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 Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:57 am
his lyrics from GAOG may indicate his departure from the music industry but he was only pointing out that he is not an artist hes a ******** work of art in that i believe he is hoping the audience will assume that he is waiting to be copied and ripped of as works of art always are and he will screw them over if he isnt credited that is what i believe.
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:31 am
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Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:42 am
Golden Age Of Grotesque and i am speaking of the song right now which is on the same album
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Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:40 pm
he discussed the album's mean, which considering the song has same meaning (and usually songs are about a subject the name decribes) I'd assume the song is about the same thing. And the lyrics pretty much do back it up.
"We're not fantastic ******** but we play them on TV" kinda sums up the media (and the rest of the middle and upper class) obession with celebrities and how we all consider them superhuman or something. A point he tries to make with the rest of the song too, in which he feels certain times in history were breakthrows in freedom of speech, these times he's dubbed "The Golden Ages of Grotesque" (as stated in interview). And each generation takes more and more steps towards freedom of speech: first was Elvis with slight sexual innuendo or references, then Beatles with anti-establishment messages and even drug references, 70s metal took all those messages a little farther, then 80s metal where first rock truly intended to shock people appeared with such stuff as Ozzy (I know he was around in 70s too), Misfits, Slayer,etc and in late 80s such shockfests as Gwar, Skinny Puppy, Cannibal Corpse, and Deicide. But Manson took it to the farthest step yet, but actually starting hard-to-ignore controversy. It's easy to cast something off if its simply 'indecent' or whatever, but when something comes along and makes you think and possibly question your beleifs its when people really start getting angry. But these cornerstones are what Manson is referencing to in that song.
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Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:35 am
_Built_to_Offend_666 he discussed the album's mean, which considering the song has same meaning (and usually songs are about a subject the name decribes) I'd assume the song is about the same thing. And the lyrics pretty much do back it up. "We're not fantastic ******** but we play them on TV" kinda sums up the media (and the rest of the middle and upper class) obession with celebrities and how we all consider them superhuman or something. A point he tries to make with the rest of the song too, in which he feels certain times in history were breakthrows in freedom of speech, these times he's dubbed "The Golden Ages of Grotesque" (as stated in interview). And each generation takes more and more steps towards freedom of speech: first was Elvis with slight sexual innuendo or references, then Beatles with anti-establishment messages and even drug references, 70s metal took all those messages a little farther, then 80s metal where first rock truly intended to shock people appeared with such stuff as Ozzy (I know he was around in 70s too), Misfits, Slayer,etc and in late 80s such shockfests as Gwar, Skinny Puppy, Cannibal Corpse, and Deicide. But Manson took it to the farthest step yet, but actually starting hard-to-ignore controversy. It's easy to cast something off if its simply 'indecent' or whatever, but when something comes along and makes you think and possibly question your beleifs its when people really start getting angry. But these cornerstones are what Manson is referencing to in that song. thanks for your input and i agree with it
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