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==In music==
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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 includes the opening line of "[[Hurt]]" in live improvisations, and has performed the majority of the song at various times in concert, sometimes with silly alternative lyrics such as "I hurt myself today/to find a jellybean". The term "[[Starfuckers, Inc.|Starfucker]]" was used in Amos's 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.
* 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.
* 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 "[[Terrible Lie]]" and "Closer" in "Germs" from Running with Scissors.
* Following the feud with Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit, in their 2000 song "Hot Dog" returned the lyrics of Closer, stating "You wanna fuck me like an animal/You'd like to burn from the inside." The use of the lyrics was actually meant as a tribute to Trent Reznor, whom Durst admires, though it is often misinterpreted as an attempt at "bashing" him. Reznor cleared the use of his lyrics with no trouble, and received credit in the liner notes for the song. "Hot Dog" also mentioned "A nine inch nail/ get knocked the fuck out" and two NIN song-titles: "[[The Perfect drugDrug|A Perfect Drug]]" and "Closer".
* In Crazy Town's 1999 album The Gift of Game, the song "Darkside" contains the lyric "Devils eyes and nine inch nails."
* The MC Lars song Signing Emo contains the line "Industrial comes back/The pres. needs a NIN." MC Lars has stated he is a fan, but live often replaces NIN with Tool, a sign of the current relevance of Tool to the industrial scene..
* ''Clueless'' (1995): Travis Birkenstock says, "so how I feel about The Rolling Stones, is how my kids are going to feel about Nine Inch Nails."
* ''Se7en'' (1995): The opening sequence features a remix of "Closer (precursor)".
* ''The Fan'' (1996): A clip of "[[Mr. Self Destruct|The Art of Of Self Destruction, Part One]]".
* ''[[Lost Highway]]'' (1997): Reznor wrote "The Perfect Drug" specifically for this film, with limited production time.
* ''Small Soldiers'' (1998): Just as one of the soldiers is about to fire the nail gun, he shouts, "Hey kid, don't you like Nine Inch Nails?".
* ''Tuesdays with Morrie'' (1999): The opening sequence featured a voice saying "Morrie would dance to anything... Name a band. He'd do the twist to Nine Inch Nails".
* ''Final Destination'' (2000): When Carter tries to run over Billy shortly before Terry's death, "[[Into the The Void|Into The Void (song)]]" can be heard pumping from his car. A fan made this connection to something Trent had purportedly said:
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* ''Lara Croft: Tomb Raider'' (2001): "[[Deep]]".
* ''Saw'' (2003 short film): Intro has a clip from "[[Screaming Slave]]".
* ''The Machinist'' (2004): Writer Scott Kossar is a fan of Nine Inch Nails, and named Christian Bale's character Trevor Reznik in tribute to Reznor. His original script had NIN lyrics on the first page, the promotional poster for the film has a backwards 'N' (as in the NIИ logo), and early press articles described Reznik as going through a "[[The Downward Spiral|downward spiral]]".
* ''Man on Fire'' (2004): Clips of "[[The Art of Of Self Destruction, Part One]]", "[[Mr. Self Destruct|Self Destruction, Part Two]]", and "[[The Downward Spiral (The Bottom)]]" from ''[[Further Down the The Spiral]]''; "[[The Mark Has Been Made]]" and "[[The Great Below]]" from ''[[The Fragile (halo)|The Fragile]]''; and "[[The Wretched|The Wretched (Version)]]" from ''[[Things Falling Apart]]''. Reznor received a "Music Consultant" credit for the film.
* ''Doom'' (2005): [[Clint Mansell]]'s remix of "[[You Know What You Are?]]" starts the ending credits. This is most likely a tribute to Reznor's work on the ''Quake'' and ''Doom III'' sound effects and music mentioned below.
* ''Underworld 2'' (2006): The trailer features "[[The Hand That Feeds]]".