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[[Image:Strobelight-cover-art.jpg|thumb|200px|Copyright 2009 Nine Inch Nails !!!DO NOT STEAL!!!!]]
On 1 April, 2009, [[Trent Reznor]] announced '''''Strobe Light,''''', which was apparently NIN[[Nine Inch Nails]]'s brand-new album, featuring various artists, with . The website featured a repeating tempo accompanying the page, and a rapidly flashing GIF image at the top, "strobing" to match the album's name. The album was an April Fool's day joke, and has been mentioned on several April Fool's since.
==Tracklisting==
#"Intro Skit"
#"Everybody's Doing It" (featuring Chris Martin, Jay-Z AND Bono)
#"Black T-Shirt"
#"Pussygrinder " (featuring Sheryl Crow)
#"Coffin On The Dancefloor"
#"This Rhythm Is Infected"
#"Slide To The Dark Side"
#"Even Closer" (featuring Justin Timberlake and [[Maynard James Keenan]])
#"On The List (she's not)"
#"Clap Trap Crack Slap"
#"Outro Skit"
== Release information ==
The text accompanying the download page was:
below. A download link will be sent to you immediately. Your credit card will be charged $18.98 plus a $10
digital delivery convenience fee. Your files will arrive as windows media files playable on quite
a few players with your name embedded all over them just in case you lose them. You will also receive an
exclusive photo and a free email account with our partner Google's Gmail service.
<br> Your email will be kept confidential and will not be used for spam, unless we can make some money selling it.</blockquote>
This "release", was a an April Fools' joke on Reznor's fans, and was a parody of the current music scene's obsession with particular artists, production by Timbaland , and also a tongue-in-cheek poke at his own song titles and public image. Reznor may have been referencing Chris Cornell's album ''Scream'', which was produced by Timbaland, noting a particular ([http://twitter.com/trent_reznor/status/1313265641 tweet]).
Any attempt to download the album would redirect the user to a faux "Blue Screen Of Death" ([http://www.nin.com/pub/strobelight/error.html here]), a final mock at the Windowserror message. The embedded music beat on the is page likely a default beat from some type of music related software and not anything composed by Nine Inch Nails or Trent Reznor. The embedded file for the song is called "ACIDDANCE.mid" ([http://www.nin.com/pub/strobelight/ACIDDANCE.mid here]). == Fan Release ==On April 1st, 2019, a fan-made album was released with the same name. It is comprised of mashups and follows the same tracklist as the one originally teased. It was uploaded to Bandcamp ([https://seed9.bandcamp.com/album/strobe-light? here]) and archive.org ([https://archive.org/details/StrobeLight here].) == Interpretations ==Go Fight has interpreted [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV9xFM8D4WY "Pussygrinder"] from the album.
==External Links==
*[http://www.nin.com/pub/strobelight Official Site]*[http://www.portraitofdecay.net/www.nin.com/strobelight/ nin.com/strobelight (Archived at Portrait of Decay)]
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