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From an interview with ''The Sun'', [[Trent Reznor]] said the following about the track: | From an interview with ''The Sun'', [[Trent Reznor]] said the following about the track: | ||
<blockquote>"I was trying to make something that leapt out of the speakers in a very umfamiliar way. At first listen, it might seem to be in praise of life but it's supposed to come off as an arrogant, 'Fuck you. I've survived!' It also gets less triumphant and more reflective and melancholy towards the end."[http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/5091007/nine-inch-nails-interview.html]</blockquote> | <blockquote>"I was trying to make something that leapt out of the speakers in a very umfamiliar way. At first listen, it might seem to be in praise of life but it's supposed to come off as an arrogant, 'Fuck you. I've survived!' It also gets less triumphant and more reflective and melancholy towards the end."[http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/5091007/nine-inch-nails-interview.html]</blockquote> | ||
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+ | <blockquote>"There were a few moments of this album where I expected eyebrows to raise," Reznor says. "But that actually was not one of them. To me, 'Everything' is a descendant of Fear and Joy Division and New Order. Somehow, that song has become representative of this as my 'happy album,' although I don't hear it as such. It's certainly not meant to make you feel like, 'Look at how great everything is!' But it seems to be the shocking moment of the record. We've not played it onstage, only in rehearsals. It's become an irritant to me."[http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/10/17/3286273/nine-inch-nails-are-back-and-its.html]</blockquote> | ||
===Song Credits=== | ===Song Credits=== |
Revision as of 22:45, 20 October 2013
"Everything" is the seventh track on the 2013 release Hesitation Marks. On August 19, 2013, the track officially premiered via an NPR blog.[1] The following day, it was released as a commercial digital single on iTunes and Amazon. "Everything", along with "Satellite", were both originally written and recorded for a forthcoming greatest hits package for Interscope Records, but instead provided inspiration towards a new album.[2]
From an interview with The Sun, Trent Reznor said the following about the track:
"I was trying to make something that leapt out of the speakers in a very umfamiliar way. At first listen, it might seem to be in praise of life but it's supposed to come off as an arrogant, 'Fuck you. I've survived!' It also gets less triumphant and more reflective and melancholy towards the end."[3]
Reznor went on to state, in another interview:
"There were a few moments of this album where I expected eyebrows to raise," Reznor says. "But that actually was not one of them. To me, 'Everything' is a descendant of Fear and Joy Division and New Order. Somehow, that song has become representative of this as my 'happy album,' although I don't hear it as such. It's certainly not meant to make you feel like, 'Look at how great everything is!' But it seems to be the shocking moment of the record. We've not played it onstage, only in rehearsals. It's become an irritant to me."[4]
Contents
Song Credits
- Adrian Belew: Additional Backing Vocals and Outro Electronics
- Trent Reznor: Vocals, Electronics, Percussion, Guitar, Bass
- Daniel Rowland: Additional Sound Design, Electronics and Guitar
Appearances
- Hesitation Marks
Versions
Everything
This is the original album version. Opening with a simple drum loop, the first verse enters with poppy guitars and big vocal harmonies throughout. In contrast, the song's choruses are darker, with noisier guitars playing much less poppy progressions and with shouted vocals. Entering the coda, the song seems to restart exactly the way it begins, but without the vocal layering. Various distorted pads and guitars build the coda towards its climax and sudden ending.
Everything (Autolux Remix)
Exclusive to the Japanese import of Hesitation Marks.
Music Video
There were plans for a music video to be directed by Shynola, who had also done the video for "How Long?" by How To Destroy Angels, but it was evidently scrapped. A press release from Sony stated that the video would premiere on the same week that Hesitation Marks was released.[5] Nothing materialized and a post to Shynola's Twitter account seemed to confirm that it wasn't going to happen.[6]
Lyrics
I survived everything I have tried everything Everything And anything All the walls begin to dissolve away Feel your hands begin to shake And just who you think you used to be All begins to bend and break Wave goodbye Wish me well I've become something else Something else (Just as well, really) But this thing that lives inside of me Will surely rise and wake And his seed that bleeds right through to me As it comes to grab and take I am home I believe I am home I am free I am home I can see Always here Finally
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