Hey, I like NIN, and I love Trent Reznor….but I don’t need him to tell me what most people know, EMO sucks.

Wow, only two years between NIN albums. Way to go Trent!

How is “Emo screamo” Dr. Seussian? Because it rhymes?

Its not just Emo-influenced groups, its all of rock radio. Its garbage these days. Welcome to the new hair-metal-esque era in rock, folks.

Maybe emo does suck. But that doesn’t change the fact that whining about it is a sure sign of getting old. It’s a kids genre. You’re not supposed to understand it.

I’m not old, but I too think emo sucks and I can’t tell the difference between a lot of these bands.

There’s a difference between whining and telling the truth

I would love to do both.

EMO is a good comic, give him a break!

Trent has proven to be a true artist, and he can say what he wants. There is no question that the mainstream music scene is in trouble, and Trent is just stating the obvious.

I think he’s just sick of being force-fed the same shit everyday. One band has a hit single and every major label scrambles to manufacture a clone. Emo is just the latest trend of disposable ring tones. KUDOS Trent – it’s not because you’re old – it’s because you are willing to not follow the next village idiot and you give a shit about music … unlike our trendsurfing disappointments in mtv and rs….

the older we get, the less we can connect to newer mainstream music

dont lie Zeek, you’re old

Emo does suck and anyone who likes it sucks to.

i’m only 25 and always loved classic music. but Emo is just the fad of the moment. when i was in high school i wore bellbottoms and polyester shirts to emulate the 60s-70s, now kids are wearing clothes they think people wore in the 80s and listen to Emo. i’ll take hendrix and the beatles any day…these kids will learn…or we’ll make them learn!!!

E.L.O. are Great!
Reznor’s hasnt put anything decent out since ‘Broken’ He embodies the ‘hate myself’ emo thing anyway…

Couldn’t agree with you more Banjo. It’s now cool to emulate the 80s. I hold VH1 personally responsible for this.

Banjo get out of here you lame excuse of an instrument

Plain and Simple hit the nail on the head we are getting old and losing touch.. Since I graduated I find that my taste in music keeps going backwards while the “in thing” keeps moving forward. But I do like MCR they remind me more of 70’s over the top glam than anything 80’s.

um fuck everyone hear who bad mouths Trent. Pretty Hate Machine, The Downward Spiral, the Fragile, Still, With Teeth all are excellent records. And his live shows are second to none. When you are legend you can speak the truth. Preach on Trent…

Emo sucks….deal with it. I’m gonna go cry and then write a new song.

I’m really excited about the new NIN. I mean yea, Reznor does sound a little outdated by saying that, but he’s a great musician/producer and that is undeniable.

Personally, I don’t like it when lving legends like Trent Reznor criticize younger bands. If he likes, say, My Chemical Romance, then he might mention it. But to put down emo/screamo whateva just makes him sound whiny and dad-like.

And to even say Paris Hilton’s name in a sentence? Could this be the same man who wrote “Something I Can Never Have”?

Stay classy.

I just remembered this – Right before I woke up this morning I dreamed that My Chemical Romance were Cheap Trick’s kids. I called the lead singer “Bai Ling” and he got really pissed. I meant it as a compliment!

Emo sux

I can’t tell the difference between the Killers (blow hard) and Fall out boy (Blow harder), or even U2 (slowly blowing more)nowadays. I think Reznor’s real mistake is that the older bands aren’t making great music any more either (the new fleetwood mac, anyone?). except for Dylan, Modern Times Rules, and Dylan is beautiful

Even emo itself knows itself to be shitty all the way around.

wow, big surprise, someone with actual innovative talent thinks that this garbage around right now is what it is. Someone should keep a list of awesome people like Trent who have decried emo and its related subgenres as shite.

new NIN material isnt exactly riveting music

NIN rocks. All posers must bite the hand that feedssssssssss

i’m beautoful too.

If you can’t tell the difference between The Killers and Fall Out Boy, then you’re a moron.

The Newest NIN disc is pretty solid, Every Day is Exactly the Same is one of his best songs ever. I can’t wait for the new CD.

