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"Every Day Is Exactly The Same" is the sixth track on the 2005 release With Teeth. It seems to be about addiction and overcoming it. There are also possible references to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. It is also notable that the drums (performed by Dave Grohl) are quite similar to the drum track to "My Hero", also performed by Grohl. In 2007 it was nominated for the Grammy for "Best Hard Rock Performance" but lost it to "Woman" by Wolfmother.
The song opens with distant, warbled piano notes and ambient noise before the verse suddenly kicks in with thumping live drums, a distorted bassline, and Reznor's vocals. There is separate electronic percussion syncopated with the live drums, deepening the rhythm. Halfway through the first verse, a rapidly-strummed thick guitar enters, sweeping along with the driving bassline. The guitars intensify in the choruses, pounding out the same single high note as Reznor wails against his own homogeny. This structure remains until the bridge, when the bass and guitar suddenly drop out, leaving only the percussion and spare, moody piano notes. The entrance of a high-pitched, tremolo-ing guitar and Reznor's scream of "I don't know…what else I can do!" drive the song into its vocal-layered final chorus and eventual echo-laden percussion outro.
There were plans for a music video to be directed by Francis Lawrence, edited by Mario Mares, with Max Goldman as director of photography, but it was scrapped during post-production, not long after details about the video leaked to the web. Reznor commented on the scrapped video on Echoing the Sound: "Regarding EDIETS, there will be no video released. I made a mistake. The good news is that mistake has acted as a catalyst for me to rethink a number of decisions regarding the direction and position of the band I've made and will be making in the future. The enemies from outside and within have been identified and I am back on track."
Rob Sheridan commented many years later on his Instagram account: "Since I know someone will ask about this again: I never saw the discarded EDIETS music video. I was on set for the filming, the set looked cool, Trent didn’t like the way the video turned out for whatever reason, it was canned. When a musician has another artist - a director, in this case - interpret their work, it doesn’t always turn out the way the musician envisioned it, or doesn’t fit the music the way it should, or the concept on paper doesn’t translate to camera, or it was poorly executed, or the lighting is unflattering — there are a million ways it can end up not right, sometimes it’s just not right, these things happen a lot. No one will ever see it, no one needs to see it, the end.
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