January 10th, 2012
Musical History of Trenton Reznor
The career of Trent Reznor has been an interesting one with his dark experimentations into electronic rock and his penchant for the macabre by living in the house where Sharon Tate was murdered has caused many people to wonder where his musical inspirations for Nine Inch Nails have come from. He’s had some rather public arguments with some of the people with whom he’s done business and whether it was an argument with a manager that he had for years or a huge fight with his record company over buy out music rights, he’s also been known to fire musicians with whom he’s worked on a whim.
He’s made an interesting jump into the world of soundtrack scoring and has made some additional fans along the way regarding his foray into move music and the amount of problems he’s had regarding the ability of his music to actually end up in the movie for which he’s scoring did give him some trouble initially since his score for “One Hour Photo” in 2001 wasn’t included in the final cut of the film. Some people probably would have felt too burned to continue creating music, but Reznor apparently survived that brush off and has made some impressive entrances into the world of soundtrack scoring.
His latest collaboration is with director David Fincher on the highly anticipated film “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” and follows a very successful year with his soundtrack to “The Social Network” finding a lot of success both commercially and critically since it won an Oscar for Best Original Score.
