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Losing My Religion

This article is about the R.E.M. song. For other uses, seeLosing My Religion (disambiguation).

"Losing My Religion"is a song by Americanalternative rockbandR.E.M.,released in February 1991 byWarner Bros.as the first single from their seventh album,Out of Time(1991). It developed from a mandolin riff improvised by the guitarist,Peter Buck,with lyrics aboutunrequited love.

"Losing My Religion"
SinglebyR.E.M.
from the albumOut of Time
B-side"Rotary Eleven"
ReleasedFebruary 19, 1991(1991-02-19)
RecordedSeptember–October 1990
Studio
Genre
Length4:28
LabelWarner Bros.
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
R.E.M.singles chronology
"Get Up"
(1989) 		"Losing My Religion"
(1991) 		"Shiny Happy People"
(1991)
Audio sample
Music video
"Losing My Religion"onYouTube

"Losing My Religion" is R.E.M.'s highest-charting hit in the United States, reaching No. 4 on theBillboardHot 100and expanding their popularity. Its music video, directed byTarsem Singh,features religious imagery.

At the1992 Grammy Awards,"Losing My Religion" wonBest Short Form Music VideoandBest Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.Its video won awards forVideo of the Year,Best Group Video,Breakthrough Video,Best Art Direction,Best Direction,andBest Editingat the 1991MTV Video Music Awards.In 2020, "Losing My Religion" became the first R.E.M. video to reach one billion views onYouTube.In 2004,Rolling Stonelisted "Losing My Religion" at No. 169 on its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".It was inducted into theGrammy Hall of Famein 2017.

Recording

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The R.E.M. guitarist,Peter Buck,wrote the main riff and chorus for "Losing My Religion" on amandolin.He had recently bought it and was learning how to play, recording as he practiced while watching television. Buck said that "when I listened back to it the next day, there was a bunch of stuff that was really just me learning how to play mandolin, and then there's what became 'Losing My Religion', and then a whole bunch more of me learning to play the mandolin".[4]

In July 1990, R.E.M. recorded a demo version with the working title "Sugar Cane" in a studio inAthens, Georgia,featuringbanjoandHammond organ.[5]Mike Millswrote a bassline inspired by theFleetwood MacbassistJohn McVie,saying he could not compose a bassline that was not derivative.[4]The final version was recorded in September atBearsville Studio AinWoodstock, New York.[4]

Finding the song lacked midrange between the bass and mandolin, R.E.M. enlisted the touring guitaristPeter Holsappleonacoustic guitar.[6]Buck said, "It was really cool: Peter and I would be in our little booth, sweating away, andBilland Mike would be out there in the other room going at it. It just had a really magical feel. "[6]Michael Stiperecorded his vocals in a single take.[7]The strings, arranged by Mark Bingham, were performed by members of theAtlanta Symphony Orchestraat Soundscape Studios inAtlanta,Georgia, in October 1990.[8]

Composition and lyrics

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"Losing My Religion" is based on Buck's mandolin part. Buck said, "The verses are the kinds of things R.E.M. uses a lot, going from one minor to another, kind [of] like those 'Driver 8' chords. You can't really say anything bad about E minor, A minor, D, and G... We are trying to get away from those kind of songs, but like I said before, those are some good chords. "[6]He felt "Losing My Religion" was the most "typical" R.E.M. song on the album.[6]The song is innatural minor.[9]

The title phrase is an expression from the Southern United States that means "losing one's temper or civility" or "feeling frustrated and desperate".[10]Stipe said the song was about romantic expression andunrequited love.[11][12]The lines "That's me in the corner / That's me in the spotlight" were originally "That's me in the corner / That's me in the kitchen", describing a person at a social event too shy to approach the person they like.[13]Stipe compared the theme to "Every Breath You Take"(1983) bythe Police,saying, "It's just a classic obsession pop song. I've always felt the best kinds of songs are the ones where anybody can listen to it, put themselves in it and say, 'Yeah, that's me.'"[14]

Music video

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The music video was directed byTarsem Singh.

The music video for "Losing My Religion" was directed by the Indian filmmakerTarsem Singh.Unlike previous R.E.M. videos, Stipe agreed tolip-syncthe lyrics.[15]The video begins inside a dark room where water drips from an open window. Recreating a scene from theAndrei TarkovskyfilmThe Sacrifice,Buck, Berry, and Mills run across the room while Stipe remains seated as a pitcher of milk drops from the windowsill and shatters.

