They're not invested in her as a person. Much like Reznor in the song, their focus is above all on how she makes them feel and what she can do to meet their needs. Honestly, it's easier to deal with a guy whose pressing need is to have a naked woman on his lap than one who wants to get to the divine via intercourse.
It's fucking on a higher plane of being a human connected to another human. Massey says she's wondered how Reznor felt about the song being a strip club anthem. It seems like he was both resigned and rankled, though no more than he was by other signifiers of mainstream success. He joked about calling the next album "Music for Strip Clubs" in a Guitar World interview and refined the joke into "I think my next album is going to be called 'Music for Titty Bars'" in Details a year later.
One song he didn't want to hear in the club was "Hurt. I was appalled, too, the couple of times I've heard it. It's in there with Nirvana's "Rape Me" and anything by Elliott Smith as the most inappropriate stripper songs I've seen dancers perform to. Those songs run the risk of seriously ruining not just the customers' night but also those of your coworkers.
He told Blender in , "Come on, dude: 'I wanna fuck you like an animal'? 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. Reznor may never admit he "knew what he was doing," but "Closer" persists as a strip club anthem, largely because it's managed to never sound dated. It can be played back to back with any genre — metal, electronic, rock, hip-hop — without clashing.
In the pantheon of club classics, it stands alone. Not to say these other songs that have always been in the strip club classics universe aren't still going to be getting played then, but I think that 'Closer' will still be relevant that many years into the future.
The Rolling Stones' song "Honky Tonk Women" is still played in strip clubs 50 years later, a mark that "Closer" is halfway to matching.
I most recently heard the song at a strip club in early January. The place was down the access road from a truck stop, resembling no strip club I'd been in elsewhere so much as the fictional venue the Bang Bang Bar where Nine Inch Nails performed in Twin Peaks: The Return. The dancer onstage was born several years after "Closer" was released. The song will still be played long after she's given her last dance. In the tours following the release of With Teeth , Nine Inch Nails performed a shorter version of "Closer" with the keyboard solo played as a guitar solo and a breakdown incorporating a portion of "The Only Time," a track from Pretty Hate Machine.
Two performances of this version of the song this appear on Beside You in Time. The version of "Closer" on the single is 13 seconds longer than the album version; on the album, the piano tune at the end of the song is abruptly cut off in order to segue into the next track, "Ruiner".
On the single, the piano and background sounds of "Closer" are allowed to play out longer. In addition, the U. The UK single releases contain the same tracks split between two discs each sold separately. A cassette single was issued in the U. Other versions in other formats and countries have the same track listing as the U.
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