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Trent Reznor on social media

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>"The Internet is giving voice to everybody thinking that someone gives a shit what they have to say and they have the right. I think, in general, that has created a toxic environment for artists and led to some very safe music. Artists are trying to make music to please the tastemakers that tell the sheep what to like. It’s a vicious cycle and I think it’s unhealthy. I don’t see any Princes emerging on the scene today. I see a lot of people making formulaic, made to please, vegan restaurant patron-type shit. And I think it creates an environment where people are too fuckin’ worried about what other people have to say. And people who have never made anything think it’s OK to talk shit about stuff they have no right to talk about. You got a Facebook account? Nobody gives a fuck. You haven’t achieved anything.”

Is he right, /mu/?

http://www.spin.com/2017/01/trent-reznor-like-everyone-hates-social-media-thinks-it-makes-new-music-bad/
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>>70330572
btfo
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>>70330572
do you have something interesting to contribute here?
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>>70330572
yeah that joke is old now

>LE GRUMPY MAN STATEMEN STRAWMAN XDDDD

he's right tho
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>>70330572
this honestly

Trents just a salty old man
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>>70330553
spot on
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>>70330607
Does Trent?
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More like nine inch gut
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>>70330572
fpbp
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>>70330653
Yes. Your point?
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>>70330572
Hit the nail on the head
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>>70330553
>Is he right, /mu/?
Partially. The problems created by everyone having a voice will be fixed by virtue of everyone having a voice, at some point.

Enforcement of political correctness will have to die for that to happen.
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>>70330701
how is political correctness in any way relevant
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>>70330678
On top of my head, how about yours?
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>>70330723
It creates informal censorship when people are afraid of the consequences of disagreeing with dominant political views.
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Angry old musician says the same shit every angry old musician has been saying since the decade started

Nothing to see here
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>>70330748
that's not what political correctness is, anon
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>>70330553
Lifes' hard when your 5'2. Like this cunt ever did anything that out there anyways
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Fact: You can trace the moment your life started falling apart back to when you got your high speed internet connect.
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>>70330553
honestly... kinda agree and disagree. lotta shitty, safe music yeah, but also some fuckin insane music in the past years. only problem is the safe music gets pushed to the top, nothing new, just worse nowadays.
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>>70330750
this
>voicing an opinion about how everyone has to have an opinion """"these days"""
at least make a song about it you hypocritical fuck
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he's not wrong
social media is cancer
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>>70330553
i loved when he was whining about the music industry/praising hollywood (like it all isn't the same BS) then slowly came crawling back to the former

what a lil bitch
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>>70330750
your a dorable
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>>70332346
how so? Personally as a person who is trying to make music making a career I have definitely fallen into the trap of using hip hop elements and memes to try to get views, so he is right on that.
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>>70334147
Filthy Frank is that you?
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>>70330572
he's right tho
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I think he's onto something but didn't express his point as well as he could've

Social media is a double edged sword for new bands. On one hand, you can gain a small (but strong) following through internet exposure very early in your career these days. The internet allows you to share music with hundreds or even thousands of people without ever playing a live show.

But the downside is that this attention is often too much too soon. Bands get judged, critiqued, and forgotten before they really have a chance to fully develop their style. For instance an aspiring garage rock band today would be tempted to release an EP online (bandcamp or whatever) very early on in their "career", well before their sound is fully formed. Understandably, people will dismiss it as amateurish trash and move on to something else, forgetting the band ever existed. What's really unfortunate is that it's entirely possible that that band would have slowly progressed and developed a really interesting sound. But they had too much exposure too soon so they crash and burn.