The video originated as a combination of ideas envisioned by Stipe and Singh. Stipe wanted a straightforward performance video, akin toSinéad O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 U".Singh wanted to create a video in the style of a certain type of Indian filmmaking, where everything would be" melodramatic and very dreamlike ", according to Stipe.[16]Singh said the video was modeled after theGabriel García Márquezshort story "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings",in which an angel crashes into a town and the villagers have varied reactions to him.[17]He also drew inspiration from the Italian painterCaravaggio,and the video uses religious imagery such asSaint Sebastian,the Biblical episode of theIncredulity of Thomas,and Hindu deities, portrayed in a series oftableaux.[18]The actorWade Dominguezappears in the video.[19]

The "Losing My Religion" video was nominated in nine categories at the 1991MTV Video Music Awardsand won forVideo of the Year,Best Group Video,Breakthrough Video,Best Art Direction,Best Direction,andBest Editing.[20]It ranked second in the music video category of the 1991Pazz & Joppoll.[21]In September 2020, "Losing My Religion" became the first R.E.M. video to reach one billion views onYouTube.[22]

Release and promotion

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Buck performing "Losing My Religion" on mandolin

"Losing My Religion" was released on February 19, 1991, in the United States as the lead single from R.E.M.'s albumOut of Time.[14]Their record label,Warner Bros.,was wary of the choice of lead single. Steven Baker, then the vice president of product management., said there were "long, drawn-out discussions" about releasing such an "unconventional track" as the single until the label agreed.[23]

R.E.M. did not tour to promoteOut of Time,but visited radio stations, gave press interviews and made television appearances.[23]On November 10, 1991, R.E.M. performed "Losing My Religion" with members of theAtlanta Symphony Orchestrato celebrate the tenth anniversary of MTV. It was recorded at the Madison Morgan Cultural Centre inMadison, Georgia,about 20 miles south ofAthens.[24]

Warner Bros. worked to establish "Losing My Religion" atcampus,modern rock,andalbum-oriented rockradio stations before promoting it to AmericanTop 40stations, where it became a success. According to one program director, "Losing My Religion" was "a hard record to program; you can't playL.L. Cool Jbehind it. But it's a real pop record—you can dance to it. "He said it" crosses the boundaries of just being an alternative record ".[23]

"Losing My Religion" became R.E.M.'s biggest hit in the US, reaching No. 4 on theBillboardHot 100.[25]It stayed on the chart for 21 weeks.[26]It topped theBillboardAlbum Rock Trackschart for three weeks and theModern Rock Trackschart for eight weeks, the best performance of any R.E.M. song on either chart. It reached number 19 on the UK singles chart, No. 16 in Canada and No. 11 in Australia.[25]

With "Losing My Religion", R.E.M. crossed over into mainstream pop culture.[27]Asked if he was worried the success might alienate older fans, Buck toldRolling Stone,"The people that changed their minds because of 'Losing My Religion' can just kiss my ass."[28]Mills said R.E.M. understood they had a worldwide hit when they heard it on local radio in the jungle ofParaguay.[29]Years later,[when?]Mills said: "Without 'Losing My Religion',Out of Timewould have sold two or three million [copies], instead of the ten [million copies] or so it did. But the phenomenon that is a worldwide hit is an odd thing to behold. Basically that record was a hit in almost every civilised country in the world. "[7]

Reception

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Caren Myers fromMelody Makernamed the song "Single of the Week", writing that it "occupies a smaller, more intimate space, delicately picking a path with mandolins and acoustic guitars, soothed by the mournful sweep of a string section. Deceptive echoes of 'World Leader Pretend' dissolve on second listen as the song wraps itself around the impossibility of communication with glancing but painful accuracy. Stipe's writing is getting sparser and more intense, riddled with oblique insights but unwilling to point out where. This is R.E.M. at their most tender and unsettling, Stipe's careworn voice filled with inexplicable sadness, but as warm and familiar as ever. "[30]A reviewer fromMusic & Mediawrote: "Hearing such a beautiful song with a striking mandolin arrangement, provides an ample religious substitute."[31]Terry Staunton fromNMEfound that it "is likely to be read as self-reflection on R.E.M.'s position in the worldwide musical scheme of things, doubt and discomfort at the prospect of unwanted disciples".[32]

