Danny Elfman invites Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor to guest on True for the composer's first-ever duet.
As Nine Inch Nails hopefully continue to chip away at new material, Trent Reznor has taken some time out to join forces with Danny Elfman.
The NIN frontman guests on a reimagined version of Danny's song True, which was originally released on 2021's double-album Big Mess.
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Of this new rendition, Danny enthuses: "This is the first duet/collaboration I’ve ever done in my life, so to do it with Trent was a real surprise and a treat. He’s always been a big inspiration to me, not to mention he has one of my all-time favourite singing voices."
Watch the Aron Johnson-directed accompanying music video for True below:
Interestingly, earlier this year Danny told Kerrang! that Nine Inch Nails actually helped him to understand The Nightmare Before Christmas' iconic character Jack Skellington.
“When the ’90s came along I heard Nine Inch Nails and Nirvana, and they were huge moments for me," Danny recalled. "By this time I wanted to be out of the band. Oingo Boingo had been going since the late ’70s and were modelled after a ska band, but I’d been listening to heavier and heavier music. I couldn’t make Oingo Boingo into a heavier band and that frustrated me. I was stuck in a bizarre situation – I’d become a film composer by this point, and the band was dependent on me. I couldn’t bear the guilt of being thought to have broken up the band because I had this more lucrative career. That kept me in the band for an extra six years at least.
"When I wrote the music for The Nightmare Before Christmas, I really felt like Jack Skellington. I was living his story – I was king of my own world, lead singer of a rock band, but I wanted to be in a different world and didn’t know how to get out.”
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