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*Production and Mix: [[Trent Reznor]]
*Drums: [[Chris Vrenna]]
==About==
The song was featured on an episode of the ''Song Exploder'' series from Netflix. In it, Reznor stated that the song was written as an afterthought, that it was originally demoed on piano, and that the vocal was sung quietly and intimately in order to ensure that it sounded sincere.[https://www.kerrang.com/the-news/7-things-learned-about-nine-inch-nails-hurt-from-netflixs-song-exploder/] It was also revealed that the wind noise that runs through the track was created by a noise-generating machine that is used to tune mixing rooms.
There was also an explanation of how the organ-esque sound that appears in each pre-chorus was created:
<blockquote>We'd come up with a trick where we could take a note on whatever instrument it is, and that sounds like strings, violin, but I'm not sure it was that. Feed it for a second into an infinite reverb, and it gets locked into a tune. It sounds almost pipe-organ-y a little bit because it's not coming out of a synthesizer, it's not quite in-tune, it's not quite bright, it feels human.[https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/how-trent-reznor-wrote-nine-inch-nails-hurt/]</blockquote>
==Appearances==