothing Records | |||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Trent Reznor | |||||||||||
| Producer | Trent Reznor, Alan Moulder | |||||||||||
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"We're in This Together" is a 3-disc single (also known as "triple single") by Nine Inch Nails for the song of the same name released in 1999. It is the fifteenth official Nine Inch Nails release and is a single for the album The Fragile.
The song was featured in The Avengers movie's trailer released in October 11th, 2011.
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The lyrics are inspired by David Bowie's song "Heroes", such as with the line "You're the queen and I'm the king", describing two people trying to make it against an ominous and seemingly unstoppable force. David Bowie is given a special thanks credit in the liner notes of The Fragile.
MTV described the song as "a seven-minute-plus cathartic pop song with somewhat hopeful lyrics over a plodding hip-hop beat, walls of distorted guitars and an eerie slasher-film cricket sound."[1]
A music video was made for this song, directed by Mark Pellington and released on 27 August 1999. An extended version of the video has since surfaced. Trent Reznor and a large group of black-clothed men are seen running down empty streets, onto a train, and into a field. There are also shots of several elderly people, and a brief scene with a young woman in a red dress who contrasts with the black and white quality of the rest of the video. The video was filmed in Guadalajara, Mexico and in the dry lake of Sayula, Mexico.
The video is an homage to the 1927 Fritz Lang film Metropolis, using similar sets to that of the film and Reznor sporting the same costume and haircut as the workers in the film.
"We're in This Together" was released on a three-part single, which was only available in Europe and Japan; it was not released in the United States. A radio promo with just the album mix and radio edit of the song was released in America as Halo 15 as well.[2][3][4]
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