"Closer" climbed to #11 on the alternative chart and just missed the top 40 of the pop chart. However, it received strong support from MTV. The accompanying music video, with Trent Reznor wearing fetish gear in bondage and a monkey tied to a cross was immediately controversial. The lyrics were censored by silencing certain words when played on the radio. It is often misinterpreted as simply being about sex and lust. Group leader Trent Reznor says the song is a meditation on self-hatred and obsession.
However, it was "Closer" from the second album The Downward Spiral that presented a definitive Nine Inch Nails sound generating both admiration and controversy. They broke into the alternative radio top 40 with the songs "Down In It" and "Head Like a Hole" from their debut album Pretty Hate Machine. The music of alternative rock band Nine Inch Nails is heavily influenced by industrial dance music. The music video won the MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year. They earned two Grammy Awards including for Best Pop Performance By a Duo Or Group With Vocal.
"Losing My Religion" hit a new pop peak for R.E.M. It is modeled after a Gabriel Garcia Marquez short story "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings" about an angel crashing into a small town. The song was accompanied by a striking music video directed by Tarsem Singh. The main riff in the song is memorably played on the mandolin. The term, "losing my religion," comes from Southern linguistic expressions and means losing one's mind or temper. However, "Losing My Religion," the first single from their album Out Of Time, took the group to an even higher level. were already celebrated as one of the top American rock bands before "Losing My Religion." They hit the top 10 on the album chart with their 1987 release Document, their 1983 debut Murmur was seen by many critics as one of the top rock debuts of all time, and the singles "The One I Love" and "Stand" both reached the pop top 10.
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