Happiness in Slavery 2394120 225905030 2008-07-15T23:13:46Z Twsx 1964288 fixing genre capitalization mistakes per [[Wikipedia:MUSTARD#Capitalization|WP:MUSTARD]] -> [[Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(capital_letters)#Musical_genres|MOS:CAPS]] + cleanup. {{Infobox Single | Name = Happiness in Slavery | Artist = [[Nine Inch Nails]] | from Album = [[Broken (Nine Inch Nails EP)|Broken]] | Cover = nine_inch_nails_happiness_in_slavery.jpg | Released = November 1992 | Format = [[Gramophone record|Promotional 12"]] | Recorded = 1992 | Genre = [[Industrial rock]]<br/>[[Industrial metal]] | Length = 5 [[minute|min]] 21 [[second|s]] | Label = [[TVT Records]]/[[Interscope]] | Producer = [[Trent Reznor]], [[Flood (producer)|Flood]] | Chart position = <ul><li>#13 <small>([[Modern Rock Tracks|US Modern Rock]])</small></li></ul> | Reviews = ??? | Last single = "[[Sin (Nine Inch Nails song)|Sin]]"<br/>(1990) | This single = "'''Happiness in Slavery'''"<br/>(1992) | Next single = "[[Wish (song)|Wish]]"<br/>(1993) |}} "'''Happiness in Slavery'''" is a song by the [[United States|American]] act [[Nine Inch Nails]]. It is available on the ''[[Broken (Nine Inch Nails EP)|Broken]]'' EP and was also released as a 12" promotional single in November 1992. Nine Inch Nails' performance of "Happiness in Slavery" at [[Woodstock '94]], included on the concert's compilation album, won the [[Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance]] in 1996. ==Music video== [[Image:Happiness in Slavery video.jpg|thumb|left|200px|[[Bob Flanagan]] being tortured in the video.]] The music video for "Happiness in Slavery" features [[performance artist]] [[Bob Flanagan]] entering a large room. He places a candle on an altar and ritualistically removes all of his clothing and washes himself before strapping himself into a machine with long robotic claws and other torture machinery that subsequently tear apart his skin and stimulate his genitalia. He screams and yells in pain and pleasure until he dies. The slave's body (Bob) is then lowered into a metallic container which spews out the shredded pieces of the body into a pool of worms. Meanwhile, [[Trent Reznor]] watches and screams the lyrics from behind a metal gate, which opens at the end of the video, leaving Reznor to enter the room, revealing he is next. An urban legend claims that the torture footage is real, except for the final killing of Flanagan, but Flanagan's skin was not broken in the film, and the blood in the black and white video was a mixture of mashed bananas and chocolate syrup. Flanagan did often inflict extensive damage on his own body, partly to fight the pain of [[cystic fibrosis]].{{Fact|date=December 2007}} The video was almost universally banned once released.{{Fact|date=May 2008}} It was later included in ''[[Closure (Nine Inch Nails VHS)|Closure]]'' and the ''[[Broken (film)|Broken Movie]]''. It was featured on ''[[Too Much 4 Much]]'', [[MuchMusic]]'s showcase of videos banned from their regular programming. Reznor commented that the video was not created for [[shock value]],<ref name="huH">{{cite news | title = Revolution No. Nine | author = Mark Blackwell | work = [[huH]] | date = February 1995 | accessdate = 2007-12-27 }}</ref> but that "these were the most appropriate visuals for the song."<ref>{{cite news | title = Reznor Nails Down Extreme Clip | author = Deborah Russell | work = [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] | date = December 1992 | accessdate = 2007-12-27 }}</ref> It had to do with his artistic freedom at the time after his [[Broken (Nine Inch Nails EP)#Inspiration|fallout]] with TVT Records.<ref name="huH" /> ==Track listing for promotional single== * A1 – "Happiness in Slavery" ([[Fixed (EP)|Fixed]] version) – 6:09 * A2 – "Happiness in Slavery" ([[Adrian Sherwood|Sherwood]] Slave remix) – 2:17 * B1 – "Happiness in Slavery" (PK Slavery remix) – 5:41 * B2 – "Happiness in Slavery" ([[Broken (Nine Inch Nails EP)|Broken]] version) – 5:21 A promotional CD containing only the track as it appears on the ''[[Broken (Nine Inch Nails EP)|Broken]]'' EP was also released during this same timeframe. ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * "[http://nincollector.com/archive/releases/halo_05/halo05.htm Happiness in Slavery]" promos at NIN Collector * "[http://www.ninwiki.com/Happiness_In_Slavery Happiness in Slavery]" at the NinWiki {{Nine Inch Nails}} [[Category:1992 singles]] [[Category:1992 songs]] [[Category:BDSM in films]] [[Category:Nine Inch Nails songs]] [[fr:Happiness in Slavery]] [[it:Happiness in Slavery]] [[pt:Happiness in Slavery]] [[ru:Happiness in Slavery]]