Released May 3, 2005 Label Nothing, Interscope | Length 5:15 Writer(s) Trent Reznor | |
Genre Industrial rock, trip hop Producer(s) Trent Reznor, Alan Moulder | ||
"All the Love in the World" is a song by industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails. It appears on the 2005 release With Teeth.
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Musical structure
The song, which features Dave Grohl on percussion, begins with a "wet drum beat", as described by David Raposa of Pitchfork. Trent Reznor's vocals start off mellow, sullen and pensive and eventually go back and forth between falsetto vocals and screaming. Instrumentation includes piano loops and trip hop reminiscent beats.
Critical reception
David Browne of Entertainment Weekly praised the song, stating that "newfound expansiveness emerges in the glorious epic All the Love in the World, which shifts effortlessly from drum-and-bass tranquillity to acid-house beats and even finds Reznor singing in something resembling a romantic croon." David Raposa of Pitchfork interpreted the song as "a track that can easily be read as a response to his fading celebrity in the wake of the success of countless imitators." He also went on to criticize the track as "ninth-grade poetry" and "something that sounds like it would be played in an 80s goth club." Billboard ranked "All the Love in the World" as the most dramatic song on With Teeth, by specifically noting that "the remains of the overly dramatic mishmashed late 90's sound still surface ("All the Love in the World")". Marc Spitz of Spin mentioned the song as one of "gospel-piano prettiness." Mike Schiller of The A.V. Club wrote: "despite some seriously arrested development in the lyric department, the song traverses a ton of musical ground in a slow transformation from drum’n'bass-touched slow-burn to barreling-down-the-highway “Free Bird” jam, complete with tambourines and lots of multi-tracked vocals. Thomas Inskeep of Stylus described the song as "fairly subdued" and "as mournful as Reznor gets."
Live performance
"All the Love in the World", despite being from an album released eight years prior, was first played in concert November 5, 2013 at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas and has been played regularly on later dates of the tour.