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Originally Posted by rickholio
Emo or no, anyone who makes a song that Johnny Cash covered has got the skills. 
I'd also say that songs with the lyrical phrases like "I want to feel you from the inside" and "fist fuck" in situationally appropriate ways can be forgiven any associated angst.  |
Agreed. I've always been a fan of NIN.
I see Trent as a cool producer that took synthesizer based music in another direction (dark). You had Kraftwerk (a German group) in the 70's that pioneered synthezer music, which inspired Afrika Bambataa to use synthz to lay down the foundation for hip-hop in the late 70's early 80's, then you had Michael Jackson use it to make pop music (Thriller), and finally Trent Reznor to make it cool for the "life suck I want to kill myself, whatever" generation of the 90's.