Interview:2020/09/01 Marilyn Manson on 'Chaos,' Collaboration, How Elton John Made Him Cry
Marilyn Manson on 'Chaos,' Collaboration, How Elton John Made Him Cry | ||
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Interview with Marilyn Manson | ||
Date | September 1, 2020 | |
Source | Revolver | |
Interviewer | Sara Taylor text: Revolver Staff |
- An excerpt from Youth Code singer Sara Taylor's interview with the shock-rock icon
It's 108 degrees in Los Angeles, and in Marilyn Manson's words, "the ants have come indoors." Between the hellish heat and the swarming insects, the August day is an apt reflection of the apocalyptic times, which have seen a global pandemic grip the world in turmoil. So too is Manson's recently released song "WE ARE CHAOS," the haunting lead single and title track off his imminent new album, due out September 11th via Loma Vista. "If you say that we're ill, give us your pill/Hope we'll just go away/But once you've inhaled death/Everything else is perfume," he intones, words that ring eerily relevant to the deadly airborne virus leading to COVID-19, though they were written before the rise of the contagion. "We are sick, fucked up and complicated/We are chaos, we can't be cured."