Ripoff artists: This week, Marylin Manson

His name is a flagrant rip-off of Osama Spears.

 

I have never wanted to hear any of his stuff due to his image. It always just seemed so contrived and fake. I did hear his sweet dreams cover on VH1, once. That pretty much confirmed it for me.

 

He's ridiculous.

Let's not give him even more attention

 

his real name is brian
he used to work at peaches in ft lauderdale
he'd roll his eyes no matter what you bought
his band sucked then
and they suck now

 

It must kill you that he's rich, famous, and gets to date hot chicks, then.


Every generation has to have the "Rock Star" that parents fear and politicians point to as the "Decline of Western Civilization." Now that Ozzy is making Diet Pepsi commercials, and Alice Cooper is hosting charity golf tournaments, someone had to pick up the mantle, right?

I mean, in the age of Clear Channel Corporate Rock, Marilyn Manson is the best they can come up with, I'm afraid.

Try not to waste too much energy on him.

 

sells alot of records tho no? so he cant be doing ThAT much wrong.

he is a stage act, in the same way alice cooper is. i dont hate him. he writes quite catchy tunes imo.

dont think he isnt in on the joke. he fully understands the irony of his show.

 

FTM's song was on much awesome-er subject matter, too.

 

Kenny G also sells a lot of records...does that mean that he's good too? I think not.

 

Every generation has its own Alice Cooper type(Little Richard). And the youngsters these days are going after what's seems accessable.
Most youngins aren't going to do "rock research" to see who was "the first" or the "original".

 

Alice Cooper on Marilyn Manson:

"I think he's great, with the female first name and everything. I wish I had thought of that."

 

Kenny G r001z!!!!

 

I like Manson well enough, once you get past the image. And his adolescent ramblings. And failed attempt to be intelligent. And his botched try to be meaningfull. And his attempt to pass for an artists. And his attempt at being controversial. And now his attempt to remain semi-relevant. And his horribly derivitave peseudo goth industrial.

Wait a second...

 

whose kenny g?

 

Certainly not mine. You keep him.

 

Well, at least he said the one intelligent sentence in Bowling For Columbine. He may be your PE #1 but he's intelligent and eloquent in interviews, which is more than you can say of others

 

but twiggy........*dies*

*insert long witty, informative and intelligent comment here, while i think of twiggy*



*dies again*

 

Damn right. The image is going a bit far now with the chrome teeth or whatever they are, but I think he's a very intelligent man from everything I've seen of him.

I own the Antichrist Superstar album, while it's not incredible it's certainly not horrible. I respect his views and opinions a whole lot more than his image or music though.

 

Having seen the scene over the decades, I agree with JMX.

He may be a distillation of Cooper, but he has enough marketing savvy to realize there's a whole generation or two who have no idea of the Cooper phenomemon when it was truly shocking.

Too bad the original Cooper band could take Manson's band to school in terms of talent and songwriting prowess.