So I think in that sense the ease of communication in the social media era can really hurt the evolution of new artists, and like Reznor says it can lead people to produce unambitious music, out of a fear of being harshly rejected..
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>>70332152
Not true actually. I traced mine back to when I discovered the /tg/ wiki by pure accident.
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nice to see he's still an angry fucker. now if only he could channel that into another album.
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>>70330553
pitchfork skrillex
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>>70330553
It's the artist's fault for being so self-conscious and shitty, just like Trent
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>>70332152
My life fell apart the moment I found 4chan.
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>>70332152
It was always shit to be honest
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>>70334421
The EP happened

FEELS LIKE I'VE BEEN HERE BEFOOOOOREEEEEE
YEAH I RECOGNIZE
YEAH I'VE BEEN HERE BEFOREEEE
DON'T GIVE A FUCK ANYMOORE
YEAH
I DON'T CAREEEEEEEEE
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>>70332152
Let's see. Before internet I was a fat kid with alcoholic dad and ubstable mother. With troubled speech and no friends. Autism was really bad.


Now I'm depressed suicidal guy who lost a lot of weight with stabler happier family. GF. Some good friends. Good native language abilities and passable English.

Hard to say man.
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I know what its like to spend weeks on a song and to have some dickhead sit back and say 'it should go up there'

People have no idea how difficult it is to make anything good
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I'm not sure who he's talking about. Slayer would not get good reviews from the net tastemakers with their lyrics nowadays.

Who is a band or act that is stymied by what's hot and in fashion, an act that would make colourful, against-the-grain music if it weren't for the internet potentially shooting them down?

If he's talking within the pop world then yeah, its music for children and teens. Too much pirating for 'artists' to do anything wild while pursuing fame and riches.
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>>70330553

he is right.
when was the last time you had this "wow i have never heard something like this before and its good" feeling.
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yeah
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>>70335281
Blackstar? That is such a specific reason though.

Trent right now is at place where he can do whatever the fuck he wants. His EP was a nice beginning for something great. It was fucking awesome
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>>70335281
>when was the last time you had this "wow i have never heard something like this before and its good" feeling.
pc music, but i will admit that was a few years ago.
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I dont care what this faggot thinks

He hasnt put out a good album in years.
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>>70330553
He has no idea what he's talking about. You can literally create and release whatever the fuck you want on the internet without any restrictions except for your own capability. There's probably more experimental music than there ever was in past decades, honestly.
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>>70335491
Year Zero, The Slip, Hesitation Marks and Not The Actual Events were fuckibg awesome though
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>>70330553
I want to fucking know Trent Reznor like a person to person basis because this is exactly how I feel about this but I feel like I'm being stupid for that reason

Holy fuck this guy is based, "sheep" is a bit much to actually say but it's true
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>>70330553
All liberals are elitist fascist cunts at heart.

Fascists pretending their anti-facist,

Fuck them all.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zEAMkp8TuU
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>>70330790
Different anon but I feel like what they're describing is an effect of it
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>>70335551
How is this relevant to the thread?
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>>70334147

OH SHIT

YOU GOT BUSTED MY MAN
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>>70330572
>muh ageist meme invalidates his point
No, it just shows you cannot articulate your feelings because you know they won't add up to a concrete point.
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>>70335618
>ageist
we /tumblr/ now
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>>70335635
I hate to use the word but why did the anon have to bring his age into it? Trent is hardly the guy you would consider out of touch or too old to understand social media and technology.
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there's loads of cross over between the sjw movement and happy formulaic pop shit

in regards to Prince being mentioned, idk but I would think that there are at least one or two groups/artists that could be considered a "Prince." maybe not as popular obviously, since popular music is the formulaic feel-good music he's talking about


for those ppl reading this who are producers, put more passion into your music
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>>70330572
This. Holy kek. I bet he can't even into KKB.
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>>70335281

Just today, when I finished recording my new song
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>>70335783
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kkb is literally more relevant than trent in the year of our lord 2017
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>>70330553
there's plenty of recent music that makes you go oh shit I've never heard this before. just one off the top of my head. death grips. some recent rap/hip-hop albums. james blakes first album.
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>>70330553
>musician releases something to the public
>people have no right to discriminate it
>they may only critique something if they've done better

Ok I get it. If you ain't got anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all. Negative behaviour shouldn't be tolerated. HOWEVER, how long has this cunt been using the internet and why is this coming off as a surprise to him?
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>>70335953
Is 7 years ago 'new?'
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>>70335983
yeah also this. I can't criticize something if I haven't done it before? the room is a shit movie. I have never made a movie, but I am pretty sure I am well within my right to call that a shit movie and tell you why it's shit. I don't know why the fuck he thinks it's okay to silence opinions, well thought out or not.
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>>70336005
first of all I said recent. so I don't know why you put quote marks around "new," you numbskull. secondly, yeah I'm pretty sure people were spouting horseshit opinions and well-informed opinions on the internet 7 years ago too.
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>>70336037
Hey fuck you, recent isn't years ago
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>>70336037
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRz4FY0ZcwI
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>>70336119
??????????????
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What did he mean by this?
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Considering he met his wife through Twitter, I think he doesn't hate it, he just hates dealing with the average user and their bloated sense of worth.
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>>70336427
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How fucking laid do you think Rezzers got just off of 'Closer' alone?
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>>70336439

He was busy fucking Courtney love before Kurt's corpse got cold.
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Trent is a moron who never achieved anything. And the one thing he had, he lost, because he refused to share it... Irony with the big I.
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>“Lots of people can have girlfriends. But I can throw around guitars onstage. That’ll be my epitaph: ‘He never had a girlfriend, but you should’ve seen him smash a Les Paul.’”
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>>70336518
>never achieved anything
now that's just not true
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to the aspies itt questioning trent's age or internet savviness: he's been outspoken on social media, technology and even shit like private trackers since day 1. he's more in tune with technology than the average 18 year old normie
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>>70334979
>Good native language abilities and passable English.
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>>70336523
>mestizo qt will never force you to cum inside her
kill me
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straight from /an/
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>>70330553
He's 100% right and buttmad posters like >>70330572 are poptimist tweed hipster fucks
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>>70330572

Is that you, Brent?
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>I don't see any Princes emerging on the scene today

Kanye West
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lol @ irate nin fanboys itt
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>>70330553
He's not entirely wrong. I mean, you don't need to be a chef to judge a good meal. That argument is retarded. However, he's right that everybody's a critic these days - often without the credentials or the knowledge to warrant it. Everybody can have a voice, but that doesn't mean everybody's voice is equally valuable.
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>>70330553
Didn't know he spent any time at this shithole but he nailed it.
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>>70336833
Everybody's always been a critic with regard to the stuff that they consume, and why shouldn't they be if they're spending money on something.

You spend money on an album, it's shit, you say it's shit because of reasons x and y.
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>>70330572

lel
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>>70336871
Not saying you shouldn't be a critic. You're free to openly like or dislike whatever you want. All I'm saying is that others are probably more qualified to judge music by its artistic merit than you are.
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i'm forcing myself to use the internet less and only when needed.cause it's so cancer these days. and as you can tell it's not going very well...
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>>70336833
>these days
because 20 years ago people didnt critic art
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>>70330572
triggered /mu/ to hell and back.
good job, anon.
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>>70336648
;_;
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lol trent needs to listen to these 4
he has no idea wtf he is talking about
same with everybody off pan records or NON.

you don't see aphex twin whining about social media. stfu trent
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>>70330553
>Artists are trying to make music to please the tastemakers that tell the sheep what to like. It’s a vicious cycle and I think it’s unhealthy. I don’t see any Princes emerging on the scene today. I see a lot of people making formulaic, made to please, vegan restaurant patron-type shit. And I think it creates an environment where people are too fuckin’ worried about what other people have to say.
not true, the experimental music of today is gaining recognition more than ever before

> And people who have never made anything think it’s OK to talk shit about stuff they have no right to talk about. You got a Facebook account? Nobody gives a fuck. You haven’t achieved anything.”
this is right though
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Anyone who actually describes people as being "sheep" is an egocentric fucktard that enjoys using buzzwords that acknowledging what the real problem is that this anon >>70334369
described quite well. You hear so much about people complaining about music not being any good, or wondering where all the good bands have gone, these are the same people who refuse to give new bands a chance. The same people who listen to one small glimpse of a band then forget about them entirely, without realizing that all the bands they enjoy started off shit.
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>>70337288
you sound triggered
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>>70337295
Do I look like a gun?
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>>70336833
>Everybody can have a voice, but that doesn't mean everybody's voice is equally valuable.
This a hundred times.

