Going Backwards

"Going Backwards" is a song by English electronic music band Depeche Mode from their fourteenth studio album Spirit.The cover art was designed by Anton Corbijn.[3] Martin Gore said in an interview with Amazon Music Germany "an album starts taking shape, for me, really, when you have about four songs together, and we had gone down a cynical path.'"[4][5] The theme of the song is the idea is about the regression of society as well as technology's role in the regression, but Gore also believed that "new technologies would bring the world together—the world would be united by them.We were all enthusiastic about the Arab Spring, when people started organizing themselves with social media and fought for their freedom.
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