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If they even know I exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The far reaching success of the song, however, was largely a surprise to those involved\u2026 The instrumentation and catchy hook were unconventional for a lead single at the time\u2026 Warner Brothers didn\u2019t even want to release it as a single&#8230; Upon seeing the initial version of his music video for the song, director Tarsem Singh reportedly puked\u2026 But more on that later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Written in a Few Hours<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The creation of R.E.M.\u2019s song was, in some respects, an accident. If you\u2019re familiar with \u201cLosing My Religion\u201d you\u2019ll likely recall the relatable, catchy lyrics. The initial idea for the song, in actuality, started the mandolin. In an effort to better himself at the instrument, guitarist Peter Buck unintentionally discovered the tune while playing back recordings of his practice sessions.<\/p>\n<p>From there, the rest of the song was written rather quickly. The riff and chorus sections were already captured in the mandolin incident, and the verses fell into the typical mode structure that R.E.M. apparently \u201cused a lot,\u201d as Buck had put it in an interview with Guitar School Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the band\u2019s verses often go from, \u201cone minor to another, kind of like those \u2018Drive 8\u2019 chords. You can\u2019t really say anything bad about E minor, A minor, D, and G \u2013 I mean, they\u2019re just good chords.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Buck, the next two instruments to join the mandolin in the song\u2019s creation proccess were the 1) electric bass and 2) drums. At this point, it had a \u201chollow feel to it\u201d with \u201cabsolutely no midrange.\u201d That\u2019s when they brought in Peter Holsapple, their touring guitarist, to add acoustic guitar.<\/p>\n<p>Buck elaborates: \u201cIt was really cool: Peter and I would be in our little booth, sweating away, and Bill [Berry] and Mike [Stipe] would be out there in the other room going at it. It just had a really magical feel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To Buck, the writing process was quick, a sentiment echoed by other bandmates in separate sources. Buck remembers that, after the band\u2019s first play-through attempt, Stipe had come up with lyrics \u201cwithin the hour.\u201d One thing is clear: multiple members of R.E.M. felt that they had essentially lucked-out, captured in Buck\u2019s explanation: \u201cTo me, \u2018Losing My Religion\u2019 feels like some kind of archetype that was floating around in space that we managed to lasso. If only all songwriting was this easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recorded in Fewer Shirts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 2-month recording period for the song started in September of 1990 at Bearsville \u2018Studio A,\u2019 in Woodstock, NY. R.E.M. was going for a \u201clive feel,\u201d and both the vocal and mandolin tracks strive for this goal by being recorded in one take.<\/p>\n<p>Buck further admits, \u201cIf you listen closely to the mandolin on one of the verses there&#8217;s a place where I muffled it, and I thought, well, I can&#8217;t go back and punch it up, because it&#8217;s supposed to be a live track. That was the whole idea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Created by Mark Bingham, the string sections were captured at Soundscape Studios by a portion of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>Producer Scott Litt remembers \u201cmixing &#8216;Losing My Religion&#8217; at Paisley Park. I had Bill Berry nudging up to me and saying, &#8216;You know, I think the drums could be louder&#8217;, and he was spot on. The strings and the vocals are maybe more memorable, but the drums are really important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He recalls that even other parts of the song were doubled, like the mandolin section; hence, there was space for the final mix to be \u201cdrums boosted.\u201d Ultimately, that became the last step in creating the<\/p>\n<p>Mike Mills\u2019 bass playing was a supposed reflection of Fleetwood Mac\u2019s bassist John McVie, achieved by trying to imitate the \u201cdriving effect\u201d of the latter\u2019s playing style.