The Nine Inch Nails star took to social media after his award show performance with Dave Grohl, Josh Homme and Lindsey Buckingham was cut short
Sometimes, a spot of Twitter rage pays off. Ken Ehrlich, executive producer of this year's Grammys, has apologised to Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor for cutting off the musician's performance at the end of the awards ceremony, after Reznor vented his anger online.
Reznor formed a one-night supergroup with Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac, Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme and the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl. They were to play both Nine Inch Nails' Copy of A and Queens of the Stone Age's My God Is the Sun, but the programme ran out of time and producers rolled the closing credits over the second song.
"I'm sorry he was upset," Ehrlich told the Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday. "I did tell them we'd take it as long as we could. The number was about five, six minutes long, and we got to within [one minute and 20 seconds] of the end. We got as close as we could possibly get."
Ehrlich went on to explain that the Grammys' closing number is meant to play out as a "final jam", in a style first pulled off by Arcade Fire in 2011 and continued by host LL Cool J in 2012.
Similarly, at the 2012 Brit awards, host James Corden interrupted Adele's acceptance speech for British album of the year to allow time for an 11-minute live performance from Blur. Adele responded by raising a middle finger on the show's live ITV broadcast, aimed at "the suits at the Brit awards". Her frustration prompted apologies from both the award-show organisers and ITV, as well as an admission of confused embarrassment from Corden.
This isn't Reznor's first time when it comes to lashing out at the Grammys. In a 2011 cover story for the Hollywood Reporter, he said he displayed his Oscar and Golden Globe prominently in his home, but had not kept track of where he had stored his Grammy awards for best metal performance in 1993 and 1996: "Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap – like a popularity contest that the insiders' club has decided."
by Tshepo Mokoena via Music: Electronic music | theguardian.com
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