Thank God that Trent is at least attempting to offer up smething that sounds so radically different than the umpteen bands on the dial. Not that he’s “so radical” much these days, but at least he’s willing to try. And he’s right abt two things: We are ALL getting older, Trent, and thats why it sounds alike. And second, it does seem that the bands today go from YouTube to the Red Carpet literally overnight and there are the Pete Dougherty’s and whatnot that perpetuate that stereotype. Meanwhile, their mediocre music is one step away from true Pop and because of the totl saturation in the marker, legitimate rockers like MONSTER MAGNET get virtually no airplay.

Trent can say what ever he wants. He is right. The music today is nothing but crap. Trent and NIN will always be on top.

We never learn. Music goes in cycles.

EMO is today’s equivalent of Hair Metal. And even when the bands of the 1980’s wore makeup, they’d still kick your ass.

The cream rises to the top, and 99% of these shitty emo bands will be laughed at by my kids.

Also, please remember what Emo stands for…”Emotional music”…that is quite possibly the gayest thing ever imagined.

Trent hit the ‘Nine Inch Nail’ on the head! Rock music today is ridiculous pulp; opium for the emo masses! There are standouts; The new Chemical Romance is dynamite and Wired All Wrong is phenomenal. Everyone should check out the indie ’scene’ in iTunes as it’s much more exciting to the ear than what major labels are offering. Can’t wait for the new NIN!

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im only 17 and i cant tell these bullshit emo bands apart.they all sound the same.Its not because Trent is getting old.Like I said I cant even tell them apart.

NIN definitely contributed some good music to the alternative library in the past. Pretty Hate Machine was “different” – 15 years ago – and it is a classic now. But, come on Trent, were you really “trying to change the world?” That sort of sanctimonious tripe is better left to the 60s and 70s dinosaurs and fossils.

There is plenty of good music out in the past few years : Interpol, Clap your Hands, Artic Monkeys, Shins, Death Cab and , yes, the (late) Libertines, Doherty and all.

Trent can say what he wants, he is one of the few artists today that are original and stay to his roots. He is constantly pushing himself, which seems like some new artists today dont do at all, they just make what can sell. Go Trent Go! Can’t wait for the new album

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I think trent is right music today sucks, but nin kicks ass

NIN is just industrial emo.

I will shit my pants the day Trent writes a happy, “glad to be alive” song.

NIN is the original EMO…The difference between Trent and an emo guy is that Trent lifts weights….

He can’t tell the difference between these bands not because he’s getting old, but because he makes music and emo bands make loud, repetitive noise.

This from Reznor whose body of work includes two or three songs re-mixed 15 times?

I must admit I’m not much of an emo fan but it sure has become an easy target. It appears Reznor needs to pull his head out of his ass and realize artists such Bright Eyes, The White Stripes, and Beck are releasing epic rock and roll.

does the writer of the article realize that “screamo” is actually the name of a genre within ‘emo’?

research:
it’s what journalists do!

trent in apart of one of the greatest bands, up there with Zepplin the beatles and Floyd. His music is far more intelligent than the GAY white stripes and Bright Eyes, BECK is a great musician. But all music is emo “emotional” and trent and NINE INCH NAILS are rock gods and dont ever compare them to the crap being played on the radio like the white stripes, and the other lame crap that sounds like a old man releaving him self on a toilet.

“Also, please remember what Emo stands for…”Emotional music”…that is quite possibly the gayest thing ever imagined.”

Hey Coy-

Actually ‘emo’ is short for emotional hardcore…not ‘emotional music’. It was a style given to DC’s counter-hardcore faction led by Ian MacKaye in response to overly violent shows reaking havoc upon that area in the mid-1980’s. ‘Til the end, Fugazi always remained “anti-mosh” going as far as to kick fans out of shows if they moshed.

I’m sick of all these veteran artists coming out and saying today’s music sucks. They seem to be proufoundly out of touch. Radio has always sucked. Look at the top forty from ANY decade and it’s mostly shit, but there has always been great music going on regardless. For example, NIN aren’t in the top thirty as far as good bands making music right now.

haha yeah, he said emo, screamo, as in both of those styles of music…this “journalist” thought he was rhyming…do some research

What is emo? I still haven’t figured it out.

