Closer (NIN)

Posted by Federal-Zebra7702@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 297 comments

Can I just say, as a parent now, I can’t believe they put this song on the radio 😂 Someone at some point was like ‘this would be a great single for the radio.’ Alone in the car, but if my kids were in here listening to this, there would be questions the bleep for fu*k isn’t fooling anyone.

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SusanDelgado1919@reddit

Ha! This song came on the radio the other day and my 10-year old said "mom, I don't think I'm supposed to be listening to this." And then, in what was probably a bad parenting move, I said "honey, this is your dad's favorite song."

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MEastmanReid@reddit

At least they'll always remember the face of their father...

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E6DA@reddit

"And that's also how you were made"

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f-it_bowling@reddit

Play Killing in the Name next 😂

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wrldruler21@reddit

I won't do what you tell me

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C_est_la_vie9707@reddit

This is probably my favorite meme stolen from this sub. https://preview.redd.it/a6ljtz7fgtbg1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=e4c9bd0a6d72e0ef4d85539ac80b454e951501ae

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f-it_bowling@reddit

Love it

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RetardedSimian@reddit

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the_replicator@reddit

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itsallcosmica@reddit

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

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haminator_22@reddit

That's amazing

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daughtcahm@reddit

My 13 year old and I were yelling along to "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" in the minivan a couple weeks ago. I loved it. He doesn't seem embarrassed by me (yet), so I'm rolling with it.

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temporary_bob@reddit

Yes! And why not? As a mom who swears like a sailor around my daughter this is great. My daughter is too straight laced to swear in front of me... I await the day.

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Pretend-Tea86@reddit

The car is safe space when it comes to music and language. If a song curses and youre singing along, belt it out, kiddo. Just keep a lid on it at school.

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drygulched@reddit

This is the rule in my house too. My oldest sang her favorite song to the Pastor at one point, Fucking Perfect by Pink. Fortunately, was a cool pastor.

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tigerlilie43@reddit

![gif](giphy|fnK0jeA8vIh2QLq3IZ)

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4444444vr@reddit

Fuck you

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megaholt2@reddit

My dad was completely fine with my twin and I listening to this…then again, he also had no problem with us watching Beavis and Butthead when it first started, either.

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TinaEphedra6384@reddit

After reading this, and u/Fat_Krogan 's reply, I have come to the conclusion that it must've been only the mother's who wrongfully hated "Beavis and Butt-Head". I'll never forget the day that I got grounded, simply because my egg donor was within ear shot of hearing me say these two names out loud.

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megaholt2@reddit

My mom also did not approve of us watching The Simpsons, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, or Ren and Stimpy, and she was never a big fan of any show or cartoon that “glorified violence”. She knew that she would never be able to get my dad to stop watching that stuff with us around, so she would just give her lectures and leave it at that…but put on shows like Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego and Bill Nye the Science Guy for us whenever she had the chance. By the time we reached high school, we had the most eclectic tastes in television, movie, and music-amongst our classmates, it seemed. We had no problem sitting down and watching hours of PBS, and then sit with our dad and cry laughing at Jackass.

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stephsco@reddit

Same here, I watched all of that.

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Fat_Krogan@reddit

My dad loved Beavis and Butthead.

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YouMeanWhatIKnow10@reddit

Wasn’t supposed to have parental advisory explicit lyric CDs, but my uncle gave the RATM cd so I had to listen to it. Took it over to a friend’s house and we had it playing in a boom box while we were swimming. Friends Mom came out during killing in the name of, took the CD out and cracked it in half. I was happy I got away with listening to it for the few weeks I had it.

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shawn615@reddit

Dude, not wanting your kid to listen to their friend’s music because it’s inappropriate is one thing but snapping it in half is crazy. Taking it and giving it back to your mom seems like a much more sensible move

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SockGnome@reddit

I think there was something in the air (lead) that made our parents generation lean into theatrics when trying to make a point.

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stephsco@reddit

See also: Satanic Panic It may have roots in the 80s, but it was alive and thriving in the 90s too.

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birdieponderinglife@reddit

I was in band in junior high right about when all of the most iconic grunge albums were coming out. The band room was a pretty fun place where all us band nerd would hang out on lunch and what not. We could put music on and the band director never cared what we played so I put on Alice In Chains dirt and the song junkhead started playing. The band director assistant, a mom, comes running out of the office and turned it off then asked whose it was. She was not happy with me lol.

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PlumSome3101@reddit

I'm the worst mom because I absolutely pay this in the car with my kid. Pandora sucks for finding clean versions of any song though. It almost always plays the non edited version of everything on its stations or when it autoplays after a Playlist. Regardless I'd still play this song in it's full glory.

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f-it_bowling@reddit

As a proper mom should

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basiden@reddit

Oh big same. First time was by accident and a bit awkward, but it's a regular now. My tween is a big RATM, Metallica, Alice in Chains fan now

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jazzminarino@reddit

My mother REFUSED to buy any CD that was edited. It HAD to have that explicit lyrics label on it. I always thought that was kinda baller while all of my other friends had gotten censored CDs for Christmas/birthdays.

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WeenyDancer@reddit

In retrospect i can't believe my parents were okay with all of these blasting out of the room (my mom drew the line at Rape Me which even at that age, I was like- okay, so there is a message in the song but I understand your concern here 😅)

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BogeyLowenstein@reddit

My Mom hated Heart Shaped Box lol

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birdieponderinglife@reddit

The only side eye I got was when I wanted to buy la sexorcito devil music volume one, the white zombie album with the parental advisory sticker and everything from Columbia house (ten for 99 cents or whatever). Honestly I think it was the devil music part she had a problem with 😆

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GarminTamzarian@reddit

Followed by Metallica's cover of "So What?"

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TinyLittleWeirdo@reddit

In a "when did you realize you were old" moment, I hurt my neck headbanging to Killing in the Name.

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Iamthegreenheather@reddit

Better play the whole album. It's the next generation's "The Wall".

