There is a point in One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2 where the language of survival finally becomes the language of retaliation. “The Arsonist” is that point. The song is not simply about having survived an attempt to destroy you. It is about what happens afterward, when the person who has been burned decides that the fire did not finish him and that the scars it left behind have become part of his strength. Manson himself described the song as the moment when the narrative of the two chapters “crystallizes into a battle stance,” and, referring to the painting he created for it, said that the “burned scar tissue” had formed into armor. That description gets very close to the heart of the song. The fire has not disappeared. It has changed him. The title is important because Manson does not call the song The Survivor or The Victim . He calls it "The Arsonist." An arsonist deliberately starts a fire, and this changes the entire perspective of the song. The speaker is no...
Bianca Allaine Kyne, a resident of Maryland, originally filed a complaint against Brian Warner/Marilyn Manson as a Jane Doe on January 30, 2023, in New York under the Adult Survivors Act, asserting a sexual battery claim against Manson and intentional infliction of emotional distress. With this she also made allegations that he sexually assaulted her in the mid-1990's when she was a minor in her native Texas. She also makes various negligence claims against Interscope Records, Nothing Records and 20 Jane Doe's whose names have not been disclosed. On February 8th, the Marilyn Manson Uncanceled website published an email authored by Bianca Allaine which she thought was sent to Jeordie White in July 2021, but in reality it was submitted to the fansite Base Tendencies . In this email, Bianca basically confesses to Jeordie that her allegations against Manson are a hoax. On February 24, 2023, Bianca disclosed her identity, revealing herself as Bianca Kyne, her married name inst...