I first heard the term used almost a decade ago to describe Sunny Day Real Estate and The Promise Ring. I wasn’t sure what the term meant then, either. Then the term disappeared.

It came back a few years ago, but it was being levelled at bands like Dashboard Confessional, which just sounded like sh*tty mainstream pop to me.

Now it’s being used to describe The Killers?

None of these bands seem to have anything in common really, except perhaps that they maintain some pretense of being “independent” when in fact they are all corporate brands.

So does emo mean faux-indie? I’m confused.

PS…

And sometimes emo means “goth”, right?

THis is so confusing… I mean, is an emo kid supposed to wear thick-rimmed glasses and sweater vests or black lipstick and nail polish.

Could it be that emo means nothing at all?

Modern music sucks. There has not been a decent new band in 10 years. The kids are not alright.

the last NIN album was pretty disappointingly weak. Yet, it wasn’t so bad as far as today’s standards are concerned. A lot of bands do bite the sound of others, making it just one big clusterfuck, but it’s foolish and closedminded to overlook some of the talent out there just because one is lame enough to trust the radio. There’s always going to be popular talent that gets bashed by the assholes, and there’s always going to be the overlooked talent. Anyway, I can’t make someone like what I like, or hate what i hate. The new album better not suck, or i’m going to cry a fucking river.

Emo just means “teenage kids trying to make rock music”.

While that is, for the most part, a good thing, it is also an undeniable fact that all teenagers who form bands are fundamentally “poseurs”. Because they are trying to present themselves are older and more mature than they really are. Some are better poseurs than others, and some even manage to grow into real artists. The majority of them do not. Therefore, emo is by definition, a poseur genre.

emo isnt today’s equivalent of hair metal because the mainstream press has NEVER been friendly to emo.

There are plenty of great young bands doing amazing things, but everyone is looking in the wrong place. It’s definately not in emo. I agree with another post, emo is basically a genre of young punk kids posing. They see a band of (you guessed it) young punk kids posing, and think it looks awesome, so they do THE EXACT SAME THING and presto, you get the emo genre.

Whats wrong with EMO? I mean, hes so loveable and fuzzy and always laughs when you tickle him. he surely brightens my everyday when i hear his little innocent “he he he.” i mean comeon trent, why you hating on a seseme street character anyway? hug him and you will feel better trent!

i bet with all these emo bands that copy each other today we could come up with 25,000 human bodies. the exact amount bush wants to send to iraq. so instead of making us all want to kill ourselves, they could instead save the free world. except for My Chem of course, they are all too short and small to be soldiers.

Emo is very whiney, but it can actually be listenable in some cases. Screamo, on the other hand, just makes me want to die. (which is probably the point)

Screamo: Because everybody thinks combining Jimmy Eat World with Slayer is a great idea.

Reznor is right that today’s music mostly sucks but NIN was no better with it’s infantile shock rock

Yeah, all in all, emo is hard to explain. When, exactly, did we start recording temper tantrums, and why would anybody want to listen to them?

Some pretty good bands have been unfortunate enough to earn the Emo tag. At The Drive-In for instance. It’s funny how critics try to come up with a new way to describe music. If they just stuck with “shitty” or “not shitty” things would be a little easier. there are plenty of bands out there making some huge waves. Band of Horses, Clap your Hands, The Thermals, The White Stripes. Music is art and art is what you make of it, plain and simple.

Reznor is right, but you don’t have to be 20 years old to understand a new scene, you don”t merge quality with age, the reason this new bands don’t get respect is because they really suck, there’s nothin interesting about emmo, not yet.

I’ve never listened to EMO music, so I can’t really say whether Trent is right or wrong there. I can say that I’ll be investing in Trent’s latest work and future works and and and…

I wish my lawn was emo so it would cut itself…….

