In Your Room (Depeche Mode song)

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"In Your Room"
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Single by Depeche Mode
from the album Songs of Faith and Devotion
B-side "Higher Love" (Adrenaline mix)
Released10 January 1994 (1994-01-10) [1]
Studio
Genre
Length
  • 4:52 (single mix)
  • 6:26 (album version)
Label Mute
Songwriter(s) Martin Gore
Producer(s)
Depeche Mode singles chronology
"Condemnation"
(1993)		"In Your Room"
(1994)		"Barrel of a Gun"
(1997)
Music video
"In Your Room" on YouTube

"In Your Room" is a song by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released on 10 January 1994 as the fourth and final single from their eighth studio album, Songs of Faith and Devotion (1993). The song reached number eight on the UK Singles Chart and peaked at number two in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. It is the last single to feature Alan Wilder as a member before his departure in 1995.

Contents

Depeche Mode's first appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman , filmed during a stop on their Singles Tour, featured an abbreviated version of "In Your Room". [4]

Critical reception

Larry Flick from Billboard noted that the song "sees the band move further into dance-rock territory." He added, "Typically haunting vocals and intense lyrics are enhanced by rugged beats and a quasi-industrial guitar sound that will ring true in the hearts of alternative DJs." [3] David Fricke from Melody Maker wrote, "'In Your Room' is sleight-of-schtick that slips under your skin; assembly-line electro-groaning, errant feedback cries panning across the stereo spectrum, earthquake sequencer rumbling, what sounds like a real drum march complete with hissing cymbal." [5] Martin Aston from Music Week gave it five out of five. [6] Another editor, Alan Jones, named it Pick of the Week, saying, "Less obviously a rock record than some of their recent releases, the new Depeche Mode single is a fairly dark but nonethe less quite commercial record in which some dense guitar work is punctuated by a pleasant chorus." [7] Sam Wood from Philadelphia Inquirer found that it "seem to be about divine visitation." [8]

Music video

The accompanying music video for "In Your Room" (using the Zephyr mix) was directed by Anton Corbijn and features references to the videos for "Strangelove" (a model posing in her underwear), "I Feel You" (a woman dressed as Dave Gahan, wearing a pinstripe suit, sunglasses, and a wig), "Walking in My Shoes" (the bird costume), "Halo" (the people wearing clown makeup), "Enjoy the Silence" (a woman dressed as a king, holding the folding chair while walking in the road), "Personal Jesus" (a woman wearing a cowboy hat like the band members did), "Condemnation" (the white dress with ribbons on it that one of the women wears) and "Never Let Me Down Again" (tea drinking). Corbijn described the video as a retrospective of the work he had done with Depeche Mode. He said he made it that way because he wasn't sure if he was going to do another Depeche Mode video after it. [9] He later elaborated stating, that this video was made during the rise of band troubles and of Gahan's drug addiction so it was uncertain whether the band would still exist for another video to be made.

The video features Alexandra Kummer, who sometimes is partially clothed. Because of the partial nudity and scenes of bondage, the video only aired after prime time on MTV in the US.

Track listings

All songs were written by Martin Gore.

Charts

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