MARILYN MANSON — Eat Me, Drink Me (review)

MARILYN MANSON — Eat Me, Drink Me album cover Album · 2007 · Metal Related Buy this album from MMA partners
1.5/5 ·
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With a new relationship and a spring in his step, Marilyn Manson found himself in a decidedly lovey-dovey mood when it came to recording Eat Me, Drink Me. This manifests in a significantly lessened emphasis on his industrial metal roots, a lot of romantic gothy flourishes, and - once you brush aside the overproduction and spooky effects - something which sounds awfully close to rather anonymous alternative rock as opposed to anything particularly Mansony. See, for instance, the lead single from the album Heart-Shaped Glasses, a tedious little number notably only for its excruciatingly embarrassing and egotistical music video.

I'm not going to do the rock snob misogynist thing and accuse Evan Rachel Wood of doing a Yoko Ono thing to Manson's music - it was already firmly on a downhill slide when she came onto the scene - but both the music video and the romantic slant of the album as a whole seem constructed to allow Manson the opportunity to brag about how he's dating a significantly younger woman. In other words, it's Manson going through a slightly early mid-life crisis in the most public way possible, and whilst that might make interesting material for a concept album, Manson really isn't the guy to do it. When you put on a Marilyn Manson album, you know exactly what you want - mildly transgressive but ultimately kind of harmless and irresistibly catchy poppy industrial metal. More or less every time Manson has tried to operate outside of that niche has resulted in embarrassment, and Eat Me Drink Me is no exception.
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