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"Burn"
Single by Nine Inch Nails
from the album Natural Born Killers
Released	1994
Format	CD
Recorded	1994
Genre	Industrial metal, Alternative metal
Length	4:58
Label	Nothing Records
Writer(s)	Trent Reznor
Producer	Trent Reznor
Nine Inch Nails singles chronology

"Burn" is a promotional single by Nine Inch Nails released from the Natural Born Killers soundtrack. Because this is a promo-only single, it has never been featured with its own official halo. It was included as a bonus track on the tenth anniversary Deluxe Edition of The Downward Spiral, and also has its own video (directed by Hank Corwin and Trent Reznor). A live performance of the song is featured on the DVD Beside You In Time.

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Reznor in front a projection screen, showing a clip featuring Juliette Lewis from Natural Born Killers

The music video was co-directed by Hank Corwin and Trent Reznor. The video features Reznor performing in front of a projection screen displaying a montage of stock footage and footage from the Natural Born Killers film, as in the picture provided. The stock footage and rear-projection techniques used in the video are similar to the ones employed in much of the film.

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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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 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.^[1]

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[edit] References

^ Gothic: Transmutations of Horror in Late Twentieth Century Art, ed. Christoph Grunenberg, Cambridge: MIT Press, p. 83-84.

[edit] External links

Burn at NINCollector.com

[edit] See also

Natural Born Killers

[0] Gothic: Transmutations of Horror in Late Twentieth Century Art, ed. Christoph Grunenberg, Cambridge: MIT Press, p. 83-84.

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