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By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Closer (page 1/ 5) ------ performed by Nine Inch Nails Songs can have many different meanings!! | Reviewer: Camilleeeeee | 7/1/09 Well, this song could have many different meanings as has been pointed out by other reviews. The two main ones are: the obvious meaning being about sex and how Trent uses sex with someone to forget about other things and how good it feels, bringing him "closer to god." It also could be about drugs, sex being used as a metaphor (seems quite weird, but perhaps drugs used to turn him on and give him euphoria in a different way to sex, but in a way comparable to sex for him.) I think that both arguments are valid, but I don't know where the heck stuff about Muslims and Christians came from... that's a bit too far flung for me to believe to be connected to this particular song. closer | Reviewer: Anonymous | 4/5/09 everyone has their own interpretation of what this song means. i think it's pretty damn funny, to be honest. look at the first stanza, and initial the key words. V iolate, D esecrate, P enetrate, C omplicate. rhyming words, yes, but look at the initials. V.D. is P.C. (for those of you too young to understand, Sexually Transmitted Infections/Diseases used to be called Venereal Disease, or V.D.) when i saw that, it made me howl out loud with laughter. other than that, look at it as i see it. i see it as a love letter from a serial killer to his latest victim. take what you will from this song. trent wrote it so you could enjoy it. so enjoy it, stop analyzing it. crank it up and piss off the neighbors one more time. What the lyrics really mean | Reviewer: BurnEden | 3/24/09 as xfukme... said; people are looking waaay too far into these lyrics. Like 85% of Trent's Songs; this song is about his heroine addiction. Closer is from the Downward Spiral; a period when Trent was probably in his most critical and emotional state involving heroin. Just because he doesn't directly reference doesn't mean it's not about it. That's not his style. Listen to his other songs. Even his most notable song about addiction "hurt" can clearly be redirected to something different as johnny cash did. This is what makes Reznor such a great writer. Is there sexual content in the song? Yes; of course; like many of his other songs. If you listen to other songs about his addiction like :Deeper, Happiness in Slavery; or even his YZ concept song: "Vessel" he clearly shows a sexual linkage with his addiction. His desire, his lust etc. Furthermore, NIN started as a Industrial band (not necessarily acclaimed to still be by some. Most Industrial music is very dark and sexual and embraces almost a sadomasochist tone to it. His God reference is complex. You can view it in 2 opposite ways; that are both correct. That 1. like someone had stated, that heroine gives him the very same pleasures as would sex; sex associated with God. Alternatively; Trent and God aren't on best terms; especially during this time period. When he says "You get me closer to God" he speaks from the persona of heroine; much like in "Mr. Self Destruct" saying that heroine will fuck him over; just like God. Hope this adds some insight into Trents lyrics. Wow. | Reviewer: xfuckmelikeanimal | 2/8/09 People are looking too far into this. It's a song, and it's golden and sexy. Perfect song about fucking. Doesn't need to be overanalyzed, just listened to. It's hot, and it's good, no need to figure out the entire thing.. The whole idea of not knowing what it is makes it mysterious. People are completely missing it when they say it's about sex and rape. | Reviewer: Gah. | 8/8/08 Everything that is said in the versus and chorus are from the point of view of the drug itself. The refrains (Help me, and the lyrics that follow those two words itself) is the person affected by the addition to heroin. There's a reason the song is sexual in tone, people who have had heroin habits say it's "a million times better than the best orgasm you've ever had." You let me violate you/You let me desecrate you/You let me penetrate you/You let me complicate you The drug speaking to the user. You violate your body, penetrate it with a needle and the user's personality becomes complicated due to the use of the drug and withdrawl thereafter. (Help me...) I broke apart my insides/(Help me...) I've got no soul to sell/(Help me...) The only thing that works for me/ Help me get away from myself POV of the user, a literal cry for help. The user admits to using heroin as an escape fro himself. He also admits the toll it has taken upon his life and his body. I wanna fuck you like an animal/I wanna feel you from the inside/I wanna fuck you like an animal/My whole existence is flawed/You get me closer to God POV of Heroin again. Its arrogance is showing by saying I'm going to fuck you up, you're going to enjoy me in your veins, my existence shouldn't even be rationalized, but as more people use me... I become immortal. 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 POV of Heroin again. Outright arrogance gives in to absolute truth of the "complications" (as said in the first verse) that the drug use brings. (Help me...) You tear down my reason/(Help me...) It's your sex I can smell/(Help me...) You make me perfect/Help me become somebody else POV of the user. Again, cries for help. Outright admissions that one knows heroin isn't doing anything good but the user is still dependent on the drug to escape from himself and his life. The whole saying of Heroin's high being better than sex is pretty obvious here, IMHO. Through every forest/Above the trees Within my stomach/Scraped off my knees I drink the honey, inside your hive/You are the reason I stay alive First two lines. Literally about flying high. Second two, heroin has a wasting effect on its users. Third and fourth lines, the drug's arrogance shown again, by saying it's because of you I continue to exist and other people will end up getting hooked. Put the video into perspective. It's based on "old time" footage and laboratories. Religious imagry is common in NIN videos and songs, but here it also works because Trent shows himself flying, shackled and essentially crucified. It's about drug addiction and the visual interpretations of such. Heroin used to be sold as a medical remedy back when people were completely naive about what it really did to you. This song is about heroin and the cries of help from one who is addicted to it, plain and simple. Herione or Sex | Reviewer: Hunter | 7/29/08 Ok so yes this can easly be about sex but this can also be about herione. One voice is him talking about the drug about what it does the other voice is the drug saying all this shit the guy does with it letting it violate him and getting in him. Trent is a smart man this song can be takin both ways including many more. Sex, drugs, one heart, its all relevant depeding on your mood. It IS About Sex | Reviewer: Black Rose | 2/16/08 For those that say it's not about sex, have you even read the lyrics?. Most of it is sex how else can these lines not be sex. 'You let me penetrate you' - this is CLEARLY about sex. 'I wanna fuck you like an animal I wanna feel you from the inside I wanna fuck you like an animal' That too about sex so OBVIOUSE he's talking about intercourse here, obviousley... 'It's your sex I can smell' Again here he pretty much says it himself, those lyics I've listed couldn't in NO other way be about drugs or any other thing. Besides this fact though I like the song it's catchy. very wrong | Reviewer: yasmine | 1/16/08 I dont understand why some of you sick people find a way to relate this song to Muslims. This is only called being disrespectful. No politics in this song, I love it because it gives sort of a sexy feeling. A song that can be listened during sex actually. Not that all Muslims are terrorists, and all christians are angels. please respect. Meaning | Reviewer: Jake Jarrett | 1/5/08 "Another lovely sounding lyrically song from a garbage band. Why do people continue to fill their heads with this sick stuff. No wonder the Muslims want to blow us all up. They won't have to--we are going to 'desecrate' ourselves before they do." Quote from Bill. I think that your right, but in a different way. I think people have destroyed music, But I don't think this song has. I respect other genres of music(Though I listen mainly to rock and metal) But some people write about the most ridiculous things. Whats the point of music if it has no true meaning? But I think "Closer" Is a brilliant song and represents a relationship where at first its just sex, but evolves into something much more meaningful, and he's not quite ready and it tears him apart. I also think that theres some heroine reference as Zombie Badger pointed out. Sick Shit | Reviewer: Michael | 11/11/07 The song and the vid is sick. Reznor is one sick, messed up bastard. He/She gets Reznor closer to God. The chorus just sounds wrong, really, really wrong. I might be sick 'n' twisted, but to go "Closer", no WAY! Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5