MARILYN MANSON
Eat Me Drink Me
Interscope
· Why do men always want what they can’t have? Goth-rocker pines over the dissolution of his marriage to burlesque pin-up wife.
When Marilyn Manson first announced Eat Me Drink Me, he admitted it was written in one night after the dissolution of his marriage to Dita von Teese. Suffice it to say we should all thank him for giving us this precautionary information. The 11 tracks here seem to indicate he’s suffering something fierce. Elongated, plodding pieces that say little other than, "I’m hurting," the album is by far his most dreary, melancholy work to date. Songs are dry bouts of Gothic emo that stretch out to ridiculous lengths given their simplicity and relatively uninteresting traits. Titles such as opener "If I Was Your Vampire," "The Red Carpet Grave" and "They Said That Hell’s Not Hot," sound far more cryptic than they actually are, which is as deflating as it is outright boring. The once-powerful industrial/metal-tinged musician has left his synthesizer on slow motion, inducing nothing but yawns. There’s something to be said for creativity in the shadow of turmoil, but this miserable lump needs to get angry again.
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