Noose all the retards who spout blatant bullshit then defend it with a "it's all subjective bro!!!!!!!!!!" remark.
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>>70337322
but subjective taste is true you can't argue against it
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>>70337347
that doesn't mean every piece of criticism has equal value. expertise still exists
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>>70336528
Nothing real achievement, yup.
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>>70336833
>voice, but that doesn't mean everybody's voice is equally valuable

I agree. One problem with the Internet age is that plenty of stupid, delusional, uninformed, and nihilistic ideas get out there.
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>>70337369
>expertise still exists
examples?
>>70337383
> is that plenty of stupid, delusional, uninformed, and nihilistic ideas get out there.
whats wrong with that? nobody is forcing you to listen to them you know that right?
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>>70337391
>nobody is forcing you to listen to them you know that right?
People end up doing it, though. And the more people do it, the more it is a problem. Essentially, it's lowering the standards for everyone.
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>>70337380
Define real achievement. Because for the benefit of your own sanity, anything you complete or get right is an achievement, and on that same note I disagree with Trent on that statement about achieving nothing. The only reason Trent is alive, given his backstory, is because he stepped the fuck back and paid attention to simpler things in life. He climbed his way back up to healthiness. Real achievement is everything, not just an award or 1,000,000 followers on SC.
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>>70337391
>examples?
what's that supposed to mean? some people have more knowledge on the matter than others
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>>70337391
>examples?
oh my fucking god
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>>70330553
Holy shit he's mad at Facebook. He shouldn't hate the internet so much. He used it enough to market his own weird shit.
I hope marilyn Manson's new album does as well as Antichrist superstar. That should really mess Trent up
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>>70337408
>>70337417
I'm asking for examples on this "expertise" you speak of any articles or blogs I should know about?
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>>70337391
>plenty of stupid, delusional, uninformed, and nihilistic ideas get out there
>whats wrong with that?
Mama mia
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>>70337428
he doesn't hate the internet
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>>70337428
>post-trilogy Manson
>relevant
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>>70337391
>18 year old RYMers are just as credible on classical music as 60 year old academic composers
thanks internet
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>>70337401
That's correct. If you believe in X idea, there is always at least one other person in the world who will agree with it. All it takes is one tinder to start a forest fire.
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>>70337391
>examples?
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>>70337401
Good Point
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>>70337428
Nobody cares about some fat wheezing 45 year old man in makeup.
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>>70337453
its up to you as an person to decide which review you connect with more. I don't see whats wrong with reading different sources.
everything academic isn't the final say on things.
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>>70337488
this has nothing to do with "connecting", you peasant
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>>70336930
>judging the artistic merit of music

good one. 2 hamburgers out of 5, not relevant enough.
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>>70337509
then elaborate on what you meant. Just woke up brain isn't at full function lol
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>>70330572
>>70337383
It seems to me that delusion/nihilism gets worse as people get older. Either they have an unrealistic idea about cheating death and old age, or else this fatalism that it's inevitable they'll end their days shitting themselves in an adult diaper and the world's going to hell in a hand basket. Young people still have that childlike innocence and idealism, but these old crusty baby boomer types, they...
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>>70330572
That's not Billy Corgan.
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>>70337369
Expertise exists in objective things. A Bach scholar talking about the musical theory behind his compositions has expertise and his words mean more than those of an completely uninformed person on the same subject.

People who professionally like/dislike stuff has little to do with expertise. Christgau disliking something because of the misogyny isn't ''expertise'', it's personal taste.
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>>70337522
Trent is a Gen Xer not a boomer though.
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>>70337556
>People who professionally like/dislike stuff has little to do with expertise. Christgau disliking something because of the misogyny isn't ''expertise'', it's personal taste.

Correct. Christgau has no actual understanding of how music works, he rates things only based on his tastes/feels/emotional reaction to stuff.
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>>70337488
Thank you, anon. You outlined a problem that is somewhat related to the topic at hand.

