Composition
Pretty Hate Machine is a synthpop album that incorporates industrial and electronic styles. Unlike the industrial music of Nine Inch Nails' contemporaries, the album's music employed catchy riffs and verse-chorus song structures rather than repetitive electronic sounds. Of its industrial influence, Pitchfork Media's Tom Breihan writes that the album is informed by "the genre's nascent new-wave period rather than its subsequent styles." Music journalist Jon Pareles characterizes the album's music as "electro-rock or industrial rock, using drum machines, computerized synthesizer riffs and obviously processed sounds to detail, and usually denounce, an artificial world." Reznor's lyrics express adolescent angst and feelings of betrayal by lovers, society, or God. and juxtapose themes of despair with lovelorn sentiments.
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