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Former Nine Inch Nails drummer finds 'Call Me Maybe' mash-up "offensive"

Former Nine Inch Nails drummer Chris Vrenna has revealed his displeasure at a mash-up of one of the band's songs and Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Call Me Maybe'.

The pop singer's hit track has spawned numerous internet parody videos and Nine Inch Nails' 'Head Like A Hole' was mashed up with the Jepsen track.

It doesn't seem to have sat well with Vrenna, however, who performed with the industrial alt-rockers in the late 1980s and the 90s.

He told TMZ that the mash-up was "offensive" and "insulting" to his former band's music. Vrenna said:

"Honestly I find the whole thing silly and partly offensive...I find it kind of insulting. It has trivialised something we've done. I am proud of what we've done and to take art - just to be a joke - I don't have any respect for it."

Nine Inch Nails mainman Trent Reznor meanwhile recently announced plans to tour this year with a new line-up, including King Crimson man Adrian Belew.

 

 

 

 

Listen to the offending mash-up below: