RE: Marilyn Manson ripping U2 off

Knetsch, Robert ([email protected])
Fri, 18 Sep 1998 08:52:49 -0400

                Knetsch, Robert wrote:
>
> Someone is using U2 to sell Marilyn Manson....I can think
of very little
> else that would insult such a noble and awesome band as
that. If you check
* out:
*
 <SNIP>
>
> Rob Knetsch

                What Ho! Your bad mouthin' Marilyn?
                Have you no humor?
                I like the lad. He makes me laugh and
                he's the only one around now that gets
                some 'adults' riled up,

                While I DID bad mouth Manson, may I point out that the
intent of my e-mail was to point out the fact that they seem to be stealing
from U2. Moreover, I looked at the song list for Mechanical Animals.
Hmmm...let's ee, one song is called "Last Day On Earth"....Remind you of a
Pop song? My point is that he seems to have no creativity, or he has to
borrow from somone who is better than he.

                 even if it's
                just the lame brain fundamentalists.

                Sheeesh....just because someone doesn't like Marilyn Manson,
that makes them a fundamentalist? Someone from WIRE complained earlier
about Christian bashing, and I guess you're the one who's been doing it.
You like to slap on labels so easily, my friend? Yet its okay that Manson
very deliberately, overtly, and without any creativity insults Christianity?
I am supposed to sit there like a sheep and LIKE it? Of COURSE any
Christian would be offended at that....that is who he is directing his anger
at! And that's what it is: anger (I've seen his autobiography). So, don't
tell me I have no humour.....and you lose all credibility calling people
fundamentalist at the drop of a hat.

                I'm all for anybody that can get up *their*
                nose.
                Anybody out there that can remember or at
                least has read about back when large portions
                of the population use to react to *all* rock
                bands this way?I love to watch him perform on music and
video
                award shows. All the cutesy brain dead MTV audience is
                appluding Puff Daddy and Hanson and Sprice Girls or
                whatever and then Marilyn Manson come on and all these
                so call rock fans are fainting in shock and calling for
                their mommy :]

                ALL the MTV audience is brain dead? How many people here
watch MTV (or MuchMusic for my fellow Canadians) in the hope to see a U2
video? Or to see other bands that are less sugary? Extreme reactionary
rock is one thing....helpful counter-cultural critique is another. Singing
against the Vietnam war, say, may have offended some people, but singing for
the purpose JUST to shock is reactionary and self-serving. Marilyn Manson
is just as useless as Puff Daddy and Hanson.

                Rob

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