Watch: Foo Fighters Cover Nine Inch Nails And Devo Live. The film begins with a scene of a person being executed by hanging. The band (or Trent Reznor, to be precise) has always issued challenging and uncommon videos, more short films than music videos. ScreenRant's Entertainment Content Writer, Kallie knows a little bit too much about movies, television, and music. Sheridan spoke to the difference between the early 1990s and now on his blog, writing, "Kids today can't possibly appreciate the feeling of tracking down a rare video artifact, because everything now is a mere Google search away [Broken] was never meant for searchable, on-demand access, never meant for the soft-hearted masses who put no effort into seeking it out.". These were the most appropriate visuals for the song, Reznor said of the work in a 1992 interview. G-strings and booty bouncing dominates the music video, which drew record numbers during its premiere. The band (or Trent Reznor, to be precise) has always issued challenging and uncommon videos, more short films than music videos. The jarring Wizard of Oz, Ku Klux Klan, drug, and Christian symbolism (as well as the unborn babies hanging from trees) made waves with various groups and inspired a lawsuit from former music video collaborator Kevin Kerslake, who claimed the band stole his ideas. See production, box office & company info. In her free time, you can find her writing entertainment articles or curating her own social media platforms as a way to channel her creativity. What if it felt real?" They were replaced by Foo Fighters . It begins in a bathroom. Mark objects to Joel-Peters influence being overstated, telling NPR: I bristle a bit at it sometimes being labeled 'a Joel-Peter Witkin rip off.' It's also part of the reason why Reznor, also an accomplished producer, along with fellow composer Atticus Ross, has been responsible for so many film scores: The Social Network (2010), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), Gone Girl (2014), Bird Box (2018), and funny enough, Pixar's Soul (2020). Young also wrote a strongly worded letter to MTV about the banning, to which the channel decided to "compromise" by playing the video once during a Neil Young special. Mark recalls a lot of the women on set being particularly interested in how this sequence was doing. But Broken's shorter running time was also a byproduct of Reznor's desire to escape that particularly jaundiced headspace. Reznor, commenting in the "Access" section of the Nine Inch Nails website in 2007, implied that Gibby Haynes was responsible for the most prominent leak. . He did not, in any way, want to be branded as approachable pop, and the band members were actively antagonistic toward their record label, TVT. RT @KerrangMagazine: A deep dive into Nine Inch Nails' NSFW music video for Closer. The drama inadvertently increased album sales, bringing the song to number one on the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks chart. Rock music fans, even to this day in the YouTube comments, can't get enough of the band, with many movies even being made about the famous band. Even Trent Reznor, the man who wrote and sang it said, "The rarest of things occurred: where the song sounded better to me, seeing it with the video. NIN was also responsible for the game's sound effects. The authorities then called Nine Inch Nails' management to let them know the travels their camera had gone through and all the fuss their apparently life-like murder scene had caused. Cornell has insisted that the song, and video, are more so a take on those who act "holier than thou" and exploit religion to make themselves look better. But he never complained once I think he knew we were making something interesting.. What You Didn't Know About The Banned Nine Inch Nails Film. Some of the inspirations came from the artists involved. "The darkness and the scatology really chimed with me So I figured that if I hired [Christopherson] as a director then I could at least meet him and hang out for a bit. 1 Closer - Nine Inch Nails (1994) In spite of the blunt and profane sexual content contained in the song's lyrics (the chorus infamously begins with the couplet "I wanna fuck you like an animal/ I wanna feel you from the inside"), "Closer" became Nine Inch Nails' biggest hit of that time. 7 on the Billboard charts, further burnishing the band's reputation and commercial standing which was ironic since, as Reznor told Spin, "After Lollapalooza, I had this snotty, elitist mentality you're not cool enough to like my band, don't buy my records. On Fixed (the 1992 remix CD for the Broken EP), remixers employed a heavily processed sample of Flanagan's screaming from the "Happiness in Slavery" video as part of the