Marilyn Manson. I was in a doctors office today, and I picked up one of those art-like beatnik want to be magazines. And I figured out something. He is a well of ideas. Like, it's more then just music, he is living the life. I get the impression he really, really, is a career artist. That is isn't about the money, that it is about him. I think this is something that most artist over look. I don't know why.
I think there might just be a music trend coming to head with him. The Golden Age of Grotesque. See, in the article, either Manson or the interviewer, said that Grotesque was yet to reach it's golden age. But, I think a need is coming for this. That this is trend could hit hard core, it it was aimed at the right market. See, I believe, oddly enough, that characters being played online reflect a direct need for something. Lately, the more twisted, the sicker, the crazier, the iller, the better the response is to them. Morbid story lines are a plus. Even I am a huge fan of blood, gore and mutation. If, somehow a band can tap into this sick, unmediated rage, it would be the age of grotesque.
However, to tap into it cannot be emo. It cannot be main stream. Like punk, for a long time, it cannot be marketable. But, some will have an ear for it. It will be sicker and louder then anything else that has ever came along. In fact, it has to be very skin crawling. We are talking uncomfortable. Dealing with fears, and society, and how things work, and like, how some people are just meant to be crazy, and how messed up things where when they are attempted to be corrected.
See, there is one thing that Manson does that annoys me. It's collecting German stuff from the time of the holocaust. See, this sends up the flags of uncomfrontable. Most people know that the Germans at that time did horrible stuff. They watched the history channel. But, seriously, it was some sick stuff. Skin crawling stuff. And in a way, I think that collecting is helping him advance his sickness facade. Which is a paradox?
I don't know. But, there is something rippling right below the society. Something that is sick. Something that is gross, and mind blowing. And, then again, society has always been that way...surpress. Wait, let me correct that..America has always been that way.
Alright. Maybe, I'm not longer making any sence. But, I know what I'm saying.