REM’s “Losing My Religion” hits 1 billion views on YouTube

REM’s iconic 1991 hit “Losing My Religion” surpassed one billion views on YouTube.

Despite the video being from the early 1990s, it didn’t make it to YouTube until two decades later, in 2011.

Directed by Tarsem Singh (“The Cell”) before becoming a director, the clip is one of the few in which singer Michael Stipe appears singing the lyrics. At nearly five minutes, it also features REM musicians playing, as well as scenes of characters from different religions from the historic past.

Singh told Rolling Stone in 2016 that the video was inspired by Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s short story “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings,” in which a figure that appears to be an angel mysteriously appears in a small seaside town. In the clip, Michael Stipe and some characters appear with angel wings.

The “Losing My Religion” video won two Grammys and the Video of the Year trophy at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards.

And now it has become the sixth clip of the 90s to reach 1 billion views on YouTube, after Guns N ‘Roses’ “November Rain” (1992), Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (1991) and “Zumbi” ( 1991). ) by the Cranberries, “I Will Always Love You” (1992) by Whitney Houston and “Barbie Girl” (1997) by Aqua.

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