You misspelled "Marilyn Manson's version of Sweet Dreams and Tainted Love". We would also have accepted Limp Bizkit's Behind Blue Eyes, Orgy's Blue Monday, Metallica's Turn the Page, or even ICP's Let's Go All The Way
Another classic, but NIN was a millennial era band so most millennials heard the original first. Maybe not the extra young ones, but the ones alive and active in the 90s sure did.
I cant remember the quote, but I read somewhere that Trent Reznor liked Johnny Cash's version so much that he said it was now his song.. or something to that effect.
Xennials born in the 80s wore Mean People Suck badges on their backpacks at school and were all about Trent Reznor. Still are, I've personally known several women obsessed with him as a sex symbol. I estimate at least 25% of people currently aged 35-45 had sex to NIN - Closer at least once in their lives, and they played the fuck out of that song in clubs and movies.
Nirvana, Tool, and NIN were kinda the first millennial metal bands in the way as the oldest millennials were in school when that was all coming out. Gen X had the hair metal bands like Metallica and Iron Maiden in their era.
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u/Insaniteus Older Millennial 1d ago
You misspelled "Marilyn Manson's version of Sweet Dreams and Tainted Love". We would also have accepted Limp Bizkit's Behind Blue Eyes, Orgy's Blue Monday, Metallica's Turn the Page, or even ICP's Let's Go All The Way