The Fragile: Nine Inch Nails & Vulnerability

Trent Reznor.  Atticus Ross.  Nine Inch Nails. 
The epitome of risk and danger in music along with continued growth.
It’s why the eyebrow is raised when you hear the band that wrote “I want to f*** you like an animal” is doing the score for a beautiful film by Pixar Animation.
It’s also why, this year, they are nominated for an Academy Award for this film.
Oh, and also for  David Fischer’s historical and timely film “Mank”.
And why they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year as well. 

From the first note of their debut album “Pretty Hate Machine” to balling my eyes out in the theatre during “Soul”,  Nine Inch Nails has been a huge influence on our music, our culture, and our creative drives.    
As well, they are able to relate with those very lonely, isolated and dark moments that many of us feel.  It’s a comfort not found in the desire to be depressed, but in the revelation we are not alone.   The empathetic nature of Nine Inch Nails is profound.   It’s found primarily in the music, but also in the poetry of lyrics.   

Taking breaks are necessary for rejuvenating your spirit & creativity.
It also gives you time to reinvest in yourself and take a long view of your creative path.
Upon returning to the podcast, we decided  to be more open and dive deeper into our passions for future podcasts.   We stand by the work we’ve done, obviously, but we were nervous about becoming too “topical”.   Creativity thrives on change and inspiration, listening to that voice inside,  and is related to the world surrounding us.   So while we may not be covering the evening news, the politics of the day, or saving the planet from environmental disaster... we are very aware of the world and we feel it.   
We’re vulnerable souls.  
Music, art, film, literature - we can feel it very deeply.   
We could spend many more episodes talking about so many aspects of NIN and how they have positively affected our creative lives and how we view and relate to ourselves and emotions.... And maybe we will.   It’s our g’mango show.  

Stay Vulnerable & Brutally Honest!

Our gratitude and thanks to Trent Reznor for putting some of his work onto Creative Commons & allowing us to to use these works to share, non-commercially, with our listeners.

1  Ghosts I-IV
2  Ghosts I-IV
7  Ghosts I-IV
13  Ghosts I-IV
14  Ghosts I-IV
22 Ghosts I-IV
24 Ghosts I-IV
32 Ghosts I-IV
33 Ghosts I-IV
34 Ghosts I-IV
36 Ghosts I-IV

“999,9999”
“Discipline “
“Lights in the Sky”
“The Four of Us Are Dying”

The songs listed are from the albums “Ghosts I-IV”  and “The Slip” by Nine Inch Nails and is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US. 

https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Nine_Inch_Nails
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