30 May 2005

NIN

A rare weekend update - it's sunny outside, I've been drunk for five straight days, and am going to the Nationals game today to celebrate and memorialize our fallen heroes. But I thought you'd all like to see what has got me so excited at the moment. I never realized just how much I liked Trent Reznor and NIN. I mean, sure, "I want to fuck you like an animal" is a great line, and they've had some other good, fucked up songs. But this is awesome.
Nine Inch Nails dropped out of the MTV Movie Awards after clashing with the network over an image of President Bush the band planned as a performance backdrop.

The Bush image was to accompany the song "The Hand That Feeds," which obliquely criticizes the Iraq war. It includes the lyrics: "What if this whole crusade's a charade / And behind it all there's a price to be paid / For the blood on which we dine / Justified in the name of the holy and the divine."


Good for Reznor to say fuck you to MTV. If they want to keep the show out of the political realm that's fine, but they shouldn't expect everyone to play along with their rules.

The Foo Fighters will perform in place of the Trent Reznor-led band at the awards being taped June 4 in Los Angeles.


What's funny about that is that the Foo's performed during the Vote for Change tour.

And showing just how big his balls are:
Reznor said in a statement posted on the band's Web site Thursday that the image of the president would have been unaltered and "straightforward."

"Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me," he said.


If you're curious, here's the entirety of the offensive lyrics.


you're keeping in step
in the line
got your chin held high and you feel just fine
because you do
what you're told
but inside your heart it is black and it's hollow and it's cold

just how deep do you believe?
will you bite the hand that feeds?
will you chew until it bleeds?
can you get up off your knees?
are you brave enough to see?
do you want to change it?

what if this whole crusade's
a charade
and behind it all there's a price to be paid
for the blood
on which we dine
justified in the name of the holy and the divine

just how deep do you believe?
will you bite the hand that feeds?
will you chew until it bleeds?
can you get up off your knees?
are you brave enough to see?
do you want to change it?

so naive
to keep holding on to what I want to believe
i can see
but i keep holding on and on and on and on

will you bite the hand that feeds you?
will you stay down on your knees?


Good stuff.

1 Comments:

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