Depeche Mode's 'Never Let Me Down Again' streams rise more than 200% after TheLastOfUs premiere:
[Warning: this story contains spoilers for The Last of Us Episode 1,"When You're Lost in the Darkness."] On The Last of Us, Depeche Mode's 1987 track"Never Let Me Down Again" signaled trouble. For the Music for the Masses single, the hit HBO post-apocalyptic drama signaled a more than 200% increase in streams after Sunday's series premiere.
After the live-action adaptation of the acclaimed PlayStation and Naughty Dog video game premiered Sunday — drawing HBO's second-largest debut since 2010, behind only Game of Thrones spinoff House of the Dragon —"Never Let Me Down Again" plays more than tripled in on-demand U.S. streams, according to music sales tracker Luminate . Streams increased by 220.5% overnight, rising from 26,000 on the day of the January 15th premiere to 83,000 on January 16th.
The official Depeche Mode YouTube channel has even updated the music video, which you can watch below, to include the subtitle"." "A lot of '80s music is chipper and fun, but with this, I was looking for an up-tempo 80s song that had a darkness to it lyrically... What 'Never Let Me Down Again' is about is 'I'm taking a ride with my best friend'— he was singing about drugs, it was a song about addiction," series co-creator and Episode 1 writer/director Craig Mazin explained on the HBO Last of Us podcast.
Mazin continued:"Now, the point is, you're 'never gonna let me down'? They are gonna let each other down, and then they're not, and then they are, and then they're not. That thought was a really interesting way in."0commentsThe Last of Us Episode 1:"When You're Lost in the Darkness" is now streaming. Episode 2:"Infected" premieres Sunday, January 22nd at 9:00pm ET/6:00pm PT on HBO and HBO Max. Follow for more The Last of Us on ComicBook.
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