For all of the viewers who somehow didn't get what was going on - in this video we're in a totalitarian state and you've got a warehouse type building with CCTV watching every apartment all the time. In one room you've got some people making stencils for graffiti, they look like political activists - later you see what looks like a flag stenciled on their wall. Then in the next apartment you've got a girl lying on a couch strung out on hard drugs. In the next room you have NIN playing a song that is broadly about resisting the totalitarian state. You pan over some rooms with a lot of damage from previous gunfire. In the next apartment there is a woman naked from the waist up who is putting on makeup. You also have an older black man eating alone in his apartment, a hispanic couple watching tv in a different apartment, two men having sex in another apartment, and in the last apartment a furtive guy on a laptop with what looks like clippings pinned to a wall behind him. Heavily armed police/SWAT enter the building and different cameras show them moving up through the floors. The activists room is empty and you can see them spray-stenciling the stylised flag on a wall of the building outside. You see the police break down a door but don't know which room it is. Is this raid about drugs? race? homosexuality, prostitution or other perceived 'immorality'? illegal immigration? hacking or piracy? Who is the target? Panning across the screens you see in all of the rest of the rooms people have heard a loud noise in the building and turned or gotten up to look, concerned. Then you see the NIN room in disarray with blood on the floor. A quick pan of the cameras shows everyone else nervously going back to what they were doing, not wanting to investigate further and not bothering to call the police. Several of the building's cameras have been cut now and the last scene is of a body (one of the band members) being dragged around a corner inside the building, leaving a trail of blood behind it. The point I took away was that in a totalitarian state, the first target is the group openly and vocally inciting people to resist the controlling power. Those people just disappear, while everyone else ignores the screams and shots in the night and tries to keep their head down, afraid they'll be next.
The 1 time I saw NIN in the 90s he ends the show by screaming the last note for like 30 seconds and then goes" DONE" and dropped the mic and walked off stage. It was the coolest end of a show EVER.
I remember this version back in the day before the thought police decided we weren't big boys and girls enough to make the decision to decide if it was to crude for us to watch! I am glad it was re uploaded!
This is the version I remember watching on a public library computer in 2008 when I had the day off from work in the kitchen at the Healdsburg, CA Salvation Army 'Adult Rehabilitation Center' (which has since been shutdown). We had to tuck our shirts in both on and off the ARC campus, and never swear. I made it through that program with flying colors because I was so anal (thanks mom) that I could at will follow any set of rules laid before me - per my delusions of grandeur and conceited sense of self. Ironically, I was so focused on being one of the 5% that made it from application-day to graduation-day, by following the rules to not get kicked out like the other 95%, that I ended up having gained nothing whatsoever for myself. I experienced no growth, no introspection or insight into why I was the way I was that I didn't already have. I was just a miserable scared fool the same as ever. I distinctly remember feeling so very scared and intimidated by life, always thinking that by the end of that rehab program I was going to be 'cured', but to my horror I discovered that I was still the exact same person that I was when I was banging tar in the streets long before. I was still a naive kid that didn't want to accept responsibility for myself. Not sure why I am posting all this, I think NIN just touches something inside me that is the product of a life of disillusionment. Reality is more real every day and I'm just glad I made it this far. Peace unto whoever reads this, I hope you fare well, as our souls have touched in lieu of whatever time and space that divides us. (Thanks internet!)
@@tristanraineyou know this song is mocking people who think like that right? It's hilarious whenever people try to recontextualize it to be about Covid stuff when the some was written during the Bush admin and was explicitly about people who thought violence against people who threatened them was justified. It's an anti-right wing song.
Okay, theory. This music video is a prequel to the “We’re in this together” video. Like, think about it. In the “WITT” video, Trent and other men are in black garb running through a urban environment, seemingly out of panic. In the beginning, we see Trent in a apartment with bars on the window. Seems very totalitarian to me. In this video, we see Trent and his friends in an apartment while soldiers dressed in black raid the building, attacking many inside. Just a thought. And given the detail Trent puts into his stuff, I don’t think it was unintentional.
Wow. What happened to the cuties at 1:38? Since their screen went out as well as the band, I just wondered if they were also "taken out". War on gayness and progressive thinking continues . . . I feel so marginalized in the new wave of extreme conservatism. Love you Trent for making me feel like I'm not alone!
The videos the VEVO channels upload are edited for MTV and those kinds of things. VEVO is owned and controlled by Warner Music Group, and you'll notice that music found on Rhino, Nuclear Blast, Metal Blade, Earache, Relapse, or any company not affiliated with Warner Music Group, will be uploaded by their respective UA-cam channels (sans Rhino in some cases). I don't know who's part of who, but as long as you can't say "fuck" or even "shit" on TV, expect this treatment to continue. Even if it's censored, you can still hear the unedited song on UA-cam, if you didn't know the lyrics already, or can't guess what's been said.