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dreamyduskywing@reddit

I was about 15 and just beginning to rebel (hadn’t yet dyed my hair black) and this song came on while in car while I was with my mom, so of course I turned up the volume and sang along. My mom says “this is just awful! I don’t like this one bit!” 😂

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zombie_overlord@reddit

I was about that age and I had my grandmother drive me to the record store so I could pick up the latest "My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult" cd. I also bought an Ace of Base single which I fake excitedly listened to on the way home. I don't think grandma would be down with [A Daisy Chain 4 Satan](https://youtu.be/uN0yI-ambNY?si=KU5zT1VwhGwlUDvt)

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Werepony@reddit

I would have absolutely played a daisy chain 4 satan to my grandma.

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birdieponderinglife@reddit

Last caress. I’m so conflicted about this one lol. I love singing along to misfits songs they are so melodic and fun. But yikes, the lyrics on this one 😬 as an adult I seriously side eye them for thinking these words strung together into lyrics were ok. I can’t even justify it as an edgelord attempt. It’s a step too far and they are not good people for writing that song. I still like the misfits. Did I mention I feel very conflicted about this song?

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Werepony@reddit

Tbh, I see this completely differently. I never took their lyrics literally as authorial intent. They always read to me like character perspectives, like the way the book/show “You,” is written from the perspective of a stalker-killer. I don’t think we culturally recognize or understand the same distinction in music as an art form unless it’s made explicit (For example: “Pink” in The Wall, or “Ziggy Stardust.”) I think a lot of “darker” bands played with this concept. Or, hey, this could all be cope and The Misfits are really sick weirdos and I’m just being overly generous. :)

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birdieponderinglife@reddit

lol this is a brand of cope I’m on board for when it comes to this song. I hadn’t considered that they were writing from another persons perspective. The lyrics are still quite unpleasant to ponder so I try not to when I’m belting them out 🫣

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Werepony@reddit

Yea it is definitely an “only sing it inside and at home” brand of banger lol

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GarminTamzarian@reddit

I'm fond of Metallica's cover myself. Their cover of "Die, Die My Darling" is also excellent.

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Roderto@reddit

What did she think about [Radiohead](https://youtu.be/QSQXQTfkF54?si=0XMFunK2v7zRh8DX)?

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HeywoodJaBlessMe@reddit

I thought the track and NIN were awesome. I thought they were less awesome when my dad started blasting Closer in the truck. He was also really into White Zombie. It was weird there in my dad's midlife-crisisy goatee days.

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Imnotonthelist@reddit

My dad had that Type O Negative album with the two women on the front and I was like “this is NOT for me to look at” 😂😂😂

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Morriganx3@reddit

I love all of you and I’m making a new playlist

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Imnotonthelist@reddit

Share it with meeeeeeee

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JinxOnU78@reddit

Bloody Kisses is AWESOME! But admittedly probably not for the children, like WuTang.

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Imnotonthelist@reddit

I’m not sure if I ever actually heard the album but that cover had me like 👀👀 in a way I’m glad that things were mildly inappropriate bc I didn’t grow up in a strict controlling house. I feel like when there’s shame associated with sex, development gets messed up. I also have fond memories or the woman’s orgasm from More Human Than Human 😂

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JinxOnU78@reddit

Café Flesh is the film that the sample is lifted from. Probably also not for kids! 😂

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Imnotonthelist@reddit

Definitely not! Lmao

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StitchesKisses@reddit

This was the song my wife and I danced to at our wedding. My Brother inlaw walked outside with my little nephew during it though. Our parents thought it was weird.

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EricRShelton@reddit

My kids self-censor, too! It’s the wildest thing! I remember trying to see all the “forbidden” stuff when I was a kid, and my kids opt themselves out! LOL.

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crafty_n_sassy@reddit

I was in the car with my 20-something NB kid the other day when it came on. I turned it up and told them how me and their dad used to get separated by the chaperones at school dances when the song came on. They were like ewww I didn’t need to know that! lol But seriously, I can’t believe they played that song at school dances!

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BigManWAGun@reddit

*”When a mommy and daddy love each other very much and Trent Reznor comes on the radio….”*

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meldiane81@reddit

I did a wet T-shirt contest to this song back in 2001. Guess who won!?

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FirehawkLS1@reddit

Everyone? 🤣

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meldiane81@reddit

LMAOOOO

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FirehawkLS1@reddit

🤣🤣 appreciate this sincerely. I'm just a smart mouth sometimes (ok, a lot).

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HicJacetMelilla@reddit

When I met my husband this was his favorite song and I was like ummmm. But it is pretty sexy. Now it’s We’re in This Together Now, so his NIN love has never wavered.

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TinyLittleWeirdo@reddit

This is great. I already like both you and your husband.

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WhyLie2me18@reddit

Bahahaha!

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Hillyshilly@reddit

My kid says this when I play music all the time lol.

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BlankPaperTiger@reddit

I remember reading an interview with Trent Reznor in which he talks about going to the record execs with the finished The Downward Spiral album and told them he was sorry, but he didn't think there was a good "for radio" single on the album. And one of them (IIRC) was like, "nope, it's this one" referring to Closer.

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Cast2828@reddit

It's funny because the song is about getting fucked by the music industry, and the execs are like "yup, play this shit everywhere".

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menunu@reddit

The execs were right though.

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Possible-Feed-9019@reddit

March of the Pigs is good too. Let’s not throw the crucified monkey out with the bath water.

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smashy_smashy@reddit

Don’t get me wrong, I love March of the pigs with all my heart, but Closer is way catchier and invented a whole new sound. Something dancey but still with elements of metal/hardcore while appealing to everyone. It was genius and hugely influential. I still maintain to this day that Closer is the only top hit from a band that is also my favorite song of theirs. Downward spiral is a top 5 all time album for me.

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timbreandsteel@reddit

Goth raves were never the same!

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Roderto@reddit

The remix version they play with Boys Noize during the current tour is amazing. I really hope they release an EP with the remixes.

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m8k@reddit

I can’t wait to watch the Nine Inch Noize livestream from Coachella this year.

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menunu@reddit

💯🤣

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MyNameIsNot_Molly@reddit

First time I heard it was on the credits to Se7en. It still creeps me out.

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

It was the 90s

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CategoryExact3327@reddit

When I was 6 I was in the car with my mom and singing Centerfold by J Geils at the top of my lungs.

