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SoberHeroes: Trent Reznor

Music & Pop Culture, The Bipolar AddictBy Conor Bezane March 4, 2016

Trent Reznor is the mastermind behind Nine Inch Nails, an industrial rock band whose instant classic Pretty Hate Machine debuted with a roar in 1989. Sober now, he has struggled with depression and social anxiety for years and is a notorious alcoholic and addict. He writes about it in his music.

The Top 10 Songs About Addiction

Music & Pop Culture, The Bipolar AddictBy Conor Bezane July 7, 2015 1 Comment

There are songs that paint a vivid picture of drug and alcohol abuse and there are songs that glorify it. For this list, I focused on the former. These are songs that describe addiction to a T. Most of these artists know what it’s like to be stuck in the spider hole of addiction. They’ve lived to tell these cautionary tales.