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The album was supported by a tour that visited North America, Europe, Australia and Japan. The chaos of earlier tours was beginning to subside and the shows were somewhat more focused on production and good performance. During the North American portion of the tour, three tall rectangular screens were lowered mid-set for showing pieces of film. Despite the fact that [[Trent Reznor]] was in the throes of addiction during this tour, it was well-received by fans and critics alike.

==~~Trent Reznor on ''The Fragile''~~Concept and Interpretations==

Reznor described ''The Fragile'' in a 1999 interview:

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On ==="From Machine To Man: An Interpretation of The Fragile"===This is a lengthy interpretation of the album's story written in 2000. Read it at:* http://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/otherinterpretation.shtml ==Recurring themes and styles==* The main melody of "La Mer" is repeated in the intro of "Into The Void", and the bass line is reused on the entire track. A similar but much slower piano melody is played at the end of "We're In This Together".* The piano melody of "The Frail" is repeated in the guitar solo of "The Fragile".* The lyric "[[Nothing Can Stop Me Now|nothing can stop me now]]" appears in "La Mer" and "We're In This Together", albeit translated into French Creole on the former and altered to "none of them can stop us now" on the latter. The same phrase was previously used in "[[Piggy]]", "[[Ruiner]]" and "[[Big Man With A Gun]]" and would recur later in "[[Sunspots]]". ==Formats==Reznor on the different track sequencing for different formats:

"Hello everybody. I've been doing a lot of European press lately and they've been mentioning the various configurations of 'the fragile' and wondering if there was a reason (other than to make the hard-core fan buy them all) to have some different tracks on them.

If you're curious, here's why. We agonized over the sequencing of the record and focused solely on the CD config. as the definitive one. After the decision was made to move to two CDs the problem then became removing tracks to get the right feel and flow.

Taking the new flesh' off the CD was a tough call because Alan and myself really like the track, but it destroyed the balance and it just didn't fit.

When we assembled the cassette, we now had four beginnings and endings to contend with instead of two of each (for the CD) follow? It worked out pretty well just dividing the songs up, but we wanted the A sides of the cassettes to be slightly longer than the B sides (so that when the tape flips over you are not in the middle of the first song on that side). We added the 'appendage' to 'please' to make that work.

For the vinyl, the decision to move to three discs was based on fidelity. (you can only fit so many minutes on a side of vinyl before it degrades the sound)

So now we are faced with SIX beginnings and endings. Simply splitting the sides up didn't work as well this time so we decided to include the other two tracks we had been considering ('10 miles high' and 'the new flesh') as well as use the full unedited versions of all the other songs on the record. The vinyl sequencing has actually grown on me lately as a viable alternate! -just thought you might want to know…"

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