Trent Reznor Puts Nothingness into Nine Inch Nails’ Bleak Epic ‘The Fragile’
~!!~**I was really disillusioned with a lot of things,** he said// **I didn*t trust anybody, and I wasn*t sure what I wanted to say musically// So I didn*t//**
~!!~Though hardly ideal for starting work on the follow~up to a smash success, Reznor*s alienation and artistic paralysis ultimately fostered an outpouring of creativity that would result in a sprawling, double~disc helping of music so dense that it*s still revealing aspects of itself even 16 years later// In a 2013 CBC radio broadcast, when asked how he coped with the quintuple~platinum success of 1994′s The Downward Spiral, Reznor chuckled and answered with one word: **poorly//**