Parry Gettelman fromOrlando Sentinelwrote that R.E.M. had returned to its "trademark jangle", and that "Stipe touches again on what seems to be ambivalence about his role as a pop star, and about the need to communicate with an audience".[33]David FrickefromRolling Stonefelt that "there is melancholy in the air: in the doleful strings and teardrop mandolin".[34]Celia FarberfromSpinpraised it as "a gorgeous, gorgeous song" and said "I actually get a hot/cold flash and have to play the song about 30 more times" when she hears the opening lyrics.[35]

"Losing My Religion" placed second in theVillage VoicePazz & Jopannual critics' poll, behindNirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit".[21]At the1992 Grammy Awards,it earned several nominations, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year,[36]and won forBest Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with VocalsandBest Short Form Music Video.[37]In 2004,Rolling Stonelisted "Losing My Religion" at No. 169 on its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time",writing that" never before had Michael Stipe sounded so vulnerable, yearning, and articulate ".[27]In 2007, VH1 named it the ninth-best song of the 90s,[38]and in 2009,Blenderranked it No. 79 on its list of the "500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born".[39]TheRock and Roll Hall of Fameincluded it in its 2004 list of "500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll".[40]

Personnel

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Personnel adapted fromOut of Timeliner notes,[41]except where noted

R.E.M.

Additional musicians

Track listing

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All songs were written byBill Berry,Peter Buck,Mike Mills,andMichael Stipeexcept where noted.

7-inch

  1. "Losing My Religion" – 4:29
  2. "Rotary Eleven" – 2:32

12-inch and compact disc

  1. "Losing My Religion" – 4:29
  2. "Rotary Eleven" – 2:32
  3. "After Hours"(Lou Reed) (Live)1– 2:08

UK "Collector's Edition" CD one

  1. "Losing My Religion" – 4:29
  2. "Stand"(Live)1– 3:21
  3. "Turn You Inside-Out" (Live)1– 4:23
  4. "World Leader Pretend" (Live)1– 4:24

UK "Collector's Edition" CD two

  1. "Losing My Religion" – 4:29
  2. "Fretless" – 4:51
  3. "Losing My Religion" (Liveacoustic version/Rockline) – 4:38
  4. "Rotary Eleven" – 2:32

Notes

  • 1. Taken from the live performance video,Tourfilm.

Charts

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Certifications

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Certifications and sales for "Losing My Religion"
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil)[79] Platinum 60,000‡
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[80] Platinum 90,000‡
Italy (FIMI)[81] 3× Platinum 300,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ)[82] 3× Platinum 90,000‡
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[83] 3× Platinum 180,000‡
Portugal (AFP)[84] 4× Platinum 40,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI)[85] 2× Platinum 1,200,000‡
United States (RIAA)[86]
Physical single 		Gold 500,000^
United States (RIAA)[87]
Digital single 		Platinum 1,000,000‡

^Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

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Release dates and formats for "Losing My Religion"
Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
Europe February 19, 1991
  • 7-inch vinyl
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
 Warner Bros. [43]
United States
  • 7-inch vinyl
  • cassette
 [14]
United Kingdom February 25, 1991
  • 7-inch vinyl
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
 [88]

Covers

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Italian metal bandGravewormcovered the song on their 2003 albumEngraved in Black.Finn Hudson(Cory Monteith) covered the song in the 2010Gleeepisode "Grilled Cheesus".[89]The song reached number 60 in the US on theBillboardHot 100and number 47 on theCanadian Hot 100.[90][91]Tori Amosrecorded a cover version which appeared in the filmHigher Learning.Italian bandLacuna Coilcovered the song on their 2012 albumDark Adrenaline.American heavy metal bandTriviumcovered the song on their 2013 albumVengeance Falls.[92]Canadian singer-songwriterDan Mangancovered the song on his 2020 albumThief.[93]Hootie & the Blowfishcovered the song for the 2020 reissue of their 2019 albumImperfect Circle.In a 2020 interview, guitarist Matt Bryan emphasized how influential R.E.M. had been in the band's development.[94][95]

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