"Closer" had some radio airplay before it was released as a single. "Closer to God" was also released as a promotional single separate from "Closer", mainly intended for club-play. You can fuck to it, you can dance to it and you can break shit to it." Īlthough there were numerous remixes of "Closer", the version titled "Closer to God" was heavily reworked, as the vocals were completely re-recorded and the overall song retained only a few elements from the original version. Those are pure fuck beats-Trent Reznor knew what he was doing. Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, said of the song, "Come on dude: 'I wanna fuck you like an animal'? That's the all-time fuck song. 2 on AOL's "69 Sexiest Songs of All Time" due to the explicit frankness of the chorus.
93 in its countdown of the "100 Greatest Songs of the Past 25 Years." The song was ranked at No. Lyrically, "Closer" is a song about self-hatred and obsession to Reznor's dismay, the song was widely misinterpreted as a lust anthem due to its chorus, which famously includes the lines "I wanna fuck you like an animal / I wanna feel you from the inside". Radio edits of "Closer" were created by muting the vocal track for the duration of each deleted obscenity. The production features sound effects such as a bass squelch, synth echo, and feedback growl. The samples were then combined with beats produced by a Roland R-70 drum machine. The samples were produced using two Akai S1100 samplers, each with an expander, essentially making up four samplers. The drum track of "Closer" is built around a heavily modified sample of the bass drum from the 1977 Iggy Pop song " Nightclubbing", which was performed by a Roland drum machine. "Closer" uses elements of funk, avant-garde, and electronic music. "Closer" has been described as industrial rock and alternative rock. Censored versions of the song and its Mark Romanek-directed music video received substantial airplay on radio and MTV. Although the song addresses themes such as self-hatred and obsession, its sexually aggressive chorus led to widespread misinterpretation of the song as an anthem of lust, which helped it become Nine Inch Nails' most successful single up to that time and cemented Trent Reznor's status as an industrial rock icon. The single is the ninth official Nine Inch Nails release, making it "Halo 9" in the band's official Halo numbering system.Ī promotional single provided by the label to radio stations included both long and short vocal-censored (i.e. Most versions of the single are titled " Closer to God", a rare example in music of a single's title differing from the title of its A-side ("Closer to God" is also the title of an alternate version of "Closer" featured on the single, which was also released as a separate promotional single for club-play). Released on May 30, 1994, it is considered one of Nine Inch Nails' signature songs and remains their most popular song.
" Closer" is a song by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released as the second single on their second studio album, The Downward Spiral (1994).
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