We're in This Together
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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.
'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."
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.
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.
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
(also known as "triple single") by Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction...
for the song
Song
In music, a song is a composition for voice or voices, performed by singing.A song may be accompanied by musical instruments, or it may be unaccompanied, as in the case of a cappella songs...
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 Fragile
In terms of narrative, virtually no references are made to the aspects depicted in The Downward Spiral. Like The Downward Spiral, The Fragile is a concept album, but, as a double album, is nearly twice the length of its predecessor. Reznor's vocals, for the most part, are much more melodic and...
.
The song was featured in The Avengers movie's trailer released in October 11th, 2011.
The song
The lyrics are inspired by David BowieDavid Bowie
David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...
'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
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
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."
The music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
was made for this song, directed by Mark Pellington
Mark Pellington
-Life and career:Pellington was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He directed The Mothman Prophecies, a 2002 film starring Richard Gere dealing with mysterious deaths foretold by a strange red-eyed flying creature, Mothman, as well as Arlington Road in 1999 starring Tim Robbins and Jeff Bridges....
and released on 27 August 1999. An extended version of the video has since surfaced. Trent Reznor
Trent Reznor
Michael Trent Reznor is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, record producer, and leader of industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. Reznor is also a member of How to Destroy Angels alongside his wife, Mariqueen Maandig, and Atticus Ross. He was previously associated with bands Option 30,...
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
Guadalajara, Jalisco
Guadalajara is the capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco, and the seat of the municipality of Guadalajara. The city is located in the central region of Jalisco in the western-pacific area of Mexico. With a population of 1,564,514 it is Mexico's second most populous municipality...
, Mexico and in the dry lake of Sayula, Mexico.
The video is an homage to the 1927 Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute...
film Metropolis
Metropolis (film)
Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist film in the science-fiction genre directed by Fritz Lang. Produced in Germany during a stable period of the Weimar Republic, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and makes use of this context to explore the social crisis between workers and...
, using similar sets to that of the film and Reznor sporting the same costume and haircut as the workers in the film.
Releases
"We're in This Together" was released on a three-part single, which was only available in EuropeEurope
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
and Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
; it was not released in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. A radio promo with just the album mix and radio edit of the song was released in America as Halo 15 as well.
Disc 2
- "We're in This Together" (Radio Edit) – 5:16
- "The Day the World Went Away (Quiet Version)" – 6:19
- "The Day the World Went Away (Porter Ricks Mix)" – 7:04
Disc 3
- "We're in This Together" (Album Version) – 7:18
- "Complications of the Flesh" (remixed by Danny LohnerDanny LohnerDaniel Patrick "Danny" Lohner , frequently known as Renholdër, is an American rock musician who plays bass guitar, electric guitar, and keyboards. He worked with Trent Reznor on numerous occasions, both with Nine Inch Nails and on the now defunct Tapeworm project...
) – 6:36 - "The Perfect DrugThe Perfect Drug"The Perfect Drug" or ' is a song by Nine Inch Nails. It was written for the David Lynch film Lost Highway and originally appeared on the Lost Highway soundtrack and as a single from the score in 1997...
" – 5:42
Promo
- "We're in This Together" (Radio Edit) – 5:16
- "We're in This Together" (Short Radio Edit) – 4:21
- "We're in This Together" (Album Version) – 7:18