These days, people don't really strive to be knowledgeable about something. In fact, most people feel inadequate or threatened at the idea of others possessing more expertise than they do. What happens is that they actively seek out sources that align with their own point of view in an attempt to validate their own stance. In short: "people who agree with me are cool and people who disagree with me are dumb". The internet stopped being about exchanging ideas and information. Instead, it created a series of echo chambers. Some echo chambers are bigger than others and also happen to be more ignorant.
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>>70337556
t. someone who never attended a single class on aesthetics or art history
art doesn't exist in a vacuum. people who actively study its history and techniques are more equipped to form an opinion/analyse said works. I'm not talking about fucking Christgau-tier hacks, btw
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>>70337516
An 18 year old person saying he doesn't like a piece of classical music is wrong, but a 60 year old classical musician saying he likes the piece is correct. What's not to get.

This is of course subject to the whims, tastes, and fads of every century. So sometimes the 18 year old boy can retrospectively become correct in not liking a piece, while the 60 year old musician can similarly become wrong in liking that piece.

now kys
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>>70337603
>people who actively study its history and techniques are more equipped to form an opinion/analyse said works
lmao I don't think you studied art history either. are you in community college by chance?
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>>70337638
you sound triggered. does the idea of scholarly research offend your ego? :^)
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>>70330553
Everyone on the internet is cancer. It isn't just music.
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>>70337589
>The internet stopped being about exchanging ideas and information. Instead, it created a series of echo chambers. Some echo chambers are bigger than others and also happen to be more ignorant

I know exactly what you mean. Today people go on a forum that caters to their specific tastes/personal prejudices where they circlejerk with other like-minded individuals, and anyone who dissents from the hivemind usually gets banned by forum moderation.
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>>70337587
>tastes/feels/emotional reaction to stuff

Which is how all people react to art.
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>>70337665
No I love it. but when i see somebody write that I really doubt they have been to art school and have gotten all their info by John berger (RIP)
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>>70337697
describing your basal reactions to a work isn't art criticism
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>>70337603
>t. someone who never attended a single class on aesthetics or art history

I don't think Trent did either, and I'd value his opinion more than most critics'.

> people who actively study its history and techniques are more equipped to form an opinion/analyse said works
>I'm not talking about fucking Christgau

well those are the types of people Trent is talking about, not scholars who analyze the complexities of a Beethoven composition.

it's one thing to analyze a work, it's another to say ''this is good'' or ''this is bad'' aesthetically. new aesthetic ''rules'' get invented and broken all the time, it's how new stuff gets made.
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>>70337742
It ultimately is, yes, just not as simplistically expressed as ''I didn't like it cuz it made me feel sad.''

or are you one of those who thinks a piece of music or film is great because it's technically complex?
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>>70337910
>It ultimately is, yes
no it isn't. it's about dialectics in face of some aesthetic theory. you've been paying attention to the wrong critics


>or are you one of those who thinks a piece of music or film is great because it's technically complex?
no, I'm not
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>>70337875
>I don't think Trent did either
Maybe he didn't acquire expertise in an academical environment, but he definitely acquired it through decades of experience as a musician. That's not the same as someone sitting on his ass all day and shitting on a record to impress his friends.
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>>70337934
>That's not the same as someone sitting on his ass all day and shitting on a record to impress his friends.
but how do you know that person sits on their ass all day? Holding trent to a higher status just because somebody hasn't released an album yet doesn't sound fair anon.
don't bow down to some old guy. you're young were suppose to give them shit every time they speak not shut up and agree with them.
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>>70337473
I care. He's making music. Like how people used to make music. With actual guitars and shit.
Sure he's old and fat now. But his last album was way more accessible than what Trent has done in the last few years.
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>>70337982
>Holding trent to a higher status just because somebody hasn't released an album yet doesn't sound fair anon.
The chance that Trent knows what he's talking about are significantly higher, though. I'm willing to take that chance.
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>>70336351

Heroin
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>>70338004
Trent's latest EP already sold well without any hype or marketing and it will be better than anything Manson would release
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>>70337466
underrated
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>>70337982
>you're young were suppose to give them shit every time they speak