rhythm in the tracks "Screaming Slave" and a remix of the "Happiness in Slavery" song (although the sample is very obscure on the latter). After seeing the film, he freaked out because it was so disturbing, even to him. In the pre-internet era, bootlegs were much more prized items because of their physical, analogue nature. At the film's start, we see polished, professional footage of a man about to be hung, but then the scene shifts to shitty-looking handheld VHS footage as a car drives through town, eventually stopping in front of another man, who is then filmed in a basement while he's tied up and held hostage. "And it's a label that has no idea of what integrity means and they thought we were a nice pop band. Back when MTV was aspiring to uphold a more wholesome reputation for all audiences, there were several music videos that were banned from the channel. When Reznor returned to the studio after the Pretty Hate Machine tour, he was beset by personal and professional woes. TikTok video from Sped_upp..Aud10ss (@sp3ddaud10s): "Video in background is not mine! 2:15 According to Mental Floss, the camera crew weren't the types to have loads of money lying around, and they had no way of hiring a crane or other machinery that would allow them to take the aerial shots they needed. It looks a lot worse than it is, he says, It just makes your mouth dry. (We're guessing, anyway.) In case you havent guessed by now, these videos are NSFW. In the conclusion, Trent Reznor, who had been singing the lyrics inside a cell at the beginning of the video, enters the room and performs the same ritual that the previous man performed, but is unseen. In November of 2020, Nine Inch Nails was finally, fittingly inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the year after NIN legend Trent Reznor inducted fellow black-clad musical iconsThe Cure into the same halls. I wanted it to feel like a found object, almost like some old film found in a closet somewhere, in a science institute in Prague or somewhere.. So we shelved it. writer Ian Winwood examines the failures of the music industry with startling candour. Nine Inch Nails Banned Promos 1989 1994 Dallas TX 1990 06 26 Broken Porno Film 1993 Video Item Preview remove-circle . I guess it's interesting that it's achieved a certain notoriety. To me, it was the last video left, and I had to see it. If youre familiar with the late performance artists oeuvre, which includes a nail through the penis spectacular (watch the great documentary SICK for more on that), then you wont be surprised to find out that the video was widely banned for its gory imagery. A year before his death, Christopherson expressed regret about Broken. With the channel having such major commercial sponsors like Pepsi, they couldn't afford to form any bad relationships with these huge corporations. The camera zooms in on a toilet flushing, and a network of pipes is shown leading to a contraption with a large gear system and a pressure gauge on it. 45. The entire crew was overwhelmed by the smell, remembers Mark. [1] "Happiness in Slavery" peaked at number 13 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. "When the news came through that this was some sort of a cult killing, and that I had been killed, this great story, my initial reaction was that it was really funny that something could be that blown out of proportion, and so many people were working on it," Reznor later told an interviewer (found via Dangerous Minds). So unfortunately a lot of people, especially kids, started to believe that it was a real snuff movie. 3:57 Right out of the gate, even before later videos like 1994's "Closer" pushed NIN's performance artistry even further, this initial foray into the relationship between music and the visual arts captured their quintessence, and presaged their future work. Watch: Foo Fighters Release Psychedelic Music Video For New Song 'The Teacher' wearethepit.com - by Michael Pementel. When he was off-shift, the owner . "And that was what rock music was about in the [Nineties]: It was danger and dirt and hate and anger and pissing people off. UK authorities didnt take kindly to the raunchy video, which was widely banned and censored. After viewing almost all of their videos(including the almost unwatchable "Happiness in Slavery"), I came across "Broken", a 20 minute music video compilation that included a couple of the videos from the tape set and a new, too graphic to be released one. The video is currently age-restricted on YouTube. The music videos (without the interstitial footage between songs) for "Pinion", "Wish", "Help Me I Am in Hell", and "Happiness in Slavery" were made officially available on Closure and on the official Nine Inch Nails website.