Post a response to this discussion thread
I don't like his lyrics. I think he intentionally tries to capitalize of depressed teenages. Whatever his motivation, his words lack any kind of substance. They're not even interesting. However, I really like his music, and it at least sounds like he puts as much effort into one song as most pop musicians (including a lot of other industrial bands) put into 5 or 6.
I've heard that after all the Wax Trax! bands left TVT for whatever individual reasons they had, all of Wax Trax!'s resources were liquidated and TVT actually made a profit off it. If that's true, TVT must have INTENTIONALLY been hostile to all of it's industrial acts (and probably to the management of that department, who were all imported from Wax Trax! as part of the contracr by which they bought it) in order to get rid of the Wax Trax! bands and make some better dough. Trent was signed on by one of Wax Trax!'s former employees, so it would make sense that the hostility would extend to him. TVT backed off him after the success of pretty hate machine proved to be more than a fluke, but by that time Reznor's dissatisfaction was already too great.
The second song is "I Should Have Known Better" by Wire.
Post a response to this discussion thread