Nine Inch Nails: Happiness is Slavery Music Video

This is the opening of the first music video that Jon Reiss directed for Nine Inch Nails. The entire video was banned from MTV when it was released and created a bit of a stir. It was inspired by Octave Mirabeaux's decadent classic "The Torture Garden" of which I had been a huge fan. And yes that is Bob Flanagan that is the star of the narrative portion of the video.

[@sparkles13]

I take it that 1 minute and 27 seconds is the extent that Bob Flanagan is allowed on KZbin.

[@StevenEveral]

The original video was shown on MTV only two times, and both times it was shown around 3AM. Even then, it got a huge positive response from the audience. If you can find the whole video, prepare yourself. It's just this side of a snuff film.

[@jegeriufanen4415]

I remember Trent added it to NIN youtube channel I think 1-2 years ago. I watched it and then it was taken down after a few hours lol.

[@NicktheMac]

It was fucking ART and I HATE that it got zucced because it upset the wrong person. ART IS UNSETTLING, it's supposed to be. Shit like that helped me look within myself, uhm not literally though.

[@darkstar1360]

@@jegeriufanen4415 the full uncensored video is still up on NIN vimeo page.

[@midwaygamer-ou3my]

wait mtv showed this the same network that banned closer and baby got back which is kindergarden compared to this lol

[@midwaygamer-ou3my]

@@NicktheMac if you listen to the devils rejects commentary they talk about how rob always said on that set art is not safe

[@mrkrills8839]

The full music video is one of those videos you would show to a friend and dare them to finish it

[@QueenBee80808]

They used to play this whole vid on tv then someone had a meltdown lol

[@cvetageorgieva4312]

The full video made Cradle of Filth's From the Cradle to Enslave video look like boy scouts trying too hard to look edgy. And - damn, I'm not even a fan of NIN, while there was a time I had a blast on CoF quite often.

[@jordanboyd5587]

"Don't open your eyes, you won't like what you see" _sees the whole music video_ They warned me, now I wished I had never had eyes again.

[@sidviscus]

For as grotesque as the whole music video is, it's artistic and symbolic value make it legitimate art. Some people think being gross on it's own is a statement, but it isn't. This video clearly means something.

[@robynsegg]

Yeah! 😄...😐... What? 🤔

[@RoastBeefQueefSniffer]

It honestly symbolizes being a young cringe edgelord.

[@yttri9876]

@@robynseggsomething, clearly

[@zenunderground]

Stick my hands through the cage of this endless routine Just some flesh caught in this big broken machine

[@witchblade1969]

They never let u down.. A great band that makes really fascinating videos.

[@GuywithabadenglishOfficcial]

They never give you up also

[@tedboom9550]

This IS ART , as is THE ENTIRE BROKEN MOVIE. My dad showed me this when I was around 13. Back around '97 98. I remember him getting the Megadeth Sweating Bullets single with Reznors Gristle Edit On it in plastic maxi case. Not sure if I still have it or not but that forged my awakening to industrial music. Thank you fahja!

[@jeordied]

the full video is completely worth watching. if youre debating whether or not to watch it, watch it.

[@Bonemeal2]

I had the full video on Closure. It was delightfully twisted.

[@MoltenGumdrop]

I just watched the original video on vimeo. Holy Jesus...

[@MeidoInHebun]

Hadn't watched it in like 20 years, I kinda remembered it being much more gruesome

[@frenchfries8594]

Meido In Hebun Know this reply is late af, but can you tell me what it is before I possibly traumatize myself?

[@MeidoInHebun]

@@frenchfries8594 A dude goes on a chair that tortures him some, I don't remember very well but things like drills and in the end he gets turned into paste and pushed out of a machine

[@REMHOLDR]

@@MeidoInHebun yummy

[@riverscuomo994]

@@REMHOLDR I can make a hamburger out of that.

[@Jarhead1313]

I used to think this was called Happiness Is Slavery...in all actuality to me it sounds better than Happiness In Slavery..

