NYRexall wrote:Smh for NIN at ANR.
I guess it's understandable though.
Today, Billboard announced that Hesitation Marks landed in the #3 spot on the Top 100 with over 100,000 records sold in the U.S. its first week of release.
That's a lot better than The Great Mistake Artist, which opened up at #12 back in 2011 with less than 24,000 records sold. Has that thing even sold 100K worldwide yet?
Last month, Jane's Addiction released new single "Another Soulmate", which went virtually unnoticed by everyone, including members of the band itself.
Around the same time, NIN dropped a new single that managed to piss off the entire internet and create a wellspring of buzz over something that sounded like nothing they'd done before it.
And then you have the glaring fact that TR has more talent and creativity in his two hands than all three members of Jane's, their stand-in bass player, and the frontman's bimbo wife combined. Hell, even the original bass player couldn't hack it for a tour with NIN.
So yea, I can see why all the disdain. Wrong side of the fence and all.
We're going to go by album sales when considering artistic worthiness?
How 'bout them Backstreet Boys!? huh? huh?
Is this like the one where we talk about artists having to iron their own clothes being shit?
Tyler Durden wrote:A very good, objective review of Hesitation Marks from someone who isn't swallowing it hook, line, and sinker. I wish some of the naysayers on here would be a little detailed with their negative feelings of the album, as opposed to just using blanket statements like "hot garbage".
You read what you choose to read.
The beats are thin, uninspired and derivative of better artists like James Murphy.
The lyrics are like reading a teenage girl's poetry book (do I really need to be more detailed than that? I dont think so.)
And vocally, Trent has been in decline since The Fragile. He sounds like he broke his nose or something. It really is kind of DER DER sounding. I'm sorry. I don't know how else to describe it.
He used to sort of half whisper/half scream his songs to much better effect. At some point, much like Perry, someone must have said 'you know, you can really sing. You don't have to hide behind effects and whispers and screams." To the overall detriment of the songs.
Put it all together and you have derivative disco beats, bad lyrics, and stupid vocals.
I'd say they're still worth seeing live, but sometime post Fragility Tour, he started yelling "HEY" every 30 seconds.
"I want to HEY fuck you HEY like an animal HEY."
It's horrible and annoying.
I'm happy for Trent that there are eyeliner wearing, candle burning, crown of shit wearers on liars chairs that will stand by him no matter what. He's earned his place. But I'm not going to be a blind fanboy.