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ItsADarkRide@reddit

If you would like to make it even worse, I read a book of misheard lyrics, and someone thought it was "My anus is the center hole." I cannot hear the song without remembering that.

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Morriganx3@reddit

My son loved that song when he was little! He used to dance in front of the tv when the video came on.

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Johnnys-In-America@reddit

I saw the video around that age. One of my first exposures to...that stuff, lol

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tangerine426783@reddit

I loved this song as a kid. I didn't know what a centerfold was.

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cataholicsanonymous@reddit

Yeah my mom canceled cable when I started belting out "I don't want anybody else, when I think about you I touch myself" 😅

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leggypepsiaddict@reddit

Had a 3 year old in pre school camp singing "Hot in Here" by Nelly. That was entertaining as hell. Teying not to laugh was hard. Sweet kid.

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chambertin1259@reddit

The video for Closer gave me legitimate nightmares as a kid.

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_Red_7_@reddit

When I was at prom my junior year of highschool, the DJ started playing this song. I thought, surely it's going to be a highly censored version. It wasn't censored at all. During the first "I wanna fuck you like an animal" all the students erupted. Then I thought, surely the school staff will put an end to this. They didn't. They played the entire song. Uncensored. It was awesome.

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curlycake@reddit

my friends and I were mall rats, and my one friend picked up this single one friday evening, and popped it right in the tape deck of her moms car when she came to pick us up. I thought, “she must know this is going to play the uncensored version, right?” I was 16 so I just sat there in the back seat waiting for her mom to scream “JOAAANNNNAAAA TURN THIS OFF RIGHT NOW!!!”

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Delorean_1980@reddit

The DJ at my prom wouldn't play "Hurt" because there is one swear word in it, but he had no problem with Dr Dre & Snoop Dogg's "Nuthin but a G thang".

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AnticitizenPrime@reddit

I went to a new year's dance at my friend's church event (wasn't religious myself), which was apparently DJ'd by someone who didn't get a memo about what's okay to play. Bloodhound Gang's *you and me baby, ain't nothing but mammals, so let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel* was unceremoniously interrupted when some youth pastor at this Baptist church yanked the cord.

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Morriganx3@reddit

I was about to mention Bad Touch! I remember dancing with my ex to that song, absolutely smashed, right after some other guy at the party had removed my pantyhose.

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Im_all_booked@reddit

Taking my 15 year old son to see NIN next month. He absolutely loves 90’s rock and is learning to play the guitar.

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neuro_gal@reddit

A radio station where I grew up switched formats from classical to alt-rock. I happened to be driving to work and listened while it changed. The station abruptly went from Handel To "Closer" In the middle of evening rush hour

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

Well... that no doubt got some people talking. 😆

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bjgrem01@reddit

That is a great way to start a new station and that's awesome you got to hear it.

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Moxie_Stardust@reddit

It's a perfectly innocent song, he just wants to pet you like an animal. And then feel you from the inside, you know, like a warm furry jacket. It's not Mr. Reznor's fault you're a filthy degenerate who makes everything about S-E-you-know-what!

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

Seuno... wut?

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Impossible_Memory_85@reddit

There is nothing faster that a parent reaching for the radio dial the second they hear that first beat.

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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

> There is nothing faster that a parent reaching for the radio dial the second they hear that first beat. Damn straight. Gotta turn that shit **UP**!

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Deep-Interest9947@reddit

My friend had this CD of lullabies based on 90s music and this was on it. It was a very pretty instrumental version 😆

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djseifer@reddit

Have you ever heard of Rockabye Baby? They do baby lullaby covers of popular songs, and each album covers a specific artist, so you've got an album that's all AC/DC lullabies, one that's all Bob Marley lullabies, one that's all Tool lullabies, etc. I'm gonna tell you right now, I don't think there's a baby alive that can fall asleep to a lullaby cover of One by Metallica.

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AdelleDeWitt@reddit

Oh my God I have that one when my daughter was a baby! I kept messing it up by singing along.

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OohBeesIhateEm@reddit

Yep. I love this song and am pretty chill about most things but I don’t need to subject my preteen to listening to Closer with her mom 😆

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mel_fal@reddit

...You let me violate you....

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desertrose0@reddit

Oh yeah, I immediately change the channel if they are in the car. 🤣

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Morriganx3@reddit

To crank the volume? Absolutely

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i_should_be_going@reddit

A.D.I.D.A.S.

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Budgiejen@reddit

Or a teenager in the car with their parent

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Traditional_Cat_60@reddit

Or Chad Kroeger’s voice

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Remy0507@reddit

Not only was it on the radio, Weird Al put it in one of his polka medleys. Weird Al! The most wholesome guy in music!

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djseifer@reddit

You haven't truly heard Closer until you hear "Weird" Al Yankovic cover it.

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Spitecrawler@reddit

I grew up in the same area where Trent Reznor was from. Everyone has a story. Whenever “Closer” came out, Trent’s grandfather was so proud that he’d cruise up and down Mercer’s main drag every night, blasting it from his old red pick-up.

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Stevie-Rae-5@reddit

I agree. I also have to say that You Oughta Know why Alanis feels like a little bit much as well, as much as I loved it as a 15 y/o and love it still.

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TheGreat_Powerful_Oz@reddit

I got the DJ to play this song at my cousin’s wedding before anyone knew what it was by brining my cd in from my car. Most of the older people were horrified but my cousin thought it was great.

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Flat-While2521@reddit

My kids are currently under the impression that the line is “I wanna tickle you like an animal,” but they censor it on the radio because they’re afraid people will tickle their pets and the pets won’t like it

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Kurfaloid@reddit

There's an instrumental only version of it that is great to play in public settings like weddings. Xennials and older millennials in the audience start looking around mouthing "what?" and wondering if this is actually happening. Then the song just kinda goes nowhere and they realize the joke.

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piscian19@reddit

If I remember correctly MTV had rated and unrated times so during the day videos were censored but yiu get up at like 3am it was uncensored. Could be wrong. I had the double VHS with the tour stuff and the videos and "Happiness In Slavery" of course. That one maybe not tell the kids about.

