This song took me through a crazy breakup. Basically after a year of being together the person they up and moved. No indication. They just disappeared. After that for weeks I was lost, confused, and longing. I played this non stop.
I see comments like this and I remember what I've gone through and am stronger because of - and I'm glad I had NIN helping me through it. I feel like we were in this together
I love the idea that the opening chords of this song is like a bastardised version of the piano outro from Closer. Almost like he's parodying his own work that he's exhausted by. But one of those echoes he cannot shift because of fan expectations
12:24 - It's "I am still inside HERE... a little bit come bleeding through" as if he's saying he's changed over time but the person you knew is still inside this body, and a little of it shows from time to time.
Schrödlinger's Third !!! you're sooo much fun to watch. please never stop doing these videos, its such a wonderful way to rediscover NIN & Trent Reznor's genius. You're a genius too !!
It's "I am still inside here" and "there is no love here". I love how you understand the nuance of Trents vocals. Little quirks and "happy accidents" that stick with you and make the songs so great. I can't wait till you get to Reptile; the "oooh whoa whoa ohs" towards the end are priceless.
I agree those little details can add so much to a song. Even if not everyone notices, if they weren't there, it wouldn't be the same. I can't wait to get to Reptile too and I was literally thinking just a few days ago about how I was going to spend far too long dissecting that last bit of vocal mayhem!!
@@iximusic yes unfortunately in this day and age of disposable downloadable singles people don't spend enough time with a full album's worth of music to enjoy those little magic moments. Even sadder is that in my opinion after The Fragile, Trent became less experimental and that mixed with Atticus Ross taking the roll as arranger on every album since With Teeth NIN really hasn't been the same and the songs have become much more formulaic. I like Atticus' influence on the film scores and How To Destroy Angels but not on NIN.
@@night_speed Interesting...you know, I don't yet know Atticus' sound yet. I haven't listened to any of his solo work so that'll be something to develop. You've inadvertently challenged me to find these kinds of things in newer albums! :: rubs hands together ::
@@iximusic lol good luck. It's less of a sound and more of a song structure thing with Atticus. From my understanding, listening to interviews with Trent, is that the recording process consists of Trent coming up with various "parts", be it synths or piano or guitar, tweaking pedals and what not while Atticus records on a computer. Then Trent will take a break out of ideas for the moment and Atticus will take the recorded parts and chunks and piece them together on the computer. Probably Pro Tools. This has been the formula full time since Year Zero. He did a little work on With Teeth. So the Fragile was the last time Trent locked himself away experimenting with sound design and recurring themes.
15:51 has always been my favorite part. I didn’t know why or the musicality behind it but dang, it just has so much emotion. So glad to see someone explain the mystique around it.
I just like hearing you talk about this stuff. I have no clue what you're talking about but you explain it like you have a true passion for it and that really brightens my day
omfg I'm so glad The Great Algorithm sent me your videos. I've binged most at this point. Been obsessing over Trent's production techniques and vocal acting while singing (who else does that?) since late nineties. NIN has been a continuous soundtrack to everything I've lived through. One thing I've never been able to do or find is great analysis of the tonality and melodicity (let that be a word). FINALLY, here's you, and the memes. Trentone's defo going in my vocab now. Every noise they put out, every meaning they seem to convey, and now thanks to you, every note played. Waiting on new ones with baited breath. :)
Best Comment of the Year! I might have teared up a little...It's aways a pleasure to meet a kindred spirit. I recorded two more videos today coming out next week!
Most of the time I have no clue what you're talking about. But I love about NIN is hearing new and interesting things in it. And just when I thought I've heard everything you come a long and show me more.
One of my favorite things about NIN: random out of the box chords in weird places that add dissonant tones which make the songs more beautiful and ugly at the same time.
I just discovered you. I'm a big NIN fan and a psychologist. I've thought of doing psychological interpretations of NIN lyrics on TH-cam. So watching your passion and understanding is very inspiring. I have to say though, for someone like me who doesn't understand much about music, I can only watch half the video before I get lost in the complexity. It's so dense! But I also learn a lot.
17:40, I think that technique is what's sometimes called a unison bend, where two notes a tone apart are played on the guitar at the same time and the string playing the lower note is quickly bent up to (almost) match the higher note. There's a weird natural chorus effect or, depending on the accuracy of the guitarist, a very dissonant sound. Siren-like is spot-on 😊 great video!!
Just stumbled across this breakdown of one of my favorite NIN songs. I grew up playing keyboards and had an amazing teacher who taught me a ton about music theory, so I wasn't completely lost, but there were times that I had to reach WAAAAAAY back into the part of the brain that stored this stuff. :) Anyway, thank you for such a wonderful love letter to the song, and I cannot wait to watch more of your videos!
I absolutely love the complexity of this song while being so simple sounding. Thank you for the depth of your analysis beautifully weaving your technical analysis with an analysis of intent and emotional direction. Beautiful!
I really like how the intro sounds just like the outro of Closer, basically underlining how that particular melody is a theme for those dark, depressing thoughts that haunt even years after you've managed to overcome your own complications and catches. Or at least that's how I like to think of the intro for this song
This was my best friends favorite song. I lost him a few years ago and have not been able to listen to it in a long time. Thanks for doing this. He would have loved to see and hear it.
was just talking with my husband about how NIN has always been able to capture exactly what I am feeling in terms of tone and lyric. Things going through me that I can’t put words to, are perfectly expressed, and I feel like I am not alone to suffer with it. I was telling my husband that there were years after The Downward Spiral that I didn’t really listen to or understand from NIN. It wasn’t like Downward Spiral at all…too modern, too techie, too much commentary that didn’t feel like ‘me’ at the time. Years would pass between new albums with new songs. I couldn’t latch onto it because I hadn’t lived enough yet. Now, after growing up, having a family, going through abuse and coming out on the other side, having major health issues, and getting an ADHD diagnosis after my son’s autism/ADHD diagnosis…I get it. Everything after 1999 makes SO much sense to me now. THIS song. THIS ONE. It is my heart. I could not understand it for so long, and now it is like my personal anthem. I often tell my husband that the word “routine” feels like death. When I am forced into these routines to support my special needs kids (and myself), I feel this incredible boredom and emptiness. I feel like I don’t exist and I am just going through motions. It feels like this dissonance, just like how you are exploring/explaining the rhythms and chords. But it is also somewhat sweet because it is for my babies, and it does actually make us stronger. Structure just doesn’t sit right with my brain, it does not come naturally, yet it is part of the intervention we need in order to function and feel OK. It is a love that I have to learn and train with a very steep learning curve. The whole analysis of his vocals and music style are exactly what I do when I try to think about why I love it so much. Trent Reznor is my all-time favorite artist. I don’t know who or what I would be if I never heard his music. Thanks so much for this analysis! I love that, like Trent, you are able to put words to my feels, through music theory and expertise. Definitely subscribing, and I look forward to more analysis. Some of my other favorites that resonate with me in my life right now are “Only,” and “Right Where it Belongs.” A couple of my old favorites are “Something I can Never Have,” “March of the Pigs,” “Wish,” and “A Warm Place.” I love so many Trent Reznor and NIN songs, but those were a few of the ones that would make my heart ache in a good way.
