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So much for the public’s hate. A more pressing question might be whether people love Marilyn Manson the way they used to. His last two albums, 1998’s [[Mechanical Animals (album)|Mechanical Animals]] and 2000’s [[Holy_Wood_(In_the_Shadow_of_the_Valley_of_Death)|Holywood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death]]), both sold disappointingly. At the same time, Eminem, another notorious MM, became the moral majority’s nemesis. Manson’s bogeyman stock plummeted. The Onion ran a mock newspaper story headlined MARILYN MANSON NOW GOING DOOR-TO-DOOR TRYING TO SHOCK PEOPLE. | So much for the public’s hate. A more pressing question might be whether people love Marilyn Manson the way they used to. His last two albums, 1998’s [[Mechanical Animals (album)|Mechanical Animals]] and 2000’s [[Holy_Wood_(In_the_Shadow_of_the_Valley_of_Death)|Holywood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death]]), both sold disappointingly. At the same time, Eminem, another notorious MM, became the moral majority’s nemesis. Manson’s bogeyman stock plummeted. The Onion ran a mock newspaper story headlined MARILYN MANSON NOW GOING DOOR-TO-DOOR TRYING TO SHOCK PEOPLE. | ||
− | At age 34, Manson is seen less as an evil pied piper leading kids of America into Babylon and more as a well respected commentator and polymath. He exhibited some of his watercolors in a Hollywood gallery this September and can be seen playing a transvestite alongside MaCaulay Culkin in the upcoming movie [[Christina | + | At age 34, Manson is seen less as an evil pied piper leading kids of America into Babylon and more as a well respected commentator and polymath. He exhibited some of his watercolors in a Hollywood gallery this September and can be seen playing a transvestite alongside MaCaulay Culkin in the upcoming movie [[Christina|Party Monster]]. He also has plans to write and direct his own feature-length debut. Where does all that leave his music? |
Manson will have an answer for this question- later. First, he wants to play Blender his new record,[[The Golden Age of Grotesque (album)| The Golden Age of Grotesque]]. "We’ll listen to it and you’ll say it’s shit, and I’ll send my baboons after you," he says, pressing play. | Manson will have an answer for this question- later. First, he wants to play Blender his new record,[[The Golden Age of Grotesque (album)| The Golden Age of Grotesque]]. "We’ll listen to it and you’ll say it’s shit, and I’ll send my baboons after you," he says, pressing play. |