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===Trilogy concept===In an interview with Zane Lowe[http://itunes.appleLizzy Goodman posted on nin.com/us/post/sa.24db9a20-59e3-11e8-8359-8a5db8dbb4ce?app=music&ign-itsct=be1_con_zan&ign-itscg=10703], Reznor somewhat explained explains the trilogy’s concept underlying each piece of the trilogyin detail: <blockquote>"Let me drop some cryptic information on you. The idea But to be clear, the record isn’t about Trump, it’s about making sense of this three EP thing was all to find truth in us figuring out who we are now and how we fit into the world. The first EPrecord, ''Not The the Actual Events'', was meant more of an internal fantasy of what if I lit a match to my life and just embraced burning the whole fucking thing down. You know? All of this is an illusion and I really should be from dead or lying in a personal angry ditch somewhere. Who I ''really'' am is an addict that self-destructive of reflection on that question destructs. That’s my true nature and this is an illusion and defining how I feel in some borrowed time. It wasn’t a worldpleasant thing, but it feels strangerfelt like, part of that’s aginga story to tell. And if felt like something I needed to internally process. Part  And that supported other things that were interesting to us like aggressive music and a sense of that’s the self-referential, looking back at other albums and pilfering bits of the art design to confuse people and also because the world is getting weirderI was thinking about those records. Finding your place in To try picking up a world that looks different every day little bit changes guitar, which I told myself I would never do again for whatever reason and finding, you know what? It sounds fucking good. Listening back and reacting going, you know what? That was a good song from 25 years ago, it’s not bad to play something like that in . There are no rules. That was the first EP through anger and self-destruction and sitting alone setting a match to your liferecord.

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It wasn’t fully mapped out but it was meant to feel like if we broke up one big record – if it was ''Downward Spiral'', which has acts, if we do an album like that, but release one act at a time, it will be more immediate and the level of adrenaline and momentum will be higher. And maybe it will be consumed in a way that feels more digestible to an outside world that doesn’t have long attention spans anymore. With the second EPone, ''Add Violence'', the idea was meant , loosely, to zoom out, to the same question. But looking for answers externally. Maybe it’s because of this be more global and there’s comfort to imply that maybe we’re all in a simulated reality. And that. Maybe there’s a reason things feel kind might introduce the concept of crazy and it’s not that I’m insane that I’m in meaninglessness but also provide a situation that’s insanesafe container to explain why everything feels off.<br>There was By the time we got to the third EP which has grown into one, we had an LP (''Bad Witch'')idea in mind but it felt … rehearsed. Predictable. It In the end, what felt true was coming to one final look at say that question from rejecting what EP number two says, we as a society and it wasn’t as a species are probably an easy answer… accident, a mutation. Really what we are is fucking animals. And the illusion was enlightenment. The entire system has a much more bleak we’ve connected with each other the dumber we’ve gotten and pessimistic outlook and I the more we decide we want to say too much because it gives away kind kill each other. We’re not some elevated transcendent beings, we’re bacteria in a jar. I wanted the art direction of the Bad Witch to feel like shadows on a cave wall and we’re trying to figure out what the thing it is and really there’s no nice, clean, safe scientific explanation. We’re just an accident. String theory and quantum physics isa fucking trick. But it wasn’t necessarily what we thought it was And we’re not going to suddenly elevate ourselves into transcendent beings. We’re kidding ourselves. I know this will be when we startedan unsatisfying conclusion for some people. I thought it was going to go more science fictionIt isn’t what they want. I don’t really They want it to overwhelm you with cleverness be full matrix virtual reality, and deep diving and part this is the opposite of that felt like an arms race , this is dirt and it also felt like a cop outbroken computer chip and everything you believe in is really just bullshit."</blockquote>