Significance of Valentine's Day to Marilyn Manson
- This article is about the holiday. For other uses see Valentine's Day (song) and Valentine's Day (painting)
Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14. It is the most significant and recurring day within Marilyn Manson's music and artwork. It's most obvious references are the song "Valentine's Day", featured on the 2000 album Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death), and a painting with the same title. Yet, there are several less obvious references in Manson's art, which are listed below.
February 14, 1997
According to their respective album credits both "Irresponsible Hate Anthem" (Antichrist Superstar, 1996) and "Born Again" (Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death), 2000) were recorded on February 14, 1997. Especially the former is curious, since Antichrist Superstar saw it's official release over six months prior to this particular date.
It is often said that the song "I Want to Disappear" (Mechanical Animals, 1998) was recorded on this date too. However, this has never been officially confirmed by Manson himself.
Gifts
In the past Marilyn Manson has given his fans 'gifts' of some form or another on valentine's day. The following events all occured on February 14th, and unless stated otherwise are allegedly official valentine's day gifts by Manson.
- 1997: "Deformography" was played live for the first time, as well as the spoken-word version of "Mister Superstar". Also, according to the Antichrist Superstar album credits during this show the song "Irresponsible Hate Anthem" was/would be recorded.
- 1998: Manson's autobiography The Long Hard Road out of Hell was released.
- 2000: A cover of Charles Manson's "Sick City" was released through a podcast via MarilynManson.com
- 2001: Chapter 10 of the unreleased Holy Wood novel was released through ThisAsValentinesDay.com
- 2002: Two videoclips named "I Love You With All of My Heart" and "I Will Love You Until I Die" respectively were released though MarilynManson.com. Both clips depicted Manson's cat Lily White.
- 2003: The first picture of the band's new appearance for the The Golden Age of Grotesque era were presented on the band's official website. The photo was accompanied by a short movie clip named "The Mechanism of Desire", which depicted the band's new look but also Manson's former wife Dita Von Teese.
- 2005: The remake of the "The Nobodies" video that would accompany the 2005 re-relase of the single was leaked on the Universal Music website. It is as of yet unknown whether this was meant as a gift or if the leak was accidental.
- 2006: The exclusive article on Manson and Von Teese's wedding in Vogue magazine was leaked. This too was possibly by accident rather than an official gift.
- 2007: Although this can hardly be considered as a gift, on valentine's day 2007 Manson had a new tattoo depicting a spiral heart inked on his left wrist.