Emo is nothing but bands that are corporate puppets who will do anything a manager says or be blackballed. My Chemical Romance makes Hawthorne Heights look like Suicidal Tendencies. Which is absolutely fucking pathetic. Even this magazine; if I couldnt scan it online I wouldnt give it the time of day…this is SPIN-lite. If I hear Rob S. tell me one more time how relevant Sonic Youth is , I’ll fucking puke so bad my teeth will yellow like his heroin-y chicklets.

no balls thats my thought on emo music no balls

Chrysler Dodds,
With all due respect, youre an idiot, take a second and think about what you said….the second is over, so lets begin our lesson, first of all, i would like to thank you for not looking past the music currently played on the radio, as that may change your opinion too much for me to teach you, anyways, as Nietzsche said, “Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.” What youre doing here is holding onto your convictions and refusing to take the time to listen to some of the innovative, exciting(mostly underground)music that is being made today.

Music is a progressive art form, it has changed since it was first invented, and has never stopped changing, I like buddy holly just as much as the next guy, but maybe, just maybe, somebody saw the need for a change and moved beyond 3 major chords and a sweet 50’s rock vocal melody. Its not like 20 years ago all bands were great , it was just like today, you have to sift through some of the crap to get through to the stuff thats really great. SO i urge you, instead of clinging to your Van Halen records like theyre all you have from your recently deceased mother, take the time to actually listen to some music happening now.

From reading these comments it’s nice to know I’m not alone in wondering just what is “emo”. I’ve tried to listen to as much as I could, and my take on it is 75% folkie singer songwriter stuff w/ 25% watered down punk (to hide the fact that it is 75% singer songwriter stuff). I will say Reznor does sound a mite cranky. I hope the band I saw in 95 can still come close to matching itself in 07, but if Ben-Gay is sponsoring this tour then it’s time to run for the hills.

emo is elmo’s cousin…

He sounds like Axl Rose did when grunge blew hair metal out of the water a decade ago….sour grapes?

Nine inch nails is the clammy warmth of psychosexual angst set against the detached cold of a course rhythmic juxtaposition of imagery and energy built on to a foundation of intermingled repulsion and desire.

I noticed that she described him as “goth.”

During “alternative” rock’s heyday, I was a teenager. My generation had many “goth/alternative” types. They had self pity, but they didn’t romanticize sadness and death as today’s “emo” types romantacize it. They were much more rigid. I’m tired of emo nonsense.

Im no kid but there is great music still being made, its just not found on the radio err..clear channel that is.
God Bless internet radio!!!!

NiN is great. I’d rather listen to anything he puts out, instead of the whiny shit that comes at us from every angle nowadays. If anyone wonder whether he still has it, check out the trailer for the new DVD coming out next month. It looks awesome.

I said it about 6 months ago in a post on here, those “20 bands that sound the same” should be ashamed of themselveles! Trent Rules. END OF THREAD.

Hey when have you ever heard Trent Reznor happy about something? NIN is an awesome band, if you could call them a band. Trent Reznor usually writes the whole album himself on a computer. Notice how every album has some different band members?Which leads to the fact that Reznor has never got along with anyone. Why start now? If you are gonna complain, complain about rappers that don’t rhyme anymore or write their own songs or beats. Complain about Gwen Stefani or Busta Rhymes selling out or something that hasn’t been bitched about forever by everyone else. Someone give Trent a hug.

moocow goodman is testing the waters again 4 public opinion. at least she’s not got the cheek 2 out and out diss reznor. instead she hints at it with her machiavellian womanly ways.

emo sucks

nin was once gr8. they r now average. however nin average is still 10 times better than the garbage tossed out over the last year

bum me up the jacksy

jolly good ol chap

65 cent says that emo is crappy gimick that sells records, not unlike platinum grillz and 20 inch rimz and tvz bigger than your goldschlager filled water bed.

This all started with Green Day, those bastards… They turned a genre made from rebellion and violence into watered down pop music.

65 cent will have a new live CD out in late Feb.

Then he’s gonna shoot 50 to get his street cred.

65 cent has spoken.

sumdumfoo@hotmail.c om

has anyone here even listened to Pretty Hate Machine? Not only is the album title as emo as it can get, but Reznor does nothing but whine and cry throughout the entire record. I think he helped invent exactly what he is bitching about.

