| "La Mer" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Nine Inch Nails | |
| from the album The Fragile | |
| Released | September 21, 1999 |
| Recorded | Nothing Studios New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Length | 3:49 |
| Label | Nothing Records |
| Songwriter(s) | Trent Reznor |
| Producer(s) | Trent Reznor, Alan Moulder |
"La Mer" is the eleventh track off Nine Inch Nails' third studio album The Fragile. It shares it's melodic tone with the second track of the right disc "Into the Void" of the same album.
Production
editReznor has stated that he had been inspired by the classical composer Claude Debussy when writing music who also had written a song of the same name and the songs both follow a similar flow of a crescendo.
"Debussy. I was sitting in Big Sur, losing my mind. His contribution was that you need to be regimented, with whatever you decide to do. When I was sitting there, Debussy and I had a mind meld for a second. I felt the need to plagiarize the title, "La Mer". He revolutionized the Mozart bullshit world of everything was rigid and stabilized."[1]
Reznor had written the song whilst staying at a rented home in Big Sur, California. Although for many years it was thought that during that stay he'd been writing music that would then appear on The Fragile, he'd confessed in a show in Mansfield, MA in 2009 he'd been contemplating Suicide. La Mer is what had been produced from those thoughts and is not played typically at any Nine Inch Nails shows due to this fact.[2]
The songs lyrics are sung in Creole French, and is one of the few songs to not have Reznor as a sole vocalist. It includes the same motif as found in The Downward Spiral "Nothing Can Stop me now".
Personnel
edit- Vocals - Denise Milfort
- Drums - Bill Rieflin
- Cello - Wilie
- ^ Dumbling, Keith (1999-12-22). "Trent Reznor Chat". www.theninhotline.com. Retrieved 2024-09-26.
- ^ La Mer Performance on YouTube