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to the vocals, there\u2019s an interesting juxtaposition of moods when comparing the writing process to the recording process. You\u2019ll recall the sentiment from our earlier discussion about just how quickly the song came together for the band members, and how Stipe had the lyrics \u201cwithin the hour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The vocal recordings, however, were a different ball game all-together, as explained by Stipe. Ultimately, he was surrounded by stress on multiple fronts during that day: an insanely hot and \u201cstuffy\u201d heat wave in New York during recording, a studio engineer that \u201cseemed out of it,\u201d and his personal frustration with not singing a take that met the \u2018high bar\u2019 set by his lyrics. The solution, intended or not: taking his shirt off.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if he achieved the following feat directly after removing that piece of clothing, or whether he tried more recordings first, but ultimately: his final vocals were made in one take, just like the mandolin part.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Stipe made a comment in the liner notes of a later compilation album, \u2018Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982-2011,\u2019 that further seems to deviate from the rest of the band\u2019s view that they had luckily \u2018lasso\u2019d a song from the cosmos\u2019 and captured it into a playable song.<\/p>\n<p>He explains the shirtless recording experience in an almost \u201claid back\u201d manner as opposed to the stressful situation that he had mentioned above in the stuffy studio, saying: &#8220;I remember that I sang this in one go with my shirt off. I don&#8217;t think any of us had any idea it would ever be &#8230; anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Believed-In\u2019 by Fewer Still<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The varying recollections of the band members weren\u2019t totally out of sync, however: after all, the band was supposedly \u201csurprised\u201d when the label chose it as the first single for the album.<\/p>\n<p>Buck clarifies that even Warner Brothers wasn\u2019t in favor of the song being a \u2018single\u2019 at all, and the acting VP of Product Management at Warner Bros. \u2013 Steven Baker \u2013 recalls \u201clong, drawn-out discussions\u201d about the track\u2019s release as a single.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Critically Praised by Many<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, R.E.M. and Warner alike, did not anticipate that the song would sell over 10 million copies after its release in February 1991 \u2014 about 4 months after it had wrapped recording in October the previous year at Bear Studios in New York.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of radio placement to promote the single, Warner set its sights on \u2018campus,\u2019 \u2018modern rock,\u2019 and \u201calbum-oriented rock\u201d stations; they then moved towards American Top 40 stations, where the song \u201ctook off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A director of one of these Top 40 stations explained that the song was \u201chard to program\u201d: \u201cyou can&#8217;t play L.L. Cool J behind it. But it&#8217;s a real pop record\u2014you can dance to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLosing My Religion\u201d helped shoot the following \u2018Out of Time\u2019 album to \u201cinstant\u201d success. The song itself reached \u2018Number 4\u2019 in the US, garnered 2<\/p>\n<p>Grammys in 1992 (notably for \u2018Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal\u2019), and received a number of accolades for its music video, released the same year as the single.<\/p>\n<p>The initial idea for the video originated with its director, Tarsem Singh, who had just done En Vogue&#8217;s &#8220;Hold On&#8221; and Suzanne Vega\u2019s \u201cTired of Sleeping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Based on Gabriel Garcia Marquez\u2019s novel, \u2018A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings,\u2019 Singh\u2019s first go at this music video featured Michael Stipe in only \u201cseated\u201d poses: the singer\u2019s iconic \u2018dancing\u2019 wasn\u2019t part of the \u2018original\u2019 idea.<\/p>\n<p>While watching the playback for his video in distress, Singh reportedly removed himself and threw up in the bathroom. It was then when Stipe offered to try and dance.<\/p>\n<p>While there was no direct choreography planned, a fact which is emulated in his free-flowing performance, Stipe explained that his sublime movements were derived from Sinead O&#8217;Connor in \u201cThe Emperor&#8217;s New Clothes,\u201d and the performances of David Byrne&#8217;s \u201cOnce In A Lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of the six \u2018Moonmen\u2019 won at the MTV Video Music Awards, \u201cLosing My Religion\u201d notably grabbed the positions for \u201cVideo of the Year\u201d and \u201cBreakthrough Video.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of the many artists to cover the song, you may recognize names like Tori Amos, Lacuna Coil, Trivium, and Swandive. 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