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Eat Me, Drink Me is the sixth studio album by Marilyn Manson, due for release in June 2007 in North America by Interscope Records. Eat Me, Drink Me was produced by frontman Marilyn Manson and recorded in multiple studios in California, and in collaboration with "an assortment of other musicians".

Background information

Manson on Eat Me, Drink Me

"I feel as if there's more like three albums' worth of material, [because] I don't want to cram a long record into a place that doesn't have the attention span for that... I'd like to return to the old-fashioned records that had eight or nine songs [that] were all very important. Not to say that I made records that had filler material. They were all based around a central idea, and the central idea in this one is my pain and its ability to be unashamed to repeat itself."

—Marilyn Manson, MTV News

"[The songs] are clearly written to seduce somebody... I don't want people to think that the record is some kind of exploitation of my personal life. At the same time, it also represents exactly who I am and what I feel... I really wanted to be a singer on this album. This is very earnest and uncalculated and raw, in the sense that I know I'm fucked up, and I'm really not ashamed of it."

—Marilyn Manson, Rolling Stone

"This is the record I’ve worked all my life to get to. You always have to transform, or you can’t continue as an artist, and this record has been the biggest transformation for me... It’s better heard than described... On this record I really wanted to sing, and that has to come from a naked, emotional place. It's not a record about me crying, or songs about my woes, but I think this record will probably speak to more people in different ways, because of its total human element... If I had to do a record review, I’d say it’s got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to it... The album's title [Eat Me, Drink Me] was also inspired by that story several years back of the German man who put out an ad that he wanted to be eaten, and the man who ate him. Although I can't relate to the relationship those two had, I found the story very compelling in a romantic way."

—Marilyn Manson, Revolver

The singer also referred to the album as "very guitar-oriented and very melodic", and as featuring "various unconventional forms of percussion". He has also called it a romantic album, whose lyrical content involves "the unfulfilled yearning to be in another time or another place where you feel like you would fit in better".

Recent Events

On February 26, 2007, MarilynManson.com revealed the opinion of Rolling Stone upon first hearing the album as being:

"Things got really interesting on Saturday when the Smoking Section drove out to the Valley at the behest of Marilyn Manson. The S.S. joined Manson in his rec room where we worked our way down the belly of a bottle of German absinthe and were blown away as Manson debuted his new album, Eat Me, Drink Me. The key cut is "If I Was Your Vampire," a six-minute epic with the lyric "The hole is where the heart is." If anyone thought Manson was down for the count, think again."[1]

Themes

According to Manson, Vampirism is just one of the dark themes running through Eat Me, Drink Me. "If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to it." He says with a laugh. Aside from the obvious Lewis Carroll and Jesus Christ references, Manson says the album's title was also inspired by "that story several years back of the German man who put out an ad that he wanted to be eaten, and the man who ate him. Although I can't relate to the relationship those two had, I found the story very compelling in a romantic way. I think a lot of people wouldn’t look at it as romantic, but it was to them in some sick way, and it is to me in some sick way, too" he laughs.

Track listing

OFFICIAL TRACK LIST Tracks 1-7 and their lengths have been confirmed by the April issue of RockMag.

1. "Putting Holes in Happiness" – 4:35

2. "When the Heart Guides the Hand" – 5:00

3. "They Say Hell Is Not Hot" – 4:17

4. "The Red Carpet Grave" – 4:47

5. "If I Was Your Vampire" – 6:01

6. "Are You the Rabbit?" – 3:57

7. "Just a Car Crash Away" – 4:55

Confirmed Inclusions

• "You, Me And The Devil Makes 3" – Rolling Stone revealed that this track features unusual percussion in the form of a skunk trap.

Possible Inclusions

• "Eat Me, Drink Me" – Based on naming precedent of the previous four Marilyn Manson albums of having a track with the same name as the album.
• "This Is Halloween" – A cover featured on The Nightmare Before Christmas Soundtrack re-release in October 2006. The chances of it being featured on the standard version of Eat Me, Drink Me are improbable, but it may see future release on international versions of the album, much like "Tainted Love" (also a cover) was to The Golden Age of Grotesque.

Personnel

• Marilyn Manson - vocals
• Tim Skold - guitars, bass
• Madonna Wayne Gacy - keyboards
• Ginger Fish - drums