Deep Six Marilyn Manson At Once

Excuse me Marilyn Manson. The '90s was back that way. Today you'll come across as awkward like a fan boy at ComicCon. Well, since you're hear and since the meter's running why don't we see what hell you've wrought. "Deep Six" eh? Appears the trappings of a Marilyn Manson outing are present and accounted for. Creeps inducing video. Chords that unsettle if not make you bust out in hives outright. Lyrics weighted down by slasher fiend angst. Yup. It's out there on display. "Pale" deservedly ranks as a useful adjective to describe your skin after a solid listening. Anybody wanna get inside Marilyn's mind and move all the things around? Not an assignment for the faint of heart. Do you want to know what Zeus said to Narcissus? Probably not your top priority I gather. Follow the harsh as fingers on a blackboard brand of guitar playing and you can at least say you came away from the whole experience slightly better off than when you came in. Audio visual wise the video isn't breaking new ground. Repeat close up shots of oddball things were MTV's hallmark from day one. Manson needs to do his homework before locking up a video director. He hasn't lost his menacing "appeal". He's a poet, actor, and painter as well so from that data you can tell he has a finger in multiple pots. Even so you can't ignore that Marilyn's antics are a wee outdated two decades after "The Dope Show" broke the news that smart people already knew for a long time to their exceedingly stupid brethren in turning the world around...that we're all stars in the dope show. Reality TV's longer than warranted shelf life makes that plain. If there's credit to be doled out to Manson my vote lands on the fourth bridge. He spells eros backwards and comes up with sore, an important word for the turbulent era we live in. Throw some alphabet on the tail end of "sin" and you get "sincere". Thumbs up for being close to a dictionary and a manual having any sort of connection to the origins of root words. Marilyn's attempt to cash in on shock value, a cow that had been amply milked back in the day won't wash in an age where nothing's particularly shocking. Anyone with a mike can be a star, spout whatever kind of drivel he feels is appropriate and then stumble off like nothing evil took place. On camera he's convinced what he's participating in will turn some heads. "The Pale Emperor", if "Deep Six" is any indication isn't going to ruffle anybody's morning coffee. It merely succeeds in conveying Marilyn's been reduced to a trying too hard lounge act that needed to exit with dignity long ago.