Marilyn Manson "Putting Holes In Happiness," Covering Justin Timberlake
When it comes to self-promotion, Ohio's Brian Hugh Warner is an undeniable genius, his oversized persona such that we're often distracted from his music by, say, his gross gender-bending bodysuits, or his fornicating in a storm-shower of blood. Little things like that. But with no video to pull aside our fickle attention spans (yet), Eat Me, Drink Me track "Putting Holes In Happiness" shows that, gimmicks aside, and when he's got himself a melody, Manson's double-tracked delivery still is bona fide goth bait. Have a listen at Metal Sucks.
Once you do that, take away that double-tracked trick, dial up the self-promo bit and grab Brian Warner's acoustic cover of Timberlake's "What Goes Around", recorded for BBC. No it's not good, but as far as grabbing attention goes, the Ohio kid's a genius.
Posted at 10:24 AM in MP3
Tags: Justin Timberlake | Marilyn Manson
hahaha the cover is hilarious
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That is by far one of the worst things I have heard
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I like elements of it- some of the heavy guitarage is too cheesy in a 90s way for me, but it's almost a really good Alice Cooper/glammy thing without that.
Go Away Please: Your average indie music blog features far less interesting and much more mediocre stuff several times a day, in my opinion. Would you prefer, say, the snoozariffic alt-country stylings of say, well, half of the indie rock stars out there?
I've found myself liking one or two MM songs in the past- "The Dope Show" was a neat song. He's probably done himself a disservice by pushing his aesthetic gimmick so hard.
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Fun Ohio Trivia: Mr. Warren and Macy Gray attended the same high school!
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The song was pretty damn good. Cheesy, but good! He should studio it!
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this won't bring Dita back, no no
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Marilyn Manson is one of the best artists in history in my opinion but I have to admit that this cover thoroughly sucks ass. This has been a definite low point of my day.
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Wow. I know a kid that looks exactly like that picture (the younger one, duh). I wonder if he'll grow up to be a colour contact wearing goth god. Or, should I say goth satan.
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