you might imagine i'd like this, but i was actually always the kid that thought marilyn manson was stupid and his fans were retards. they weren't misunderstood. they weren't deep in a strange or subtle way. they were just actually the dumbest kids at school, straight up. i was 15 in 1996, and i never bought a single manson record.

i'm basically having the same reaction to this - this is stupid. it's not even pretentious. it's just dumb. and, you're dumb if you're falling for it.

now, that said, i did try to suspend a critical analysis for long enough to see if the music stands up if you strip it from the underlying idiocy, and it really doesn't. it's interesting for a few seconds, until you realize it's just a series of overdone cliches...

somebody's making a lot of money, here. there's nothing else to it than that.