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}}'''"Piggy"''' is the second track from the 1994 album ''[[The Downward Spiral (halo)|The Downward Spiral]].'' It is one of the many songs to include the phrase "[[Nothing Can Stop Me Now]]." The drum solo featured in the last half of the song is actually performed by [[Trent Reznor]] himself. Initially, it was a drum test being used as a placeholder in the song, but he liked it too much to replace it.
===Song Credits===*Production: [[Flood]] and Trent Reznor*Mixing Engineer: [[Alan Moulder]] ==Meaning===
According to the Filter biography on their official website, former live guitarist [[Richard Patrick]] reportedly received the nickname "Piggy" while in [[Nine Inch Nails]]. According to Patrick's Filter bandmate [[Brian Liesegang]], Reznor was very upset when Patrick left the band and wrote the song "Piggy" about it shortly thereafter[https://www.facebook.com/Filter/photos/a.186150516351/10155799437926352/?type=3&permPage=1]. Patrick gave the story behind his nickname in a 2013 interview[http://www.intravenousmag.co.uk/2013/09/richard-patrick-explains-origins-of.html]:
<blockquote>"I had 'Piggy' written long before it was ever known that I would be in that house. 'March of the Pigs' has nothing to do with the Tate murders or anything like that, I’m not going to say what it is about, but it’s not about that. Yeah, the name of the studio being 'Pig', that was a definite bad taste joke. It was written on the front door at one time, I’ll admit to that."</blockquote>
==Appearances==
==Live==
"Piggy" has become a popular song in Nine Inch Nails live shows, played seemingly on a nearly regular basissince its debut on [[1994/08/27 Rochester, NY|August 27, 1994]]. During live shows Reznor will frequently venture into the crowd during this song with a microphone and invite fans to sing along. Starting on the [[Fragility]] tour, Reznor began singing "hey motherfucking pig" before the line "there's a lot of things that I hoped you could help me understand".
Reznor performed a new version of "Piggy" on piano with a string quartet at Neil Young's 2006 [[Bridge School Benefit]] concert. This was most likely the inspiration for the "Ghosts Piggy" arrangement that was used in 2008's [[Lights In The Sky Tour]]. It features [[Justin Meldal-Johnsen]] on upright bass and Reznor on shaker and marimba, usually segueing directly from "[[19 Ghosts III]]" via Reznor's shaker playing as it slows from the quicker tempo to match that of "Ghosts Piggy." Its title is sourced from tour setlists.