Nine Inch Nailsin perustaja Trent Reznor: ”Internet sai muusikot tekemään turvallista musiikkia, joka miellyttää tiennäyttäjiä”

Industrial rockin jätin Nine Inch Nailsin perustaja Trent Reznor kertoi hiljattain Yahoo Musicin haastattelussa nykyisen musiikkimaailman havainnoistaan sekä sosiaalisen median vaikutuksesta siihen. Reznor ei pidä mihin suuntaan artistit vievät ilmaisuaan, sillä musiikin aitous on ollut hänelle tärkeää.

Reznor kommentoi, että Internetin myötä kaikki ilmaisevat mielipiteitään lähes kaikesta. Tämä ilmiö on saanut muusikot pelkäämään Internetissä nopeasti leviävää palautetta ja artistit luovat turvallista musiikkia, joka miellyttää ns. tiennäyttäjiä.

Yahoon haastatelussa Reznorilta kysyttiin eroaako nykyinen bänditoiminta miehen uran alkuvaiheesta, johon hän vastasi:

”Before anyone had heard of Nine Inch Nails, I discovered that what the band would be about would be me trying to be as honest with myself as I can be when I’m making the music… it usually involves a level of self-examination or exorcizing of feelings that aren’t necessarily pleasant. ”

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”I learned before you ever heard a song I’d written that that had power. I could scrape out my feelings and turn them into something that made me feel better that I got it out of my head, and I noticed people responded to it because it had a truthfulness to it. ”

”I still believe in that same kind of edict. Any time I sit down to write something, even today, I have to remind myself that it needs to be as honest as who I have become when I’m doing this stuff. And I can look back at my catalog and say with honesty that it’s the best I can do when I did it and it was the most true I could be to myself. The challenges are different today.”

Hän tarkensi perusteluitaan:

”I’m not the same person I was then and I’m less afraid than I used to be. When I took so long between albums, I was afraid to open that book up and see what was inside my head. I was insecure. Now I think I’m more confident in my abilities, but doesn’t make it any less painful to write at times or do anything about the feeling of being naked when I release this stuff out to the world. But what has crept in is that everyone’s a commentator now.”

”The Internet is giving voice to everybody thinking that someone gives a s**t 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 s**t. And I think it creates an environment where people are too f***in’ worried about what other people have to say. And people who have never made anything think it’s OK to talk s**t about stuff they have no right to talk about. You got a Facebook account? Nobody gives a f**k. You haven’t achieved anything.