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blellowbabka@reddit

You are right. The edited version would say something like scene missing on sine scenes

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OohBeesIhateEm@reddit

Oh wow, memory unlocked

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LordLaz1985@reddit

When “Survivalism” came out, the MTV version of the music video had scenes that were “censored for your protection by the US department of morality.”

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bjgrem01@reddit

I still have my VHS. I also have the whole Broke movie. (Reznor did a file dump a while back with Closure as 2 dvd iso files with bonus features and a dvd iso of the Broken movie because some studio executive decided to axe the Closure re-release)

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FirehawkLS1@reddit

That was back when MTV still played music videos. Hard to believe that the song came out almost 32 years ago. I used to stay up late on the weekend in hopes that I would have a chance to videotape the uncensored video.

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cheffartsonurfood@reddit

Perfect song for a stripper to dance to. Great beat and the lyrics? Well, they speak for themselves.

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Epicardiectomist@reddit

My brother and I went to the store in 1994, I was 13 and he was 9. I bought Pantera - *Far Beyond Driven* and he bought this one. He was *nine years old*. Weirdly enough, the only thing it did was spawn a lifelong adoration for Nine Inch Nails, rather than corrupting him to a life of despair.

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crowislanddive@reddit

This came up with my 16yo yesterday!

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Individual-Paint4622@reddit

I had “my music” on up loud while cleaning and this song came on, and both my kids were home. It took me a second to register what they would hear…I go flying toward the living room before Trent hit the chorus. (They were too young to notice violate/desecrate, BUT STILL. snort)

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IceSmiley@reddit

They used to have I Want Your Sex by George Michael so there was a lot they'd play

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DarthYsalamir@reddit

A friend who knows I love NIN but doesn't listen to them herself was so happy to let me know that she heard their song about animals on the radio the other day XD

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Far_Lack393@reddit

One of my fondest childhood memories is my father driving me to a friend’s house as a teen and me singing along to this song on WHFS and my father just looking at me like what are you doing, what are you singing, and I was like I am just going to sing my little heart out. He was traumatized!

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Vince_BoneZ@reddit

Not teaching kids bad words i’ll never understand. As long as my kid isn’t being an asshole i’ll let him be like “oh fuck that” if a toy breaks yk. it’s just a word(unless directed with harm at someone else, but then again there’s normal words that can hurt feelings too, so what makes bad words so bad?)

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bucho4444@reddit

Anyone remember 2 live crew? We used to listen to that in elementary school. The principal was not impressed but didn't confiscate the tape.

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blue_suavitel@reddit

I was lip synching this in school one day and my teacher called me to the front saying she reads lips, and asked why was I saying that

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bucho4444@reddit

That's hilarious 🤣

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ButterscotchAware402@reddit

It's your socks I can smell

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tafbee@reddit

I want a fig newton… like an animal. Obviously.

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deowolf@reddit

I want to vacuum like an animal

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f-it_bowling@reddit

That’s amazing 😂

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Silly_Sherbet5543@reddit

As a parent, have you rewatched Animaniacs? lol. My husband and I were shocked

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Important-Radish-722@reddit

Helloooo, nurse!!!!

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ROT-WORMS@reddit

My dad fuckin LOVED asking "who's this" when listening to the radio expecting us kids to be like big dumb babies had never heard music before ( This went on way too long ) until he realized we were actually little people who could form opinions about music and have tastes and preferences. It wasn't funny anymore when we shared those. ( This was the song for me personally if you couldn't guess)

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Farahild@reddit

It’s such a great song though

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epidemicsaints@reddit

The cheesy make love sex ballad duets are worse, they always humiliated me as a child hearing them around my parents. That one Keith Sweat "let me lick you up and down til you say stop" is SO bad he says it probably 40 times in a row, made me wanna die. I feel like Closer was just about a relationship and says fuck. There are so many songs from that time explicitly about having sex that list out what someone is doing to someone's body.

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Strange-Substance-33@reddit

That wasn't Keith sweat!

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hoagie_tech@reddit

Everyone clutching their pearls when WAP came out in 2020 must not have listening to 90s R&B…some of it hidden by innuendo but most of it was like what you quoted.

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MommaOfManyCats@reddit

Downtown by SWV or Freak Like Me by Adina Howard!

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bizzybaker2@reddit

Heck with the 1990's lol, look at people like Lucille Bogan in the 1930's.... "vulgar" raunchy sings were a lot more underground and not as out in the open, and I think that we have the mentality that people were prudes way back when lol....I was first exposed to this through the History of Swearing series hosted by Nicholas Cage. I could NOT imagine my great grandparents listening to this!!! https://youtu.be/6tMlRve_ytQ?si=wHyACx5mihDey2Uf

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Johnnys-In-America@reddit

Well that was... certainly something! Good Lord, lol

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epidemicsaints@reddit

And for me, there is something less bothersome about raunchy sex humor. It has less of an implied message than the mushy gushy love making songs that put sex on a pedestal, do the weird thing where sex means someone loves you... I am less put out by an in your face "dick goes in pussy skeet skeet." Raunch is more age appropriate to me somehow. I'm sure other people who feel the opposite.

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werdnurd@reddit

Eh, I prefer the euphemisms. It’s like old cartoons: jokes were on two levels, for adults and children. There are a lot of older songs that were plenty explicit. My mom loved “Sexual Healing,” and that song still makes me throw up a little.

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halfcookies@reddit

Do that to me one more time Once is never enough With a can like you Of pringles

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Morriganx3@reddit

That seems like a safer place for the cylinder

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HomsarWasRight@reddit

> I feel like Closer was just about a relationship and says fuck. Uh…. > You let me violate you > You let me desecrate you > You let me penetrate you […] > 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 Sure, just about a relationship.

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Morriganx3@reddit

Right, just about a relationship. This is how relationships are, right? Right??

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AMugOfPeppermintTea@reddit

"I drink the honey from your hive / you are the reason I stay alive"

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purpleteenageghost@reddit

Downward Spiral is a concept album. It’s about someone’s “downward spiral” until he commits suicide at the end of the title track with Hurt being kind of a “suicide note” to wrap things up. I’ve always felt Closer was representing the subject’s self destructive behavior of imposing control through sex and violence while also admitting how miserable they are. It’s not a sexy relationship song by any means.