Omg Schrödinger's third... I'm dying 😆😆😆 Been a fan since you had over a thousand subs, it's amazing to see you growing! 🖤 Thanks for your videos, there's nothing like you out there, and your jokes are *gold* lmao. nin has been what made me fall in love with music in almost every dimension, so hearing you put into words what I've always wanted to understand, has been just beautiful and comforting. There's so much to learn! Anyway, you rock, girl!
I typed a lot of this out while doing a first watch. Please forgive me for any assumptions that later proved incorrect. Also, I disclose a couple of personal things that might be considered TMI... so, I apologize if that is not a "good thing", but please understand that I am focused on enjoying your work, sharing my experience of Trent's music and my experience of your contributions to that experience, and if by sharing something about me I might help someone else feel less alone or "unique" in a bad way, then I want to try. Having said that, it's your channel, your rules go, and I accept and respect that. :) First thing first, there were some amazing highlights in this video. There were a few candidates for "Play of the Game"... or "video"... or something. I loved "Ninja Ixi" at 0:39. Then later there was Drummer Ixi!!! Also you practically dubbed yourself "Punster Ixi" around 19:22. I have huge affection for your style and each of these were enjoyable and entertaining. "Ninja Ixi" might be the winner, but I don't know, it's really, really close. If I look at your videos overall, as a body of work (how do you say that without sounding pompous?), then "Punster Ixi" is the clear winner of these three. I love your phraseology. "Sonic grammatical errors, but they're intentional" is also worthy of special praise. Conceptually and verbally, it is a glorious statement. Final bit here, "Crunchtastic" also deserves honorable mention. I don't mind that you refer to the G# as an Ab sometimes... I got it. I also understand why you felt the need to correct it. Same. At 10:57 I had a HUGE reaction of recognition. I know you say it's "Schrödinger's Third", but for me, in my head... no, in my body, it IS the major I & IV chords. No doubt whatsoever. Complete certainty. Oh! At 11:50... the C#... 'yes, yes... good... we are in agreement' (sounds cooler if you say that in your head with Emperor Palpatine's voice, yeah, it's weird in here). The "Trentone" at 15:59, I don't know if it's my favorite point in the song, but it's got to be top 3. I agree, regardless, it's freaking awesome. It manages to give a spike to the feelings of frustration, poignancy, and an inexplicable sense of triumph. I don't get it, but I love it all the same. I also want to shout out the preceding phrase, "I am still inside here". I love the soft ascending notes of that part. At 16:34 (and again at 20:15) if sounds/feels like you are channeling Alanis Morrisette. I hope that's not an insult to you. Coming from me it's a compliment. I love the emotion she brings to her music, even if she can't accurately define "irony". 18:45. Let's talk about this for a moment. You are correct, nobody may have "blinked an eye", but the song would have been 'less than', at least for me personally. TMI warning, I'm going to share a little. For most of the past decade I was on high doses of various cocktails of anti-depressants. We were looking for a combination that would work. Unfortunately, to date, my depression is unresponsive to medication. That's not to say that it didn't have an effect on me, it just didn't do anything therapeutically beneficial towards elevating my mood. Instead, the most notable change was that my ability to experience emotions of any kind was deadened. I'm not unique, many people have this experience. That statement points us right back to the song. Trent including the phrase, "There is no love here and there is no pain" is CRUCIAL to describe in what way "Every day is exactly the same." See? Listening to this song, those 10 words are what it's all about. Those 10 words describe what I felt for so long, what it was like being on the inside. These lyrics made me feel heard... seen... understood? I had a reaction, even when I was uncomfortably numb, and very much so today... being off of those specific medications, having my emotions coming back online after so long. So... yeah... I can personally vouch for the strength of his artistic decision to include the variation among the repetition. It matters. A lot. 19:50 to 20:05. That is probably my "favorite" part of the song. Yes. He is emphasizing it. There is a very distinct reason for that. I don't want my comment to get deleted, so I won't say it. But like the phrase "There is no love here and there is no pain", the serious, measured certainty of the "but I can tell you..." section is Trent Reznor giving voice to a part of me that he has explored in much of his previous work. I'm not saying it's a good thing to focus or dwell on that, but to hear this song and to feel understood... for him to express something through music that I struggle with... so valuable. So very, very valuable. It helps in ways that all the pills and counseling don't. "I will hide it behind something, they won't look behind" (from the album version, 3:07 to 3:16) is an important line that you didn't cover, at least it didn't make your final cut. I'm mentioning it, in closing, just because it is the third of my "top 3" moments of the song. It is so deeply meaningful for me, and I imagine countless others. When dealing with "stuff", people are often (probably most of the time) pressured into NOT sharing it with others. Sometimes this is harmful and counterproductive, but sometimes it's necessary. People who have dark thoughts, people who are deeply troubled... we can't just say what we're thinking. (I'm laughing... it's a dark laugh, denoting surrender) So, we understand the line, "I'm writing on a little piece of paper, I'm hoping some day you will (?) find, I will hide it behind something, they won't look behind." It's unclear to me at the "?" I inserted, whether he says "I'm hoping some day you will never find", "you will find", "you'll never find"... lots of possibilities, with potentially different meanings, but my larger point remains. The over all meaning of the phrase is very familiar, important, and yet again, Trent shares the gift of "being seen" through his music. I live alone. I don't interact with people except electronically over 99% of the time. Let me tell you, living in isolation, it's important to occasionally be emotionally 'seen'. As always, it was a great pleasure to watch you do what you do. I love it. You are fabulous. Please keep doing this as long as you keep enjoying it. Please be good to yourself. I wish you all the best. :)
My god Ixi... I adore these videos. So amazingly dissected! "I am still inside here" I think by the way. Your musical knowledge is also mind blowing. Each time I watch one of your videos I learn a new word 🤣. Keep up the amazing work. I love it all! 😍
Thanks for putting in the effort. Great to see your insights to the genius of NIN. Really hope you are not getting copyright strikes and also hope you are not getting demonetized. Your great analysis of NIN music will hopefully help some future composers build captivating masterpieces. Always loved their live performances too (the 2013 Fuji Rock Festival was one of their best).
This is such a fun track to play on the drums! To me I always felt like this was another extension on the Downward Spiral melody. It has that feel to me and always has. Trent has a reason for everything he does whether we caught it or not... He truly is ahead of himself in terms of musical prowess and intentionally toys with us and I don't mind one bit!
Love your videos Ixi!! I am a musician and producer myself and I have torn apart a lot of NIN of the years. Isolated tracks. Etc. It's crazy how much goes into NIN sonically. Keep up the videos. You're doing great. And even after 26 years, I've learned a few things from you!
Ixi, I’m so glad the algorithm led me to your videos. I have no music education, but I find music analyses fascinating in general, and your videos breakdown music that I love and am intimately familiar with. Thanks so much for detailing all the oddity and nuance, the clash and the climax that makes Trent’s work a journey of the heart. I’ve subscribed after the first video. Almost all the theory is beyond me, but I think I’m learning a little too. Thanks ❤️
You are really good at these analysis, thanks for sharing your music knowledge with all us NIN fans. opens up some things I've never noticed personally. Maybe I'm learning to read music from watching these a little?