@@rs6000_ even more late to the party but rewatching i noticed a conspiracy guy by himself deeply into his laptop w a pinboard behind him with what looks like phots of a political figure and propaganda everywhere. shown for like 2 frames.. think he and the band were taken out.. him for looking and them for spreading info.. the graffiti guys i think are misdirection from the producer.. dunno gonna watch it 10more times. Now i need a pinboard
This video is an example of fighting The Marriage of The Corporate "Center" ReichWing & Far ReichWing Propaganda. It is Anti-Fascist Imagery. This Song ROCKS & Nine Inch Nails Is One of My Favorite Bands of All-Time!
You can check out my GMV about Half-life 2 with this song. Video editing, of course, sucks, but I tried, because the PC was not so powerful that the process of creating a video proceeded without pain.
Aaron North was the shit during this era. Wish he hadn't taken the path he did. Not judging. We all know how easy mistakes and bad decisions come around. But I'd love to see alt timeline NIN where he stuck around.
wow okay, first was like "oh shit there's boobs" but then it got, like, eerie and political with the swat team breaking in on the dudes having sex Good job, Reznor
Actually, they broke in on Trent and the band playing...that's why you see the blood later on. The dudes were just reacting to the noise like the shirtless girl was.
I also tought about that... but look at the final part where the band is now absent.. the door was from there, and there is a trail of blood starting from that room... The Swat Team broke in there because of the "subversive content" being played... It's a long ARG.
p,s posted this up few mths bak for its evermore relevence,! stay strong and hold on tight with fists held high.my fellow spirits,its gunna be a bumpy ride !!!!
It's a shame that the concept behind this album didn't turn into a series as planned. That would be so incredibly dark.
Like every show on streaming ever? Like Star Trek Picard? 😄
The concept behind this album turned into a reality, it is incredibly dark.
For all of the viewers who somehow didn't get what was going on - in this video we're in a totalitarian state and you've got a warehouse type building with CCTV watching every apartment all the time. In one room you've got some people making stencils for graffiti, they look like political activists - later you see what looks like a flag stenciled on their wall. Then in the next apartment you've got a girl lying on a couch strung out on hard drugs. In the next room you have NIN playing a song that is broadly about resisting the totalitarian state. You pan over some rooms with a lot of damage from previous gunfire. In the next apartment there is a woman naked from the waist up who is putting on makeup. You also have an older black man eating alone in his apartment, a hispanic couple watching tv in a different apartment, two men having sex in another apartment, and in the last apartment a furtive guy on a laptop with what looks like clippings pinned to a wall behind him. Heavily armed police/SWAT enter the building and different cameras show them moving up through the floors. The activists room is empty and you can see them spray-stenciling the stylised flag on a wall of the building outside. You see the police break down a door but don't know which room it is. Is this raid about drugs? race? homosexuality, prostitution or other perceived 'immorality'? illegal immigration? hacking or piracy? Who is the target? Panning across the screens you see in all of the rest of the rooms people have heard a loud noise in the building and turned or gotten up to look, concerned. Then you see the NIN room in disarray with blood on the floor. A quick pan of the cameras shows everyone else nervously going back to what they were doing, not wanting to investigate further and not bothering to call the police. Several of the building's cameras have been cut now and the last scene is of a body (one of the band members) being dragged around a corner inside the building, leaving a trail of blood behind it. The point I took away was that in a totalitarian state, the first target is the group openly and vocally inciting people to resist the controlling power. Those people just disappear, while everyone else ignores the screams and shots in the night and tries to keep their head down, afraid they'll be next.
Brilliant.
Beautiful...'open and vocal incitation' yea - and the 'Art is Resistance' idea.
Amazing explanation of what is going on in the video for those who didn't get what was going on...almost like the real world now...great description
Great explanation
Parepin is a hell of a drug.
Trent always has the best drummers. They can be human drum machines one second and crazy gonzo keith moon the next
Trent is the drums...🤫
If you have not been to a NIN concert you must go! They are amazing.
A fucking men. So awesome
500 ish bar at OSU in 1992 Pretty Hate Machine. Top 3 concerts of my life.
Been to one in 2006
And you've also missed about 30 years of amazing tours. So glad I've been to just about every tour since 1994
The 1 time I saw NIN in the 90s he ends the show by screaming the last note for like 30 seconds and then goes" DONE" and dropped the mic and walked off stage. It was the coolest end of a show EVER.
