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This really stood out to me: > When we first started off, our interaction with our audience would be someone recognizing you at a record store and saying, “I’m
by le-mark 9y ago
This really stood out to me:
> When we first started off, our interaction with our audience would be someone recognizing you at a record store and saying, “I’m not a fan, but my so-and-so is.” Okay, fuck you. Or people would find out where you live and send you a letter and you’d read something that clearly came from an insane person. Then the internet connected everybody. I remember the Prodigy bulletin board and being fascinated to see there was a Nine Inch Nails room. The promise of that kind of interaction with fans was exciting. The consequences of how that interaction has evolved have not been.
He's a bit more introspective later on about his role in that, how if you're in the public eye, you have to manage your image. It's so weird to think, we're all adults now. Like he says, he never considered having to represent those lyrics twenty years later.