"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). Released in May 1994, it is considered one of Nine Inch Nails' signature songs and remains their most popular song.

Closer Lyrics: You let me violate you / You let me desecrate you / You let me penetrate you / You let me complicate you / (Help me) I broke apart my insides / (Help me) I've got no soul to sell

It is a concept album detailing the self-destruction of a man from the beginning of his misanthropic "downward spiral" to his suicidal breaking point.

Music video by Nine Inch Nails performing Closer. (C) 1989 Interscope Records.

Jan 19, 2019 · Nine Inch Nails ’ video for Closer, directed by Mark Romanek, is one of those ones that feels like it earns the italics, an ambitious piece of complex, controversial art that frequently tops...

A song about sexual obsession and frustration, Nine Inch Nails' 'Closer' was culled as a single from a concept album about a man's drug-laced decline and attempted suicide; recorded in the house where actress Sharon Tate and four of her friends were brutally murdered by members of the Manson Family; and promoted by a video depicting a severed ...

Dec 12, 2018 · Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupCloser · Nine Inch NailsThe Downward Spiral℗ 1994 TVT/ Interscope RecordsReleased on: 1994-01-01Producer: FloodCo...

Jan 11, 2018 · Pig head machine: The mechanical piggy could be a reference to how he calls people pigs throughout the album. The fact that this pig head is half machine might mean that it symbolizes himself (because in the album he BECOMES like a machine) and since he too is a pig, he must hate himself as well (or at least consider himself a pig too).

As much as Closer is one of the most accessible, radio friendly songs on TDS, it is also musically complex. This is a song of contrast. Everything is contrasted against everything else in terms of what that thing is particularly known for. I’d probably argue that is Trent/NIN in general though.

Apr 22, 2024 · "Closer" is the fifth track on the 1994 release The Downward Spiral and is perhaps the most well-known song by Nine Inch Nails, as it received much airplay both on radio and music video television. The subject matter seems to be about a feeling of worthlessness being quelled through control over others using sex.