[8]. Gavras and M.I.A. reunited for another controversial video, Bad Girls, which supported campaigns by Saudi Arabian women to gain equal rights. Reznor started NIN in 1989 as a one-man studio band before taking to the road and touring with rock superstars like David Bowie, Guns 'N Roses, and Marilyn Manson. Reznor said that Broken makes the music video for "Happiness in Slavery", one of the tracks on the album, "look like a Disney movie". The controversy perplexed the artist who criticized censors: Its just fake blood and ketchup and people are more offended by that than the [Sri Lankan] execution videos I Twittered about them six months ago and no one talked about that, and then me and Romain make a video and everyones like, Oh my God.'. But it went from being the best to the worst. ", All that conflict and drama found its way into the Broken EP, a collection of eight songs stacked with hooks but also uglier in texture than Pretty Hate Machine. From the shot, FBI pathologists determined the "victim" lying in a pool of "blood" was rotting. "[Broken] was hard to make and it was an unpleasant experience throughout the whole thing," he later explained. Trent Reznor presents his dark vision of the EP 'Broken' by telling the story of a man kidnapped and forced to watch Nine Inch Nails videos, disturbing in their own right, while being tortur Trent Reznor presents his dark vision of the EP 'Broken' by telling the story of a man kidnapped and forced to watch Nine Inch Nails videos, disturbing in their own right, while being tortured. Serge Gainsbourg was known to court a controversy or two in his day. The music video for "Happiness in Slavery", directed by Jon Reiss, was inspired by the 1899 novel The Torture Garden by French author Octave Mirbeau. 0:44 All Rights Reserved. Trent Reznor presents his dark vision of the EP 'Broken' by telling the story of a man kidnapped and forced to watch Nine Inch Nails videos, disturbing in their own right, while being tortured. Regardless of the real meaning of the song, Soundgarden fans to this day show love for the video's ability to discuss a deeper issue than many realized the song discussed. Due to its extremely graphic content, Broken was never officially released, but was leaked as a bootleg which became heavily traded on VHS in the 1990s and more recently online. Menu screens, a chapter index, and the option to listen to the audio tracks from the CD without added sound effects are all distinct features of "Broken 2.0". One of those earliest music videos would lead to an FBI investigation, something else Reznor never could've predicted. This one is a guilt-free download. The video's fun nature, though, makes fans think it was an overreaction to ban it, especially on YouTube. And the video that started it all for NIN, "Head Like a Hole," is included as well, plus interesting video inserts between the actual clips (courtesy of Coil member Peter Christopherson) that tie the whole package together cohesively. On May 6, 2013, the entire video was made available for streaming on Vimeo via Nine Inch Nails' Tumblr page. Related:10 Best Hip-Hop Documentaries To Watch. What happens when the daughter of Italian horror god Dario Argento a controversial filmmaker and artist in her own right collaborates with a provocative singer who named himself after a serial killer? When Reznor saw the film, he freaked out: "It felt like we'd crossed over into territory that was perhaps too far." I spun him so long that I believe he vomited. The MTV channel hit the ground running immediately upon its premiere in the iconic times of the '80s. Mark thought the opening drumbeat sounded like a heart accompanied by an industrial hissing, which inspire the half-organic, half-industrial creation. Pope later reshot it, which is explained in this video spotted by Dangerous Minds. When something goes viral in 2017, there's an immediacy to the sensation that makes the experience a little less special. The good citizen turned the camera over to the authorities. The music video for "Pinion" begins to play. When the police reviewed the film footage, they believed they'd uncovered a murder. Few bands are as deserving of a video collection as Nine Inch Nails is. 1:26 ", "[It] was never my intention to bring harm to people," Christopherson added. "It felt like we'd crossed over into territory that was perhapstoo far," he recalls. But beware:when you get to the flies, the gimp, and the bloody steak, you're only halfway done. The music video for (s)AINT from Marilyn Mansons 2003 album The Golden Age of Grotesque. You have been warned: join us on a deep dive into a gory, surprisingly meaty world of Nine Inch Nails, There are music videos, and there are music videos, you know? Reznor wrote the music