17:39: The guitar effects are a slight bit of string bending up and then down (like an arch in the frequency or pitch), combined with a matching swell of volume (again like an arch - no sharp attack here), and the usual complex harmonics of tube amplifier overdrive distortion (which give it that stressed feeling). I also like how he uses the piano low registers where bass would typically go after the breakdown. This song is battling it out with a few others to be my favorite NIN song ('Where is Everybody', anybody?), after totally not getting it my first few listens. Dave Grohl on drums, BTW.
Right on, thanks! Ooh I like that too. I'm a bit biased though because I play piano. The texture of a low piano note gets me. Dave Grohl! Man I had no idea. I learned recently he played on this album because there was this cute video of him recalling his difficulty in perceiving the downbeat of With Teeth. Trying to find it.
When my 7 year old heard this song she took about 20 seconds of listening to shout, "Daddy throw this on my playlist please!" which was what confirmed for me that we'd be friends when she becomes an adult.
There's a lot of treasure to be found in isolating the channels on the 5.1 version of WT, vocal tracks, isolated melodies etc.. Very handy for learning the intricacies of Trents work on that album. I'm also learning a lot watching this wonderful channel, i'm hooked!
I discovered this source for multitracks and it's absolute bliss: www.nindestruct.com/remix.html I never thought I'd have access to them and you're right, the layers I'm discovering are blowing my mind. Thank you thank you!
YES! I thought I added an annotation about that but I might have forgotten. In any case I agree, GREAT catch! I'm not surprised...most of the chords implied in his music turn out to be major. It's one of my favorite unexpected discoveries doing these analyses!
YES! I feel goosebumps just thinking about that progression. I started putting together a Spotify playlist of Dorian songs - it's collaborative, so feel free to add to it! open.spotify.com/playlist/0dhUzcKKcZt5nIJcgBQYbG?si=2mLlknMtRN60KMjUHrZKwA
It's fascinating to hear someone analyse songs I intuitively like although I have no musical knowledge (and a very bad musical ear). NIN resonates with me both because of the melody and the lyrics. When I first heard that sound, I immediately thought it mirrored perfectly the narrative of a very influential book of my formative years, Orwell's 1984. Although I'm not alone to have pointed it out, as far as I know, there is no direct link with the novel and it's just a coincidence - that said, totalitarianism and thought control are certainly themes NIN explored on this album and even more so on Year Zero. More probably this is trademark Reznor's existential search, with lyrics such as "I believe I can see the future cause I repeat the same routine" throwing backs to the likes of "Watching fate as it flow down the path we have chose" (We're In This Together) or "There is no love here and there is no pain" to "I focus on the pain the only thing that's real" (Hurt), but it illustrates just how NIN music and lyrics can be so eerily evocative and universal.
One of my favorite NIN songs. This is Right Where It Belongs are the bee's knees. And also, the cat's pajamas. Which are special, I assume, because cats don't usually wear them.
I am subscribing and I am never looking back. Watching you comprehend the seemingly (that's the joke) incomprehensible is for lack of a better phrase, music to my ears. I would also subscribe to someone who dissects Lovecraft in the same way. As with Trent, his literary dissonance is the story that is being told, not what you think or assume it is.
The little nuances of Trent’s music makes geek out with every new listen and there’s always something new to take away, so seeing someone geek out on that stuff too gives me excited goosebumps! I discovered Trent’s/NIN’s endeavors during a dark time last year, I’ve been a die hard fan since. Keep up the amazing work! P.S. Would love to see something on The Becoming from STILL....
Hellooo fellow music geek! So since you're a newer NIN fan and had the entire discography (except Ghosts V and VI) to choose from, I have to ask - how did you start? What song, what album? It's pretty amazing to know that music can be the most soothing, consistent companion when life is challenging. Re: The Becoming (Still version), this may be the most requested song I've had yet so, it'll becoming soon!
@@iximusic Wonderful! I obviously knew of the more popular tracks of Closer and Hurt, but I remember accidentally playing shuffle on Spotify and In This Twilight from Year Zero started playing. From there I was like “WTF?! MORE PLEASE!” And boy was there SO MUCH more. Throughout the early weeks of the pandemic, I went down a rabbit hole of Trent and NIN’s music. I felt it was a perfect channel for all the rage, confusion, and stress during that time when it was hard to even articulate it myself. To this day I’m still finding new details within the music that make me giddy and further proves Trent’s status as a GENIUS. Sorry for the long babbling, but Trent’s work has definitely had a huge impact on me in the the year I’ve been listening to it. In fact I just heard Over and Out for the first time this week (even though I thought I listened to Bad Witch all the way through!) It’s truly incredible what some people are capable of creative. One of the greatest gifts of us troubled humans!
@@MrMovieManMatt Oooh "In This Twilight" is amazing and I can see why that caught your ear. It's on my analysis list. I still find details in the music I hadn't heard before and it's been over 20 years. I love that there are always more gems to be discovered. Don't apologize for babbling, I make 20-minute videos of me babbling ;)
@@iximusic As a matter of fact, I ended making a ‘best of’ Spotify playlist for Trent’s work including HTDA and it ended up just being 80% of the catalogue lmaooo
I always thought it was "there is no loss here and there is no gain". Once I saw "love/pain" I tried to train myself to sing THAT... but its not easy. Both work. Its whatever. Great tune. I LOVE your videos by the way! SO good!
Hahaha. Love your puns. And your videos! Even though it's not my favorite song, still it was interesting to watch! Very cool! I don't know this much about music theory to fully appreciate what you do in this video and other videos, but you have a really good ear! Or so I wanted to write, but then... "I am still inside her", hahaha
Well then I did my job! Haha that lyric, I know...my only excuse is that I don't pay attention to lyrics very closely. I'm always so deep into the harmony and rhythms! At some point I'd like to introduce more basic theory and ear training concepts in separate videos, because I think theory can seem inaccessible to a lot of people if they are not technically minded...I learn more intuitively myself so maybe I can help others out a little!
@@iximusic actually that would be really cool, the videos about music theory and stuff. Cause I think we all had basic musical knowledge classes in school... I guess it's the case in USA and Canada and Europe too, right? Cause in Russia it is. But it was like "yeah, another Russian folk song? Thanks, but no, thanks" And so we skipped classes like crazy. Yeah, anyway, that's why there's no new Chaikovsky, Shostakovich, Sviridov and so on. The music classes are really boring! Also about this idea of music without chords. It's very natural to music, I just realized that. Some modes or scales of Arab music or Turkish or Indian or whatever are microtonal... And I think that a note between c and d would sound weird with any of our chords... Cool, dude. I sound like a stoner, sorry
You are an awesome musician, so passionate. Here in Brazil musical analisys is focused more in the gramatical poetical structure and lyrics meaning, not so much on the harmony or production. I don't see many grammatical analysis from English countries
I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL! My whole life I’ve wanted someone to explain why Trents music feels the way it does! Downward Spiral came out when I was 15 and blew me away, your passion is relatable. *Quick questions; Have you seen Soul yet? Does trents scoring work with Atticus interest you in a theory way? Is it less “Trentastic” than his NIN work? Love your work!
Dang that warms my heart! Always good to meet other passionate fans. I haven't seen Soul, but last week I recorded a reaction/analysis to one of the tracks from the score that I'll be releasing this week or next week!
Ironically enough, I listen to this song everyday. Not the best song to listen to while commuting to and from work, and while working lol! but I love this analysis, and I love the content! Never took time to delve into the technical compositions and this made me realize just how brilliant Trent Reznor is! Well done!