[@eightcoins4401]

I honestly cant help but hear "Her Penis in Slavery"

[@koopicaca7882]

@@eightcoins4401 hahaha

[@nyarlathotep_the_faceless_god]

Just watched the full version 😋😋

[@Ophelia_Pain]

It is ART. All I can say, is I understand and the video and Song itself speaks volumes and you can feel emotions. I remember when one of my friends showed me the music video. I never saw anything like it before. I have since loved this song and the Music 🎵🎶 video. It is ART!!! True Raw ART!! It was done so very well. To understand and appreciate everything as a whole, together. It's pretty amzing. Also you can break down the layers of the music video. It truly is ART. ❤

[@DragonsOfSnow]

Awww, damn it! I thought this was the whole video. ☹ I swear I thought I had seen the whole thing on YT once. Man this sucks. Wanted to show it to a friend but the only place I have it is on VHS...

[@rj8mp]

You can find it on vimeo!

[@DragonsOfSnow]

@@rj8mp Yeah, I found it shortly after I made the comment. 😉

[@ameliagordon6945]

How can something be entruging and disturbing at the same time and where is the full mv

[@tristanraine]

They can't put it on youtube, however there is a higher quality full version of the music video on vimeo

[@Aaron-hq4bu]

Entruging?

[@Babeolicious777]

I remember first seeing this video playing in the background of a club I used to frequent, many, MANY moons ago. Made me think "WTF am I doing here and what types of people are hanging out here?!", LMAO. The full video is horrifying. Love, love, LOVE the song though. But damn, the video sticks with you.... o.O

[@Errghhh]

i watched the whole thing, it was horrifying but i enjoyed it

[@noramartinez4342]

Nine Inch Nails - Happiness In Slavery

[@jeffreychase692]

Nine inch nails is ART literally play in traffic if you can’t just appreciate the self expression alone in the music and video

[@acidmardigras6235]

Love this.

[@Sync0pati0n]

I WANT IT COMPLETE RIGHT FUCKING NOW

[@ACT8113]

Here are a couple of uploads aHR0cHM6Ly95b3V0dS5iZS9rV2NUc01WQWl6 awoKaHR0cHM6Ly95b3V0dS5iZS9SaGl1ZHVPTWswbw==

[@dc7896]

Perfect song for 2021

[@Chi_95]

Who remembers their first time watching the broken movie

[@arabslavegirl]

Happiness IN Slavery. -_- Shame the full vid's gone.

[@AD-Dom]

It’s on the closure box set. I guess I’ll just watch that on good ol’ vhs.

[@metalgrinch]

Somebody upload the FULL video!

[@jegeriufanen4415]

It was uploaded to NIN official channel and taken down in a few hours

[@eboethrasher]

go to the NIN channel on vimeo. Not hard to just... leave youtube for a few minutes and discover a whole new world of prizes and surprises!

[@cutepokemonfan1700]

I love it all

[@MultiWobble]

bring back to whole video please

[@FreshOuttttttt]

Right on

[@twebb1985]

Ugh.... It's happiness in slavery

[@blaggermouth]

remember seeing some of the uncut video of this used on a c4 programme about banned videos.

[@scottdavidwilliams7033]

The entire unedited Jon Reiss video should be the one available to view, It's absurd that a few who were 'offended' by it should determine whether anyone else gets to see it. "The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown adults live on skim milk because babies can't eat steak. Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you must not know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a person who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free person, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free person; the most you can do is kill them.” - Robert A Heinlein

[@robinawilkinson597]

Indeed

[@friedricengravy6646]

Is that the one where he goes through a meat grinder at the end, under the chair?

[@scottdavidwilliams7033]

@@friedricengravy6646 Yes

[@friedricengravy6646]

@@scottdavidwilliams7033 Thank u ✌🏻

[@sueben]

Wait, the uncensored video isn't allowed on KZbin? There is way worse stuff on here. Fuck this!

[@fishactivation5087]

Alright, guys, which is more grotesque: the original HiS music video, or the original Gave Up music video?

[@aidanchristensen503]

Cattle Decapitation I have the most goriest video Nine Inch Nails hold my torture devices

[@treyebillups8602]

Yes, Bob Flanagan is actually having that happen to him. He likes it.

[@hungryfilms3707]

Heaviest song on broken imo

[@franki0308]

Who had the CD back in the day? It came with a tiny little mini CD.

