four hours after Nine Inch Nails released their music video of this song, I released mine.
Yeah I’m normal. Ha.
Sometimes i will get into a conversation about my creative process and find myself saying shit like this
And I’ll start to worry that people are gonna think I’m being Too Serious about a Silly Thing
But then i remind myself of my philosophy about the world in general and how pretty much everything is a kinda inextricable mixture of serious and silly, and not only are these not really separate things, they are complementary and perhaps necessary to each other
like how you hear people say “it’s funny because it’s real.” humor and nonsense hit more strongly when they feel like they could arise organically from real life. And the best soil from which they can germinate like that is a mixture that includes the dark and serious of real life as well as the light
And how even the darkest and most tragic bits of a serious story can often benefit from a character having a thought that normally would be funny or absurd, because of how that reference to real life silliness pulls the sad scenario into a more starkly realistic lens, feeling much more like the real world than if you’d just written it like a scene from some grim alternate universe where only sadness exists
This mix of silly and serious, as I’ve written before, is a big part of why the original Tron movie works for me. And I try to be true to that in my fanworks
(Also honestly nobody is gonna think i forgot about the silly side of Tron when I literally set the “yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah” chorus to a video clip of the Bit.)