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Ogni volta che ascolto Brian Warner cantare nei Marilyn Manson, non posso fare a meno di pensare che egli sia la migliore impersonificazione vivente della attuale società americana. Con tanti pregi e terrificanti difetti; con fascino ma arroganza; con uno stile, ma non unico; orginale si, ma troppo "volutamente quiche" per essere considerato un artista raffinato. Molto intelligente, colto e capace ad essere unico nel copiare altri. In una parola sola un bluff.
Un finto cattivo, che però ha il coraggio di ammettere di farlo per i soldi, la gloria e la fama. Omega ormai è i Marilyn Manson, esattamente quanto Mustaine è i Megadeth oppure Reznor i NIN. Al punto che quasi tutti pensano non a torto che sia il suo nome d'arte e non quello della band. Del resto, gli altri componenti sono dei mercenari in continuo cambiamento, e non certo dei virtuosi dei rispettivi strumenti se si eccettua l'ex Ramirez (infatti passato sotto l'ala protettiva di Reznor) ed il discreto "Ginger"alla batteria sempre quadrata e anni '80. Siamo giunti al sesto album della band dal 1994 ad oggi, e devo dire che personalmente sono un amante del secondo e terzo album (Antichrist Superstar e Mechanical Animals) mentre trovo onestamente inascoltabile tutto il resto della produzione. Sarà che "Antichrist" fu in buona parte scritto da Reznor, sarà che "Animals" è in realtà un album pop-dance anni'80 camuffato da hard rock, però apprezzo quegli album anche oggi a distanza di anni. Il resto è "garbage" remake dei primi singoli senza un minimo di innovazione. Con un eccezione, permettetemi... le cover anni '80 che ogni tanto sfoggia il nostro. ECCEZIONALI! Vedi: Sweet Dreams, Tainted Love etc... davvero notevoli e che una volta ancora sottolineano la pochezza creativa del personaggio, ma la sua eccezionale capacità istrionica ed il suo dualismo genetico.
Veniamo a questo album. La intro è un pezzo senza infamia e senza lode, molto triste, che riflette il periodo tribolato per la separazione dalla moglie, la nota spogliarellista "Dita Von Teese". Donna di fascino discutibile, ma certamente dotata di intelligenza pari alla sua, e che credo il nostro ragazzone rimpiangerà parecchio. La seconda "Putting Holes in..." non è malaccio ed ha discreti solos di chitarra. La terza e quarta traccia, vanno via lisce senza stupire particolarmente ma dando un insieme diverso dagli ultimi due "osceni" album. Pochissima elettronica, molta più chitarra, e molta più cura nei testi e nella qualità del cantato. Insomma nel complesso meno peggio del previsto, ma l'album non decolla. La quinta traccia "Just a car" è di una malinconica tristezza, quasi grunge, di dorati tempi seattleiani ma non riesce a raggiungere le vette che si prefissa chiaramente l'autore. Troppo piatta. Finalmente alla n.6 si giunge al primo pezzo degno di qualche nota: "Heart-shaped-glasses". Intro di chitarra molto (troppo?) glam anni '80 e poi solita tarantella sotto e solita voce calda. Insomma un pezzo che avrebbero scritto (molto più bello) un Bowie o i T-Rex un lustro fà. Insomma tracce di metal al pezzo 6, NULLE! Segni di Industrial? Meno di zero. Segni di hard-rock o possiblità di pogo in concerto? Macchè! Quanto meno adesso risulta chiaro che un notizia da dare c'è. I Manson hanno cambiato genere musicale e non è più un gruppo metal (se mai lo sono stati).
