Trent Reznor hasn’t been shy about declaring his disdain for Chris Cornell’s recent Timbaland-produced dance-pop experiment Scream. But in a new interview with Sound Opinions, the radio show/podcast from Chicago-based rock writers Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot, Reznor went a little deeper.
Reznor spent most of his career on Interscope, the same label that released Scream. And, as he revealed in the interview, Interscope commissioned a Timbaland remix of the 2005 Nine Inch Nails single “The Hand That Feeds”, a remix that Reznor called “laughably terrible.”
It was part of what Reznor saw as a misguided attempt to give Nine Inch Nails some street cred. He mimicked a faceless Interscope exec: “Well, this urban thing is really taking off. You’ll get it in the club. You know, what if we had Dre or somebody…”
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