"Burn" | |
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Promotional single by Nine Inch Nails from the album Natural Born Killers: A Soundtrack for an Oliver Stone Film | |
Released | 1994 |
Format | CD |
Recorded | 1994 |
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Length | 4:58 |
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Writer(s) | Trent Reznor |
Producer(s) | Trent Reznor |
"Burn" is a song recorded by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails for the soundtrack to the 1994 film Natural Born Killers. It was released as a promotional single from the soundtrack. The song was included as a bonus track on the 10th anniversary deluxe edition of The Downward Spiral in 2004. A live performance of the song is featured on , KROQ Christmas 2005, and the DVD Beside You in Time.
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 and footage from the Natural Born Killers film. 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":