I Have NO Words | Nine Inch Nails - Closer | Reaction 

This song is about a person who is dealing with depression and self hatred and engages in depravity and sexual addiction to make themself feel happy. The whole album is about a downward spiral

As you were reading the intro facts, I kept thinking "he's not ready!" We danced so hard to this one back in the 90s - along with "Head Like a Hole!" 🙂❤🤘

I’m always amazed that Trent Reznor, lead singer, won an Oscar for the original score of Disney movie “Soul”

HAHAHAHA. Aw dude. What a way to start. At least you’re taking it seriously - lot of reactors immediately dismiss it, because it’s seriously unnerving. I’m with other commenters - avoid videos in generals, this band (like Tool) made anti-videos. As a lifelong NIN fan, if you wanna see what they’re about I’d go with these, in order: Head Like a Hole, Something I can Never Have, Burn, Mr. Self Destruct, I Do Not Want This, Just Like You Imagined, The Hand That Feeds, Only. But it’s legit nightmare music. Cathartic for some, a big NOPE for others. I find it beautiful.

You can't just jump into the Downward Spiral on one song.. the album needs listened from start to end. Its a story.. an emotion.. a feeling.. a lifestyle.. hate, aggression, fear.. this was Trents dark time. You can't process Closer without Eraser, or Reptile as you can't process Hurt without the Full Downward experience. His discography reflects his life, maturing as he ages in content.

The singer Trent Reznor wrote that song “ Hurt “ that Johnny Cash covered

Forgive me but when I saw you'd reacted to this I burst out laughing. Trent isn't exactly your Simon & Garfunkel is he 😄 "Head like a hole" by them is worth a listen. If you want to try industrial metal try Rammstein, you'll be safe with them 😉

I got a feeling the more you listen to this it will grow on you to me it's a part of my life i here it and i auto crank it.

I've seen NIN a dozen times! Had a shrine of Trent n the 90's. Lol. This is a deep and amazing rabbit hole to go through. Downward spiral, Pretty Hate Machine, The Fragile, Broken got me thru ALOT of dark times!!!!!!!! Trent was going thru dark places, hence Downward spiral...Something I Can Never Have, Terrible Lie, Reptile, Omg- everything Trent touched turned to gold!!! He is so talented in every way. Dont let this song detach u. He gets very very very deep. Its art and his darkness...Keep going!!! LMAOOOOO take your time collecting your thoughts. It was alternative grunge... You cant give up on one song...go deeper... listen to Something I Can Never Have and close your eyes. Listen to the album. U probably shouldn't have started with that song. Lol

Keep in mind, your reaction was exactly what they were going for.

This time period was a crazy adventure into the underground dance club scene for me. A time when DJ’s were analog and live sampling of loops was a pipe dream for most because it was ridiculous expensive. My favorite one here in Atlanta was mon Cherie’s the Chamber. Was an S&M dance club with dancers in cages, an adult toy store, a huge dance floor & stage with a light show better than most touring artists and regularly scheduled shows with whips, chains and candle wax. Like I said, CRAZY!! Imagine that remixed and blasting at around 300-500k Watts, pumping through 4 double 22* subs at the corners of the dance floor and concert speaker arrays flying above your head!

The music video for The Perfect Drug by Nine Inch Nails is amazing!

Industrial music was seriously underground. A fantastic rabbit hole. Basically punk meets disco, lol. Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Revolting Cocks, and the most industrial Skinny Puppy. Trent Reznor is on par with Mozart and Beethoven for musical genius

Lol, the look on your face once it started was priceless!

This song always takes me back. Trent Reznor is one of those artists who can never be matched.

Haha I usually introduce NIN slowly by playing Head Like a Hole.

You've already heard one of Trent's songs: Hurt. Johnny Cash made it his own, but it was originally and NIN song. Head Like a Hole: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ao-Sahfy7Hg.html , The Perfect Drug :ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dn3j6-yQKWQ.html , The Day the World Went Away ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TfKTgx15jag.html , and Leaving Hope: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-R-aEUmz32f4.html . I figure all that will confuse you even more!

Just like it's written during the video, these are _images du monde_ (pictures of the world) from the main character of the video point of view. About the origins of the group name, Trent Reznor (who is basically Nine Inch Nails when in studio, he choses the members of the band according to his current inspiration) said he checked out around 200 different names before having his thoughts fixated on "Nine Inch Nails" during two weeks. So he took the right decision.

You gotta listen to that whole album from start to finish. Straight up. It’s the only way.

According to Wikipedia Trent Reznor said this song is about self-hate and obsession and to Trent Rezros dismay people often confuse it for being about lust but it is actually a very self-destructive song.I think when he was addicted to cocaine he would often feel very self-destructive so this song is probably his way of channelling those feeling.