I always thought he was saying " I am still inspired, a little bit comes bleeding through" And I really like my misheard lyric and I am going to keep it just for me lol. Absolutely love your videos thank you for all your effort in making all of these!
This might sound weird, but this song is very similar to Bowie songs, with C major, E major, F Major and G Major. It’s nearly exact to a song like rock n roll suicide, but edgier. The discordant harmonies only emphasise it, absolutely beautiful song!
Im getting genuinely (?) [sorry english not my native language] excited everytime I listen you explain a nin song, I really love with teeth album, I really love your videos. 💕
I had to.come back and listen to this video again, @ixi, this song has become a bit of an obsession recently with covid living! There is something comforting and inclusive about the baseline that is a bit addictive. At the same time it makes me feel like me punching the air when that crescendo hits with 'what else I can do'. Thanks as ever for your work - is it nearly Monday again yet? 😜
I'm fairly new to theory, but I love whatever interval that G# is at 10:35. Check out the song Self Tanner by Tobacco, he uses that same kind of thing a lot in his music.
Nice! That is called the 3rd scale degree. It's the 3rd note in a major scale. What makes it stand out in this song and Self Tanner is that the rest of the song sounds like it's in a darker key like minor, so it's unexpected to hear the bright and warm major 3rd. Thanks for watching!
This one is one of my favorites... tho I mostly only listen to nails... so favorite changes alot. It's "I am still inside here." Voting for Satellite I think on Hesitation Marks. I love that album... its so funky.
Thank you for sharing!! I hope you get a chance to do the day the whole world went away “still version”. That ep is a nice stripped down version of some of his songs.
i also thought he sang "i'm still inside her" lmao, it would make sense with the line "a little bit comes bleeding through", even though "...inside HERE" makes much more sense in the context of the entire topic of the song
Fun fact. The bridge lyrics you mention are a direct reference to the book 1984. I think it (the entire piece) is actually sung from the protagonist's POV... TR's first foray into a Y0 setting (hoping he gets his Tony w/ a YZero show).... "I'm writing on a little piece of paper, I'm hoping someday you might find. Well, I'll hide it behind something they will not look behind." is a direct reference to him hiding his journal behind the bridge in that flat he rents throughout the story. When you relisten with the "1984 angle," the song will indeed change on you.
This is such a dorky idea to pick apart a song, especially by an artist who switches from technical/mathematical to purely emotional back and forth. I almost not clicked on it. And then. Everything you say is so, you feel, is so honest and vulnerable and correct. I am a music dork. And maybe I didn't know it. I could watch your videos all day, because they make me feel the song more than I ever did before. Thank you. (And Schroedinger, even!
This is so weird. I'm a mega-NIN fan but I never knew he said "love" in this song. I always thought he said "laws." As in, "there is no laws here, and there is no pain" -- and I always pictured it as the suicidal thought speaking in that moment in the song, inviting him to a place of no pain (and I liked the line, even though it sounded grammatically incorrect--"trententional"). Weird how one word can change an entire meaning.
My favorite Hesitation Marks song is "Copy of a" but I don't know if that would make for a good video or not. It seemed like everybody thought that "Everything" was the worst NIN song ever when it first came out. Maybe some analysis would reveal what is so different about it.
I think "Copy Of A" would make a great video! I'd say it's the or one of the most beloved tracks from the album. I remember seeing NIN live twice between 2013 and 2014 and they started with it and it was pretty cool. I'm partial to "Various Methods of Escape" and "In Two" but I'm definitely curious to see what other people are most interested in. You know, I had that thought that analyzing "Everything" would be a great video! I could give it some click baity title like "Why You Hate "Everything" By NIN". I've been thinking about that since I first heard it!
It's funny that you brought up the consideration as to whether he'd use grammatical errors for his lyrics cause he did just that for We're In This Together. "You and me, we're in this together now" sounds infinitely better than "You and I" or "Me and You", so hey -- all the more power to him
In terms of harmonic analysis, so.e other artists to check out that play around a lot with major and minor and borrowed chord tones are Chris Cornell and Soundgarden, and Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull. Lots of chord movement using chords that should not be used in that key.
@@iximusic hey we all share the same passion! I dunno what I would have done without NIN growing up in the 90s - but to see it in such a different way now and be able to understand it is super cool. I really appreciate what you are doing. So high five ✋! 🤙😜
Hi Justin, thanks for tuning in and YES it'll becoming in the spring! I'm excited for that one. I also have requests to analyze the Still version of that track too.
I work in a mental health hospital...and both staff and patients have said that this song sums up what it's like to be their at times.
That's sobering.
This song took me through a crazy breakup. Basically after a year of being together the person they up and moved. No indication. They just disappeared. After that for weeks I was lost, confused, and longing. I played this non stop.
@@girloctober2613 this song has got me through some tough times myself
The fact that this song means SO much to me emotionally and helped me through dark times and you UPLOADED THIS ON MY BIRTHDAY is insane
Meant to be!
I see comments like this and I remember what I've gone through and am stronger because of - and I'm glad I had NIN helping me through it. I feel like we were in this together
I love the idea that the opening chords of this song is like a bastardised version of the piano outro from Closer. Almost like he's parodying his own work that he's exhausted by. But one of those echoes he cannot shift because of fan expectations
12:24 - It's "I am still inside HERE... a little bit come bleeding through" as if he's saying he's changed over time but the person you knew is still inside this body, and a little of it shows from time to time.
That's a really thoughtful interpretation!
15:40 "I am still inside *here* (ah ah)" is the lyric. Cheers!
Schrödlinger's Third !!! you're sooo much fun to watch. please never stop doing these videos, its such a wonderful way to rediscover NIN & Trent Reznor's genius. You're a genius too !!
It's "I am still inside here" and "there is no love here". I love how you understand the nuance of Trents vocals. Little quirks and "happy accidents" that stick with you and make the songs so great. I can't wait till you get to Reptile; the "oooh whoa whoa ohs" towards the end are priceless.
Thank you. I need to have a word with Lyric Genius!
I agree those little details can add so much to a song. Even if not everyone notices, if they weren't there, it wouldn't be the same. I can't wait to get to Reptile too and I was literally thinking just a few days ago about how I was going to spend far too long dissecting that last bit of vocal mayhem!!
@@iximusic yes unfortunately in this day and age of disposable downloadable singles people don't spend enough time with a full album's worth of music to enjoy those little magic moments. Even sadder is that in my opinion after The Fragile, Trent became less experimental and that mixed with Atticus Ross taking the roll as arranger on every album since With Teeth NIN really hasn't been the same and the songs have become much more formulaic. I like Atticus' influence on the film scores and How To Destroy Angels but not on NIN.
@@night_speed Interesting...you know, I don't yet know Atticus' sound yet. I haven't listened to any of his solo work so that'll be something to develop. You've inadvertently challenged me to find these kinds of things in newer albums! :: rubs hands together ::
@@iximusic lol good luck. It's less of a sound and more of a song structure thing with Atticus. From my understanding, listening to interviews with Trent, is that the recording process consists of Trent coming up with various "parts", be it synths or piano or guitar, tweaking pedals and what not while Atticus records on a computer. Then Trent will take a break out of ideas for the moment and Atticus will take the recorded parts and chunks and piece them together on the computer. Probably Pro Tools. This has been the formula full time since Year Zero. He did a little work on With Teeth. So the Fragile was the last time Trent locked himself away experimenting with sound design and recurring themes.