La n.7 è un pezzo dei Cure con sopra delle chitarre sovraregistrate. "Are you a rabbit" è un pezzo che fa ben sperare all'inizio. Sembra vagamente tornare alle sonosrità metal di "Antichrist". Poi scade nel piattume imperante. Cacchio, ha fatto male ha lasciare la via dell'elettronica. Nel complesso era l'unica cosa di qualità degli ultimi album che riempiva l'altrimenti assordante vuoto artistico! Vedi "Mutilation is..." che è inascoltabile. La n.10 "you and me and..." invece forse è quella che... niente da fare. Anche questa parte bene poi scade nel "void". La "title track", "Eat Me, Drink Me" è imbarazzante. Nel senso che sembra un collage di altri suoi singoli già sfornati in precedenza, senza elettronica, senza cattiveria e con in più solo una enorme tristezza di vivere. Roba da flebo insomma. Stendo un velo pietoso sulla versione semi-dance remix dell'ultima traccia. La versione elettronica della n. 6 che immagino sarà il secondo singolo dell'abum. Spero che l'effetto sia voluto, pèerchè sembra disco rumena o bulgura... GIURO! Provate a sentirla questa perchè è talmente pacchiana da farti ridere prima, e farti ballare alla fine stile gioca-jouer. Boh? Non capisco. Mercato delle pacchione nelle disco.night dell'est? Secondo me questa in Russia spacca.
Concludo. Voglio andare contro-corrente. A me il personaggio da sempre piace e lo stimo. Ascolterei le sue interviste per ore ed ore, perchè ha visioni politiche e sociali a volte talmente avanti da essere messo al confino. L'artista invece è defunto! Non riesce nemmeno piu a tirare fuori il singolino carino come nei precedenti. R.I.P.
Elenco tracce e testi
01 If I Was Your Vampire (05:56)
6 AM, Christmas morning
No shadows
No reflections here
Lie cheek to cheek in your cold embrace.
So soft and so tragic as a slaughterhouse
She pressed the knife against your heart
And say that 'I love you so much you must kill me now.
I love you so much you must kill me now...'
If I was your vampire
Certain as the moon
Instead of killing time
We'll have each other untill the sun.
If I was your vampire
Death waits for no one.
Hold my hands across your face
Because I think our time has come.
Digging your smile apart with my spade tongue
The hole is where the heart is
We built this tomb together
And I won't fill it alone.
Beyond the pale
Everything's black no turning back
If I was your vampire
Certain as the moon
Instead of killing time
We'll have each other till the sun.
If I was your vampire
Death waits for no one.
Hold my hands across your face
Because I think our time has come.
Blood stained sheets in the shape of your heart
This is where it starts
This is where it will end
Here comes the moon again.
6:19 and I know I'm ready.
Drive me off the mountain
You'll burn and I'll eat your ashes.
The impossible wheels seducing our corpse.
If I was your vampire
Certain as the moon
Instead of killing time
We'll have each other untill the sun.
If I was your vampire
Death waits for no one.
Hold my hands across your face
Because I think our time has come.
Beyond the pale
Everything's black no turning back
Beyond the pale
Everything's black no turning back
This is where it starts
This is where it will end
Here comes the moon again.
Here comes the moon again.
This is where it starts
This is where it will end
Here comes the moon again.
Here comes the moon again.
Here comes the moon again.
03 The Red Carpet Grave (04:05)
They call her,
Bulldozer speech demon without distractions of hope
She makes the
depression business look surprisingly novel and she’s not just royal Allegedly loyal
but unfaithful but she has no faith in me
Inhale the damage smoothly Paradise isn’t lost
It was hiding all along
There’s the ones that you love
The ones that love you
The ones that make you come
The ones that make you come unglued
I can’t turn my back on you
When you are walking away
Bottomless celebrity scar staged circuses for schoolgirls
boys are all dressed up like a mediocre suicide omen here comes the red carpet grave Again and again and again
Oh man
There’s the ones that you love
The ones that love you
The ones that make you come
The ones that make you come unglued
I can’t turn my back on you
When you are walking away
I can’t turn my back on you
When you are walking away
can’t turn my back on you
When you are walking away
There’s the ones that you love
The ones that love you
The ones that make you come
The ones that make you come unglued
There’s the ones that you love
The ones that love you
The ones that make you come
The ones that make you come unglued
It’s easy to beat the system
but a hard time beating the symptoms
but a hard time beating the symptoms
I can’t turn my back on you
I can’t turn my back on you
I can’t turn my back on you
When you are walking away
Here comes the red carpet grave
Again and again and again
Here comes the red carpet grave
Again and again and again
Oh man
05 Just a Car Crash Away (04:55)
Love is a fire.