There is no pure form of music anymore and hasn’t been since its hostile corporate takeover.

joy. another album! trent owns.

and as far as emo is considered, it is vaguely defined nowadays. you can make it anything you want actually. simply put, modern “emo” is anything baseless, sounds like a a typical boy band, poseurs, the “poor me” complex, and pretty much anything shitty. there’s a major difference in how emo is presented now, and what it actually used to be.

and i do agree with trent. all these bands do sound exactly the same. and as far as NIN is considered as being emo… hahaha. yeah…right.

there’s a difference in their music. more depth and understanding…and he doesnt go around throwing temper tantrums nor does he spat out some crappy love junk and bullshit about how his life sucks. chances are if you think he’s emo, you’ve never really understood his music. it’s all in the basis of understanding anyway. make it whatever you want to make it.

p.s. trent reznor is god.

Trent has invented his own genre of industrial rock that is for the most part very unique. I listen to NIN, as well as some “cookie-cutter” screamo bands…it’s not hard to pinpoint the bands without musical talent…and that’s how I discriminate. If it is musically sound, I will listen to it.

Just another Rolling Stone writer lashing out, because she refuses to face the fact. The fact being, nobody cares about Rolling Stone anymore. It’s an irrelevant, washed-up excuse for a magazine that nobody (who possesses standards of taste) reads anymore. They are pathetically out of touch with music these days.

Trent created his own music genre. He writes his own lyrics and composes his own music. He is a one man band that has a message to the world through his songs. Whether or not you enjoy his sound doesn’t mean you can’t give him respect. Emo is kids music…boys that wear girl pants… corporate money maker bullshit…and it sounds like shit, too

saying Reznor helped invent emo is like blaming nirvana for shit like nickelback or puddle of mudd. really unfair and just plain WRONG.

k 80s music was emotional… how come we dont call it emo music. This emo thing is bullshit. Emo sucks… Trent rocks!

Age isn’t the factor. Hell, I wore a homemade EMO SUCKS/LONG LIVE TALENT T-shirt my senior year of high school (last year, when I was 18). Older people aren’t the only ones who can’t stand that shit, there’s a silent majority of the youth that despise it as well.

Meanwhile, the Bennington-Shindoa think tank (and their many contemporaries) were setting both young pierced hearts and old moneyclips aflutter with sexless, sample-soaked tunes of dismay and despair. Where once they screamed, “You get me closer to God!,” kids now shouted, “Shut up when I’m talking to you!,” which is in line with, “I’d rather die than give you control!”, except Reznor’s “you” is some disembodied existential thing, the stuff of stylized drama. Chester’s “you” is someone he knows; this time, it’s personal, and he wrote it down in his journal. In AABB form.

The ability to comment every photo, video and article on the internet is ridiculous. Too many people viewing material they don’t like by their own will then complaining about it.

Mr. Reznor has earnt the respect of many dedicated fans- he is speaking truthfully about the unorginality of many of today’s bands. i’m 14 and i cannot stand the repeatitive crap that many bands seem to scream about. Yes, nin is emotional, but it is backed with powerful layering and heavy synths, and meaningful messages that have reached out to many people. Trent- the world needs you; Keep going!

I don’t think “emo sucks” is the only message TR tries to get across. It’s more like “I want to interact with my fans in an all encompassing media [i don't like that word, but] experience. And instead of being a fly by night, quickie MTV promotes, TR has put his heart and soul and imagination into this whole new horizon of total interaction. You know, the kind of thing where you have to use your BRAIN!!! While keeping true to the moniker NIN and satisfying all fans at different levels. He’s just making our brains stimulated and encouraging us to see a new way to interact with all the art he is capable of!!
Hells yeah TR-keep being noisy as fu*k.

oh I’m sorry- did I offend? my previous post here seems to have rapidly “disappeared”- too close to the core perhaps.

All mudslinging aside…I would really like it if you people stopped calling Beck and the White Stripes Emo…good god

NOW I’ll start mudslinging

Trent Reznor is a musical genious, any emo band who wants to write an angsty song about how girls don’t like them should seriously listen to the pure negative emotion put forth in Reznor’s albums.