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PDXBishop@reddit

The majority of Closer (mostly the verses and main chorus) are about heroin addiction from the POV of the heroin itself (you let me violate you, you let me penetrate you, you let me desecrate you, etc), while the pre-chorus is the addict's cries for help.

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Johnnys-In-America@reddit

The second verse doesn't sound like heroin talking (you can have my isolation...)

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SteelGemini@reddit

I mean, if that song doesn't make self destruction sound sexy as fuck, I don't know what will.

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FirehawkLS1@reddit

I agree, definitely a literal downward spiral of an individual. One of my favorite albums of all time. That album got me through so many horrible times in my life and I'm grateful that it exists.

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Johnnys-In-America@reddit

You mean "Freak Me!" By this one hit wonder group called Silk. And for sure, those nasty songs my sister and I avoided at all costs. We'd already been semi-sheltered from a lot of music, like rock, so when it became OK to listen to hip hop we were like, "they can never know!!" Lol. Plus I don't like those explicit sex lyrics as it is. And around that time there were so many songs. "Do Me" and like, I don't know, "Freak Like Me" and so on, a couple of years later it was "Pony" (so incredibly stupid) and "Nice and Slow" and that song about dude getting a boner while dancing with some chick at the club. I'm good on all that. I'm happier listening to death metal, lol.

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wrldruler21@reddit

Not sure a "relationship" involves "feeling you from the inside"

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epidemicsaints@reddit

I dunno I stand by what I said. I was like 10 when "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You" where some lady barebacks a drifter at a gas station and has his baby.

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blue_suavitel@reddit

100000000% I agree with this

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epidemicsaints@reddit

My friend's little sister did a choreographed dance to it with a neighbor girl and performed it in the yard for their parents, at 9 or 10. She introduced it as "This is a song about what happened to me this summer." Both of them wearing tights and leotards. Set up the chairs in the yard. Mortifying.

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blue_suavitel@reddit

Ooof

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epidemicsaints@reddit

I wasn't there for it but I always saw them running around with the leotards on, so I can picture it so well it turns my stomach.

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blue_suavitel@reddit

🎼One night of love, was all we knew 🎵

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mmeliss39@reddit

Man I really wanna see the home video

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Gridsmack@reddit

![gif](giphy|J1vUzqdZJlh5AqBWxt|downsized)

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youfrickinguy@reddit

Excuse me, that’s Silk. Don’t do Mr. Sweat dirty like that.

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epidemicsaints@reddit

My major bad! I was going to say because all the Keith Sweat stuff I know is more danceable. It's not my forte really.

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violetmarie11@reddit

You actually weren't far off! He co-wrote and co-produced it. I had to look it up because that was a memory unlocked for me, I remember hearing it at all my middle school dances. 😂

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terriblystupidjoke@reddit

Surprised it didn’t make it on a Kidz Bop album

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Federal-Zebra7702@reddit (OP)

Omg I need that in my life.

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_Asshole_Fuck_@reddit

As a diehard NIN fan since the mid 90s I can only be grateful for the leeway my mom allowed me to explore such themes as a teenager. Looking back, she put a lot of trust in me that I can’t thank her enough for. As a mom now, I can’t even believe it but every day I try to remind myself that my mom was legitimately trying to help me embrace certain things but also gave me PLENTY of guidance. I can only hope to be that cool as I guide my own kid through things.

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Federal-Zebra7702@reddit (OP)

Oh yeah. My parents let me listen to whatever I wanted. Just surprised it’s on the radio.

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TrixieBastard@reddit

Personally, I can't believe I was a fifth grader singing Shoop in the car with my mom right there 😂

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Federal-Zebra7702@reddit (OP)

Omg and my mom also loved that song except the use of the word re*ard. Rightfully so.

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TrixieBastard@reddit

Oh yeah, definitely skipped that word! 😬

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carry_the_way@reddit

We live in a world in which a song whose title is an acronym for [Wet-Ass Pussy](https://youtu.be/dmZlUdXVpHA?si=lnz5uMrFdoKmtW4E) gets played on the radio, only the title lyric is changed to "wet and gushing"...and "I wanna [silence] you like an animal" is too scandalous for you?

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Federal-Zebra7702@reddit (OP)

I don’t know that song and haven’t heard it on the radio 🤷‍♀️ must be listening to different stations.

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22FluffySquirrels@reddit

I also found it a bit jarring when I first heard it in the wild, on the radio, on the way home from work at 3 AM.

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DirectMatter3899@reddit

Our local station put a whip sound where the fuck is...I legit didn't know that wasn't how it went for like 10 years. And frankly, I like the whip version better.

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LunaSea1206@reddit

It was my favorite song in high school, but my mom never cared. She listened to all the new stuff that came out on the radio. But I have a six year old that yells out how much he loves Bloodhound Gang's "Bad Touch" when it pops up on my Spotify. I'm waiting for a call home about him singing the lyrics at school. It's got a great beat, so I can't blame him...but I'm not prepared to explain it to him.

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Psychological-Bee702@reddit

My friends and I would play the ending piano lick on a piano at our Christian school.

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AugenDesDrachen@reddit

Not that this is Xennial, but my Dad took me to a Meatloaf concert when I was about 11 or 12 years old. We were both singing Paradise By The Dashboard Lights at the top of our lungs on the drive there. I don't think I even knew what it was actually about, I just thought it was awesome. Pretty sure I probably felt the same way about Closer until a year or 2 after it came out...

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Morriganx3@reddit

I still sing along to *Paradise* at the top of my lungs. Meat Loaf may have lost his mind, but damn he and Jim made some good music!

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Tribblehappy@reddit

My favourite is the radio edit of Starfucker which is Starsucker... Like... That's not better LOL.

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Eikthyrnir13@reddit

Fuck, I was just 12 when Pretty Hate Machine came out. I was still a good Christian lad at this point, but I loved that album. Listened to it, the whole album, dozens and dozens of times. It actually helped me with my deconversion. When I was a senior in high school, NiN and David Bowie did a tour together, and I wanted to go so bad, but couldn't. The week after the concert, a bunch of my classmates were rocking merch from the concert. I will never forget. Across the front it read "Nine David Inch Bowie Nails" I have never coveted any single piece of clothing as I did that stupid concert t-shirt.

