Originally Posted by
Fred
Obviously, Trent didn't have YZ in mind when he did either of those songs. But how badass would it be for an artist to retrofit their entire body of work to fit an overarching plot? I could easily believe that's what we're seeing now. Every prior NIN song could conceivably be just another bit of a never-ending, but always changing, simulation where violence is added, then subtracted, anxiety is dialed up, then down, chaos is amplified, etc.
It would be one hell of a way to break new ground. Not only in terms of what Trent's been doing, but it'd be a whole new ballgame for popular music as a whole.