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"Down in It" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released in 1989. Released as the project's debut single, the song was the first to be written by Trent Reznor, the only constant member of the act. It was released as a teaser single prior to the debut album, ''Pretty Hate Machine''. ==Song information== "Down in It" has been covered by Eric Gorfain, The Meeks, Dead When I Found Her, Sasha and Tiga. The song's lyrics share similarities with those of "Only," a track found on the album ''With Teeth'', released in 2005. The opening verse of ''Down in It'' contains the lyric "Just then a tiny little dot caught my eye,"〔"Down in It"'s lyrics〕 while the second verse of ''Only'' opens with the lyric "Well, the tiniest little dot caught my eye."〔"Only"'s lyrics〕 In "Only," Trent elaborates on what that dot was ("a scab trying to seal itself shut"), while both songs also include several references to personal growth and change: "fading away" from the kind of person the protagonist once assumed himself to be and an uncertainty as to who they will inevitably become. A remix of "Down in It" was used in an early 1990s Gatorade television advertisement. Originally, "Steppin' Out by Joe Jackson was to be featured in the commercial, but Jackson declined the offer. Reznor unsuccessfully sued the production company who created the commercial for copyright infringement after he saw it in 1993, accusing them for illegal use of the song without permission.〔Berger, Joshua and Lengvenis, Eric. ''(NINE INCH NAILS: AN INTERVIEW WITH TRENT REZNOR )''. ''Plasm'' (1994). Retrieved 2011-06-04.〕 Around the time of the single's release, the band lip-synched a performance of the song on the dance music program ''Dance Party USA''.〔Battan, Carrie. ''(Watch Rare, Amazing Footage of Nine Inch Nails Performing on Dance Party USA in the late 1980s ).'' Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 2011-30-03〕 The video was rediscovered in 2012 and went viral after being uploaded to YouTube. Trent Reznor responded to the video's re-discovery on his Twitter account stating that the band had decided to appear on the show after deciding it was "the most absurd choice they could come up with at the time" for a television program they would be interested in performing in, and were surprised when they were actually booked to appear on the program.〔 Reznor has mentioned in an interview that the song was influenced heavily by "Dig It", a song by Skinny Puppy from their 1986 album ''Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Holland Interviews )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Down in It」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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