Congratulations you're exactly who he's talking about. "Giving someone shit" is not constructive and your "opinion" is immediately discarded.
Questioning authority from a factual, well constructed and educated standpoint on the other hand is always warranted. But I'm not expecting one.
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>>70338187
>factuality
niceme.me
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>>70338187
>Questioning authority from a factual, well constructed and educated standpoint on the other hand is always warranted.
I didn't know trent went to music school
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>>70338119
Trent at least has grown up and makes age-appropriate music unlike Manson. You aren't 25 anymore, dude. Give up.
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>>70338213
He went to music.
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>>70330553
>I think it creates an environment where people are too fuckin’ worried about what other people have to say.
but...
>And people who have never made anything think it’s OK to talk shit about stuff they have no right to talk about.
That close to being contradictory. He's just shaking his fist at le new fangled e-world.
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>>70338271
Oops, I misread it, too pissed
he's being a faggot though, if artists are sincere enough they'll be able to tell the difference between critique and shitposting
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>>70338213
>School
School is overrated, there are many ways to achieve education.
And I'd add the man has achieved the highest honors from his peers. That gives him a righteous pulpit from which to speak.
>in b4 "popularity contest
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>>70338308
t. highschool dropout
I want opinions from educated people
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>>70336549
Really. The guy is only 50. Yeesh, he's not some elderly drooling fucker with a walker and an IV bag.
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>>70337204
OPN joined him on fucking tour after Death Grips pulled out
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>>70338395
yeah that's when he morphed into pitchfork skrillex
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Broken [Halo Five, 1992] :(

The Downward Spiral [Nothing/TVT/Interscope, 1994]

musically, Hieronymus Bosch as postindustrial atheist; lyrically, Transformers as kiddie porn ("Heresy," "Reptile") **

The Fragile [Nothing, 1999]

After six fucking years, genius-by-acclamation Trent Reznor delivers double-hoohah, every second remixed till it glistens like broken glass on a prison wall. Is the way he takes his petty pain out on the world a little, er, immature for a guy who's pushing 35? Never mind, I'm told--just immerse in the music. So I do. "Dream job: emperor," it says. "More fun than death by injection." B

With Teeth [Nothing, 2005]

All pretense of deeper meaning worn into shtick, he's left with the aggro mood music that was always his calling ("Getting Smaller," "With Teeth") *

Year Zero [Nothing, 2007]

No matter how clichéd Trent Reznor's dystopian fantasies may be--and they have their moments, like the rebels who conquer by crawling and the anti-Bush anthem rendered juicier by its deliberate inconsistencies--it has the virtue of getting him out of himself. And though he may warn of the noise here, it's all just modern music, whooshing and phasing hookily hither and yon. Is it a coincidence that he created his most songful album just when he stopped obsessing on his own dubious agony? Nah--it's fate. A-

Ghosts I-IV [The Null Corporation, 2008]

Two hours of electronic instrumentals by the ranking genius of studio S&M? Despite respectful reviews, I shied away, only to be put off when I finally approached by a deliberate piano intro that turns out to be its most annoying moment. Finer minds than mine may find these pieces worthy of continuous attention. I say they're background music, there waiting when your mind drifts speakerward, just distracting enough to change up your mood in a useful way. Moved to revisit Brian Eno's Discreet Music, I can attest that when I need mental wallpaper, I'll take Trent's. But I don't need mental wallpaper all that much. A-
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>>70338416
TRENT BTFO
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>>70330553
He's right that fucking everyone fancies themselves as an amateur music critic and it's insufferable. Part of it is people trying to build an 'identity' around their critiques - most reviews are self-indulgent, far more about finding 'witty' ways to put something down or artsy pretentious ways to build it up without actually discussing the musical content. It's almost always about the reviewer's ego rather than the artist's music. Sites like p4k definitely contributed to this attitude and reviewing style majorly, and then you see its influence in full swing with the utter cancer that is RYM review pages. I firmly believe all reviews on RYM should be anonymous, because you just have this gigantic army of no-marks trying to build themselves a rep on there, it's fucking horrific.

