Type (song)

For the Todrick Hall song, see Forbidden (Todrick Hall album).

"Type" is the first single from Living Colour's second album Time's Up released in 1990.

"Type"
Single by Living Colour
from the album Time's Up
Released	1990 (1990)
Recorded	1989–1990
Genre	Hard rock[1]
Length	4:45 (U.S. radio edit) 3:49 (U.K. DJ edit) 6:26 (album)
Label	Epic
Songwriter(s)	Vernon Reid
Producer(s)	Ed Stasium
Living Colour singles chronology
"Funny Vibe (remix)" (1989) "Type" (1990) "Love Rears Its Ugly Head" (1990)

Music video

Type's music video is set in a run down junkyard styled setting outside of New York City where the band is playing. Throughout the video, images reflect technology, corporate greed, fundamentalist Christianity via televangelism, politics, and poverty have become the norm. It also reflects how regular people are trying so hard to get what they can't have, but the rich can easily obtain.

Charts

Chart	Peak position
Australia (ARIA Charts)[2]	121
U.S. Mainstream Rock	5[3]
U.S. Modern Rock	3[4]