for the video andBrokenwith a very big chip on his shoulders. We ended up dripping Old Spice cologne onto filter masks and bandanas due to the horrific stench. The hip-hop artist is open about his social commentary in the song, claiming it's more about the lack of acceptance by Hollywood of the African-American body and how those differences should be celebrated and brought attention to. ', who told rising star Whitney Houston hed like to f*ck her on national television. It was released in November 1992 as a promotional single from the EP. Watch Foo Fighters introduce Josh Freese to audiences at Sonic Temple with covers of Nine Inch Nails and Devo. The initial cut of the music video was an obvious no, as it showcased plenty of fully naked girls. Nine Inch Nails, Happiness In Slavery. On December 30, 2006, an unofficial version of the film was released on a DVD disc image and distributed via The Pirate Bay by the same anonymous user called "seed0", who had uploaded the leaked DVD version of Closure. The balloons went on quite a journey, too, flying clear up to the outskirts of Burr Oak, Michigan. This connection suited frontman, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Reznor perfectly, as it provided another avenue for him to mine all the agony and darkness he could. It was released during the promotional push for the bands synthtastical album Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret. The Federal Bureau of Investigation deals with some pretty crazy stuff on a daily basis, from serial killers to smuggling operations and more, but when Nine Inch Nails made the music video for "Down In It" (on YouTube) from their debut album Pretty Hate Machine, they managed to get the FBI up and at 'em. [7][10] Christopherson himself has expressed regret in the film's eventual popularity: while he intended the film to be obviously fake, the degradation in quality as the tapes got copied over and over have made the distinction and his "pretty obvious clues" harder and harder to spot.[7]. From partial nudity to provocative lingerie,to even the allusion to group sex, the video hardly left anything to the imagination. Regardless, Young got his revenge by winning MTV's Video Of The Year in 1989. The video cuts away several times to show the same man in bondage gear. And leak it did: The video started being sold as a bootleg. No wonder the video was banned, right? The above-mentioned "Closer" is undeniably great (due to superb direction by Mark Romanek), and "Happiness In Slavery" is definitely one of the most horrific and disturbing of all time (a naked man gets torn to pieces by a machine). Stylist April Napier later worked on The Cell, Thumbsucker and Lady Bird. Eventually, NIN would sign with Interscope a smart move and during this transitionBrokenand its snuff film were produced. Since its start, Nine Inch Nails has released 11 studio albums, won multiple awards, and produced several stellar music videos. I wanted to make a 'fuck you' record. (Remember it came out in the VHS era.) I pretty much tortured Trent for three or four days on this video, recalls the director. This sequence with the seven men behind the screen is lifted from Street Of Crocodiles, a massively influential animated short by the Brothers Quay. 1:47 Upon closure, the remaining unique inventory of tapes was stored until offered for auction in 2022, when they were sold to enthusiasts. Much to the dismay of fans, the film was deemed too explicit and was never released officially. You can fuck to it, you can dance to it and you can break shit to it. Limp Bizkits Fred Durst is a huge Nine Inch Nails fan, incorporating the signature line from this song as well as two other NIN tunes into the line, 'You wanna fuck me like an animal / You'd like to burn me on the inside / You like to think that I'm a perfect drug / Just know that nothing you do will bring you closer to me' from the song Hot Dog. Trents microphone here was actually designed for a bass drum Mark liked it because its silhouette reminded him of a nipple. MTV banned the video as they believed it promoted cross-dressing when they were just parodying the popular British television soap, Coronation Street. The frontman stated that his goal was to create a bizarre and interesting visual experiment that did not look like a typical video, emphasizing the importance of artistic control over his works. Broken, also known as The Broken Movie, was a short horror film made in 1993 to promote the Nine Inch Nails EP of the same name. Reznor later admitted to distributing different copies of Broken to his friends, each with a different part of the video blacked out so that he would be able to identify the culprit if it were to be leaked. Almost immediately, he is suddenly seen in a basement, tied with a seatbelt to a chair and cleave-gagged while being forced to watch a television. Luckily, it's not too hot for YouTube. An alternative interpretation is that the person bound inside is being fed the "waste of the world" coming through the pipes.