![]() And I wanted to find a house, to really put my roots down in California, and I had been living out of a suitcase for three years or so. “I had everything I owned in my whole life – except for my books – in storage. I think they think I like it.” And when I lob him a straightforward first question about the collaborator on his new album, The Pale Emperor, he launches into a long-winded story about house hunting. ![]() It’s actually more of a surprise when he says: “I don’t actually know why they’ve done this. Of course vampiric gloom is a Marilyn Manson trademark. He’s waiting in the gloom when I show up, sitting on a sofa in a completely darkened hotel room with the only light coming from a fake candle flickering on the coffee table. If Morrissey had been American and had taken up satanism and lipstick and best friendship with Hunter S Thompson and Johnny Depp, he might occupy a cultural niche not that far off Manson’s. His core audience has always been disaffected adolescents: the lonely, the misunderstood, the alienated. And yet he’s also prone to writing the kind of songs you might expect from a narcissistic teenager with antisocial behaviour issues.īut then I suspect the point about Marilyn Manson is that you’re not meant to understand him. He’s an interesting and intelligent commentator on America’s twin obsessions of violence and celebrity (he was born Brian Warner his name is a blend of Marilyn Monroe and the serial killer Charles Manson). On the other he’s a middle-aged man who still hasn’t got over his goth stage. On the one hand he’s an American icon, a heavy metal rock’n’roll star who’s sold more than 50m albums. The Marilyn Manson who emerges from the cuttings I read is a confusing, hard-to-pin-down figure.
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