I remember this version back in the day before the thought police decided we weren't big boys and girls enough to make the decision to decide if it was to crude for us to watch! I am glad it was re uploaded!
The live version with these screens they had at the Lights in the Sky tour is epic
This is the version I remember watching on a public library computer in 2008 when I had the day off from work in the kitchen at the Healdsburg, CA Salvation Army 'Adult Rehabilitation Center' (which has since been shutdown). We had to tuck our shirts in both on and off the ARC campus, and never swear. I made it through that program with flying colors because I was so anal (thanks mom) that I could at will follow any set of rules laid before me - per my delusions of grandeur and conceited sense of self. Ironically, I was so focused on being one of the 5% that made it from application-day to graduation-day, by following the rules to not get kicked out like the other 95%, that I ended up having gained nothing whatsoever for myself. I experienced no growth, no introspection or insight into why I was the way I was that I didn't already have. I was just a miserable scared fool the same as ever. I distinctly remember feeling so very scared and intimidated by life, always thinking that by the end of that rehab program I was going to be 'cured', but to my horror I discovered that I was still the exact same person that I was when I was banging tar in the streets long before. I was still a naive kid that didn't want to accept responsibility for myself. Not sure why I am posting all this, I think NIN just touches something inside me that is the product of a life of disillusionment. Reality is more real every day and I'm just glad I made it this far. Peace unto whoever reads this, I hope you fare well, as our souls have touched in lieu of whatever time and space that divides us. (Thanks internet!)
Hope you're doing better now Charles. NIN brings the broken together, and together we heal.
hope you've embraced it, brother.
DO YOU believe IN THE HOLY SCRIPUTE; WHAT OR WHO IS IT?
Year Zeros is still an awesome album to jam to!!
-Gay Sex
-Totalitarian Regime
-Trent My beloved
-great music
-relevant today
it's got it all boys!
This album is actually based in 2022, that's saying a lot huh?
@@tristanraineyou know this song is mocking people who think like that right? It's hilarious whenever people try to recontextualize it to be about Covid stuff when the some was written during the Bush admin and was explicitly about people who thought violence against people who threatened them was justified. It's an anti-right wing song.
This is the original video that was uploaded to UA-cam after they gave out USB sticks of this video at a concert.
I remember their live setup with all the screens. So cool!
2008 I believe
Such an amazing band. Just breath taking.
Awsome! Love them
I love this seems like who ever was watching the monitors was jamming to the band's music and was freaking out at the end
Man those Kinects see everything.
1:09 Fuck Yeah! :-D
XD
It’s officially Year Zero!
It's the first time I see this video uncensored,it impressed me.
Excellent
Thanks for uploading this!
Yes!
Brilliant vid brilliant song
Fantastic minimalist stage shows... great concerts if you get to see this amazing once in a lifetime artist... just like Bowie:(
right on
You see your world on fire.
DONT TRY TO ACT SUPRISED!
best video ever
Great video
I guess I'm getting old but I saw them in jan of 96 for the downward spiral tour and they were amazing.
Great
El mejor tema de Year Zero!!!
Jeordie, josh and Aaron. Best fucking lineup ever.
Anything without Vrenna will never be as good.
Stunning!!!
1984👌🏼🤟🏼🖤
I like NIN.
Okay, theory.
This music video is a prequel to the “We’re in this together” video.
Like, think about it.
In the “WITT” video, Trent and other men are in black garb running through a urban environment, seemingly out of panic. In the beginning, we see Trent in a apartment with bars on the window. Seems very totalitarian to me. In this video, we see Trent and his friends in an apartment while soldiers dressed in black raid the building, attacking many inside.
Just a thought. And given the detail Trent puts into his stuff, I don’t think it was unintentional.
A sign of our times they could be at your door right now
Back here on February 10th, 2022/0000, the Year Zero ARG said today was suppose to be the end of the world yet no sign of The Presence.
You Sure?
Finally great musi is created once again
This is an older song, dude.
***** i didnt even know, i gotta pick this cd up asap
Damion Royes Year Zero is truly an incredible album and was an experience unto itself given the ARG and strategic leaks done for it..
I thought for a second he was going to say The marching of the pigs
damn, trent rocks that scarf!!! so fucking hot!
Wow. What happened to the cuties at 1:38? Since their screen went out as well as the band, I just wondered if they were also "taken out". War on gayness and progressive thinking continues . . . I feel so marginalized in the new wave of extreme conservatism. Love you Trent for making me feel like I'm not alone!
