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November 6, 2009

Every Marilyn Manson Hurts

NSFW "Running to the Edge of the World" video, you guys:

Yuck. This video is terrible! It's like it was created by a focus group tasked with determining what anti-social 15-year-olds from broken homes who like 50-year-old men and nightmares want.

Although, maybe I'm watching it wrong? Like you know how it's unfair to judge the trailers for James Cameron's Avatar too harshly after watching them on a Quicktime window on your computer monitor when the film is intended to be watched in anamorphic 3D on IMAX? Maybe we shouldn't judge this video too harshly until we've seen it through the window of our Time Machine on the way back to late 1997, the day before Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" video first aired, when this might have seemed even slightly shocking and not just the obnoxious work of an aging asshole who's run out of ideas.

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You silly! Marilyn Manson never had any ideas!

Posted by: Godsauce profile link at 11/06/09 5:07 PM  | Reply
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Posted by: Froghat profile link  in reply to  Godsauce's comment at 11/06/09 5:16 PM  | Reply
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Oh my god EXACTLY. This video is basically Henry: Portrait of a Serial Vlogger.

Posted by: Cultural Underpinnings Face King profile link  in reply to  Froghat's comment at 11/06/09 5:32 PM  | Reply
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Hollllly Shit.

Why?

Posted by: bingo gas station profile link at 11/06/09 5:07 PM  | Reply
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This sounds like a bad Creed song.

Posted by: incredimarc profile link at 11/06/09 5:10 PM  | Reply
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Otherwise known as "a Creed song."

Posted by: kiss the pan profile link  in reply to  incredimarc's comment at 11/06/09 5:12 PM  | Reply
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ZING!
Seriously though, ZING!

Posted by: KajusX profile link  in reply to  kiss the pan's comment at 11/06/09 5:14 PM  | Reply
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It does look like they cribbed off of the youtube clips of kids singing old marilyn manson tunes (horribly) with their pale ugly faces and their sad ugly lives.


Ultra-Meta?

Posted by: DS3M profile link at 11/06/09 5:10 PM  | Reply
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There's a big 'ol tear running down my face. No, wait, that's him. There's a big 'ol tear running down HIS face.

Posted by: Froghat profile link at 11/06/09 5:11 PM  | Reply
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wow, i thought this was 'every rose has its thorn' at first.

Posted by: woozefa profile link at 11/06/09 5:11 PM  | Reply
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That's understandable... I think that's the only 80's song he hasn't covered yet.

Posted by: petepetepete profile link  in reply to  woozefa's comment at 11/06/09 9:34 PM  | Reply
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ok, here's the deal: antichrist superstar was a rad video, and back then, Mr. Warner had things to say.

But that was the 90's! It was a more tubular time then. And the world has moved on. And he is still saying the same things. Which is to say that maybe he is an Alzheimer's sufferer. Which is the saddest of all.

Posted by: davidcxr profile link at 11/06/09 5:12 PM  | Reply
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by video i mean album, obvs

Posted by: davidcxr profile link at 11/06/09 5:13 PM  | Reply
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Instead of having him 'act' out his emotions and singing this song in a close-up, I would've preferred him lip-synching in sped-down shots of him going on an eye exam adventure, seeing as how apparently they had to film this video in-between shipments of his disposable Pale Eye™ contact lenses.

We're all stars now, in the Walmart Optometrist's waiting room...

Posted by: KajusX profile link at 11/06/09 5:22 PM  | Reply
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the poor man's Marilyn Monster

Posted by: Ben (waiting for the perfect GIF) profile link at 11/06/09 5:25 PM  | Reply
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I wonder how long he's going to be able to keep writing songs based on the journals he kept when he was a freshman in high school. Eventually he has to run out of material, right? Or did he milk those journals all the way through when he was widely accepted and at least mildly well-loved and back around to being irrelevant and ignored?

Posted by: Superglue profile link at 11/06/09 5:30 PM  | Reply
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This is the top-rated response on Answers.com for: What would happen if Chris Brown went goth.

Posted by: Jeb profile link at 11/06/09 5:32 PM  | Reply
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Posted by: That One profile link at 11/06/09 5:34 PM  | Reply
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Guess who has to wear the bloody diaper?

Posted by: petepetepete profile link  in reply to  That One's comment at 11/06/09 9:30 PM  | Reply
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hmm I'm pleased someone in the Manson Camp has seen Seven and remembered to stock up on Crazy Killer Marbled Notebooks

Posted by: chickenhead profile link at 11/06/09 5:37 PM  | Reply
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Why does this exist? Ugh. Just, ugh a thousand times over.