[@FreshOuttttttt]

For you I imagine that it always will

[@tmdrake]

The best song of the 90's

[@JesseAbram]

The title isn't even the actual name of the song. You had one job.

[@korndud]

thanks for the link! although i don't need it :D. i have the whole broken movie. i was just at a friends house and i wanted to show some people lol.

[@joshuaweston6531]

Here's the thing about things about this video...#1. Trent Reznor screaming about oppression is the best thing ever! #2. This absolutely should be censored, and this is coming from someone who doesn't believe in censorship... mostly (F words and what not). #3. This will always remain archival footage of what a dark bastard Trent Reznor actually is...No wonder I'm intrigued...🤪

[@cookingisart2050]

Um...what happened to the rest of the vid? lol to scared to show what happens? lol

[@kestimpy]

DEMONITIZATION

[@2.green249]

PENIS AND MYRDER

[@TheSweBoo]

He gets sexually pleased, tortured and then mash murdered. It was banned worldwide and I saw it as a child haha ;-;

[@shepherd_moons]

I think it's on Vimeo though.

[@JohnBatman111]

because KZbin owners are pussies

[@MrNinteenhundred]

you've been waiting for a year

[@DavidJohnson-gb7on]

Yes yes yes... A thousand times yes.... Sonic coming right up!

[@devinlinn126]

Private Snowball, you're up.

[@devinlinn126]

This is what a world without drugs is like.

[@roryboen5262]

censored version. go find the broken movie and walk by a house that smells like...... I might have.

[@roryboen5262]

I did.

[@rob16248]

Nice juicy "comments" exchanged here, just like the good ole' days of KZbin.

[@voldemortsnose7331]

6 years ago is good ol days now 😔

[@ColeYudelson]

@@voldemortsnose7331 2 days ago is the good ol days now I'm a full time college student, so that is often the case haha

[@MrNinteenhundred]

i think this is what inspired saw

[@Kinnakeeter]

Lol. Nah, James Wan and Leigh Whannel had heard about a guy who would break into people homes to tickle their children's feet. It freaked James out so badly that he slept with a hammer by his bed. The intruder was caught and he said that he did it because someone forced him to do it. He would get a jigsaw piece that told him to do it. Creepy right?

[@alrivera8363]

I’ll take 5 lbs of ground Bob, no fat.

[@TheBloodletter77]

Based off the book "The story of 0" by Anne Desclos, also known as Pauline Reage

[@nyarlathotep_the_faceless_god]

Just read the plot of this movie and what the heck was that

[@nyarlathotep_the_faceless_god]

Both the song and the music video has nothing to do with that stupid porn book tho. Their meaning is much deeper. But I wish something like this video really happened in the book and it was shorter

[@robynsegg]

Every time I see this video, I can't help but think of the show, "Futurama": BENDER: I'm a bender. I bend girders, that's all I'm programmed to do. FRY: (Are) you any good at it? BENDER: You kidding? I was a star! I could bend a girder to any angle: 30 degrees, 32 degrees, you name it! (unsure) 31. (normal) But I couldn't go on living once I found out what the girders were for. FRY: What? BENDER: Suicide booths! Me: 🤭

[@JaneDoe-zc2zn]

You wanted men... Specifically Elliott Smith? And you belonged in prison? And still do?

[@veroa1078]

Where can I find the original uncensored version ???

[@xRavenKittiex]

This is the weirdest soft snuff film ever i 😧

[@user-gf5le4gy7g]

I was never into physical activity neither was Andre Vermeulen. Andre Vermeulen is Master Class and Master race, he is ARIAN.

[@ladystarful]

nice find, though i wish it were the whole thing :/

[@koopicaca7882]

Honestly, I feel like his “Gave Up” video was worse.

[@cz421]

he was very crazy at this time, but good , video is most similar toˋcloser‘ as we know..

[@BlimaWormtong]

Why so banned??

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

where the uncensored version

[@tula6913]

vimeo

[@grieftick]

Let me help you...find the rest of this on Vimeo

[@tinkerfox1774]

What a disappoinment that it's not the full uncut version.

