A handful of redone Nine Inch Nails songs appear in the new season of the Netflix series Black Mirror. In the episode “Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too,” the character Rachel owns a robot doll named ‘Ashley Too’ based of the pop star Ashley O., who is portrayed by Miley Cyrus.
The lyrics to the track were changed a bit and the song is covered by Cyrus and according to a report by iNews, NIN frontman Trent Reznor was all about it. Executive producer Annabel Jones said:
“He thought it was very funny, he found the dark comedy very entertaining. There are lots of dark concepts in the film and we just enjoy that sort of childish subversion of them.”
Speaking at a press conference, show creator Charlie Booker said that when he contacted Reznor about using the songs and changing the lyrics, he was on board immediately:
“Trent got it straight away, it was via email and he was really happy pretty quickly. He wanted to see the script and I got to re-write his lyrics in a chirpy way. I’m not the best lyricist in the world, in the first song she’s singing: ‘I’m stoked on ambition and verve’ instead of ‘You’re gonna get what you deserve’.”
Season 5 of Black Mirror is officially streaming via Netflix.
