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‘Kidz Bop’ Could Never: Watch a Bunch of Children Cover Nine Inch Nails’ Self-Loathing Anthem ‘Wish’

A bunch of kids have turned in an extremely cool, and heavily-censored, cover of Nine Inch Nails' classic 1992 song, 'Wish.'

Music is a great way to teach children about the important things in life — love and loss, hope and sadness, the power of people, and absolutely debilitating, destructive self-loathing and masochism. The cover is at once very faithful and, understandably, heavily censored: Total hard rock abandon, led by a menacing lead vocal performance from 10-year-old singer Zoë Franziska, who still manages to inject some serious edge into tweaked, age-appropriate lyrics like “Gotta listen to your big-time, hard-line, bad luck, fist… bump” (if you know, you know). Nine Inch Nails originally released “Wish” back in 1992 on their EP, Broken, which fell between their 1989 debut Pretty Hate Machine and 1994’s blockbuster The Downward Spiral.

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