I don't think it's healthy either to say that you can't and shouldn't ever criticize anything if you aren't an artist yourself, but there is a clearly a major oversaturation of criticism atm and 99% of it is total bullshit that you never need to read/ hear in your life.
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>>70338432
Two of the albums he reviewed got As and one a B, he didn't dislike NiN that much.
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>>70338452
>He's right that fucking everyone fancies themselves as an amateur music critic and it's insufferable. Part of it is people trying to build an 'identity' around their critiques
Hit the nine inch nail on the head.

Music, like anything involving taste, doesn't only reflect identity, it can also be used to build it and function as a means of social distinction. Just look at /mu/.
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Reznor's a fucking hack, but he's right here.
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>>70330572
looool stupid old people lmao
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>>70338347
/mu/
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>>70338432

>TRENT BTFO

you didn't even bother to read that post, did you?

that was literally the opposite of BTFO: he is implying that trent has steadily improved over time.
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>>70330572
>An old white male said it so it's no longer valid
>Opinions have expiration dates xD
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>>70338432
>I don't know how to read the post
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when will white people stop giving their shitty opinions
sick of this shit.
go 2 bed trent
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>>70338653
His wife is black. Doesn't that make him one of the "good guys"?
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>>70338653
you're being ironic but there are people out there who unironically think like this
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>>70338653
>when will white people stop giving their shitty opinions
this is literally his entire point

/mu/ is literally proving him right with most of the posts itt, gj ladz
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>>70338673
>Mariqueen Maandig Reznor is a Filipino American
....................................
how is that black??????????
>>70338681
nothing ironic about white kids thinking their opinion matters
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>>70338347
t. retard
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>>70338712
Fucking niggers man
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>>70338724
sorry pre-algebra was too hard for you :(((((((((((
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>>70336427
Why don't famous musicians ever post on /mu/? How does R*ddit rate.
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>>70338725
"Fucking naygers man XD"
say that to me face I'll stomp your ugly white ass
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>>70338745
>why would they post on the website that resorts to calling ppl faggots and cucks when the conversation isn't going their way
hmmmmmmmmmmm

don't forget devin from diiv came here and u fags tried to ruin his career.
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>>70338712
Huh, I always assumed she was black for some reason.

>absurdly talented musician
>rock star millionaire
>respected by critics and fans alike
>Asian waifu
Trent is living the dream.
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>>70338769
is this real? i missed this
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>>70338765
Typical nigger. No brain just a violent money
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>>70338785
http://pitchfork.com/news/57837-diivs-devin-ruben-perez-under-fire-for-sexist-racist-homophobic-remarks-on-4chan/

he did a bunch of ama on here couple of anons got mad at him and emailed every blog all of his posts and almost got him fired from diiv
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>>70338792
Oh sorry I meant monkey.
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"I don't get how Trent Reznor gets away with calling his band 'Nine Inch Nails', 'cause he's more like a three inch nail if you know what I mean."
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>>70338765
Nigger
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>>70338792
>white people can't even spell
lmao I feel sorry for you crackers in the upcoming years.
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>>70338792
no1curr. I would kill you regardless if you said that to my face. You wouldn't expect it from me either :^D

>>70338819
Ooh that hurts
Let me laugh at cacs getting raped and BTFO'd by mudslimes on a cosmic level
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>>70338811
she looks like a demon
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>>70338843
They're already on their way of being killed by alcoholism, at least their women

I can't wait until those ugly muslim savages kill all those braindead retarded whites
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>>70338866
she is a demon
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>>70330572
Lmao why tf would you just copy the op post you dunce?
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>>70338416
what a faggot
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poop
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>>70336014
It's not about whether people have a right to do something it's about how people who do those things ruin it for everyone else. It's like with youtubers and video games, why should I care what they have to say about anything? It's not people criticizing things that's the problem, that's always been true, it's that the world is full of idiots trying to make an actual career by shitting on things made by people far more talented than they and I think what Trent is claiming here is that they are shitting on anything creative and heaping praise on the mediocre.
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>>70332152
No, my life was apart at the start of it. It started to come together once I no longer had an internet connection at home.
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>>70330553
>Deathgrips toured with NIN
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>>70341114
>why should I care what they have to say about anything?

You don't? No one's forcing you to listen to anyone's opinion.
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