Look, its not about getting old and all of a sudden you dont like emo anymore. i dislike emo.(i don’t hate because all a truly hate is Rap and country) I am 17. He is like 41. we agree that emo is not good music. and he is not just talking about emo. Its most modern rock. I cant tell a drifference between half of the crap on the radio either (Just in case you forgot, i’m 17). Yes in Pretty hate machine he does whine alot………but find me an album that sound simular to it. I dont care if its Emo or screamo, as long as it is unique and not “hey lets make a band that sounds like Panic! at the disco and nickleback mixed!

who really cares what a rag like rolling stone has to say about music anyway? it’s an advertising medium just like anything else. they shill the bands that the labels pay them to. it’s no different than a program director playing a band’s single 50 times a day. the label’s job is to sell albums. they will find anyway they can to make you aware of a band and it’s sound. classification is simply a way of grouping artists for marketing purposes. you aren’t going to try and put gwen stefani on headbangers ball or mastadon on trl. the audiences are different and the marketing is directed accordingly. so who really should care about classification in the first place.

the decline in music is not so much because the sound is changing, it’s that the artistry is going away. people have many different reasons to listen to music. some like to have something in the background and some like to “feel” and “experience” something. NIN is a great example of a artist that is creating “art” using music as the medium. he has a clear message about how he views the world and he uses his music to describe it. this is not that different from the painters and the various art movements that were designed to help people see what the artist was seeing.

with a little thought and consideration, we can all get along and get what we want out of music. is it art or entertainment? that is up to the listener. hard for the two camps to get along because the purpose is different. today’s music is largely entertainment and rarely art. let’s face it, you aren’t going to lisen to nin for entertainment. it’s not designed that way. if you have the heart to feel and the mind to think, then you will be able to see what trent is trying to say, and it’s complete in it’s message.

let’s just go to our camps and have fun. we’re not miscible and even when shaken up, we will still seperate.

so is emo great? who cares. is nin the greatest band in the world? who cares. to each his own. there will never be a way to settle this argument so why try. listen to what you like and love every second of it. this is nothing to take personally.

cheers!

(((O)))

I must say that Trent is absolutly right. It isn’t being out of touch, since emo is despised by pretty much everybody. The whole corporate rock thing gets on my nerves. And seeing a commercial with the anarchy symbol on MTV, wow. I was amazed. Do people not realize the bitter irony of this? These modern sugar coated punks are buying establishment and resistance in one package. Trent isn’t outdated at all. I’m 18 and I feel the same way. I listen to mostly modern (underground) music too, so there is no saying that I am just imitating older people. Mainstream music really does suck.

iamtryingtobelieve

I agree with the man! I am 30 and was “one of the kids” when I bought Pretty Hate Machine on tape (now I feel old). The problem isn’t emo.. the BIG problem here is the entire music industry. It’s like they are totally out of ideas.

I dont like or dislike MCR. They are one of the better ones… but they make a successful record and then 20 “new acts” emerge doing exactly the same thing! It’s like the whole music industry has been saturated with manufactured rubbish with no originality – From the total dross that is the American Idol/X Factor/Fame academy stuff, to pop boy bands.

Emo is just the new Disco.

And Trent needs to stop talking out of his ass or he going to distance himself as the old guy so much from everywhere that we are going to start mentioning him with bands like the Stones.

I agree with Trent Reznor in some respects. The emo trend is a horrible phase and most of the bands that have started this millenium do. There’s odd exceptions though, I’m not a fan of MCR, but they are good at what they do. and a band called Brand New, call them emo, but they are supremely talented. but I think that’s two bands I can mention, and only Brand New I regard anywhere near as highly as Nine Inch Nails. Originality is a rarity. But what I’m trying to say here is that there are some other rare exceptions like Nine Inch Nails and you just have to find them.

plus I like pop punk stuff, not entirely original but I can listen to Weezer and Relient K all day :]

FYI, the crap that the music industry shoves down our throats and that we call Emo is not Emo. Fall Out Boy, MCR, Panic! At the Disco, Aiden and their ilk are not Emo. FOB, P!ATD and Aiden are at best called Pop/Alternative Rock. MCR is just Alternative.

Emo is short for Emotional Hardcore and has been around since the mid-’80s. It is not a corporate creation by any stretch of the imagination. It grew out of the Hardcore scene, specifically the DC Hardcore scene, with bands like Rites of Spring, Embrace, One Last Wish, Moss Icon, Fire Party and others.