15:51 has always been my favorite part. I didn’t know why or the musicality behind it but dang, it just has so much emotion. So glad to see someone explain the mystique around it.
I have NO idea what you're talking about, but I'm here for anything NIN.
I think this strange language I speak will start to make a little sense the more you watch...just let it happen...😈
I just like hearing you talk about this stuff. I have no clue what you're talking about but you explain it like you have a true passion for it and that really brightens my day
I love the Trent puns you were making :D
omfg I'm so glad The Great Algorithm sent me your videos. I've binged most at this point. Been obsessing over Trent's production techniques and vocal acting while singing (who else does that?) since late nineties. NIN has been a continuous soundtrack to everything I've lived through. One thing I've never been able to do or find is great analysis of the tonality and melodicity (let that be a word). FINALLY, here's you, and the memes. Trentone's defo going in my vocab now. Every noise they put out, every meaning they seem to convey, and now thanks to you, every note played. Waiting on new ones with baited breath. :)
Best Comment of the Year! I might have teared up a little...It's aways a pleasure to meet a kindred spirit. I recorded two more videos today coming out next week!
Most of the time I have no clue what you're talking about. But I love about NIN is hearing new and interesting things in it. And just when I thought I've heard everything you come a long and show me more.
One of my favorite things about NIN: random out of the box chords in weird places that add dissonant tones which make the songs more beautiful and ugly at the same time.
You Nine Inch Nailed it! Beautiful and ugly. How can he make tritones so pretty?
I just discovered you. I'm a big NIN fan and a psychologist. I've thought of doing psychological interpretations of NIN lyrics on TH-cam. So watching your passion and understanding is very inspiring.
I have to say though, for someone like me who doesn't understand much about music, I can only watch half the video before I get lost in the complexity. It's so dense! But I also learn a lot.
17:40, I think that technique is what's sometimes called a unison bend, where two notes a tone apart are played on the guitar at the same time and the string playing the lower note is quickly bent up to (almost) match the higher note. There's a weird natural chorus effect or, depending on the accuracy of the guitarist, a very dissonant sound. Siren-like is spot-on 😊 great video!!
It's so nice watching people who love NIN as well expressing their perspective about their music! Specially this one ❤
Just stumbled across this breakdown of one of my favorite NIN songs. I grew up playing keyboards and had an amazing teacher who taught me a ton about music theory, so I wasn't completely lost, but there were times that I had to reach WAAAAAAY back into the part of the brain that stored this stuff. :) Anyway, thank you for such a wonderful love letter to the song, and I cannot wait to watch more of your videos!
I absolutely love the complexity of this song while being so simple sounding. Thank you for the depth of your analysis beautifully weaving your technical analysis with an analysis of intent and emotional direction. Beautiful!
I just discovered your channel, and I have to credit you for giving us fans a small peek behind the curtain! You are quite impressive!
Thank you, from one big NIN fan to another!
I love your personality so much. Don’t let anyone else edit your videos! You’re text to the side cracks me up and it just adds to the awesomeness.
Aw thank you! My TDS series is a little more serious in tone but it's just for now...this isn't meant to last! haha
I really like how the intro sounds just like the outro of Closer, basically underlining how that particular melody is a theme for those dark, depressing thoughts that haunt even years after you've managed to overcome your own complications and catches.
Or at least that's how I like to think of the intro for this song
That's really cool, I hadn't thought to connect the two!
This was my best friends favorite song. I lost him a few years ago and have not been able to listen to it in a long time. Thanks for doing this. He would have loved to see and hear it.
I loveee how you explain everything! I could hear you analyze anything for hours 😭
And I do! yes I do...
I love NIN. I'm glad you are going over this with music theory. very fascinating! Keep it up I'm loving every part of these videos.
was just talking with my husband about how NIN has always been able to capture exactly what I am feeling in terms of tone and lyric. Things going through me that I can’t put words to, are perfectly expressed, and I feel like I am not alone to suffer with it. I was telling my husband that there were years after The Downward Spiral that I didn’t really listen to or understand from NIN. It wasn’t like Downward Spiral at all…too modern, too techie, too much commentary that didn’t feel like ‘me’ at the time. Years would pass between new albums with new songs. I couldn’t latch onto it because I hadn’t lived enough yet. Now, after growing up, having a family, going through abuse and coming out on the other side, having major health issues, and getting an ADHD diagnosis after my son’s autism/ADHD diagnosis…I get it. Everything after 1999 makes SO much sense to me now. THIS song. THIS ONE. It is my heart. I could not understand it for so long, and now it is like my personal anthem. I often tell my husband that the word “routine” feels like death. When I am forced into these routines to support my special needs kids (and myself), I feel this incredible boredom and emptiness. I feel like I don’t exist and I am just going through motions. It feels like this dissonance, just like how you are exploring/explaining the rhythms and chords. But it is also somewhat sweet because it is for my babies, and it does actually make us stronger. Structure just doesn’t sit right with my brain, it does not come naturally, yet it is part of the intervention we need in order to function and feel OK. It is a love that I have to learn and train with a very steep learning curve. The whole analysis of his vocals and music style are exactly what I do when I try to think about why I love it so much. Trent Reznor is my all-time favorite artist. I don’t know who or what I would be if I never heard his music. Thanks so much for this analysis! I love that, like Trent, you are able to put words to my feels, through music theory and expertise. Definitely subscribing, and I look forward to more analysis. Some of my other favorites that resonate with me in my life right now are “Only,” and “Right Where it Belongs.” A couple of my old favorites are “Something I can Never Have,” “March of the Pigs,” “Wish,” and “A Warm Place.” I love so many Trent Reznor and NIN songs, but those were a few of the ones that would make my heart ache in a good way.
As a big fan of NIN, I really appreciate your work and all your analysis. By the way, I'm not a musician but I find this video really interesting.
Thank you, really glad the passion translates to all! 🙏
Omg Schrödinger's third... I'm dying 😆😆😆
Been a fan since you had over a thousand subs, it's amazing to see you growing! 🖤
Thanks for your videos, there's nothing like you out there, and your jokes are *gold* lmao. nin has been what made me fall in love with music in almost every dimension, so hearing you put into words what I've always wanted to understand, has been just beautiful and comforting. There's so much to learn!
Anyway, you rock, girl!
Ah I appreciate you and your steadfast viewership!
I typed a lot of this out while doing a first watch. Please forgive me for any assumptions that later proved incorrect. Also, I disclose a couple of personal things that might be considered TMI... so, I apologize if that is not a "good thing", but please understand that I am focused on enjoying your work, sharing my experience of Trent's music and my experience of your contributions to that experience, and if by sharing something about me I might help someone else feel less alone or "unique" in a bad way, then I want to try. Having said that, it's your channel, your rules go, and I accept and respect that. :)
First thing first, there were some amazing highlights in this video. There were a few candidates for "Play of the Game"... or "video"... or something. I loved "Ninja Ixi" at 0:39. Then later there was Drummer Ixi!!! Also you practically dubbed yourself "Punster Ixi" around 19:22. I have huge affection for your style and each of these were enjoyable and entertaining. "Ninja Ixi" might be the winner, but I don't know, it's really, really close. If I look at your videos overall, as a body of work (how do you say that without sounding pompous?), then "Punster Ixi" is the clear winner of these three. I love your phraseology. "Sonic grammatical errors, but they're intentional" is also worthy of special praise. Conceptually and verbally, it is a glorious statement. Final bit here, "Crunchtastic" also deserves honorable mention. I don't mind that you refer to the G# as an Ab sometimes... I got it. I also understand why you felt the need to correct it. Same.
