I’m From Rolling Stone
I’m From Rolling Stone is a new show on MTV about a group of kids that are competing for a writing gig with RS. It’s 30 minutes of cringe-worthy reality TV. Parallel to the TV show, they are holding weekly contests that allow entrants to turn in short assignments based on the ones seen in that week’s program.
The first week I failed to get my shit together to enter because I was working too much and was generally uninspired. The assignment was to write about your local music scene. However, I was all over assignment two: 10 questions to any living musician/band. One guess for who I picked…Anyway, I didn’t make the top 20. It was harder than I thought to pick just ten questions and write them in a way that would preface to an unknowledgable audience what I was refering to. Maybe I’ll do better with next week’s.
10 Questions for Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails
1. Trent Reznor is Nine Inch Nails- writer, producer, instrumentalist, singer. What do your touring musicians bring to the music?
2. You are said to be very meticulous about recreating your idea for a sound in your music. Can you describe a source that inspired a sound that you have reconstructed?
3. When you write your music, do you have a visual counterpart in mind or does it come later in the process? Do you enjoy making music videos and having your music appear in films?
4. Recently you have played two solo performances, and have discussed doing a solo acoustic tour. What is fueling this departure from your usual live performances?
5. Though ‘Closer’ and ‘Hurt’ are perhaps your most famous songs, which songs would you select as your best work?
6. People are always trying to classify your music- rock, electronica, metal…if you could create your own new genre for NIN, what would you call it and who else would be there, if anyone?
7. What do you think about the Nine Inch Nails fan club, The Spiral? How does it feel to communicate to your fans through your blog?
8. Your fans often don shirts and other items with phrases of adoration on them. Where do you think ‘Trent Reznor is God’ came from?
9. You’re an avid video gamer. Have video games influenced your work in any way?
10. What do you hope to achieve through the release of your next album, Year Zero, which you haven’t in the past?