Black Mirror is known for taking the real-world technology we unquestionably take for granted social media, dating apps, surveillance and skewing it to a slightly fantastical degree. Following in line with the what if our world but a little different atmosphere of the show,Black MirrorSeason Five, released this week on Netflix, features Miley Cyrus in the episode Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too as a world-renowned pop star, singing Top 40 versions of what are recognizably Nine Inch Nails songs.
Black Mirror creator and showrunner Charlie Booker, with the blessing of NIN frontman Trent Reznor, rewrote Head Like a Hole and other Nine Inch Nails hits into pop standards.
[Reznor] wanted to see the script and I got to re-write his lyrics in a chirpy way, Booker said in a press statement. Im not the best lyricist in the worldin the first song shes singing: Im stoked on ambition and verve instead of Youre gonna get what you deserve.'
Co-creator and executive producer Annabel Jones added that Reznor found the rewrites funny. There are lots of dark concepts in the film and we just enjoy that sort of childish subversion of them.
To coincide with the season premiere, Nine Inch Nails debuted a newBlack Mirror-themed T-shirt. Reznor shared the new merch on Twitter with a grimly humorous lyric from his song Dark World: Dear world, I can hardly recognize you anymore.