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| Length = 6:13 (album version) 6:26 (full-length single version) 4:24 (Music video) | Label = | Writer = Trent Reznor | Producer = | Audio sample? = | Certification = | Last single = "March of the Pigs" (1994) | This single = "Closer" (1994) | Next single = "Burn" (1994) | Misc = }} "Closer" is a song by American rock band Nine Inch Nails, written by Trent Reznor and featured on the band's 1994 album ''The Downward Spiral''. In mid-1994, the song was released as the second single from the album. 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.) Labeled "Halo 9", the single is the ninth official NIN release. A promotional single provided by the label to radio stations included both long and short vocal-censored-i.e.: silenced profanity-versions.〔http://flacforthemasses.blogspot.com/2011/04/closer-promo-single-nine-inch-nails.html〕 In spite of misinterpretations of the song as a lust anthem, "Closer" became Nine Inch Nails' most successful single up to that time, cemented Reznor's status as an industrial rock icon, and remains arguably his best-known song. Censored versions of the song and its Mark Romanek-directed music video received substantial airplay on radio and MTV. ==The song== "Closer"'s drum track features a heavily modified bass drum sample from the Iggy Pop song "Nightclubbing" from his album ''The Idiot''. Radio edits of "Closer" were created by muting the vocal track for the duration of each deleted obscenity. Lyrically, "Closer" is a meditation on self-hatred and obsession, but to Reznor's dismay, the song was widely misinterpreted as a lust anthem due to its chorus, which included the line "I wanna fuck you like an animal". In 2003, VH1 ranked the song at number 93 in its countdown of the "100 Greatest Songs of the Past 25 Years." The song was ranked at the number 2 position on AOL's "69 Sexiest Songs of All Time," mostly due to the explicit frankness of the chorus. "Come on dude: 'I wanna fuck you like an animal'?" remarked Mötley Crüe drummer and ''Downward Spiral'' contributor Tommy Lee. "That's the all-time fuck song. Those are pure fuck beats – Trent Reznor knew what he was doing. You can fuck to it, you can dance to it and you can break shit to it. Since I'm engaged now ''(Mayte Garcia )'', I'll just say that the most memorable episode that I remember with 'Closer' took place on a swing."〔''Blender'', November 2002〕 In July 2009, the song was voted in at number 62 on Triple J's Hottest 100 of all time, and in 2010 it was number 42 on Pitchfork Media's ''Top 200 Tracks of the 90s''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Closer (Nine Inch Nails song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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