Trent recently sat down with Rolling Stone to discuss his role in Apple Music’s new service, Beats 1 Radio. He had a lot to say about the state of streaming music and what he’d ideally want to see from that type of service. His involvement with Apple seems to be one of the main reasons we haven’t heard anything new from Nine Inch Nails in a while.
Even if you’re not a fan of Apple, it’s hard not to get on board when someone with that level of passion is at the helm. Although, even as that thought inhabits my brain, words cannot express how strange it is to see Trent in this commercial.
He also spoke about the future of Nine Inch Nails and his plans for releasing exclusive content on Apple Music’s new “Connect” feature.
He then dove into what his approach is to writing new music these days and what might become a new record.
He’s spoken about this type of inter-album process in the past, so it’s no real surprise that this has become his de facto writing process. I would imagine that this is the method we’ll see from him for quite a long time to come. I certainly don’t speak for everyone, but I’m perfectly happy with waiting if it means he’s taking his time to ensure that the direction he moves in is meaningful and progressive.
This is a heavily truncated version of the complete interview, which you can read at Rolling Stone. I pulled out the portions that I found most interesting and left out the incredibly strange, random question about Marilyn Manson that the interviewer decided to close with.