At 10:57 I had a HUGE reaction of recognition. I know you say it's "Schrödinger's Third", but for me, in my head... no, in my body, it IS the major I & IV chords. No doubt whatsoever. Complete certainty. Oh! At 11:50... the C#... 'yes, yes... good... we are in agreement' (sounds cooler if you say that in your head with Emperor Palpatine's voice, yeah, it's weird in here).
The "Trentone" at 15:59, I don't know if it's my favorite point in the song, but it's got to be top 3. I agree, regardless, it's freaking awesome. It manages to give a spike to the feelings of frustration, poignancy, and an inexplicable sense of triumph. I don't get it, but I love it all the same. I also want to shout out the preceding phrase, "I am still inside here". I love the soft ascending notes of that part.
At 16:34 (and again at 20:15) if sounds/feels like you are channeling Alanis Morrisette. I hope that's not an insult to you. Coming from me it's a compliment. I love the emotion she brings to her music, even if she can't accurately define "irony".
18:45. Let's talk about this for a moment. You are correct, nobody may have "blinked an eye", but the song would have been 'less than', at least for me personally. TMI warning, I'm going to share a little. For most of the past decade I was on high doses of various cocktails of anti-depressants. We were looking for a combination that would work. Unfortunately, to date, my depression is unresponsive to medication. That's not to say that it didn't have an effect on me, it just didn't do anything therapeutically beneficial towards elevating my mood. Instead, the most notable change was that my ability to experience emotions of any kind was deadened. I'm not unique, many people have this experience. That statement points us right back to the song. Trent including the phrase, "There is no love here and there is no pain" is CRUCIAL to describe in what way "Every day is exactly the same." See? Listening to this song, those 10 words are what it's all about. Those 10 words describe what I felt for so long, what it was like being on the inside. These lyrics made me feel heard... seen... understood? I had a reaction, even when I was uncomfortably numb, and very much so today... being off of those specific medications, having my emotions coming back online after so long. So... yeah... I can personally vouch for the strength of his artistic decision to include the variation among the repetition. It matters. A lot.
19:50 to 20:05. That is probably my "favorite" part of the song. Yes. He is emphasizing it. There is a very distinct reason for that. I don't want my comment to get deleted, so I won't say it. But like the phrase "There is no love here and there is no pain", the serious, measured certainty of the "but I can tell you..." section is Trent Reznor giving voice to a part of me that he has explored in much of his previous work. I'm not saying it's a good thing to focus or dwell on that, but to hear this song and to feel understood... for him to express something through music that I struggle with... so valuable. So very, very valuable. It helps in ways that all the pills and counseling don't.
"I will hide it behind something, they won't look behind" (from the album version, 3:07 to 3:16) is an important line that you didn't cover, at least it didn't make your final cut. I'm mentioning it, in closing, just because it is the third of my "top 3" moments of the song. It is so deeply meaningful for me, and I imagine countless others. When dealing with "stuff", people are often (probably most of the time) pressured into NOT sharing it with others. Sometimes this is harmful and counterproductive, but sometimes it's necessary. People who have dark thoughts, people who are deeply troubled... we can't just say what we're thinking. (I'm laughing... it's a dark laugh, denoting surrender) So, we understand the line, "I'm writing on a little piece of paper, I'm hoping some day you will (?) find, I will hide it behind something, they won't look behind." It's unclear to me at the "?" I inserted, whether he says "I'm hoping some day you will never find", "you will find", "you'll never find"... lots of possibilities, with potentially different meanings, but my larger point remains. The over all meaning of the phrase is very familiar, important, and yet again, Trent shares the gift of "being seen" through his music. I live alone. I don't interact with people except electronically over 99% of the time. Let me tell you, living in isolation, it's important to occasionally be emotionally 'seen'.
As always, it was a great pleasure to watch you do what you do. I love it. You are fabulous. Please keep doing this as long as you keep enjoying it. Please be good to yourself. I wish you all the best. :)
2 minutes in, this sounds lovely 💜 You get the core of this song so easily.
My god Ixi... I adore these videos.
So amazingly dissected!
"I am still inside here" I think by the way.
Your musical knowledge is also mind blowing. Each time I watch one of your videos I learn a new word 🤣.
Keep up the amazing work. I love it all! 😍
Ok that lyric makes more sense! Thanks. And, I'm stoked you love them. I'm loving it too!
Thanks for putting in the effort. Great to see your insights to the genius of NIN. Really hope you are not getting copyright strikes and also hope you are not getting demonetized. Your great analysis of NIN music will hopefully help some future composers build captivating masterpieces. Always loved their live performances too (the 2013 Fuji Rock Festival was one of their best).
I absolutely love just chilling out and watching you explain my favorite songs to me :) thanks for doing these videos!
This is such a fun track to play on the drums! To me I always felt like this was another extension on the Downward Spiral melody. It has that feel to me and always has. Trent has a reason for everything he does whether we caught it or not... He truly is ahead of himself in terms of musical prowess and intentionally toys with us and I don't mind one bit!
I've really been enjoying your channel. NIИ is in my top 5 favorites so it's captured my attention. I've learned a lot watching these videos. Thanks.
Love your videos Ixi!! I am a musician and producer myself and I have torn apart a lot of NIN of the years. Isolated tracks. Etc. It's crazy how much goes into NIN sonically. Keep up the videos. You're doing great. And even after 26 years, I've learned a few things from you!
Aw so glad. That's quite a compliment!
Ixi, I’m so glad the algorithm led me to your videos. I have no music education, but I find music analyses fascinating in general, and your videos breakdown music that I love and am intimately familiar with. Thanks so much for detailing all the oddity and nuance, the clash and the climax that makes Trent’s work a journey of the heart. I’ve subscribed after the first video. Almost all the theory is beyond me, but I think I’m learning a little too. Thanks ❤️
You are really good at these analysis, thanks for sharing your music knowledge with all us NIN fans. opens up some things I've never noticed personally.
Maybe I'm learning to read music from watching these a little?
YES, just keep breathing that knowledge in slowly...slowly... ;)
17:39: The guitar effects are a slight bit of string bending up and then down (like an arch in the frequency or pitch), combined with a matching swell of volume (again like an arch - no sharp attack here), and the usual complex harmonics of tube amplifier overdrive distortion (which give it that stressed feeling). I also like how he uses the piano low registers where bass would typically go after the breakdown. This song is battling it out with a few others to be my favorite NIN song ('Where is Everybody', anybody?), after totally not getting it my first few listens. Dave Grohl on drums, BTW.
Right on, thanks!
Ooh I like that too. I'm a bit biased though because I play piano. The texture of a low piano note gets me.
Dave Grohl! Man I had no idea. I learned recently he played on this album because there was this cute video of him recalling his difficulty in perceiving the downbeat of With Teeth. Trying to find it.
When my 7 year old heard this song she took about 20 seconds of listening to shout, "Daddy throw this on my playlist please!" which was what confirmed for me that we'd be friends when she becomes an adult.
