"Black and White" is a single by the American

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. It is the first single from their second album, ''

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''. The music video for the song shows the band one by one waking up from a

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state of mind, beginning to perform and then slowly turning into robots, resembling those seen in the

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movies. The video was directed by

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Track listing

# "Black and White" # "Anything but This" # "Sweat of the Bud" (live)

''Black and White'' DVD

"Black and White" has also appeared in form of a DVD release which contained video for the track "Black and White", "Permanence" audio version and video snippets of " This Is Not", " Push It" and I'm with Stupid".

Chart performance

References

Static-X songs 2001 singles 2001 songs Warner Records singles Songs written by Tony Campos Songs written by Ken Jay Songs written by Wayne Static {{Metal-song-stub