[4]. As the camera zooms out, a tight plastic bodybag-like suit suspended in a padded cell with six rods by the side is shown, with the end of the pipes attached to the mouth portion with water gushing in, presumably to drown the person inside. "And I did it without regard for MTV and what was showable and not showable, because that's what he asked me to do.". Trent Reznor's demented, yet artistic genius is fully captured within the 20 minutes of music and really graphic violence and gore. The "evidence" had crossed state lines, making it the jurisdiction of the FBI. recordings of concerts, and other music-adjacent works. The release of Nine Inch Nails' debut, Pretty Hate Machine, in 1989, had produced two alternative-rock hits in "Down in It" and "Head Like a Hole," cementing the multi-instrumentalist frontman's position at the forefront of industrial metal and earning him a spot on the bill for the very first Lollapalooza. Behind the scenes the heart was very lo-fi, with three men hiding behind the wall blowing, pumping and spraying freon gas through the tubes to make it beat. In the early 1990s, Trent Reznor should have been on top of the world. It then engulfs the man's body in a metal cask and minces it into fertilizer for the garden below. This image of Trent in the mask is a reference to a Man Ray photograph. Despite this song concept being very normal in today's time, it was considered quite controversial at the time to discuss women in such a way, much less a video dedicated to zooming in on certain body parts (via YouTube). God is dead, were told, but Trent Reznor isnt and hes delivering the best shows of his life. original sound - Sped_upp..Aud10ss. (His life was later chronicled in the 1997 documentary Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist. The video was too raw and real for MTV to handle and they did not want to put that heavy burden on their viewers, especially with the original video being 15 minutes long. This is production designer Tom Foden, who had worked with Mark on several other projects, and who Mark was determined to get into a video at some point, despite his camera-shyness, due to his interesting face. 30 seconds after the film ends, with no audio and a black screen, the severed head of the killer flies across the screen. The video for "Help Me I Am in Hell" shows a middle-age man in a room filled with flies. ", Plus, friction with his label, TVT, had made Reznor long for a new creative home. "I do think people can be harmed seeing things, especially unexpectedly, that put them in the position of empathizing with someone being tortured and murdered. Despite the song being about self-hatred and obsession, the signature line, 'I wanna fuck you like an animal' makes people think its a bangin tune. After one of Reznor's friends, skateboarding legend Tony Hawk, let the news slip during a In hindsight, Reznor talks about that time with a little more mellowed wisdom, saying, "I had this snotty, elitist mentality you're not cool enough to like my band, don't buy my records. The frontman decided to make an art project around the EP, using the film as an opportunity to spend time with a personal hero. [2] It features performance artist Bob Flanagan entering a large room, placing a flower and a candle on an altar and in a ritualistic style prepares for something; by stripping naked and washing himself before becoming strapped into a machine with long robotic claws that arise from the machine and subsequently tear apart his skin and impale his hands. We got these sides of beef pretty cheap because they were already rotting, says Mark. As the killer is then seen putting his pants on, it is usually assumed that the substance is feces. What if it felt real? Nine Inch Nails Pulls Out of 2005 MTV Movie Awards. My Chemical Romance, the original Misfits (performing Walk Among Us in full) and Nine Inch Nails will top the bill at this years long-awaited Riot Fest. The story of Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nail's Banned Snuff FilmSIGN UP for 10 of the Craziest Stories in Rock N' Roll [Secret Playlist]: https://bit.ly/3vVPAEFCheck out our Top 25 Favourite Albums Here https://rockandrolltruestories.com/Have a video request or a topic you'd like to see us cover? The film ends with the music video for "Gave Up", which is a different video from the one on Closure as it is not an actual Nine Inch Nails video but rather the band's music dubbed over the storyline