apple_of_soddom wrote:yeah that's right but i guess the main thing here is that he seems to be buddying with hollywood people ..... e.g. catering to those he demised and abhored. maybe that's what she meant
I get what you're saying...
What I fail to understand (please forgive me, since I'm a relatively new fan) is the fact that anyone would actually believe he "despised and abhorred" Hollywood -
the entertainment business - when the Trent Reznor that most of us are exposed to is a
persona created by Hollywood producers, publicists, managers, etc. He lived in L.A. for a while in the 90's, and he lives there now. DS was produced by Rick Rubin, the "man with the plan" for God's sake, and damn it, it went quadruple platinum, did it not?
Again I ask - did you also believe he wept and wailed nightly at the moon, remained celibate waiting for his dark bride - skin pale as alabaster and hair dark as a raven's wing (or red as Eve's apple) - and that he wore fishnet and shiny pants even while morosely lounging in his decadent New Orleans lair??
He did what he had to do to get to where he is... including sucking the sweet cum out of the big, fat corporate cock. He'd be selling second-hand Moogs and playing shitty bars on the weekends in Cleveland if he hadn't.
It's the way of the world, chickadee. Why hate him for it? Enjoy the music, since that's all he owes us - and if you don't, then move on. Or dont.
Whatever blows you wig back.