"Type" is the first single from

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's second album '' Time's Up'' released in

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of humanity on Earth, astrophysicis ...

Music video

Type's music video is set in a run down junkyard styled setting outside of

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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 {{metal-song-stub