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| − | "'''Putting Holes in Happiness'''" is the second from the 2007 release ''[[Eat Me, Drink Me]]''. Written on his own birthday Manson describes the song as been "a romantic-misogynistic-cannibal-gothic-vampire ballad". Similarly he has described the whole album as been "cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance – but with an upbeat swing." | + | "'''Putting Holes in Happiness'''" is the second track from the 2007 release ''[[Eat Me, Drink Me]]''. Written on his own birthday Manson describes the song as been "a romantic-misogynistic-cannibal-gothic-vampire ballad". Similarly he has described the whole album as been "cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance – but with an upbeat swing." |
''RockMag'' describes it as "a mid-tempo song of tearful guitar riffs and epic scale. On this heavy and dark serenade Manson adopts the voice of a tortured crooner and unleashes a diatribe of vocal assassination against someone unnamed. Musically, one thinks of the glam metal of Mechanical Animals (particularly the song Disassociative). At 2:46 a solo comes in that howls its despair for practically a minute (it finishes at 3:37) recalling nothing seen from Manson before except maybe Fundamentally Loathsome. One suspects that from here on in emotion will play a huge part in the album, probably closely linked to Manson’s recent break-up with Dita. | ''RockMag'' describes it as "a mid-tempo song of tearful guitar riffs and epic scale. On this heavy and dark serenade Manson adopts the voice of a tortured crooner and unleashes a diatribe of vocal assassination against someone unnamed. Musically, one thinks of the glam metal of Mechanical Animals (particularly the song Disassociative). At 2:46 a solo comes in that howls its despair for practically a minute (it finishes at 3:37) recalling nothing seen from Manson before except maybe Fundamentally Loathsome. One suspects that from here on in emotion will play a huge part in the album, probably closely linked to Manson’s recent break-up with Dita. | ||
Revision as of 14:28, 7 April 2007
"Putting Holes in Happiness" is the second track from the 2007 release Eat Me, Drink Me. Written on his own birthday Manson describes the song as been "a romantic-misogynistic-cannibal-gothic-vampire ballad". Similarly he has described the whole album as been "cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance – but with an upbeat swing."
RockMag describes it as "a mid-tempo song of tearful guitar riffs and epic scale. On this heavy and dark serenade Manson adopts the voice of a tortured crooner and unleashes a diatribe of vocal assassination against someone unnamed. Musically, one thinks of the glam metal of Mechanical Animals (particularly the song Disassociative). At 2:46 a solo comes in that howls its despair for practically a minute (it finishes at 3:37) recalling nothing seen from Manson before except maybe Fundamentally Loathsome. One suspects that from here on in emotion will play a huge part in the album, probably closely linked to Manson’s recent break-up with Dita.
It has a length of 4:35 according to the magazine.
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- Putting Holes in Happiness — Appears on Eat Me, Drink Me
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