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{{short description|Nine Inch Nails song}}
{{Infobox song
| name     = Gave Up
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| artist   = [[Nine Inch Nails]]
| EP       = [[Broken (Nine Inch Nails EP)|Broken]]
| released = {{Start date|1992|9|22}}
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| genre    = [[Industrial metal]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://drownedinsound.com/releases/9576/reviews/1680239-nine-inch-nails-live--beside-you-in-time-dvd |title=Nine Inch Nails - Live: Beside You In Time (DVD) |last=Nettleton |first=Chris |date=March 5, 2007 |access-date=December 25, 2016 |publisher=[[Drowned in Sound]] |archive-date=December 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181215121319/http://drownedinsound.com/releases/9576/reviews/1680239-nine-inch-nails-live--beside-you-in-time-dvd |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| length   = {{Duration|m=4|s=8}}
| label    = [[Nothing Records|Nothing]], [[TVT Records|TVT]], [[Interscope Records|Interscope]]
| writer   = [[Trent Reznor]]
| producer = Trent Reznor, [[Flood (producer)|Flood]]
}}
"'''Gave Up'''" is a song by American [[industrial rock]] band [[Nine Inch Nails]]. Written by frontman [[Trent Reznor]] and co-produced by [[Flood (producer)|Flood]], the song serves as the sixth track of Nine Inch Nails' 1992 EP, ''[[Broken (Nine Inch Nails EP)|Broken]]''. The song is noted for its multiple music videos and became a concert favorite during the [[Nine Inch Nails live performances|band's live performances]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.treblezine.com/celebrate-the-catalog-nine-inch-nails/ | title=Celebrate the Catalog: Nine Inch Nails | publisher=Treblezine | date=March 2, 2012 | access-date=May 28, 2013 | author=Blyweiss, Adam}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.deliriumsrealm.com/nine-inch-nails/ | title=NIN at the Electric Factory 5/19 | publisher=Delirium's Realm. | access-date=May 28, 2013}}</ref>  The video featuring [[Marilyn Manson]] was filmed at the house where [[Sharon Tate]] was murdered by members of the [[Manson family]].<ref>{{cite web |title=This Nine Inch Nails Video Was Shot At The Scene of An Infamous Murder |url=https://gizmodo.com/this-nine-inch-nails-video-was-shot-at-the-scene-of-an-1646334249 |website=Gizmodo}}</ref>
==Music and lyrics==
The song is noted for its aggressive tone, fast tempo and [[heavy metal music|heavier]] use of guitars, in contrast to Reznor's [[dance music|dance]]-oriented previous songs from the album ''[[Pretty Hate Machine]]''. The song also features prominent use of [[Mellotron|Mellotron MKIV]], which was previously owned by [[The Beatles]]' [[Death of John Lennon|deceased frontman]] [[John Lennon]].<ref>{{cite magazine | title=The Pleasure of Pain | author=Hochman, Steve | magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=January 1993}}</ref> [[Robotic voice effects|Robotic vocal effects]] are also present in the song.<ref>Truesdell (2007), p. 198</ref>
Lyrically, the song addresses the themes of [[Solitude|isolation]], [[belongingness]], [[self-hatred]] and [[Suffering|agony]].<ref name="musicology">{{cite journal | url=https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/1811/52949/EMR000124a-Brown.pdf | title=Artist autonomy in a digital era: The case of Nine Inch Nails | author=Brown, Steven C. | journal=Empirical Musicology Review | year=2011 | volume=6 | issue=4 | pages=199| doi=10.18061/1811/52949 | hdl=1811/52949 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | title=Broken review | journal=[[CMJ]] |date=December 1992}}</ref> Reznor's [[angst]]-filled lyrics in this song, such as "After everything I've done I hate myself for what I've become" was regarded as a solidification of his status as "the dark lord of doom."<ref name="musicology" /><ref>{{cite journal | title=Interview with Trent Reznor | author=Rees, Paul | journal=[[Kerrang!]] |date=December 1999}}</ref><ref>Smithouser and Waliszewski (1998) p.214</ref>
==Music videos==
{{main|Broken (1993 film)}}
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Two different videos exist for "Gave Up". One is footage of the band featuring [[Marilyn Manson]] performing the song at the Le Pig studio at [[10050 Cielo Drive]], where NIN recorded [[The Downward Spiral]] and parts of [[Broken (Nine Inch Nails album)|Broken]] (directed by [[Jon Reiss]]). The other one is the original footage of the finale to the ''Broken'' movie.
== In popular culture ==
The song was extensively played during the shooting of the ''[[Lost Highway (film)|Lost Highway]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s bowling alley scene, by the demand of the director [[David Lynch]].<ref>Donnelly (2005), p.25</ref>
==References==
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===Bibliography===
*{{cite book | title=The spectre of sound: music in film and television | publisher=BFI | author=Donnelly, Kevin J. | year=2005 | isbn=1844570258}}
* {{cite book | title=Chart Watch: From the Editor's of Focus on the Family's Plugged in | url=https://archive.org/details/chartwatchfromed0000smit | url-access=registration | publisher=Tyndale House Publishers | author=Smithouser, Bob and Bob Waliszewski | year=1997 | isbn=156179628X}}
* {{cite book | title=Mastering Digital Audio Production: The Professional Music Workflow with Mac OS X | publisher=John Wiley & Sons | author=Truesdell, Cliff | year=2007 | isbn=978-0470165768}}
==External links==
* [http://www.nin.com Official Nine Inch Nails website]
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