of the movie. Its no secret why this song was banned, just based on the lyrics alone. "NSFW: Nine Inch Nails' Happiness In Slavery", "Nine Inch Nails Chart History (Alternative Airplay)", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Happiness_in_Slavery&oldid=1119108353, "Happiness in Slavery" (LP version) 5:26, "Happiness in Slavery" (Flaccid edit) 4:17, This page was last edited on 30 October 2022, at 19:25. Most bootleg versions (the only way to get the video) leave out "Help Me I Am In Hell", as this was only a black screen with the track as background music in the original. The video was too raw and real for MTV to handle and they did not want to put that heavy burden on their viewers, especially with the original video being 15 minutes long. 9 facts about one of the most influential bands of the 90's. 1. From the get-go, the intention was to create something nauseating and revolting. Ah-ha! The Japanese horror film Ringu (which was remade as The Ring in the States) weaponized the individual, viral nature of bootleg VHS videos, while The Blair Witch Project became a sensation by making audiences wonder if what they were watching was real. Many of their videos have either been banned from being shown on TV (the clip for "Happiness In Slavery") or have been heavily edited (the superb "Closer"). Considering there were many Madonna videos that some even consider worse than "Justify My Love," it's hard to deny that Madonna paved the way for fellow artists to start pushing the envelope. The scathing social and political critiques continued on the bands follow-up album Rabies, which prompted a video that challenged censorship in America. Following the music video, the victim is shown still tied to a table as the killer proceeds to rip his teeth out. [8], Broken was created as a companion piece to the EP of the same name after Reznor wanted to create an art project based on the EP with Christopherson, who intended the piece to be "a comment on the existence of snuff movies and people's obsession with them". Shes actually quite raw, womanly and sexy. You'll also get to see some interesting life on the road video snapshots, such as Trent and company hanging out with the likes of Lou Reed, David Bowie, and Marilyn Manson. That's a hard thing to watch. Probably do not watch it at all. [1], While Reznor's comments about the film have been cryptic at best, he makes no secret of its existence, and the entire uncensored film is available to view when accessed by a hidden link on the discography page of the official Nine Inch Nails website.[2][3]. There you have it. Knowing this, it's not hard to understand why MTV did not want to air this, especially so early on in their career. His guiding principle was simple: "What if we built a framework around these songs, what if we took an approach where it really was scary, instead of a cop-out horror movie nod to the camera? Supermasochist Bob Flanagan appeared in the music video for Nine Inch Nails Happiness in Slavery from the bands Broken EP. Especially during the social and political climate of the '80s, many things were looked down on, including sex, drug use, and LGBTQ+ representation of any kind. The animal rights advocates were actually gutting a stuffed animal. I suddenly found myself arguing with my producer saying things like, But weve got to have the anal balls! Theyre essential for any good music video.. ", When the Broken EP was released in September 1992, it peaked at No. So why don't you go back to posting memes in your shitty GTAmodding sub and fuck off. Tommy Lee, on one of those endless talking-head shows, said, "Come on dude: 'I wanna fuck you like an animal'? 9 System Of A Down - "Chop Suey!" Always a socially conscious band, System of Down is currently raising awareness of the plight of Armenians via several new songs. An alternate video for the track is included on the Closure-videotape (see trivia). Reznor, ever the provocateur, decided to give a few VHS copies to select friends but each copy had its own unique dropout so that he could later identify which friend had leaked the film to the public if it ever got out. Reznor is seen lying in a pool of blood. The movie is currently available in The Internet Archive. He was pretty much treated like a piata on this video. Production designer Tom Foden is in the front centre. Nine Inch Nails, "Closer," 1994 "[4] It had to do with his artistic freedom at the time after his fallout with TVT Records.[3]. The pigs head comes from a photograph by Man Ray, who has a name like a minor Aquaman villain but isnt. 100 gecs, Yves Tumor and Boy Harsher will be playing select dates on Nine Inch Nails upcoming U.S headline run, Kerrang! 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