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That Time When Reznor Almost Ended NIN




Nine Inch Nails leader Trent Reznor talked about winning the Academy Award for Original Score for his work with Atticus Ross on the 2011's "The Social Network" soundtrack, telling Variety:

"When 'Social Network' came up, having done NIN for quite some time, I'd had every decision ultimately hang on my head, from what color the lights are down to what outfit somebody's wearing, and it was exciting to be able to step into a role that was more supportive and not being the top of that pyramid.

"The feeling that you could contribute something to make that better was an exciting professional change. And coming out of an intense few months of working in service to the team, then it became a little more fun to be the boss again in a Nine Inch Nails situation for a little while.

"It's that thing of being able to kind of wear different hats for different power dynamics with different people and realizing something that couldn't have existed without this group of people working together. [The film projects] haven't all felt that way. And that's taught us some lessons, too."

Did that first experience with 'The Social Network' spoil you?


"Your head spins a little bit when your first film goes on to win an Oscar. There's nowhere to go but down from there, right?

"And you start to wonder: should it be, 'Fuck rock and roll! I've got a new lease on life that doesn't have quite the age limit restrictions that playing in a rock band does? Should I put all my eggs in that basket? Should I take every film that comes around?'

"Because now lots of films were coming by. It wasn't that our egos were out of control. Because one thing about us is, as great as winning an Oscar is, the next day by lunchtime, we were back to being the same not-good-enough assholes that we were before we'd won one.

"It felt good for maybe 18 hours. It was a great experience and I have a lot of respect for the institution, but it didn't fix everything that's wrong with our brains, and our inadequacies remained.

"It caused us to kind of think about - if we do take on more roles of scoring, are we trying to be completists? Are we trying to tick every box, to want to be able to do everything from a complicated orchestral score to a rom-com? Do we want to be journeymen or jacks of all styles and techniques?"




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