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Originally Posted by dirty bunny
Even if NIN had done nothing other than the song Closer I would love them.
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“Closer” is a fucking miracle of pop music.
Why? Because it’s the bounciest and catchiest song of the year it was released (it’s basically a disco track built on a minimalist expansion of a single beat) and because it’s damn near 7 minutes long, explodes into a noise-funk breakdown that spits in the very face of pop and alt-rock radio play and because it still managed to be one of the biggest songs of the ’90s.
Goddamn right, if “Closer” was all NIN ever released, I’d love NIN.
(P.s. “Runaway” by Kanye follows some of the same structural principals, expands and contracts and distorts in similar ways, and even further challenges the conventions of pop songcraft and was an even bigger hit, so... #shamelesskanyeplug)