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* Singer [[Tori Amos]] has alluded to Nine Inch Nails in her lyrics: "Precious Things" mentions "demigods with their nine-inch nails" and "Caught a Lite Sneeze" finds her "{making her} own [[Pretty Hate Machine]]." [[Trent Reznor]] sang back-up vocals on Amos' "Past the Mission." Amos sometimes included the opening line of "[[Hurt (song)|Hurt]]" in live improvisations, sometimes with silly alternative lyrics such as "I hurt myself today/to find a jellybean." The term "[[Starfuckers, Inc. (song)|Starfucker]]" was used in Amos' 1996 song "Professional Widow" on the album ''Boys for Pele.'' Many believe that Amos and Reznor were more than friends, and Reznor has confessed that [[Courtney Love]] meddled in their friendship, causing them to drift apart. Some believe Amos's song, "She's Your Cocaine" is about the two of them. In 2014, Amos performed a live cover of ""[[Something I Can Never Have]]".
* Eminem's "My Name Is" from his 1999 album ''The Slim Shady LP'' includes the line "Wanna see me stick Nine Inch Nails through each one of my eyelids?" in the first verse, commonly seen as a nod to the band.
* Progressive metal band Dream Theater has performed a live medley called "Caught in Alice's New Nine-Inch Millennium Tool Garden." It used the lyrics of their earlier release "Caught in a Web," but with new music which was a combination of the styles of Alice in Chains, Nine Inch Nails, [[Tool]], and [[Soundgarden]], all of which were prominent rock bands during the 90s. The band later wrote new lyrics to the song and released it as "New Millennium" on the album ''Falling into Infinity.''
* Nine Inch Nails is referenced in the Phi Life Cypher remix of Gorillaz' "Clint Eastwood:" "Now rearrangin' your whole skeletal structure then I find some nine inch nails to perform some acupuncture."
* "Weird Al" Yankovic has paid tribute to NIN more than once: "[[Closer]]" is parodied in the "Alternative Polka" from ''Bad Hair Day,'' and "Germs," on the album ''Running with Scissors,'' sounds like a cross between "[[Terrible Lie]]" and "[[Closer]]" with some elements from "[[Mr. Self Destruct]]."
*The documentary series ''[[The Vietnam War Original Score|The Vietnam War]]'' contains several NIN tracks, in addition to featuring a score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
*NIN songs are used in multiple episodes of ''Animal Kingdom''.
*In the ''Schitt's Creek'' episode "The Plant", it is mentioned that the acapella group Jazzagals are rehearsing a Nine Inch Nails medley.
==Literature and Comics==
* In the webcomic ''[http://www.pholph.com JACK],'' many of the story arcs have lines or names that reference Nine Inch Nails as well as other bands that the author, David Hopkins, has an affinity for (such as Pink Floyd). Some of the references are the stories "The Mark Has Been Made" and "[[Twist]]" as well as the arc "Hell Is That Noise" which is acknowledged as a "Tribute to NIN" and includes song titles and lyrics taken from ''The Fragile'' in order to form a story about a soldier during "The Great Trench War" (a fictional equivalent to WWI) who commits suicide after finding out his wife had hung herself while he was away after the deaths of her three newborn children; his journey through Hell to find her; and his outright refusal of the truth when he finds it.
*A young soldier in the comic strip ''Doonesbury'' lost most of his hearing due to listening to too much Nine Inch Nails music before he was severely injured in Iraq. His hearing loss was "[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/db/2008/db080128.gif worth it]!"
*In the ''[https://xkcd.com/1732/ Earth Temperature Timeline]'' published by [[wp:xkcd|xkcd]], one figure is seen writing "NIИ" on a cave wall.
==Video Games==
*The fortress bosses (the fire-breathing dinosaurs) in various incarnations and versions of ''Super Mario World'' are called Reznors and have been confirmed to be named after Trent.[http://www.mariowiki.com/Reznor]
*The first person shooter ''SiN'' contains a reference to "[[Reptile]]" in the form of a bulletin board with the words "she has the blood of reptile underneath her skin" on it. The game title may also be a reference to "[[Sin (song)|Sin]]".
*The campaign trailer for ''Gears 5'' debuted at Gamescom 2019 to the music of "[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole]]".
==External Links==
*[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0722153/ IMDB profile] for all Film and Television featuring Reznor's work.
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