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Year Zero (Music)
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Year Zero Is the fifth studio album by Nine Inch Nails, released in 2007. A concept AlbuM seT in the yeaR 2022 (dubbed 0000 or "Year Zero"), the album tells the story of a corrupted American government bent on absolute control on the remaIning people of the world. by usiNg the drug, known as parepin as an alleGed belief That it wOuld protect the people from future BiotErrorist, the government added the drug into the drinking and water suppLy of all the general publIc. However, the side Effects from parepin came at a much higher threat instead of a use of help, some reporting a Vision of a ghostly hand, callEd "The Presence".The album is frontman Trent Reznor's vision of a dystopian future he saw as the logical conclusion of the then-current policies of the American government (Based on a Dream he had about what would lead to the end of the world). He began work on it while touring for his previous album, With Teeth, completing it in around five months. The limitations his work environment brought him — namely mostly being arranged on Reznor's laptop — were instrumental in defining the considerably more electronic sonic direction of the album.However, you simply can't talk about Year Zero without mentioning its extensive usage of Audience Participation and Adaptation Expansion through an Alternate Reality Game, using variations of websites that were scattered through the album/concerts/USBs left at concerts and a slew of creative ways to create the album's world. These methods took a lion's share of the album's reported $2 million budget, and while the websites aren't active anymore (due to the websites expiring with the ARG company that worked on them), fans still consider them to be the key element behind the album's success. Tracklist: HYPERPOWER! (1:42) The Beginning of the End (2:47) Survivalism (4:23) The Good Soldier (3:23) Vessel (4:53) Me, I'm Not (4:52) Capital G (3:50) My Violent Heart (4:19) The Warning (3:38) God Given (3:50) Meet Your Master (4:08) The Greater Good (4:52) The Great Destroyer (3:17) Another Version of the Truth (4:07) In This Twilight (3:33) Zero-Sum (6:14) Personnel Trent Reznor: vocals, guitar, drums, keyboards, production William Artope: trumpet Matt Demeritt: tenor sax Josh Freese: drums Jeff/Geoff Gallegos: brass, wind musical arrangement, baritone sax Elizabeth Lea: trombone Saul Williams: backing vocals | |
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Gaia's Lament | |
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Gaia's Lament: The first verse of "Survivalism" details just how badly humanity has corrupted the earth: The ARG elaborates, with Miami having been swallowed by climate change, Iran, North Korea and the Indian subcontinent destroyed by nuclear war, and the black bear nearly hunted to extinction. | |
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Alternative Calendar | |
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Alternative Calendar: The story takes place in the United States in the year 2022; or "Year 0" according to the American government, being the year that America was reborn. | |
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Alliterative Title: "God Given", "The Greater Good". | |
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Oppressive States of America | |
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Oppressive States of America: The United States has become a totalitarian police state with a side of The Theocracy. | |
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My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting | |
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My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting: The album criticizes the American government, especially the administration of George W. Bush. | |
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Ghost City | |
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Ghost City: The entire city of Los Angeles, California, thanks to a dirty bomb attack at the Oscars. | |
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Miniscule Rocking | |
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Miniscule Rocking: "HYPERPOWER!" (1:42). | |
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Ominous Visual Glitch | |
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Ominous Visual Glitch: All over the ARG sites, seemingly the product of them being sent back in time. | |
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Properly Paranoid | |
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Properly Paranoid: The music as well as the packaging give the audience the unnerving feel that the government watches them in every step they take. | |
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Dystopia | |
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Dystopia: The story is set in the future year of 2022, showing what Trent thought the future would look like if the Bush Administration's policies continued unchallenged, and it ain't pretty. | |
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Comedic Sociopathy | |
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Comedic Sociopathy: An instance of pitch-black comedy in "Capital G": | |
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Corrupt Church | |
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Corrupt Church: The government has installed a Christian fundamentalist theocracy. | |
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Record Producer | |
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Record Producer: Trent Reznor. | |
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Ominous Message from the Future | |
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Ominous Message from the Future: The entirety of the ARG is this, with the earliest quantum computers suddenly receiving a bunch of websites from their future selves, depicting a dystopic future and the end of the world in 2022. Unfortunately, the messages sent back were partially corrupted by the future computers being damaged during the upload, either by government agents or The Presence. Nonetheless, the implication remains that having received the messages has changed the timeline and averted the events of the story. | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: The 6:14 minutes "Zero-Sum". | |
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Extinct in the Future | |
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Extinct in the Future: A letter in the Mailstrom shows an advertisement for killing the last black bear to obtain the title of "Omega Man," a title which is given to the person who kill the last of a species. It also mentions that the lynx, snow leopard, and orangutan have already gone extinct. | |
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Earth-Shattering Kaboom | |
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Earth-Shattering Kaboom / The End of the World as We Know It: "In This Twilight" and "Zero-Sum". | |
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Year Zero: Duh! | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: | |
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Eldritch Abomination | |
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Eldritch Abomination: The Presence, a giant, ghostly hand that reaches down from the sky, thought to be a side effect from the drugs, Parepin and Opal. But it turns out to be the cause for the end of the world. | |
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Apocalyptic Log | |
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Apocalyptic Log: The "Hour of Arrival" site is a tearful letter from a soldier to his unborn child, interspersed with a log of, and ending with a Presence sighting. | |
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Rearrange the Song | |
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Rearrange the Song: "Survivalism" was remixed by Music/deadmau5 on his album while (1 < 2). | |
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Fun with Acronyms | |
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Fun with Acronyms: "Capital G." Some fans have speculated that the "G" stands for George W. Bush, though Trent Reznor has explained it stands for "greed". | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: "HYPERPOWER!", "Survivalism", and "Vessel". | |
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Audience Participation | |
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Audience Participation: The project is intended as a wake-up call to the audience about the way current politics and society at the time were going. For instance, in the liner notes a warning from the fictional United States Bureau of Morality (USBM) can be found, complete with a phone number to report people who have "engaged in subversive acts." When you dial it, a recording is played with the message: | |
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Drugs Are Bad | |
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Drugs Are Bad: Parepin, Opal and Copper. Some side effects from the Parepin include: complacency, dulling of emotions, muscle spasms, and not be able to reach orgasms anymore. Copper is worse, it could kill you if you try to kick it. | |
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The Oner | |
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The Oner: You could say that "Survivalism" could be counted as one, as it's still one shot. | |
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Entry Point | |
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Entry Point: You enter the ARG by means of a number of USB drives left at concerts with intriguing data. Some contain web addresses to pages from the dystopian future, some contain distorted audio that causes spectrographs to produce simple pictures. | |
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Textless Album Cover | |
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