The name Nine Inch Nails doesn't have anything to do with the crucifixion, contrary to old as dirt fan theories. From American Songwriter Magazine: Though there’s been much debate about what inspired the name Nine Inch Nails, Reznor asserts that he chose the name for its simple abbreviation, NIN, and not for any specific meaning. Reznor revealed in a 1994 interview with Axcess that he came up with around 200 potential band names, but none of them stuck. “I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to think of band names, but usually you think you have a great one and you look at it the next day and it’s stupid,” he said at the time. “Nine Inch Nails lasted the two-week test, looked great in print, and could be abbreviated easily. It really doesn’t have any literal meaning. It seemed kind of frightening-tough and manly. It’s a curse trying to come up with band names.” Among the many theories fans came up with about the band name’s origin is that it was a reference to Jesus’ crucifixion on the cross, with nails that were supposedly nine inches long, or that the name was a nod to the nine-inch fingernails Freddy Kruger bore in A Nightmare on Elm Street. But Reznor put those rumors to rest in an interview for the book Electro Shock!: Groundbreakers of Synth Music published in 1999. “It was just a name,” he said of how he came up with Nine Inch Nails. “Everyone’s got their theory on that-nailing Jesus to the cross, or this and that. But it just came up. I liked it. I liked the way it looked in print, and it passed the two-week test.”

This video, despite its simplicity, is by far one of the best ever made, I remember that when I was a child in the 90s, the only channel that could transmit it was PlayboyTV because it was beaten from all sides. And it is that both the music and the video is sadism in its maximum splendor, but it is precisely the intention of Trent Reznor who created a masterpiece.

Hehe I’m not even done watching you react to it and I can’t help but laugh at the faces you make 😆 NIN is awesome! Trent is a amazing artist. You should listen to the full album like most it tells a story through the songs. Thanks for reacting!

You going to have to listen to this song several times to get the whole picture it's a lot to take in, I feel it a a statement to his creator, about why he is and is asking questions and telling the creator what he wants to do

🤣 even the music video director said he thought the bondage monkey tied to the crucifix was a bit too far 🤣🤣🤣😂

"You let me violate, desecrate, penetrate, complicate you." Not "I want to . . . you." That IS easing you into it. "You" are acquiescing to "my" actions. Whether or not "you" consent, "you" offer no resistance. "You" are totally impassive and remain totally impassive throughout the song. "You get me closer to God." My favorite part is the second verse: You can have my isolation. You can have the hate that it brings. You can have my absence of faith. You can have my everything.

Industrial can be best understood by the song "Reptile". You'll know exactly what Industrial rock is....

Remember that Depeche Mode has a lot of industrial songs.... it's actually a wide spectrum genre, I made mention in a previous comment a few moments ago when suggesting an industrial group. A big thing of this album is that you *were* thrown into NIN with the one people like to shock people with. It's a concept album where this is a step in a person falling apart and outside the context of the stages of the album it can just come across as jarring - and/or exactly how the reviews you read said about how people mistook/mistake it as purely a sexual song. Basically folks like to suggest this one as a start to NIN *because* the total lack of context for it shocks/confuses people, not because they particularly want the person to get a feel/taste of NIN. It's a "f*** with the reactor" song game people do.. I'd honestly, I think suggest the songs from their first album, maybe Sin and The Only Time as better places to start NIN in total. From this album I'd say the song Reptile or maybe the earlier song they won the Grammy for Wish. Both are in his heavier end of stuff. A very touching one from this album that isn't heavy sounding is Hurt.

The Downward Spiral is one of the best albums out there. It opens with Mr. Self-Destruct with sound samples from THX1138 which sound like gunshots but are actually from one of George Lucas' first films (and where the sound system THX came from) which is about a dystopian society like 1984, mind control, and heavy force to maintain the society. And it ends with Hurt, one of the saddest song out there which was remade by Jonny Cash and taken on a whole new life. If you listen to the 3 song combo of Big Man with a Gun, A Warm Place, and Eraser, you go through a full range of rage, depression, and self-destruction. It is amazing. It's not about rape, it's about addiction and obsession. A Perfect Drug fits right in line with Closer. (As a person, Trent Rezor is actually pretty calm now. Married with like 4 kids) I was visiting a friend in Chicago who was roommates with a couple of young women (one being Judy Greer), and one of her roommates told me flat out, that Closer turned her on so much that if a guy came up to her in the club and said that, she'd take him up on it. Obviously, it doesn't have the same impact now. Trent Rezor has now won Grammys, CMT awards and Oscars. He was inducted into the Music Hall of Fame and was the introducer for The Cure, which is another era defining band. You should check Song Exploder where Trent Rezor talks about Hurt.