There's a lot of treasure to be found in isolating the channels on the 5.1 version of WT, vocal tracks, isolated melodies etc.. Very handy for learning the intricacies of Trents work on that album. I'm also learning a lot watching this wonderful channel, i'm hooked!
I discovered this source for multitracks and it's absolute bliss: www.nindestruct.com/remix.html
I never thought I'd have access to them and you're right, the layers I'm discovering are blowing my mind.
Thank you thank you!
@@iximusic I usually use this site, it literally has everything... remixpacks. ru/ I highly recommend it. Keep up the great work!
Also, if you listen carefully, the dorian esque piano riff is being played during the chorus. Which makes the 2nd chord of chorus an A major.
YES! I thought I added an annotation about that but I might have forgotten. In any case I agree, GREAT catch! I'm not surprised...most of the chords implied in his music turn out to be major. It's one of my favorite unexpected discoveries doing these analyses!
Excellent work as always, thanks IXI.
My pleasure, and thank you!
I love the Dorian mode because of the hopeful i to IV sound.
YES! I feel goosebumps just thinking about that progression. I started putting together a Spotify playlist of Dorian songs - it's collaborative, so feel free to add to it! open.spotify.com/playlist/0dhUzcKKcZt5nIJcgBQYbG?si=2mLlknMtRN60KMjUHrZKwA
I’m a very huge fan of NIN and so happy to watch these kinds of videos about their music. I’m also a musician that’s why.
As a guitar player, I love this breakdown. This is one of my favorite songs to play on the bass.
It's fascinating to hear someone analyse songs I intuitively like although I have no musical knowledge (and a very bad musical ear). NIN resonates with me both because of the melody and the lyrics. When I first heard that sound, I immediately thought it mirrored perfectly the narrative of a very influential book of my formative years, Orwell's 1984. Although I'm not alone to have pointed it out, as far as I know, there is no direct link with the novel and it's just a coincidence - that said, totalitarianism and thought control are certainly themes NIN explored on this album and even more so on Year Zero. More probably this is trademark Reznor's existential search, with lyrics such as "I believe I can see the future cause I repeat the same routine" throwing backs to the likes of "Watching fate as it flow down the path we have chose" (We're In This Together) or "There is no love here and there is no pain" to "I focus on the pain the only thing that's real" (Hurt), but it illustrates just how NIN music and lyrics can be so eerily evocative and universal.
One of my favorite NIN songs. This is Right Where It Belongs are the bee's knees.
And also, the cat's pajamas.
Which are special, I assume, because cats don't usually wear them.
Im making my way through all of your videos. You are doing gods work...so amazing ❤️
Thank you
🙏
These videos are the best, honestly
Ahh thank you! So much. More coming!
I am subscribing and I am never looking back. Watching you comprehend the seemingly (that's the joke) incomprehensible is for lack of a better phrase, music to my ears.
I would also subscribe to someone who dissects Lovecraft in the same way. As with Trent, his literary dissonance is the story that is being told, not what you think or assume it is.
The little nuances of Trent’s music makes geek out with every new listen and there’s always something new to take away, so seeing someone geek out on that stuff too gives me excited goosebumps!
I discovered Trent’s/NIN’s endeavors during a dark time last year, I’ve been a die hard fan since. Keep up the amazing work!
P.S. Would love to see something on The Becoming from STILL....
Hellooo fellow music geek! So since you're a newer NIN fan and had the entire discography (except Ghosts V and VI) to choose from, I have to ask - how did you start? What song, what album? It's pretty amazing to know that music can be the most soothing, consistent companion when life is challenging. Re: The Becoming (Still version), this may be the most requested song I've had yet so, it'll becoming soon!
@@iximusic Wonderful!
I obviously knew of the more popular tracks of Closer and Hurt, but I remember accidentally playing shuffle on Spotify and In This Twilight from Year Zero started playing. From there I was like “WTF?! MORE PLEASE!” And boy was there SO MUCH more. Throughout the early weeks of the pandemic, I went down a rabbit hole of Trent and NIN’s music. I felt it was a perfect channel for all the rage, confusion, and stress during that time when it was hard to even articulate it myself. To this day I’m still finding new details within the music that make me giddy and further proves Trent’s status as a GENIUS. Sorry for the long babbling, but Trent’s work has definitely had a huge impact on me in the the year I’ve been listening to it. In fact I just heard Over and Out for the first time this week (even though I thought I listened to Bad Witch all the way through!) It’s truly incredible what some people are capable of creative. One of the greatest gifts of us troubled humans!
@@MrMovieManMatt Oooh "In This Twilight" is amazing and I can see why that caught your ear. It's on my analysis list. I still find details in the music I hadn't heard before and it's been over 20 years. I love that there are always more gems to be discovered. Don't apologize for babbling, I make 20-minute videos of me babbling ;)
@@iximusic As a matter of fact, I ended making a ‘best of’ Spotify playlist for Trent’s work including HTDA and it ended up just being 80% of the catalogue lmaooo
Your videos are the best thing a NIN fan could wish for! And I could make this comment on all your videos; thank you for all that you do :)
"Schroedinger's third". I love it.
I always thought it was "there is no loss here and there is no gain". Once I saw "love/pain" I tried to train myself to sing THAT... but its not easy. Both work. Its whatever. Great tune. I LOVE your videos by the way! SO good!
I always thought it was "laws/pain". It's really funny how differently things can be misheard.
Hahaha. Love your puns. And your videos! Even though it's not my favorite song, still it was interesting to watch! Very cool! I don't know this much about music theory to fully appreciate what you do in this video and other videos, but you have a really good ear! Or so I wanted to write, but then... "I am still inside her", hahaha
Well then I did my job!
Haha that lyric, I know...my only excuse is that I don't pay attention to lyrics very closely. I'm always so deep into the harmony and rhythms!
At some point I'd like to introduce more basic theory and ear training concepts in separate videos, because I think theory can seem inaccessible to a lot of people if they are not technically minded...I learn more intuitively myself so maybe I can help others out a little!
@@iximusic actually that would be really cool, the videos about music theory and stuff. Cause I think we all had basic musical knowledge classes in school... I guess it's the case in USA and Canada and Europe too, right? Cause in Russia it is. But it was like "yeah, another Russian folk song? Thanks, but no, thanks" And so we skipped classes like crazy. Yeah, anyway, that's why there's no new Chaikovsky, Shostakovich, Sviridov and so on. The music classes are really boring!
Also about this idea of music without chords. It's very natural to music, I just realized that. Some modes or scales of Arab music or Turkish or Indian or whatever are microtonal... And I think that a note between c and d would sound weird with any of our chords... Cool, dude. I sound like a stoner, sorry
You are an awesome musician, so passionate. Here in Brazil musical analisys is focused more in the gramatical poetical structure and lyrics meaning, not so much on the harmony or production. I don't see many grammatical analysis from English countries
Fingernails on point, love that gold
I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL! My whole life I’ve wanted someone to explain why Trents music feels the way it does! Downward Spiral came out when I was 15 and blew me away, your passion is relatable.
*Quick questions; Have you seen Soul yet? Does trents scoring work with Atticus interest you in a theory way? Is it less “Trentastic” than his NIN work?
Love your work!
