Dans une interview avec Sound Opinions, Trent Reznor revient sur le « Scream » de Chris Cornell. La chose intéressante est qu’on apprend qu’à l’époque de « With Teeth« , la maison de disque de Reznor (qui, au passage, a produit « Scream« …), Interscope, avait demandé à Reznor de rajouter un peu plus de beats dans l’album. Et quand on dit rajouter des beats, on pense à qui ? Et oui, Timbaland. L’homme au beat unique est donc venu, il a pris « The Hand That Feed« , l’a remixé, et… est reparti, puisque Reznor qualifie son remixe de « laughably terrible« . Dommage qu’il n’en reste aucune trace… La partie intéressante de l’interview est en suite.
[i]In the case of Cornell, I don’t know Chris. I do know what label he’s on now, and I do know who’s whispering in his ear. And heavily on the With Teeth album, I turned that record in and I would get back, « Hey you know, you might wanna… maybe we need to put some beats on this record. »I’m not making this up. « What do you mean, beats? »
« Well, this urban thing is really taking off. You’ll get it in the club. You know, what if we had Dre or somebody… »
And the part of me that wants to be the open-minded artist says, « I’ll consider that. » I even went so far as Timbaland doing a– trying to do a– remix at Interscope’s dime of « Hand That Feeds », which was laughably terrible. And when I turned in Year Zero, which I thought had the coolest beats I’ve ever come up with, I hear « Yeah, we need some cool beats. » It’s like, « You know what? Suck me. »
And I’m sure there was someone whispering in Cornell’s [ear] and he can put that off as some kind of socio-cultural experiment, but what it was was a money grab. And when you do that, you’re saying to other people that look up to you [that] it’s okay to do that. And it’s not okay to do that. It isn’t.[/i]
