LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Nine Inch Nails dropped out of the MTV Movie Awards after clashing with the network over an image of President Bush the band planned as a performance backdrop.
The Bush image was to accompany the song "The Hand That Feeds," which obliquely criticizes the Iraq war. It includes the lyrics: "What if this whole crusade's a charade / And behind it all there's a price to be paid / For the blood on which we dine / Justified in the name of the holy and the divine."
MTV said in a statement to its news division that the network was disappointed the industrial rock band would not perform but had been "uncomfortable with their performance being built around a partisan political statement."
The Foo Fighters will perform in place of the Trent Reznor-led band at the awards being taped June 4 in Los Angeles.
Reznor said in a statement posted on the band's Web site Thursday that the image of the president would have been unaltered and "straightforward."
"Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me," he said.
Nine Inch Nails' fourth studio album and first in six years, "With Teeth," debuted this month at No. 1.
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Monday, 30 May 2005 14:34 (twenty-one years ago)
mtv = lame. i love overtly political rock and roll 'statements' like this.
― mrjosh (mrjosh), Monday, 30 May 2005 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)
Good. Now that five minutes can be used for something neutral and apolitical like Lindsay Lohan's boobsticles.
― Cunga (Cunga), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 05:42 (twenty-one years ago)
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Nine Inch Nails dropped out of the MTV Movie Awards after clashing with the network over a lack of relevance.
― Community Cornerstone (deangulberry), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)
TS: offending red staters over politics vs. offending red staters with contrived sacriligious imagery run through dust and speckle filters.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)
TS: Showing a video that shows Bush (i.e. "Mosh") vs. Showcasing a live performance that shows Bush (i.e. "The Hand That Feeds")
― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)
or MTV in Biting The Political Hand Then Licking The Hand's Ass shocker.
― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)
"I was sitting, watching the MTV music awards halftime show with my kids. I did not expect to be assaulted by these kinds of images."
-Area Dad.
― diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)
xpost - no matter how many times I read that, it still looks like MTV is letting (political entity) wipe its ass with MTV's hand, and then MTV is licking it.
― diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)