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Johnnys-In-America@reddit

I wonder if it could be found in the wild. I'd love to own that, too! The footage from that tour is some of my favorite ever.

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peritonlogon@reddit

I always wanted to record a version of that song where all the industrial music noises were replaced with farm animals in tune. I've had this idea in my mind since before graduating highschool.

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Johnnys-In-America@reddit

Do ittttt lol

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thelaceserpent@reddit

An ex of mine had the closure VHS box set that had all the unedited NIN videos that were too graphic to show on MTV. Really loved it, and every now and again I’ll try to find them online, but to no avail.

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bjgrem01@reddit

https://youtu.be/AxIKiWLzw-s?si=C5Rm2lV82kLJCBmJ The band leaked dvd iso files of a planned re-release when it was canceled by the record company. This is a rip of disc 2 with the unedited videos.

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thelaceserpent@reddit

Just writing to say thank you again bc I’m watching it rn and I’m finding myself standing in my living room like I’m at a concert or something, screaming at my tv, dancing, and laughing so fucking hard! Some of my favorite videos are on this one! I’m also really enjoying the bootleg quality, it really adds to the charm <3

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bjgrem01@reddit

That's awesome. I'm glad you're having a good time. I love rewatching that one.

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thelaceserpent@reddit

OMG THATS SO AWESOME THANK YOU 🙏🏻

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Merzbenzmike@reddit

Trent Reznor (from a town not so far North) is a genius and contributed more to electronic and industrial music than many appreciate. Cardi B releases WAP and no one makes these comments. Let it be the way it is. Carnal, abrasive, honest.

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sispbdfu@reddit

Is this AI?

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MakingItUpAsWeGoOk@reddit

I don’t know if that comment is AI but it does kinda have a point. Another example of Trent Reznor’s electronic music compositions on the opposite end of the spectrum of “Closer” is that he scored the Disney/Pixar movie “Soul.” So he does do quite a lot.

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menunu@reddit

>Cardi B releases WAP and no one makes these comments. What are you even talking about? That song was extremely controversial.

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histprofdave@reddit

Can we forget how it birthed the Ben Shapiro gynecology extended universe?

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menunu@reddit

"It shouldn't be wet she must have some kind of condition" 🤣🤣🤣

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ChalkDoxie@reddit

It comes on at work sometimes, and I remember a class I took in college covered the song, and the artistry of the music video, and how it was so different at the time. But because of that class we broke down and discussed the lyrics. 😂 So I know most the words and will sing along with at work while my boss is there. It’s weird to sing it out loud when your boss is there.

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18randomcharacters@reddit

At least Closer was actually about drug addiction. "You and me baby aint nothin but mammals so let's do it like they do on the discovery channel" though...

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catforbrains@reddit

"Love the kind they clean up with a mop and bucket".....

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Johnnys-In-America@reddit

"Put your hands down my pants and I bet you'll feel nuts."

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morganm7777777@reddit

Do the stuff that only Prince would sing about . . . Makes me think about his Pussy Control song.

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dabeeman@reddit

was a.d.i.d.a.s. any better? kids have always loved songs about fucking

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flipzyshitzy@reddit

I don't remember that being a radio single.

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Johnnys-In-America@reddit

It was in Colorado Springs, twas how we heard about it.

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drainbamage1011@reddit

I don't know if it was an actual single, but it was definitely on the radio for a while.

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bjgrem01@reddit

The edit for "all day i dream about fucking" in the chorus was changed to "all day i dream about *giggle* humping"

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analogthought@reddit

I have a vivid memory of walking around at night after a football game with some friends and singing this at the top of our lungs at passing cars.

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45babycakes@reddit

Music is art, all my kids listen to NIN.

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Kellzy1212@reddit

Fat boy slim is fucking in heaven. Iilin wasn’t fooling anyone. 😹

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MissMomomi@reddit

I had a friend who signed my year book in middle school “I want to fuck you like an animal” and he thought it was so funny he did it every year through high school, too. I mean, it is funny, but at the time I was horrified my future kids might see it one day! My favorite though might be the classmate who wrote that we should go smoke pot together at the sand bar and my teacher who signed, then drew an arrow to his note and wrote “Don’t do this”.

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RepresentativeNo2187@reddit

And now Trent has 5 kids, young teens and younger.

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lastchance14@reddit

We ain’t nothing but mammals.

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boyalien0@reddit

I was 13 when this album came out and I blasted it nonstop at the highest possible volume

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Mission-Jackfruit138@reddit

I do the same thing with the White Zombie More Human than Human. But at least on the radio they took out the girl orgasm. I gotta hit next song on Spotify.

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Professional-Edge496@reddit

And it lasts fooorreevver. “Siri, forward 30 seconds” every time that comes on.

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Bubble_Lights@reddit

My god, I love Trent Reznor. I’ve seen NIN twice and that’s not enough. He’s such a genius. He’s even got an Oscar! ![gif](giphy|9MIwHaH15K3RM5v4Ke|downsized)

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NachoNachoDan@reddit

I dunno about you but it was pretty clear to me at the time that Closer was a very “Adult” song. I mean the video was banned from MTV and when they finally aired it, it was all edited heavily. That made it pretty clear it was x rated.

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mergatronix@reddit

I always thought the "scene missing" was just part of the video, were there really scenes missing?

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Imnotonthelist@reddit

I did too! Has the same effect tbh

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NachoNachoDan@reddit

I never knew but chose to believe scenes were actually censored.

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WargedOutOfMyMind@reddit

And shockingly, the Closer video is incredibly tame compared to NIN’s Happiness in Slavery video and the full Broken movie.

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zzzkitten@reddit

Fun fact. That video gives a nod to the artist Joel Peter Witkin. Specifically, the mask w/ the crucifix.

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tr1nn3rs@reddit

I played basketball in college. On time while playing a catholic university, Closer (uncensored) was playing during warm-ups.

