With Teeth
Hammertime Over. It seems Trent has had a problem with drugs and alcohol. I had no idea. Now he is clean and sober and touring with his newest and best, in my opinion, album yet! I'll be at the Oakland Arena. Will you?
"Touring in the past, the show was just something you had to do to get to the after-show," Reznor says.
"And now, the day revolves around the show. It's a different mindset. You know, the rest of the guys in the band aren't sober. They're wild men in their own ways, and that leads to the isolation factor. But I'm not feeling particularly bad about it and I'm doing everything I can to take care of myself."
There's a place for stupid music; sometimes dumb rock is a good thing. But when it's at the level of retardation, it's just offensive to me. And wrapped in this pseudo-look-how-credible-we-are, prey-upon-black-culture offensiveness...Anyway, I've said some shit...With that particular incident, I kept hearing rumors that, "Oooo, big Fred's writing a song about you..." It's like, "Okay, bring it on." And then — I don't know if it was an oversight or what-but most of my lyrics are the chorus of the song, so he had to ask my permission as the record's going to print and it's the title track of the album... [laughs] It's like, "Did you not think?" Then when I heard it, I thought the best thing to do was to say, "Take it. The proof is in your song." — Trent in Alternative Press interview
Burning Souls: Fragility Tour
Review of Cleveland Show
My Articles: Since launching this web page, I have seen so many other fine sites devoted to Nine Inch Nails that I had to ask myself what I had to offer that would really add to what was already out there, so I first wrote an essay, which I call The Issue of Purity, as my own unique contribution. Since then, I have written some more:
- Some thoughts about the paradox of fandom: This World Full of Us.
- Why Are Slaves "Happy?" an analysis of "Happiness in Slavery"
- Bob Flanagan, the masochistic performance artist in the Happiness in Slavery video.
- you don't know just how i feel
(addressing the question, "Does John Doe know how Trent really feels?")