Dang that warms my heart! Always good to meet other passionate fans. I haven't seen Soul, but last week I recorded a reaction/analysis to one of the tracks from the score that I'll be releasing this week or next week!
This is the song that perfectly encapsulates lockdown
😂 but also 😭
This is the song that perfectly encapsulates the cyclical nature of physical existence.
Ironically enough, I listen to this song everyday. Not the best song to listen to while commuting to and from work, and while working lol! but I love this analysis, and I love the content! Never took time to delve into the technical compositions and this made me realize just how brilliant Trent Reznor is! Well done!
I'm so glad I found your channel
I always thought he was saying " I am still inspired, a little bit comes bleeding through"
And I really like my misheard lyric and I am going to keep it just for me lol.
Absolutely love your videos thank you for all your effort in making all of these!
I like it!
I would love to hear a breakdown of Less Than from the Add Violence EP.
Cool. I've listened to that EP only a few times and I'm most familiar with The Lovers, so this is definitely an intriguing request! Noted.
@@iximusic super late but i would love a look at 'less than' as well. The bass line in that song is so interesting
This might sound weird, but this song is very similar to Bowie songs, with C major, E major, F Major and G Major. It’s nearly exact to a song like rock n roll suicide, but edgier. The discordant harmonies only emphasise it, absolutely beautiful song!
Im getting genuinely (?) [sorry english not my native language] excited everytime I listen you explain a nin song, I really love with teeth album, I really love your videos. 💕
Brilliant NIN song, awesome Dave Grohl beat too! Enjoyed this video tremendously, keep up the good work!!!
I've just discovered you and I love your stuff.
Wow! I learned a lot! Thank you!
I'm glad it was helpful, Mark!
I had to.come back and listen to this video again, @ixi, this song has become a bit of an obsession recently with covid living! There is something comforting and inclusive about the baseline that is a bit addictive. At the same time it makes me feel like me punching the air when that crescendo hits with 'what else I can do'. Thanks as ever for your work - is it nearly Monday again yet? 😜
I'm fairly new to theory, but I love whatever interval that G# is at 10:35. Check out the song Self Tanner by Tobacco, he uses that same kind of thing a lot in his music.
Nice! That is called the 3rd scale degree. It's the 3rd note in a major scale. What makes it stand out in this song and Self Tanner is that the rest of the song sounds like it's in a darker key like minor, so it's unexpected to hear the bright and warm major 3rd. Thanks for watching!
Amazing work. Nice
This one is one of my favorites... tho I mostly only listen to nails... so favorite changes alot. It's "I am still inside here." Voting for Satellite I think on Hesitation Marks. I love that album... its so funky.
Ha yes it's super funky. Satellite has that stank-face rhythm guitar riff near the end!
Thanx!!! Great!❤
Thank you for sharing!! I hope you get a chance to do the day the whole world went away “still version”. That ep is a nice stripped down version of some of his songs.
I haven't heard it yet but it's been requested a few times so it's on the list! Thanks for tuning in! 🙌
Great work!!
i also thought he sang "i'm still inside her" lmao, it would make sense with the line "a little bit comes bleeding through", even though "...inside HERE" makes much more sense in the context of the entire topic of the song
Fun fact. The bridge lyrics you mention are a direct reference to the book 1984. I think it (the entire piece) is actually sung from the protagonist's POV... TR's first foray into a Y0 setting (hoping he gets his Tony w/ a YZero show)....
"I'm writing on a little piece of paper, I'm hoping someday you might find. Well, I'll hide it behind something they will not look behind." is a direct reference to him hiding his journal behind the bridge in that flat he rents throughout the story. When you relisten with the "1984 angle," the song will indeed change on you.
Wow didn't know, very cool!
Hey Ixi! Great video (as usual :)
Thank you Piotr!
This is such a dorky idea to pick apart a song, especially by an artist who switches from technical/mathematical to purely emotional back and forth. I almost not clicked on it. And then. Everything you say is so, you feel, is so honest and vulnerable and correct. I am a music dork. And maybe I didn't know it. I could watch your videos all day, because they make me feel the song more than I ever did before. Thank you. (And Schroedinger, even!
Thank you, so happy to hear this deepened your experience. I was just listening to it today!
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9:04 That beat boxing was on point. Ha 11:38 is the illest part of that song for me.
“Schroedinger’s third” is genius.
Band name!
"Crunch-tastic" -- I love that word lol
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This is so weird. I'm a mega-NIN fan but I never knew he said "love" in this song. I always thought he said "laws." As in, "there is no laws here, and there is no pain" -- and I always pictured it as the suicidal thought speaking in that moment in the song, inviting him to a place of no pain (and I liked the line, even though it sounded grammatically incorrect--"trententional"). Weird how one word can change an entire meaning.
I thought he said laws too, but then I would think it was love...then laws. I could never decide. Finally I looked it up. You're not alone!
My favorite Hesitation Marks song is "Copy of a" but I don't know if that would make for a good video or not. It seemed like everybody thought that "Everything" was the worst NIN song ever when it first came out. Maybe some analysis would reveal what is so different about it.
I think "Copy Of A" would make a great video! I'd say it's the or one of the most beloved tracks from the album. I remember seeing NIN live twice between 2013 and 2014 and they started with it and it was pretty cool.
I'm partial to "Various Methods of Escape" and "In Two" but I'm definitely curious to see what other people are most interested in.
You know, I had that thought that analyzing "Everything" would be a great video! I could give it some click baity title like "Why You Hate "Everything" By NIN". I've been thinking about that since I first heard it!
This is another one that hits home.
I love your channel! Thank you
It's funny that you brought up the consideration as to whether he'd use grammatical errors for his lyrics cause he did just that for We're In This Together. "You and me, we're in this together now" sounds infinitely better than "You and I" or "Me and You", so hey -- all the more power to him
Right! Sometimes correct grammar just doesn't sound as good in songs for whatever reason.
In terms of harmonic analysis, so.e other artists to check out that play around a lot with major and minor and borrowed chord tones are Chris Cornell and Soundgarden, and Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull. Lots of chord movement using chords that should not be used in that key.
Just found you channel, love it. Keep it up!
Thank you thank you! I hope you enjoy all my passionate ramblings!
@@iximusic hey we all share the same passion! I dunno what I would have done without NIN growing up in the 90s - but to see it in such a different way now and be able to understand it is super cool. I really appreciate what you are doing. So high five ✋! 🤙😜
There’s so much I can say, but the only thing I can come up with is ... Thank you.
Something I Can Never Have, if you're heading that way and havent covered it yet 🙂
Great video! I hope you do The Becoming sometime.
Hi Justin, thanks for tuning in and YES it'll becoming in the spring! I'm excited for that one. I also have requests to analyze the Still version of that track too.
Loved the analysis. Great work. Subscribing
Thank you for the subscribe and lovely comment!
One day soon I hope to reach a point where I understand these videos, instead of just being entertained and kind of understanding but not really.
Resonance - - Reznor ence
Haha yes!
I fell in love with this song watching the "Wanted" movie. James McAvoy likes it.
Hope to see Ghosts analyzed at some point. Would love to see how he uses parts in his music scores.
Noted! 🎶
"This song is in E something, we'll figure it out". *slams that subscribe button". Lol, I've literally said this before lol 😀
My people! 🙌
Trent be like: eh, it works.
His music is musical genius