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mergatronix@reddit

It was the 90s, it was all about pushing boundaries. And the censored radio edits were kind of a teaser, like "you gotta buy the album to hear the real version!"

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BobcatNervous33@reddit

I lost my virginity to “Closer”. It sounds apropos but is a cringe inducing memory. I love NIN, I always have. I saw them open for David Bowie and it was amazing. Alas, I can no longer listen to this song.

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ButterscotchAware402@reddit

I'm about the same age now as my parents were when I was in 6th grade. I also have an almost 14 year old step-daughter. I can now (somewhat) properly understand the horror my poor parents must have experienced when their precious 12 year old begged for a copy of Smells Like Children by Marilyn Manson at the Waxie Maxie.

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flerchin@reddit

My mom legitimately thought we had Satanists in our town when someone drove by playing Heresy.

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werdnurd@reddit

My full circle moment with this was when I cringed watching my 10-year-old playing “Talk Dirty to Me” by Poison on Guitar Hero, as my mother probably did when I sang along to it on MTV in the 80s.

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Pitiful_Ad2397@reddit

It’s a good song

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unbalancedcentrifuge@reddit

My mom used to ask us to make mix tapes for her. We usually tried to squeeze one unhinged song per tape. NIN Closer was one of the songs wedged between Don Henely and Whitney Houston on a tape in the 90s. I think it grew on her!

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zzzkitten@reddit

My mom can call out a NIN song faster than most of my peers. Thats how much I listened to NIN, and also speaks to how mom didn’t pull a Tipper and realized I was gonna listen anyhow.

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Still_Strawberry8134@reddit

I mean, there was a lot of active avoidance by my parents to not listen to any of my music whenever possible, so the content of the music was kind of not an issue. And I don’t think I was the only one. My dad thought he’d be “cool dad” once and let me have control of the radio on the way to school. I thought I’d be gentle and put it on the new rock alternative station instead of the hard rock metal station, but alas, I still offended his old man sensibilities when Meredith Brooks’ “Bitch” came on. I had to listen to Rush Limbaugh on the way to school the rest of my sophomore year. Fortunately I got my license and the car my mom hated the following summer and could drive myself after that.

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zyrquix@reddit

I remember the first time I heard this song. I was in our family car with my dad and I tuned the radio to the local alternative stations and this song was just started. Either the DJ said it was NIN or I recognized it as NIN so I kept it on that station as I wanted to hear their new release. Cue 3 1/2 minutes of awkwardness as we listened to the lyrics.

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Taskerst@reddit

The song isn’t sexy and isn’t about fucking. I wouldn’t say it’s the most graphic song to hit the top-40 but definitely one of the darkest and most complex emotionally.

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Federal-Zebra7702@reddit (OP)

I get that it’s about drugs. But to an 8yo it seems otherwise 😂

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OhTheHueManatee@reddit

I love [this version of it. ](https://youtu.be/PycrELyYNBU?si=Rd6E2PN0i0X9JhgF) Sounds like it belongs on Sesame Street.

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Federal-Zebra7702@reddit (OP)

Wow, that’s something. Like the Me First and the Gimme Gimmies, but in reverse.

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_acrostical@reddit

Apparently this song came on the radio one time when I was in early high school and my best friend and I were getting driven around by my mom. Bestie still talks about how mortified she was in the moment...yet I don't think my mom or I even noticed!!!! And my mom's the type who would have said something, more to make me squirm than anything. She did that once after overhearing the Salt-n-Pepa classic "Let's Talk About Sex" on the radio in my room!

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JeffTS@reddit

Reminds me of that girl that I inadvertently struck out with because I thought she was already spoken for when she was single all along. She loved NIN.

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nwflman@reddit

It's true. I don't care if I love NIN and my teenager does too, I turn the station on the first beat.

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flytingnotfighting@reddit

I had a friend that did a recitation for drama class in high school. It became a core memory

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TinyLittleWeirdo@reddit

This is one of the greatest songs ever. When it started playing at parties in college, everyone would cheer. I don't have kids so don't care about that, lol.

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taleofbenji@reddit

The funny thing about this song is that it was loved by many girls who seemed completely sheltered.

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ailish@reddit

My stepmother would rock out to this song with me. Granted, she wasn't very maternal and never had any of her own kids.

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thepatientwaiting@reddit

I'm going to go see them in February, 30 after seeing them last. My mom liked the same kind of music I liked (and vice versa) so I got to see tons of concerts in the 90s. Got into tons of shows underage just because my mom was with me. She even let me order a screwdriver ONCE when I was 13!! Could you even imagine that now?? She'd be in prison. Lots of fond memories of listening to this with her! I invited her to see the show with me but she has plans.

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catforbrains@reddit

I still love this song. It's one of the best "dysfunctional people having sex" songs out there because it's such a ball of hate and love and confusion. It's the auditory equivalent of two fucked up 20 somethings having noisy sex in a dice bar bathroom while fucked up.

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queenofcaffeine76@reddit

Let's not forget Push It and Ain't Too Prouc to Beg from a few years earlier lol

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leggypepsiaddict@reddit

My uncle pulled my sister and I out if a Salt n Peppa concert in St. Louis, when "Push It" came up. It was maybe 1992 or 3. Our mom had no issue with us listening to it. Fast forward to maybe 2010 and my phone goes off at like 1am and its my sister's number. I pick it up and all i hear is crowd noise and Salt n Peppa doing "Push It". They played Pride and my sis included me.

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queenofcaffeine76@reddit

Lmao that's great!

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leggypepsiaddict@reddit

Thank you. Just goes to show how different Uncle Michael (who pulled us from the show) was different from Uncle Mike (other side of family) who gave me "Use Your Illusion I & II" when I was 11.

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Iamthegreenheather@reddit

I'm going to their show next month and I cannot wait.

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ExistentialDreadness@reddit

As Alive as You Want Me to Be

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Massive-Resort-8573@reddit

You unlocked the memory of the joyous amount of sex and make out sessions i had to that song though.

