Join Me
Join Me in Death is the first single from the second studio album Razorblade Romance. It was also released as "Join Me", since the band wasn't allowed to include 'Death' in the title for the US version.
This is the band's best-known song in Europe, after being featured in the sci-fi movie 'The Thirteenth Floor'.
There are four versions of the music video: three 'laser versions', two include different scenes from 'The Thirteenth Floor' movie, and the fourth- the 'ice version', with a vague Romeo and Juliet theme.
Its had some controversy regarding its subject matter: "A couple of people blamed me for a suicide someone committed over here saying that 'Join Me' is an invitation to kill yourself", frontman Ville Valo told UK magazine Metal Hammer in 2003. "What I was trying to do was sort of rip-off 'Don't Fear the Reaper' by Blue Öyster Cult, making a rock track of Romeo And Juliet." Lyrics such as 'Would you die tonight for love?' have added to the misconception that the song is about suicide, which Valo denies, claiming the lyrics refer to giving things up for the sake of love. "It's not about suicide, that song. It's about giving it all away," Valo told the magazine Modern Fix.
