🔗 Humiliation:

every band I loved as a kid eventually sold me out, too. They disappointed me by turning into right wing weirdos or being horrendous and violent or having terribly useless opinions about the world, but—but!—Nine Inch Nails never did. Reznor and Ross never compromised themselves, never embarrassed me in the way that a drunk parent might.

I have been a pretty huge NIN fan since seeing them live a bunch of times in small Cleveland clubs back in the Pretty Hate Machine days and, but I had never really thought about it this way.

It’s true, and I would go a bit further to say that—if anything—they have become less embarrassing as the decades have gone by, with music that has stayed innovative and relevant, and lyrics that have have grown more introspective and mature.