Seriously. Fuck you Marilyn Manson.

Posted by: ThatSpencerGuy profile link at 11/06/09 7:16 PM  | Reply
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As an anti-social 15-year-old from a broken home who likes 50-year-old men and nightmares, I can tell you that this is NOT what I want.

Posted by: Gary Meadows profile link at 11/06/09 7:56 PM  | Reply
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First Ron Artest, then the YouTube guy on Kristen Wiig, and now this. Is today Misogynist's Day or something?

Posted by: stupidlisagarbageface profile link at 11/06/09 8:05 PM  | Reply
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Wow, someone definitely isn't over Evan Rachel Wood...

Posted by: The New Sound profile link at 11/06/09 8:17 PM  | Reply
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in a 1997 world, this video wouldn't stir up anything. people would be attempt to watch it on (tivo-less) tubular televisions, and unable to fast forward or stay awake, never make it to the (yawwwn) "controversy." he is as boring now as he was 12 years ago.

Posted by: nanook profile link at 11/06/09 9:16 PM  | Reply
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There are exactly 2 CHORDS IN THIS SONG! UGH

Posted by: Napoleon Complex profile link at 11/06/09 9:26 PM  | Reply
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Well now I know not to take anything you say about music seriously, because there are clearly more than 2 chords in the song.

That said, there should be 0 chords in this song, because this song shouldn't exist. I'm glad I can agree with Videogum on something, especially something as yucky as this. Hurray.

Posted by: Elvis vs. Shark profile link  in reply to  Napoleon Complex's comment at 11/07/09 12:07 AM  | Reply
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Hey, don't be sore just because I said I hated Muse.
Obvz I know there are more than 2 chords in this song. I was being hyperbolic.

Posted by: Napoleon Complex profile link  in reply to  Elvis vs. Shark's comment at 11/07/09 12:55 PM  | Reply
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So that's what it would be like if Nickelback made their own version of The Wall.

Posted by: Eulalie profile link at 11/06/09 11:38 PM  | Reply
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Whoops! Too bad Buddyhead is temporarily disabled and has been reported as an attack site. Cant wait what Travis Keller and Meathead have to say about this. I'm pretty sure Brian Warner has something to do with Buddyhead's current paralyzation. Like look what happened to Trent Reznor after he called Marilyn a clown, he disappeared from Twitter. Marilyn's not the devil for nothing.

Posted by: Cincinnati87 profile link at 11/07/09 4:44 AM  | Reply
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Marilyn is a dedicated advocate of free speech, as long as you don't say anything bad about him.

Posted by: petepetepete profile link  in reply to  Cincinnati87's comment at 11/07/09 8:22 AM  | Reply
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Behind the rapist looking exterior is a cold black lonely shell!! Oh, I guess that didn't work out too well.

Posted by: Up, Up, and Away! profile link at 11/07/09 5:52 PM  | Reply
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You know, everyone has problems. It doesn't mean you have to be a little crybaby about it.

Posted by: Zero7teen profile link at 11/07/09 7:42 PM  | Reply
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I never understood how Dita Von Teese was able to have sex with him, yuck. Disturbing video, I can't believe I sat through the whole thing.

Posted by: Zooey! profile link at 11/08/09 2:28 AM  | Reply
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Oh, how I do miss the 26 year old, Pre-Antichrist Superstar Manson screaming out the lyrics to "Cake & Sodomy" while simultaneously shoving a microphone up his ass. Good times!

Posted by: Rezpect profile link at 11/08/09 6:12 PM  | Reply
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i could do without the six and a half minute close up of his face.
and i think hes the only 50 year old whos still a cutter

Posted by: nicole profile link at 11/09/09 12:00 PM  | Reply
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why's it gotta be like this, paul from the wonder years?

Posted by: cubiclechaos profile link at 11/09/09 12:03 PM  | Reply
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I respect Manson to an extent... and I understand the marketing strategy of his image. However, I have a problem with this video. I feel like this man has kind of hit the point of his career dying. He's trying way too hard to stay shocking and relevant. Think back to that whole swine flu claim. No one will ever really know if he did or didnt have it, could be true, could be part of some media hype scheme to get tickets sold for his latest tour.

Posted by: Jessica profile link at 11/10/09 10:56 PM  | Reply
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