I wanted to make this thread to hear people's opinion about the Antichrist Superstar, the God of Fuck, Rev. Marilyn Manson. I want to know what people think of him. I want to know why people who hate him hate him, and why people who love him love him. Mostly I just want to start a flame war.
I love Marilyn Manson. His music, his style, his art, and his ideas are amazingly beautiful and original, if often disturbing to those who don't understand his message. I'd like to say up front that MANSON IS A PACIFIST-- ANTI-WAR, ANTI-VIOLENCE. The lyrics in his songs are meant to be sarcastic and told from the point of view of the media and religious groups. He points out what is wrong with the world with his extremism and his charicatures of words. As Manson told Bill O'Reilly in an interview, "The media has shown us that if we do something loud enough, and it gets the media's attention, then you will be famous for it. [The Columbine shooters] got on the cover of TIME magazine. They got exactly what they wanted." In his sarcastic style of turning the joke on us, he uses his loud obscenities and his extremism to get the media's attention and get his word to America through the people who hate and fear him. His influence has spread so wide that even the parents who fear him and the religious leaders who hate him have begun using terms such as 'Mansonesque' to describe something disturbing, extreme or grotesque. (A small side note, the defininition of Grotesque is "A glorious removal from a percieved norm" which some would say makes this a synonym of Unique.
If you've got time (12 min), please listen watch this speech. I've known it to change haters into believers.
If I don't stop typing now I'll go on forever. So without any more delay, let the poll begin.
I love Marilyn Manson. His music, his style, his art, and his ideas are amazingly beautiful and original, if often disturbing to those who don't understand his message. I'd like to say up front that MANSON IS A PACIFIST-- ANTI-WAR, ANTI-VIOLENCE. The lyrics in his songs are meant to be sarcastic and told from the point of view of the media and religious groups. He points out what is wrong with the world with his extremism and his charicatures of words. As Manson told Bill O'Reilly in an interview, "The media has shown us that if we do something loud enough, and it gets the media's attention, then you will be famous for it. [The Columbine shooters] got on the cover of TIME magazine. They got exactly what they wanted." In his sarcastic style of turning the joke on us, he uses his loud obscenities and his extremism to get the media's attention and get his word to America through the people who hate and fear him. His influence has spread so wide that even the parents who fear him and the religious leaders who hate him have begun using terms such as 'Mansonesque' to describe something disturbing, extreme or grotesque. (A small side note, the defininition of Grotesque is "A glorious removal from a percieved norm" which some would say makes this a synonym of Unique.
If you've got time (12 min), please listen watch this speech. I've known it to change haters into believers.
If I don't stop typing now I'll go on forever. So without any more delay, let the poll begin.
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