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Combat__Crayon@reddit

We would have music listening days in 5th/6th grade (early 99s) music class where we could bring in tapes and listen to them in groups with headphones. That’s where I heard 2 Live Crew, NWA, etc. like I definitely heard Just Don’t Bite It there. Granted that’s not the radio

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Busy_Daikon_6942@reddit

My wife and I played this at our wedding reception in 1997. Jim Croce's "Time In A Bottle" and NIN's "Closer". A love story for the ages. 😄

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AldusPrime@reddit

I think of * "I Want to Sex You Up" by Color Me Badd * "I Touch Myself" the Divinyls * "Knockin Boots" by Candyman * "OPP" by Naughty by Nature * "Aint Too Proud to Beg" by TLC * "Cherry Pie" by Warrant * "I Want Your Sex" George Michael * "Push It" Salt N Peppa * "Like A Virgin" Madonna * "Me So Horny" 2 Live Crew And that was all stuff we listened to in **elementary school** and **jr. high***.*

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rekep@reddit

Dooin' crystal meth'll lift you up until you break

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Pheeline@reddit

Honestly, once you get past the whole "*fuck* is a curse word!" bit I don't think it's *that* much worse than how a few years before that, as a 7th grader at a junior high school dance, I was slow-dancing with a boy to Color Me Badd's "I Wanna Sex You Up" lol.

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LACna@reddit

Come on now... Is it any worse than WAP?

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bassgirl_07@reddit

This came up (uncensored, thank you LimeWire) in the playlist on my computer while I was out of my dorm room for a second. I came back to see my VERY sheltered roommate had returned and was sitting on her bed, aghast at what was playing. AWKWARD.

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GonzoThompson@reddit

I love that it took only one generation to get from “I wanna hold your hand” to “I wanna fuck you like an animal.”

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kthejoker@reddit

I mean ...The Beatles had a song whose lyrics are almost entirely "why don't we do it in the road"

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Fluffy_Marsupial2947@reddit

Not necessarily. Look at Jailhouse Rock Number 47 said to number three "You're the cutest jailbird I ever did see I sure would be delighted with your company Come on and do the Jailhouse Rock with me" Let's rock Everybody, let's rock Everybody in the whole cell block Was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock, Rock, Rock Sad Sack was sittin' on a block of stone Way over in the corner weepin' all alone The warden said, "Hey, buddy, don't you be no square If you can't find a partner, use a wooden chair"

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acromantulus@reddit

Lived in a small town in Western KY. One night I was listening to the radio and this song came on and about halfway through the DJ cut it off and apologized.

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Yourmomisnotshy@reddit

I told me kids it said I wanna pet you like an animal when it came on in the car. lol

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chase02@reddit

Just listened to a hottest 100 from the 90s with the kids in the car. Almost every song one kid was giving me the horrified face. Whoops

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Loop22one@reddit

How old are the kids though?

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_procrastinatrix_@reddit

My daughter (14) was listening to / singing this in the shower last night! She's so very into music and she's currently obsessed with all my teenage favorites. Our singalongs on the way to sports are so much fun.

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MrsSantini@reddit

It used to come on every morning when I was a school bus driver, every morning I had to slap that mute button real quick

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kathatter75@reddit

Another great reason to not have children :) I have Closer as one of my preset songs on SiriusXM in my car.

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Lcky22@reddit

I was obsessed with the video!!

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PlantedinCA@reddit

This is a really good time to call out Maxwell’s unplugged cover that turns it into essentially a church song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB7-YtsVfvM

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itsallcosmica@reddit

Ok this is just fucking cool!

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AmputeeHandModel@reddit

You can say fuck. Your kids aren't reading this post.

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gooddaysir@reddit

This was the first concert I ever went to. I had just gotten my license and my 15 year old best friend bought tickets and it was amazing. Our parents had no clue lol.

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itsallcosmica@reddit

This actually has me 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 I heard this all of the time in my house too, not just the radio . The video.. Like, were you guys NOT watching it, too?! Lmao

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itsallcosmica@reddit

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itsallcosmica@reddit

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itsallcosmica@reddit

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Horror_Garbage_9888@reddit

I almost played it on the school TVs before our morning announcements. I was allowed to play music during Homeroom. I was making the mix tape the day before but my teacher heard it clans came running into the studio and made me tape over it. He probably saved me from getting Saturday school for the rest of the year but it would have been epic.

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KamuiT@reddit

I feel like no one remembers “What’s Your Fantasy” by Ludacris.

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Bacch@reddit

Killing in the Name was another one along the same lines.

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gooch_norris_@reddit

Weird Al used cartoon noises to censor the “fuck”s and I hear it like this in my head more than the original [the alternative polka](https://youtu.be/vwKSN8pSq8g?si=kDWOtFeH1SOCcmtz)

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AMugOfPeppermintTea@reddit

I remember buying "Pretty Hate Machine" when I was in my late teens and I was playing it in my room for the first time. That album doesn't have a lot of swearing on it, especially compared to other NIN albums, but my mom happened to come to my room just in time to hear Trent very clearly say, "and the devil wants to fuck me in the back of his car." Yeah, she was quite shocked!

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rjcpl@reddit

Oh yeah remember driving my mom around and that would come on often right around the time Green Day was just singing about masturbation losing its fun too. 😁

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Wireman332@reddit

My kids said i turned them onto NWA. One of my daughters loves SLAYER!!! My work here is done.

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Budgiejen@reddit

So when this song came out I dubbed the CD onto tape so we could play it in the car. My dad was driving us to school and every time that song came on I’d quick fast forward through it. In retrospect, my dad wouldn’t have cared. But I was 14 or so and hella embarrassed.

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DarthBster@reddit

Lol. I enjoy the spot on SiriusXM lithium where they play the answering machine and the dudes like yeah, it was quite awkward when I was driving the old ladies to church in my Uber staring at them in the mirror while this was on 🤣

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ohmygoditspurple@reddit

My dad told me he better not ever hear me listening to this song haha.

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AskMrScience@reddit

My local alternative radio station was advertising something to do with NIN earlier this year. They cheekily announced "They want to fill your truck with animals!" I'm gonna sing it that way from now on.

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JenninMiami@reddit

I had this exact moment of realization the first time Pop That Coochie came on when my elementary school aged child sat in the backseat with wide eyes. 😆

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