Burns down all that it sees.
Burns down everything.
Everything you think
burns down
everything you say.
She blew me her death-kiss
and the mouth-marks
bled down my eye,
like her dying
just on my windshield.
I can already feel
her worms
eating my spine.
Car So how can it be this lonely?
Is that all we get
Crash for our lives?
Is love only sweeter when
one of us dies?
Away
Then I knew that our love was
just a car crash away.
I knew that our love was just a car crash away.
I knew that our love was
just a car crash away.
Lyrics I knew that our love was
just a car crash away.
3x Love is a fire.
Burns down all that it sees.
Burns down everything.
Everything you think
burns down
everything you say.
I knew that our love was
just a car crash away.
Knew that our love was
just a car crash away.
Just a car crash away.
I knew that our love was
just a car crash away.
I knew that our love was
just a car Just crash away.
(repeat to end of solo)
Love is a fire.
Car Burns down all that it sees.
Burns down everything.
Everything you think
Crash burns down
everything you say.
Love is a fire.
Burns down all that it sees.
Away Burns down everything.
Everything you think
burns down
everything you say.
07 Evidence (05:20)
you have eyes that lead me on
and a body that shows me death
your lips look like they were made
for something else but they just suck my breath
I want your pain
to taste why you're ashamed and I know you're not just what you say to me and I'm not the only
moment you're made of
You're so sudden and sweet all legs, knuckle, knees
Head's blown clean off your mouth's paid off
Fuck me 'til we know it's unsafe and we'll paint
over the evidence
I want you wanting me
I want what I see in your eyes
so give me something to be scared of
don't give me something to satisfy
You're so sudden and sweet
all legs, knuckle, knees
Head's blown clean off
your mouth's paid off
Fuck me 'til we know it's unsafe and we'll paint
over the evidence
I want your pain
to taste why you're ashamed and I know you're not just what you say to me
and I'm not the only moment you're made of
You're so sudden and sweet all legs, knuckle, knees
Head's blown clean off your mouth's paid off
Fuck me 'til we know it's unsafe and we'll paint
over the evidence
You're so sudden and sweet all legs, knuckle, knees
Head's blown clean off your mouth's paid off
Fuck me 'til we know it's unsafe and we'll paint
over the evidence
08 Are You the Rabbit? (04:14)
I'm a kick stand in your mouth
And I'm the tongue's slamming on the brakes
Pull the choke in
Pull the choke in
As hard as it will take.
All your pictures are getting dirty
Don't want anyone else's
Hand on my gears.
And I'll choke on
All the diamonds,
Like a vulture, on your face
So ask your self before you get in,
I know the insurance won't cover this.
Are you the rabbit
Or the headlight,
And is there
Room in your life
For one more breakdown?
You can't escape,
Can't escape
All your demons.
All you demons,
"Watch out, watch out,
For your lovers."
Faster, faster,
Faster-faster-faster-faster,
I'm late, I'm late!
And the hands on my clock
Are starting to shake.
We're on the line between
The devil's tits,
We've been driving on E.
I'm going to be wanted for this crime
"Well at least you're wanted,"
You'll say.
So ask your self before you get in,
I know the insurance won't cover this.
Are you the rabbit
Or the headlight,
And is there
Room in your life
For one more breakdown?
You are an unmarked car
Can't remember where I parked you
But I love you,
Can't afford you,
Take a cab to the funeral.
Faster, faster,
Faster-faster-faster-faster,
I'm late, I'm late!
And the hands on my clock
Are starting to shake.
You can't escape,
Can't escape
All your demons.
All you demons,
"Watch out, watch out,
For your lovers."
