12 Things Only Nine Inch Nails Fans Would Understand

10. Marilyn Manson Is Awesome. Wait, No He's Not. Wait, No... He's Okay Again

One of the most intrinsically-linked facets of the Nine Inch Nails tapestry has to be everyone's favourite miscreant; Marilyn Manson. It's a bit of a love-hate relationship though. If the NIN fan-base collective had a Facebook profile, the relationship status with Manson would be "It's complicated". In the early days Trent was like a loving uncle to precious, evil little Marilyn, reading him bedtime stories, plaiting his silky hair and producing the best albums which Manson would ever release. But the love story turned ugly - those in the NIN camp like to believe that Manson was having delusions of grandeur, misbehaving in the studio, probably pulling Trent's chair out just as he was about to sit down, that sort of thing. Years later, after we'd all burned our Manson records, posters and sticker albums, the two kissed and made up and God knows what else, with Marilyn making a genuinely surprising appearance in the video for Nine Inch Nails' Starf*ckers, Inc. This gesture, followed by Manson showing up on stage with Reznor during a Madison Square Garden show, confirmed it: the sleepovers and pillow fights were back on track. Except that they weren't - the two continued to take petty stabs at one another for years to come, although without much venom. Trent did call him a dopey clown though, which was cool. Again, it's complicated.