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Burn (Nine Inch Nails song)

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American developments. We see a fascist march (in Italy), portrait of Hitler (twice), concentration camp victims, tanks rolling over trenches. Closer to home, a suburban mansion ('Absolutely No Trespassing' says the sign in front the eerily lifeless, almost Gothic, edifice), 1950s street scenes and family photographs, a beer sale sign, the American flag, and a church. These 'historical' images are juxtaposed in an increasingly frantic pace with scenes of family life and especially family violence in America—a young boy violated by his father and a young girl sexually abused by hers. Toward the end, vampires loom over the contemporary wasteland.
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In the elliptic time frame of music video narratives, NIN's 'Burn' forms a commentary on the social state of things, positing images of the ruins of modernity's dream of progress. As the montage progress, it establishes complicated visual links between world-historical events and specifically
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Csaba Toth contributed a detailed reading of the video in his article "Like Cancer in the System: Industrial Gothic, Nine Inch Nails, and Videotape":
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film. The stock footage and rear-projection techniques used in the video are similar to the ones employed in much of the film.
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from the soundtrack. The song was included as a bonus track on the 10th anniversary deluxe edition of
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Reznor in front of a projection screen, showing a clip featuring
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Gothic: Transmutations of Horror in Late-Twentieth-Century Art
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Natural Born Killers: A Soundtrack for an Oliver Stone Film
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Lights in the Sky: Over North America 2008 Tour Sampler
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in 2004. Live performances of the song are featured on
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The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!
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Index


Promotional single
Nine Inch Nails
Natural Born Killers: A Soundtrack for an Oliver Stone Film
Genre
Industrial metal
speed metal
Label
Nothing
Interscope
Atlantic
Songwriter(s)
Trent Reznor
Producer(s)
Nine Inch Nails
Closer
Piggy
industrial rock
Nine Inch Nails
soundtrack
Natural Born Killers
promotional single
The Downward Spiral
Beside You in Time

Juliette Lewis
Hank Corwin
Trent Reznor
projection screen
stock footage

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