Better Export for You: The initial Japanese release added "Bashi-Bazouk", the B-side of "Digging in the Dirt", to the end of the album as a bonus track. However, it turned out that the song was included without Gabriel's permission, resulting in the album being withdrawn and reissued without it.
Creator Breakdown: As mentioned on the main page, the album's content was influenced by the fallout of Gabriel's divorce from his first wife, his breakup with Rosanna Arquette, and his estrangement from his first daughter.
Creator-Driven Successor: Given that the entire album is more or less a darker take on So, cases of this inevitably abound.
"Steam" is overtly one to "Sledgehammer" and "Big Time", in that it's a throwback to '60s soul and '70s funk on an album otherwise defined by a mix of art pop and African folk music.
"Kiss That Frog" also acts as a successor of sorts to So's funkier pieces, with it being an upbeat love song with heavy use of phallic metaphors in the vein of "Sledgehammer".
"Fourteen Black Paintings" can be considered one to "We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37)", with it being a mostly-instrumental mood piece tucked near the end of its respective album.
This even extends to the music videos, with "Steam" and "Kiss That Frog" following up on the stop-motion driven videos for "Sledgehammer" and "Big Time" by making as much use of then-cutting-edge CGI animation technology as possible.
Follow the Leader: "Steam" was deliberately made in the style of "Sledgehammer" and "Big Time" to ride off of the continued success of those singles.
Sequel Gap: Released six years after So, continuing the trend of each Peter Gabriel album taking longer to come out than the last. The trend would only get worse, with Up taking a full decade to come out after Us, and I/O still being in production to this day.
What Could Have Been: Along with So, Us was chosen by famed audiophile label Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab to receive an in-house remaster and reissue as part of the label's "Ultradisc II" line of 24-karat gold CD releases, under the catalog number UDCD 717. However, for reasons unknown, the plan fell through, and neither So nor Us were touched by the label.
Acting for Two: Naturally, all the actors play both themselves and their counterparts.
Actor Allusion: Jordan Peele voices a dying rabbit as his director's cameo, and has admitted in interviews that he is afraid of them. He also voiced a violent and chaotic rabbit, "Bunny", in Toy Story 4, another 2019 film.
Billing Displacement: Elisabeth Moss and Tim Heidecker are billed above Shahadi Wright Joseph and Evan Alex for their minor side characters, whereas Joseph and Alex are among the film's leads.
Playing Against Type: Comedian Tim Heidecker, of Tim & Eric, plays Josh, who is in his usual wheelhouse as a sardonic and unhappy slacker, and Josh's doppelgänger Tex, a mute and vicious beast-like killer. This has an aspect of Meta Casting, as Jordan Peele's career moved from comedy to writing and directing horror.
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