"Type" is the first single from
Living Colour's second album ''
Time's Up'' released in
1990.
Music video
Type's music video is set in a run down junkyard styled setting outside of
New York City
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where the band is playing. Throughout the video, images reflect technology, corporate greed, fundamentalist Christianity via televangelism, politics, and poverty have become the norm. It also reflects how regular people are trying so hard to get what they can't have, but the rich can easily obtain.
Charts
References
Living Colour songs
1990 singles
Songs written by Vernon Reid
Song recordings produced by Ed Stasium
1990 songs
Epic Records singles
Songs about the media
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