We're in This Together
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| Single by Nine Inch Nails | ||||
| from the album The Fragile | ||||
| Released | September 27, 1999 | |||
| Format | CD | |||
| Genre | Industrial metal, alternative metal | |||
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7:18 (album version) 5:16 (single version) |
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| Label | Nothing | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Trent Reznor | |||
| Producer(s) | Trent Reznor, Alan Moulder | |||
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"We're in This Together" is a three-disc single (also known as "triple single") by industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails for the song of the same name released in 1999. It is the 15th official Nine Inch Nails release and is a single for the album The Fragile.
According to The Fragile contributor Keith Hillebrandt, "the whole song started from something [Reznor] actually played at the end of another track ... he wrote it up into an entirely new song".
The lyrics seems to be inspired by David Bowie's song "Heroes", such as with the line "You're the queen and I'm the king" and describing two people trying to fight against an ominous and seemingly unstoppable force. Bowie, who is recognized as one of Reznor's greatest influences, is given a special thanks credit in the liner notes of The Fragile.
MTV's Gil Kaufman 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 song's music video was directed by Mark Pellington and released on August 27, 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.
The video was filmed in Guadalajara and in the dry lake of Sayula.
"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.
The song was played in the teaser trailer for the 2012 film The Avengers and at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards during the film's win for "Movie of the Year".
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