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Trent Reznor Brings Anxiety and Full-Blown Rage to Nine Inch Nails’ Vicious ‘Bad Witch’
Has Trent Reznor given up?
If you’ve read the headlines over the past week, the Nine Inch Nails founder has been blasting celebrities – Taylor Swift, for example – for staying quiet amidst political turmoil. “I have influence, and that it’s my job,” he stated. His demeanor has changed drastically over the three years it took for him to release his experimental trilogy of albums. It’s lead up to his breaking point.
Bad Witch is arguably the best of the three EPs, following 2016’s Not the Actual Events and last summer’s Add Violence. It also claims the loudest, angriest, and most hardcore song in years. “Ahead of Ourselves” is without a shadow of a doubt the angriest Reznor since his 2007 Year Zero, and the most hardcore since 1994’s masterpiece, The Downward Spiral. It’s also downright the most vicious, loud, and powerful track since “Burn” appeared on the Natural Born Killers soundtrack. Alternating “between anxious beats and jarring vocals”, the track echoes his frustration with the state of our society, while also sharing the deep hopelessness he’s feeling. “Why try change when you know you can’t?”
In a recent interview with the Guardian, he explained some of these feelings:
“We aren’t these enlightened beings, here to take care of each other and think about our benevolent role in the universe as protectors and creators – we’re just a fucking mutation and an accident.”
“We’ve got dumber, more tribalised; we’ve found niches of other people that focus on extremity. For the miracle of everyone sharing ideas, I see a hell of a lot more racism. It doesn’t feel like we’ve advanced. I think you’re seeing the fall of the empire of America in real time, before your eyes; the internet has eroded the fabric of decency in our civilization.”
Frustration breeds rage and Reznor lets it all out on “Ahead of Ourselves” and the accompanying album, Bad Witch (out today). If this were to be the final Nine Inch Nails album, for whatever reason, it certainly ends with a perfectly-timed punctuation mark.
The Lost Boys: A New Musical officially kicked off on Broadway last month, and Deadline now reports that the show’s Broadway run has been extended into next year.
The show was originally set to run through November, but Deadline reports that The Lost Boys: A New Musical “has released a block of tickets through Sunday, March 7, 2027.”
The news comes in the wake of The Lost Boys: A New Musical becoming the most Tony-nominated musical of the season with twelve nominations including Best Musical.
Additionally, “The Lost Boys will launch a North American National Tour in Spring 2028, at Playhouse Square in Cleveland. Additional cities and tour dates will be announced later.”
The Lost Boys: A New Musical is of course an adaptation of the 1987 horror classic from director Joel Schumacher, with the cast including Ali Louis Bourzgui as lead vampire David (originally played by Kiefer Sutherland), Maria Wirries as Star (originally played by Jami Gertz), and LJ Benet as the soon-to-be-turned Michael (originally played by Jason Patric).
The horror musical’s cast also includes Shoshana Bean as Lucy Emerson, Benjamin Pajak as Sam Emerson, Paul Alexander Nolan as Max, Jennifer Duka as Alan Frog, Miguel Gil as Edgar Frog, Brian Flores as Marko, Sean Grandillo as Dwayne, and Dean Maupin as Paul.
The Lost Boys: A New Musical is Directed by Michael Arden, featuring Music and Lyrics by The Rescues, Book by David Hornsby & Chris Hoch, Story by James Jeremias & Janice Fischer, and Produced by James Carpinello, Marcus Chait & Patrick Wilson (The Conjuring) by special arrangement with Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures.
When a mother and her two teenage sons move to Santa Carla in desperate need of a fresh start, they soon uncover the darker side of this sunny coastal community. While Lucy tries to piece her family’s life back together, Michael keeps pulling away in search of belonging.
As he finds connection with a local rock band and its charismatic leader, his younger brother Sam comes face-to-face with a terrifying reality: When night falls, Michael’s new friends are even more dangerous than they first appeared.
Joel Schumacher directed the original The Lost Boys vampire movie in 1987, wherein two brothers move to a new town and discover that the area is a haven for vampires.
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