[新聞] NY-Roseland Ballroom Show Reviewed in new Rolling Stone...
NY-Roseland Ballroom Show Reviewed in new Rolling Stone...
...For a brief moment onstage, Marilyn Manson appeared vulnerable.
"We used to love ourselves/We used to love another," he yelped over
the piercing guitar line of "Great Big White World," a slow, eerie ballad
that suddenly packed all the emotional wallop of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt."
His hangdog expression looked real.
Career middle age may have set in for Manson, but his propensity to shock
and awe an audience hasn't waned. His new Grotesk Burlesk Tour was reportedly
inspired by German Expressionism and vaudeville. In his pasty white make-up,
cropped hair, long black shorts and big-heel boots, Manson came off as a
petulant Nazi schoolboy. “Satan worships us motherfuckers!” he announced
at the start of “Rock is Dead” before offering to sodomize both the audience
and the Lord Almighty. At regular intervals, a troupe of half-naked go-go
dancers jumped onto the stage, either offering up suggestive high kicks or,
occasionally, licking Manson’s boots.
But musically, things were different. Manson (the band) have always played
ambitious and dynamic agro-rock, but they’ve added some new tricks:
four percussionists, upright bass, piano, bursts of white noise and even a
wailing saxophone. As far as their singer, Manson remains ever the showman.
Clad in blackface and Mickey Mouse ears, he appeared alone for the first
encore, warbling “It’s a Small World” atop a gigantic podium.
Was it a condemnation of corporate fascism? Maybe. Or was it kind of creepy
and weird and wrong and funny? Probably, but at least it was honest.
source: Rolling Stone
[posted 11/10/2003 U.S.A.]
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