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Empty Friend:
I also thought it prudent that if the man were out to make music for the express purpose of pleasing his fans he'd make another TDS so that large group would finally shut the fuck up about it already. ;)

Hatebunny:
I don't think it's reasonable to assume that any musician should make music for the fans.

I'm a musician. If I had fans, I wouldn't give a crap about what they thought, I'd write music for me. My music is my music. So, Trent Reznor writes songs for himself about himself. Woopdedoo. I'd rather that he wrote about himself than the state of the yen in comparison to the dollar or tsunamis in asia.
If a song has the word 'I' or 'you' in it, it doesn't matter that it's by the artist about the artist, so long as the things that apply to the I or the You can also apply to a listener. As human beings, we've already got something in common, so we're not so far removed from reznor that we can't apply the songs to ourselves, whether they're about himself or not.

Reznor's 'enormous ego' has been admitted to, and renounced by himself. He was an alcoholic and a cocaine addict. When reading interviews about this new album, it's easy to see the humbleness, and the change that's come about. While he may be talking a lot more, and being more open about himself, it's not really a sign of more ego so much as destroying the ego that made him think it was cool to hole himself up and to tell interviewers to fuck off.


blah blah blah...I really wish someone would say how great the album was instead of letting me keep shooting my mouth off like this.

exliontamer:
I'm down with Trent Reznor. I think he's a pretty cool dude. But seriously, Nine Inch Nails is so trite and awful. None of it is even remotely listenable and I am always flabbergasted at the turnouts for their live shows. One of my friends is obsessed with them, and I'll give any band a fair listen or two. I've even watched the DVD and stuff. Nothing NIN related has ever impressed or even interested me and the new album is no exception.

Hatebunny:
I'm going to take it for granted that that post wasn't real. *cough*

Conatonc:
I like the album a lot. The fact that it's far less bloated than The Fragile (which I liked, but just couldn't listen to in certain situations. Like, driving) is a definite plus for listenablility. It's not breaking any new ground for NIN, but it's a solid effort all the way around, I think. I've been an NIN fan since before Broken came out, and I don't think there's been a signifcant deterioration in his music.

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