Hey ya! I just had to write that caption, had to catch the advantage of the occasion when it occured. I read an article, "Trent Reznor is a twitter quitter" and I just distorted the words a little bit and suddenly it became funny to read, and it looks funny too (... as the artist I sometimes claim myself to be would notice). Though the contents of the article isn´t that agreeable to read it still is the painful truth, he did quit twitter, and the reason why he did it .... well, it´s not up to us to have an opinion, we´re not in his position, but it does seem to me like he is a little bit of a softy not being able to handle the situation.
As a celebrity you have to expect there are people doing bad things, saying bad things, they will threat you, whatever. The world is full of crazy people, evil minds, jealous souls, that´s frightful enough to me but it´s a fact, and when you become known as an official person you automatically become a target, in various contexts. I have friends in politics being targeted as well, and that´s not nice at all, that´s even in a smaller community and my friends are actually in within physical reach for the threat.
Now Trent Reznor may be a sensitive personality to some extent, he says he wants to interact with his fans, wants to be fair and decent, but the results to that and the reactions he had, it looks as he wasn´t at all prepared for that. I personally feel it was a lot better before, yes before he became this person mixing his everyday thoughts and feelings into it all. To me he was a musician with integrity, everything that came to our knowledge was carefully worked out and thought through, as it seemed. I interpreted his work as serious and proffesional, not just any crap made to earn money, but work that really ment something to him, an artists work, not something manufactured for a glamorous rockstar. And, I wasn´t really interested in his personal life, I just wanted his music. He is a great businessman, he´s good at that too, everyone was gaining from it, until now.
I would have, and I think most of his fans would, been pleased enough to be informed of his musical thoughts and plans, of course we would want the man to feel happy and have a reasonable good life, but we don´t care so much about girlfriends, and kids, his falling outs, scandals and trials and stuff ... that´s his life and I don´t even fucking know the guy!! I just couldnt care less. Now there are mad and evil women sending verbal attacks onto his girlfriend, and himself, making him leaving Twitter, so he says. That is the price you have to pay, I guess, as a celebrity if you´re much too openhearted and frank about your lovelife on the microbloggs. That´s a pity of course, it sucks if you ask me, but I´m in my strongest belief it just couldn´t have come as a surprise to this guy, he´s not like a twenty-year-old teenage star, he´s an experienced musician in his early forties. Maybe, I just say maybe, he didn´t think it through before he started it, maybe, just maybe, he should have stuck to the former plan, thinking things through before making a statement, thus keeping his integrity.