Their screen was censored due to VEVO and shit
trevor beck I wonder if VEVO realizes how ironic censoring this song is....
The videos the VEVO channels upload are edited for MTV and those kinds of things. VEVO is owned and controlled by Warner Music Group, and you'll notice that music found on Rhino, Nuclear Blast, Metal Blade, Earache, Relapse, or any company not affiliated with Warner Music Group, will be uploaded by their respective UA-cam channels (sans Rhino in some cases). I don't know who's part of who, but as long as you can't say "fuck" or even "shit" on TV, expect this treatment to continue. Even if it's censored, you can still hear the unedited song on UA-cam, if you didn't know the lyrics already, or can't guess what's been said.
Rather late to the party, but you can see at 3:14 that it quickly pans on their camera & shows one of them getting out of bed and running.
@@rs6000_ even more late to the party but rewatching i noticed a conspiracy guy by himself deeply into his laptop w a pinboard behind him with what looks like phots of a political figure and propaganda everywhere. shown for like 2 frames.. think he and the band were taken out.. him for looking and them for spreading info.. the graffiti guys i think are misdirection from the producer.. dunno gonna watch it 10more times. Now i need a pinboard
This video is an example of fighting The Marriage of
The Corporate "Center" ReichWing & Far ReichWing Propaganda.
It is Anti-Fascist Imagery.
This Song ROCKS & Nine Inch Nails Is One of My Favorite Bands of All-Time!
Year Zero could fit half life 2 like a glove
You can check out my GMV about Half-life 2 with this song. Video editing, of course, sucks, but I tried, because the PC was not so powerful that the process of creating a video proceeded without pain.
humanity vs tech. great video imo
Aaron North
Still the koolest band ever! Love you Trent!!!!!!!
I have trouble watching this video now. I just keep looking at the letters in the timecodes.
At 1:39 I was like this:
O°O what the he-
I don't have anything against gay people don't worry!
Why isn't the video for Perfect Drug up on UA-cam?
Aaron North was the shit during this era. Wish he hadn't taken the path he did. Not judging. We all know how easy mistakes and bad decisions come around. But I'd love to see alt timeline NIN where he stuck around.
fuckin genius
2:30
Oh no please....my innocence is slipping away.
Why is this only at 480p?
those screens are like The Truman Show
Somebody come look at this
Great reset (covid19) anthem
geez I was such a little rebellious 18 year old then wow
His voice so fucking creepy, deep and scary. Am i the only who notice or is just me?
Hello, how are you doing it’s nice meeting you here.
Trent Predicted our Future YEARS AGO!
Is Trent wearing a Keffiyeh as a scarf?
fists up people its time to fight....now!!!
wow okay, first was like "oh shit there's boobs" but then it got, like, eerie and political with the swat team breaking in on the dudes having sex
Good job, Reznor
Actually, they broke in on Trent and the band playing...that's why you see the blood later on. The dudes were just reacting to the noise like the shirtless girl was.
I also tought about that... but look at the final part where the band is now absent.. the door was from there, and there is a trail of blood starting from that room... The Swat Team broke in there because of the "subversive content" being played... It's a long ARG.
I love their music but my cat hates it, hahahaa..!
year zero is upon us
p,s posted this up few mths bak for its evermore relevence,!
stay strong and hold on tight with fists held high.my fellow spirits,its gunna be a bumpy ride !!!!
1:38 NIN says gay love it's right ♥️🏳️🌈
I got cut on Trent Razors edge. Edgy shit right here
/o/
best nin video ever. same sex content, brilliant stuff.
Atticus's long hair haha
first
Tits didn't add but made me laugh like the old Porky's movies.
Return us to Zer0 or back to 0ne
0:37 Maid streams when they start
Censored for your protection
Ureje
1:37 #sodomy
Don't know if you are meaning to be negative, but I think it rocks :P
Susan Fan I think too :)
DO YOU believe IN THE HOLY SCRIPUTE; WHAT OR WHO IS IT?
Who is the drummer in this video?
+Al Ex Josh Freese. He also played with A Perfect Circle.
Josh Freese.
Devo's drummer.
Am I the only one that found this a little similar to the hand that feeds?
Both still great songs though
Nine nights at Freddy's
Civil Protection Surveillance (Half-life 2)
She
Who's the chick at 1:09?
Counter Strike
But today, we're all playing in terrorist team against government.
I'm sure you'll understand 🐒
Late much?
...Violate...
deadmau5
14 losers
I mean, I want to ban sodomy, but this video makes a good point on how doing that would lead to a 1984/Shimoneta/Demolition Man dystopia.
deadmau5 do better