trent on the happiness in slavery video
trent on the happiness in slavery video
"But let's take the Happiness in Slavery video for example. The incentive behind that was not Let's make a video that's
really gross so it'll shock people. It was that I finally had the freedom to do what I wanted to do. It it pisses somebody
off or someone's offended by it then at least there's some degree of response."
From Issue Five Huh Magazine January, 1995
It would seem that this is where the images of the first video from the EP Broken came from. The graphic black-and-
white clip for the song Happiness in Slavery shows a dour man dutifully submitting to unspeakable horrors in a
mechanical dungeon. It shocked even the most jaded music-industry insiders and needless to say never got close to
airing on MTV save for a few very brief excerpts in news reports.It wasn't a conscious decision to make the most vulgar
thing we could do to get press Reznor says which it could easily be attacked as being. But it was a chance for me to
finally be able to do something I wanted! without having to ask someone who has no fucking idea. The question came
up: "How far can we take this?" I said: "Let's just take it as far as we think is right. Forget that it's a music video
forget that it's basically a promotional clip, forget standards and censorship. Fortunately for unfortunately depending on
how you look at it it's unplayable. End of paragraph on interview on video.
Continuation of Rolling Stone January 21, l993 interview On video Happiness in
Slavery.