We were in the middle of some shit back then. He was in the middle of a private hell. And no, you were not ready.

Speechless, that is very understandable first time watching this peice of art

you should check out "where is mind?" by pixies!! they were basically the start of 80s/90s grunge 🤩🙌

They're scoring their second Disney movie right now.

Jumping into the deep end I see. Like others I recommend "Head Like a Hole" but also "The Hand That Feeds"

All that context you read was not going to prepaid anyone for this masterpiece

Trent wrote “Hurt” that Johnny Cash recorded

No monkey was hurt during this

Check out NIN’s performance of “Reptile” at Woodstock.

That monkey was well paid for his part he's just fine

Rammstein will leave you in a state of shock. Their live stuff is all for the fans. Fire, explosions, mechanical insanity, and pretty much all in German. But a band that has stayed together for many years and gives it all for the fans. You're going to need translations, an open mind, and a willingness to look past the show and videos, and listen to the words and the feeling they give you. They've had their moments of controversy, but their Live in Paris and New York (and a few other places) show that the fans come first.

This album came out when i was in grade school and i know thus so,t there first album. But this album spoke to us we was all listening to CD but when the video came out it blew our minds, a teacher new we like the band and he told us the definition of a nail and it has a set length it could be and past that it becomes a spike, so the name is awsome cause nails can't be 9 inches

Your face at the start is priceless.

The song is called Closer he is saying you get me closer to God.

I can never get over that look of "what the hell did I just watch"

Lost my virginity to this song in college. No lie. No regrets, about the song choice, at least.

It’s about people who have sex because they feel closer to god when they do it. I forget the term for it

I had all their videos and a live performance as a boxed set and I used to watch them LITERALLY every night as I fell asleep as a kid. I, um 🤔 let's say I had a hard time understanding most modern pop sensibilities 🤣

Lol NIN and Tool are 2 of my favorite artists

Lol I don't know how many years it was but many this was the last song played at every club or bar with a dance floor I think up until the song closing time was released some bars would only play the music without the lyrics the music just oozed sex

Nothing stands out more than zero body movements to THIS beat. If he had started with feeling the beat (heart) instead of focusing on the cultural imagery, we’d have eargasm by now. Trent’s a Master at Cognitive Dissonance.

This is the late wife and my baby making music.

you need to start with Pretty Hate Machine and grow from there take the progression as many did in the late 80's and 90's. The Downward Spiral is a true work of ART and true FEELING. Trent is a true Master of music he writes and plays all instruments on all albums he IS NIN!!! Try Head Like a Hole or Terrible lie or SIn then move on to the Broken EP Last/Wish/Happiness in Slavery Amazing songs then sit and listen to the whole The Downward Spiral album don't watch video's, just listen to the Music of a mans desent into madness and suicide

lol your incredulousness to industrial music makes me want to hear your thoughts on Skinny Puppy

Dude, I bought this album when it came out. I was 14. Lol.

Ok another great NIN song is heal like a hole, it's on the first album and the video is just barely a video it's little bit band performing with a few special effects, great son but I think that will give you a capairison of NIN

Bro's mounth just went into another universe 💀💀💀

I know this is an old video, but I couldn't find any other NIN reaction on your channel, so... I recommend either Head Like a Hole, Terrible Lie, or Wish as entry points for early NIN. Alternatively, The Hand That Feeds and Only are also good entry points, from what I consider to be NIN's most "mainstream" rock album. Finally, what I *really* think you should do is check out the 2013 live version of All Time Low. Musically, it has a funkiness that will remind you of closer, but the live version especially will give you a hint of the variety that awaits you down the NIN rabbit hole.

Try "Head like a hole"! Trent is very talented as a musician, he's way out there as far as creativity. It may not be the norm, but he speaks of the human condition very well with his music.

LMAO! The look on your face just 60 seconds in was priceless! Though I often think it's better to NOT watch the video when first hearing this song - it's just too distracting; just enjoy the song, the beat, the groove. It's amazing to dance to in the clubs...

I've been following Trent since 1990 and saw him at a tiny club in Hollywood. You MUST listen to a few more songs before judging NIN or Industrial music like Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb etc. Try NIN and David Bowie in "I'm afraid of Americans" and when you eventually get to Marilyn Manson who went even farther. Gary Numan was a huge influence on Trent and did some concert appearances as well.

I'm going to try to explain this without explaining it by a quote from Tyler durden " things your own end up owning you, this song is about drug addiction

I like Perfect Drug, Hurt, and Something that I can never have. If you love Johnny Cash's version of Hurt, then i think that you might appreciate Trent Reznor singing his song, Hurt. Closer is a hard song to use as an introductory to NIN. Give him another chance, he's pretty awesome.

