As long as you're not looking for the original lyrics, there's something incredibly rewarding about Ohio's latest video O'Keefe Music Foundation starring a group of elementary and high school students who crush the 1993 Nine Inch Nails ripper “Wish.”
In a five-minute video posted by the youth music education program that offers free music lessons, music camps, recording sessions and music video production to young musicians around the world, a young girl is bored at her cool birthday party. She then makes a wish and blows out her candles and is magically transported to a rec room rager where some kids are shredding NIN's Grammy-winning 1992 industrial single Broken ER.
Fronted by feisty 10-year-old singer Zoë Franziska and driven by drums from 18-7-year-old Will Bright, the cover features more appropriate lyrics in place of Trent Reznor's not-safe-for-school lines that plumb the depths of masochism. and nihilism. And while the cover art is wild, the whole thing also gets kind of cute thanks to the sight of all those toys in a room decked out in streamers and balloons tearing it up to guitars and keyboards.
The previous O'Keefe Music Foundation video features some of his students covering the guitar solo from Pantera's “Walk,” Van Halen's “Eruption,” and Mazzy Star's “Fade Into You.”
While there's no word on when fans can expect new music from NIN, last week the band announced a lineup of Welcome Skateboards in a limited run of decks and merchandise celebrating the 30th anniversary of the beloved 1994 album The downward spiral.
Check out the 'Wish' cover below.
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