Post #2703553
2026-05-06 07:01 UTC
"Trent Reznor has an annoying, whiney voice, is no star at any of the instruments he plays, and stages performances more akin to plastic-hair-era-DEVO-on-ADHD-meds than a real rawk band. His hair, when long and lank, is irritating, and when he gets a buzzcut and wears muscle shirts it’s somehow all even worse. Nerdy Reznor has been a self-programming bot at least as far back as 1989 and the bouncy aggro pop of Nine Inch Nails’ debut album, Pretty Hate Machine. 1/4
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@ownlife@mastodon.social 2026-05-06 07:01
For the onetime leader of the “industrial [rock] movement,” as SPIN crowned him and NIN in 1992, he ain’t no Al Jourgensen, whose chemically engineered multi-drummer Ministry then absolutely wiped the floor with Reznor. But, Reznor is a fucking inspiration for showing that none of the above matters when one’s will and vision are honed so diamond hard that a creative force can become way way way way more than the sum of its parts. 2/4