[@tinkerfox1774]

@J --- And yet the uncut version of Dir en grey - Obscure is still up (which is also a pretty cool video). Also WTF are you talking about "1/4 uncircumcised EP?" are you talking about the shortness of the Broken album? Lol. Also there aren't any swear words in this song, so I guess it's Radio Friendly. www.google.com/amp/s/genius.com/amp/Nine-inch-nails-happiness-in-slavery-lyrics

[@manlymen552]

this video was banned from mtv lol

[@CULT_OF_TRAGEDY]

Glad I still have my closure video vhs tape since can’t see the full thing anywhere else

[@darkflux]

aw...why'd you stop the video?

[@InKa4484]

That's the sexiest thing anyone has ever said to me.

[@TDRock8]

Wow. That version was random.

[@europianbob]

Happiness IN Slavery! ♡

[@dariafrechowicz9192]

Saw 2003..

[@books2438]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/opSlfKpnfbpkiqM the full video is included in this

[@sarahconnor5889]

WHJERE DO I GET THE WHOLE VID

[@completistjunky]

Used to be nineinchnails.net until Interscope had to be dicks and close it down.

[@vNEET666]

Vimeo

[@adamjohnson3973]

No lies

[@AD-Dom]

Where’s the whole video?

[@glassjaw2007]

vimeo

[@arlenjohnson3642]

I had the original vhs

[@hybriddecadence8679]

fukn pissed i cant find this vid in decent quality anymore.

[@korndud]

wtf, did they take down all the happiness in slavery videos? this is the only one i could find.

[@ACT8113]

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[@dabunnyrabbit2620]

Wheres the rest? A simple "this contains disturbing stuff continue watching" warning should be enough. Theres way more disturbing stuff on here than this video.

[@MuthoniMinaKimani]

Why only half the song????

[@dhc612]

because the music video was banned from mtv and the music video also features someone being tortured and killed.

[@2.green249]

Dr. Bright and also you see a penis

[@MeidoInHebun]

​@@2.green249 Judging by all the other gruesome shit you can watch on youtube, I think the dick part is what actually gets the video deleted

[@robknife]

The #duration on this #video is #money. #noice #haHaHa #snoinkz

[@alexisf7908]

Donald Marshall

[@maestrozero117]

Us

[@jmccormick1490]

I watched the full video on acid

[@aaronedwards7070]

Donald Marshall wrote this song

[@selftrepanation1098]

Hmm 🤔 Bob playing the role of John Fare perhaps?

[@howyadoin434]

THIS IS FROM THE BROKEN MOVIE

[@pierce7992]

They missed the opportunity to add a sounding sequence then it would be even worse

[@FreshOuttttttt]

You are, and a better question is why are you still talking? If you're so sensitive that you find it offensive either keep it to yourself or maybe wonder why something that wasn't directed at you made you feel compelled enough to comment, perhaps the word applies more to you than the other person.

[@InKa4484]

What about the people that aren't weird? They are the most interesting.

[@DavidJohnson-gb7on]

Endless Akira Al Gore burger spline pancreous swimming pool?

[@ViolentSoldier]

so much likes for 30% of the track? x)

[@x-Clover-x]

I fucking love you, Trent!!! ❤❤❤❤❤

[@joaquinvaleri7022]

Hey watch your profanity

[@ronleateralus5546]

I mean the original video really isn't that disturbing. Cattle decapitations gender reassignment is more disturbing this one is just artistically pleasing imo.

[@OmarDelPrete94]

This video gets more disturbing when you know that everything here is real (except the part when he gets killed, obviously) the guy is Bob Flanagan and he used to perform that crazy stuffs in many occasions

[@warrenosborne1748]

Everybody's playing like Google doesn't exist lol You can find the video I assure you KZbin won't allow it obviously no nudity no sex no stuff like that but they allow people to throw racial slurs at each other on comments lol So that's okay I guess

[@magnoliamoon8710]

Lol

[@DavidJohnson-gb7on]

Eh?

[@alachetwatafa8165]

Ey ey k pedo el video no esta completo se supone que la maquina lo tortura asta matarlo y lo muele completo asta dejarlo como carne molida

[@nagoogle8542]

The whole thing used to be allowed on pootube

[@jasonsphinx4746]

Goto help.me.i.am.in.hell

[@jasonsphinx4746]

Goto gave.up