Trent Reznor found himself in an unprecedented position when he scored the David Fincher film The Social Network with Atticus Ross in 2010: he won an Oscar for his first film soundtrack. He's since proved he can continue to flourish in this new musical medium but some might reasonably expect composing music for Nine Inch Nails to remain his comfort zone in terms of ease. Absolutely not the case, Reznor tells Rick Rubin in a revealing new interview.
"I really enjoy, weirdly, working in service to something," he tells Rubin in a two-hour interview for the latter's Tetragrammaton Apple Music podcast you can hear below. He and Rubin liken this soundtrack work as "cracking a code".
