It’s a kind of Cinderella fairytale: A boy works in a recording studio to make ends meet, uses the studio when the lights go out, works in silence and creates his first album. Trent Reznor, exceptional talent, founder of Nine Inch Nails! The industrial rock band has been nominated for a Grammy twelve times, winning twice. Reznor himself even received an Oscar as a film composer for “The Social Network”. An event that he describes as follows: “You think to yourself that you won’t win anyway. Then comes the panic. You realize that you haven’t eaten for twelve hours and the cameras are constantly on you. You want to pick your nose, but you can’t. Then you hear your name. You hug your wife, make sure you don’t trip. And then Nicole Kidman stands in front of you, almost three meters tall. After a second it’s all over” – not so with Reznor, with him it goes on and on.
1 Trent Reznor’s pronounced centerfold testifies to willpower. Here, someone is goal-oriented and knows exactly what they want.
2 What we see here on the side of the nose are nasal tip edges, an indication of the pursuit of perfection. Reznor likes to optimize, after all, there’s always room for improvement. He gives his all live, as he himself confirms: “Sometimes I come off stage and feel like I’ve slept with everyone in the audience.”
3 The narrow shape of the artist’s eyes reveals good powers of observation.
4 The most striking thing about this face? For a face reader it must be the inner ear, it clearly towers above the outer ear, a sign of strong self-confidence. Even if Reznor says that he was only able to win this with the music, it can never have been really small.
5 You don’t recognize the alpha male by his roar, you recognize him by the generous distance between the tip of his nose and his upper lip. In terms of private or business life, you can imagine it like this: The musician always wants to, must and will ultimately dominate.
6 The multi-instrumentalist’s upper lip is very narrow – and not voluptuous like a man with a belly. In other words: With Reznor, the head dominates. He then spent months studying a suitable band name: “I had about 200 ideas. Nine Inch Nails has survived the 2-week test, the name looks good in print and is easy to abbreviate. Simple it is.
7 We find the missing upper lip flesh one level lower, by the lower lip, which is slightly overlapping, indicating that the Nine Inch Nails frontman is an epicurean. Whatever it is that he enjoys, he does it extensively.
8 Drooping earlobes are a sign of a stable physical constitution.
9 “I talk too much and say stupid things,” Reznor once confessed in an interview. Well, maybe it’s not stupid at all, maybe it’s just honest. And maybe he can’t do much else, because he has a crease in his chin that says, I can’t make a fist in a sack, I’ll say it straight out if I don’t like something.