So ask your self before you get in,
I know the insurance won't cover this.
Are you the rabbit
Or the headlight,
And is there
Room in your life
For one more breakdown?
09 Mutilation Is the Most Sincere Form of Flattery (03:53)
Hey
There's no rules today
You steal instead of borrow
You take all the shapes that I make
Think that you think all the thoughts that I taught you
Don't you?
Mutilation's the most sincere form of flattery.
If you want to be me,
Then stand in line like the rest
Now, do you know what I mean?
The young get less bolder
The legends get older
But I stay the same as long as you have less to say
Do you think that I wouldn't say this?
You know that I play this better than you.
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you too,
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you too,
Do you really think that I wouldn't say this?
You know that I play this better than you.
Rebels without applause
I sell my shadow to those who are standing in it
They think I would bitch about them
Thinking they are the shit
When they can't even step in it
The young get less bolder
The legends get older
But I stay the same as long as you have less to say
Do you think that I wouldn't say this?
You know that I play this better than you.
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you too,
The young get less bolder
The legends get older
But I stay the same as long as you have less to say
Do you think that I wouldn't say this?
You know that I play this better than you.
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you too,
The young get less bolder
The legends get older
But I stay the same as long as you have less to say
Do you think that I wouldn't say this?
You know that I play this better than you.
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you too,
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you too,
Do you think that I wouldn't say this?
You know that I play this better than you.
11 EAT ME, DRINK ME (05:41)
In the wasteland,
On the way to the Red Queen
It's no wonder our stage clothes
Have dreams to be famous.
The trees in the courtyard
Are painted in blood, so I've heard,
She hangs the headless upside down to drain.
EAT ME, DRINK ME
EAT ME, DRINK ME
This is only a game,
this is only a game
I was invited to a beheading today.
I thought I was a butterfly next to your flame.
Rush of panic and the lock has been raped.
This is only a game,
this is only a game...
But then our star rushes in, feeling like a child and looking like a woman...
She has been forecast with an attempt to kill herself, but the ending didn't test well.
EAT ME, DRINK ME
EAT ME, DRINK ME
This is only a game,
this is only a game...
I was invited to a beheading today.
I thought I was a butterfly next to your flame.
A rush of panic and the lock has been raped.
This is only a game,
this is only a game...
EAT ME, DRINK ME
EAT ME, DRINK ME
This is only a game,
this is only a game.
But then our star rushes in, feeling like a child and looking like a woman...
She has been forecast with an attempt to kill herself, but the ending didn't test well.
EAT ME, DRINK ME
EAT ME, DRINK ME
This is only a game,
this is only a game,
this is only a game...
Now I'm picking my skin and my scales.
I see my horror mirrored in the sundown of your blank stare.
I see my horror mirrored in the sundown of your blank stare.
EAT ME, DRINK ME
This is only a game,
this is only a game,
But then our star rushes in, feeling like a child and looking like a woman...
She has been forecast with an attempt to kill herself, but the ending didn't test well.
EAT ME, DRINK ME
EAT ME, DRINK ME
This is only a game,
this is only a game.
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Altre recensioni
Di Il Grande Hallel
Il nuovo attesissimo disco del Reverendo è come se non fosse suo.
L'insieme delle song, quindi, prive di qualsiasi tipo di effetto o accorgimento usato fino ad oggi dalla band, intristisce l'ascoltatore.
Di Sofy
La prima cosa che viene in mente a tutti è un tipo alto e magro, più truccato di Moira Orfei (di cui, a mio parere, è figlio illegittimo).
Dopo aver ascoltato "Eat me, drink me", ho constatato che Britney Spears è quasi più metal di Marilyn Manson.
Di Andy999
"Eat Me, Drink Me è un album buio, illuminato dalla luna e infestato da vampiri."
"Manson ci fa oltrepassare lo specchio, e ci fa vedere ciò che c’è dietro alle apparenze, in un viaggio alla 'Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie' fra le sue fantasie e riflessioni."