It is a very cathartic style of music, hence it being called “Emotional” Hardcore. During performances, members of early Emo bands were known to break down and cry during their extremely energetic performances.

Other Emo bands include:
Thursday (they do an amazing job of embodying the cathartic energy of the original wave of Emo in their performences)
Brand New
The Receiving End of Sirens
Samiam
Funeral For a Friend
Further Seems Forever
Senses Fail
Poison the Well (especially on You Come Before You)
The Bled
Sense Field
Jimmy Eat World
Sunny Day Real Estate
The Get Up Kids
Saves The Day

That should be enough to give you a clearer picture of what Emo truly is. You will not see any of those bands strolling down red carpets or banging Paris Hilton anytime soon.

As you can see, I’m a huge fan of the genre and all these misconceptions are a bit offensive and VERY wearying. The power of misconception hath no end.

I’m also a huge fan of NIN and they were my favorite band in the world, as I fondly recall. I still love them very much to this day and am quite enjoying the whole Year Zero project.

Emo aside, I can very much agree with his hatred of the music industry. It is a machine and must be killed.

i’m really interested in the idea behind this new NIN cd. and trent reznor most likely didn’t intend to insult some of the legitimately good DC hardcore bands from the 80s. but he has a good point in that the industry is sucking and that fallout boy, my chemical romance, panic at the disco and any band that sounds remotely like them is pretty much just wasting their own time and not doing anything the least bit interesting.

I completely agree with Mr. Reznor on the music that gets played on the radio. It’s all the same.

1.) Trent is god and he is absolutely right EMO SUCKS

2.) mtv has absolutely killed music by promoting shitty bands like panic at whatever the fuck their name is, fall out boy, rap/hiphop, and all of the other shit thats played on that channel.

3. (and most important) Nine Inch Nails and Nirvana are the two best things to ever happen to music

that we call Emo is not Emo. Fall someone said:

Out Boy, MCR, Panic! At the Disco, Aiden and their ilk are not Emo. FOB, P!ATD and Aiden are at best called Pop/Alternative Rock. MCR is just Alternative.

i wouldnt call any of those alternative rock. maybe im old school and remember the REAL alternative rock but i sure would never say those bands are that. they are just pop or pop rock or whatever, nothing “alternative” about them basing it on what i knew of the genre from the 80s to mid 90s

nine inch nails is emo? whining on pretty hate machine? it would be much appreciated if the 12 year olds keep their opinions to themselves. And to go even further, there is nothing even remotely emo about and NIN album ever. Period. Obviously you can not seperate art and entertainment from one another.
With that aside, I dare you to put on PHM and then turn the radio on to, well, any station really, and tell me that it sounds the same. Put on your ‘hard rock’ station and please, enlighten me on the similarities between the two.
No? None?
That’s what I thought.
Educate yourself before you go and spout off about things that you don’t understand.

For the record, Pretty Hate Machine is kinda whiny, but in a very cute and endearing way.

Who does this Elizabeth Goodman think she is, writing this article? She takes every opportunity to try and make Reznor look bad. They’re obviously trying to negatively alter our opinion of him. What a piece of garbage. Rolling Stone, Im sorry, but you’re basically the music world’s verion of Fox News.

This just goes to show how even the big music business tries to put down anyone who speaks out against the mainstream.

OMG, Trent has a point. Emo screamo sucko dildo. In me opinion. But hey, I’m only 1 in 6 million, who agrees with me?

emo rocks!
Trent has no right to say emo sucks, because he sucks!

i agree with reznor.emo music has taken such a tight hold on the music of our world.but when i try and listen to bands like MCR and sell out boy i just cant stand it,it sounds so fake and boring,my ex is a emo/scene girl and she was never a big fan of my music taste.fair enuff we dont all like wat the other person likes.my favourite bands would be atm,NIN korn,ministry and im listening to some metallica to lately.she thinks NIN are boring.whenever her phone started ringing mindless self indulgence came on and i cudnt stand it.she though dat was great.i thought it was so boring and fake.trent reznors music is honest and made with concentration and hard work.and NIN arent emo.somebody sed dat in one of these comments and i was kind of like wtf,how are they emo,show me the proo,NIN are industrial progressive and art rock.not emo!