omgwtf!

Trent Reznor has long let his music state his feelings for him. If you dont get it, that’s not his problem. He never was an overtly political guy, and has always been reticent to accept the superstardom a lot of people would foist upon him, in a public way. He’s always been a pretty private guy. He’s got a lot of issues. He’s an introvert.

A while back, though, he had posted on his website that despite the fact he doesnt do the political thing publicly, he could no longer stay silent on the topic of the Bush administration, and he had a pretty strong statement to make about it.

Now, it would appear that MTV has made the very last leap into being the ultimate corporate whore: they refused to let NIN perform their latest release, The Hand That Feeds, with the video backdrop that accompanies the performance. The backdrop clearly illustrates what the song is talking about, and that happens to be George Bush and the Iraq war. It is not a positive message. MTV censored him, and Trent Reznor told them to fuck off. The Foo Fighters stepped up for the Empire and filled his space, but I sure as hell wouldnt have, and as far as I’m concerned, anyone who’s on the show now is a fucking pussy.

Yay Trent. Way to go, man. This totally makes up for censoring Starfuckers, Inc.

CNN.com - NIN leaves MTV show over Bush image - May 30, 2005

Edit: I can’t believe that MTV censored a political message. I can’t fucking believe it. It’s not so much MTV…although the idea of a network that calls itself Music Television censoring music is unbelievable enough to begin with…as it is the whole goddamn country suddenly taking it into their heads that dissent is unamerican. And I mean not just like you know, obvious political cronies. But everyone. And what’s worse is that we’ve always done this shit. It goes in waves. We never, ever learn anything. I just find it impossible to understand how people can be so…fucking…stupid.

I am just furious about this. About all of it.