Trent Reznor Nails Courtney Love, Fred Durst,
Michael Stipe In New Video
The Nine Inch Nails video
for
"Starfuckers, Inc." that
nothing
Records has been trying to
keep
hush-hush for the past month
debuted on MTV on Tuesday
(May 2) featuring all the
goodies
that we told you about
(allstar,
April 24) and then some.
The clip, which credits Robert Hales (former Art
Director for
Raygun magazine) as director at the front of the
clip and
then Marilyn Manson at the end of the clip, entails
singer
Trent Reznor going on a date to a carnival with a
person,
who isn't revealed until the end of the clip. The
person, of
course, is his former best friend and
protégé-turned-rival
and back-full-circle to partner-in-crime, Marilyn
Manson.
The video opens with a view of a road similar to
the opening
of the movie Lost Highway, which features a
soundtrack
produced by Reznor. In the video, Reznor is first
shown in
the back of a limousine with tubes in his nose and
wearing
blue eye makeup like a mask (and also similar to
how
Manson's done his shadow many times in the past),
with
Manson disguised in a blonde wig. They show a
poster of
Pamela Anderson Lee and Donna D'Errico on their way
to the
carnival and paparazzi outside of the limo.
During the carnival, Reznor trys his hand at the
game where
you throw a baseball at a plate and try to smash
the plate.
On the plates in the video are the faces of Marilyn
Manson,
Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst, Kiss' Gene Simmons,
R.E.M.'s Michael
Stipe, and Mariah Carey. He also throws balls at
busts of
people -- one of which is of Smashing Pumpkins'
Billy Corgan
(wearing a Zero shirt), and another is of Reznor
himself.
But, the biggest diss of all is the part with an
obese
Courtney Love look-alike wearing a tiara, holding
an Oscar,
and sporting tape on her nose (to signify a nose
job) sitting
in a dunking booth with the word "waste" printed on
it.
Shortly after, Reznor is seen throwing CDs into a
toilet,
including Manson's Mechanical Animals.
This is nothing Records' second shot with
"Starfuckers, Inc.,"
as the track was the first song from The Fragile
released to
radio last year. They edited the song so it says
"Starsuckers" and changed the name as well to
ensure radio
and video airplay.
-- Carrie
Borzillo
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