Be happy that you’re missing it. That means you’ve never been in the deep down depths of depression and self loathing.

A lot of babies made to this song!!

I wish people would react to more than just this song. It's not his best song. It's not bad, but so much more to explore. Eraser is a great one, Somewhat Damaged is a banger, and as far as singles go, I'd recommend Head Like a Hole and March of the Pigs, for the social commentary.

I came here 4 weeks later and I can still say, you ain't ready. 🤣 Don't try too hard to understand the lyrics of some of these songs based on videos. A lot of times, the videos are a directors interpretation of the lyrics, vs. what the actual artist was trying to portray. I love this song. The video? It's fitting for the song in a bizarre way, but I could easily survive never seeing it again.

a good introductory NIN song is "Head like a hole"

It's pretty simple. The video is a stylistic display of various sexual taboos. The song is about sex feeling spiritual, bringing you "closer" to god. 🤷‍♂️😅

I assume your in your mid 20s clad you heard this but I fell into the world of NIN when i was 14 this was part of my rebelous music time.

LMMFAO 😂😂😂 I’m dead

Oh bucket up! This is the fast lane.

Trent reznor is a very visual artist, and the music is great i would have loved to went to a concert of there's in the 2000s

Yeah that's pretty much how hour supposed to feel after watching that try watching it in 8th grade brand new

The song and video is basically thematically regarding getting a reaction from intense stimuli. Probably a bit of a confusing intro to Mine inch nails. I recommend "wish" or "head like a hole" start off.

Lol yall were mean for letting him jump right into this one 😂 It is very much a song that resonates with you or it doesn't imo. Its all about self destruction and distractions

NIN has a ton of great songs. For a fantastic live performance one of my faves is "All Time Low (vevo presents)" from 2013. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Try Fear factory. Another industrial band

your getting to distracted just listen to the music and forget the crazy vid in this scenario its much more pleasant for both parties

My dude was not ready. This would have been a good one to watch without the video, but they lyrical content might still shock you.

The video did u a disservice. The song is about addiction. Having sex is like a high of other drugs as the act is giving one a feeling of becoming closer to god. So one tries to chase that feeling but it only get further away each time.

Lol. My son used to kill me with this….industrial music…. Try static x. I’m 60 and I listen to some of it

loved your reaction man. aha yeah it's pretty f*cking raunchy (to say the least) but it's... it's something huh

I have heard that they got the name from the length of the nails used to crucify Jesus

i would love to see u react to the original version of Hurt by Nine Inch Nails

I really enjoyed your reaction. Please listen to the downward spiral and make reaction video.

haha love your face

LMAO! =D

I prefer the first album pretty hate machine. Worth a listen. Also his cover of get down make love by queen is really good

The way I see it is that the sexual experience he feels with this person is almost religious, makes him feel closer to god even if he’s not religious. I don’t think the desecration is in a forced sense. I think it sounds consensual but intense. To be honest I wouldn’t know how to get you into NIN gently. I don’t think that’s really possible. I was a teenager when I saw the banned Broken video. Messed me up but I love still them. Good on you for exposing yourself to them! I’m bade you’re interested in the history of industrial: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-R2d1YATJfyU.htmlsi=bK5Ppm1dtdBIekFI

Do live versions their live concert vids are so much better than the studio it’s nuts that a band is better live than production …. Trust me

Would you please react to the song ( Changes by Charles Bradley ). It’s a cover originally by Black Sabbath.

DREW, I TRIED.....CAN'T DO IT...TO OUT THERE FOR ME......GIVE ME THAT OLE TIME ROCK AND ROLL.......PEACE OUT ON THIS ONE!!!...TO EACH THEIR OWN...

Nine Inch Nails was a name that was named after the nails that were used to crucify Jesus. Still a great band!!;

.."Head Like a Hole", and or "Broken", the entire LP..

One of the greatest bands that have ever ever been …. Do somewhat damaged

My nephews used to play this in their teen years just to make their mom ( my sister -in-law, may she rest in peace) have a morally outraged meltdown ha. She definitely only took the song at face value as a nasty demonic type song and I myself see numerous possible subtextual meanings behind the lyrics and find the music unsettling yet compelling with that driving beat. I was never that into NIN, but I do really like 2 of their songs, Head Like a Hole and The Perfect Drug.

It's art. Not all art is pretty .Try "Head like a Hole" :)

For the love of god, stop watching the videos!! Love the show.

you should check out maybe by janis joplin on the Ed Sullivan Show and All along the watchtower by Jimi Hendrix

Sorry.😂❤. Please don't say you tried to prep yourself.😮😂