When Eminem released his 2002 album The Eminem Show , I noticed during " The Kiss (Skit) " there is background music where you can hear the name Marilyn Manson be used in a never released song of his. Yesterday, August 26th 2025, that song was finally released after 23 years. The song is called “Everybody’s Looking At Me” and it can found on the Stans soundtrack. It was produced by Dr. Dre, with the first verse of the track from a 2002 Funkmaster Flex freestyle with Eminem later expanding it into a full song. The lyrics leading up to and mentioning Manson are as follows: Lights, action, cameras flashin' (Shh) Managers, sponsors, concerts, monster mashin' (Yeah) Moshin', everyone thrashin' (Ugh) Laughin', lashin' in arrogant fashion Type who might throw his underwear in the trash and Wipe his ass with the American flag like Marilyn Manson (Haha) You can hear the song on Apple Music here .
27 years ago, in an interview with Rolling Stone (March 6, 1997), Trent Reznor gave a good summary of what Marilyn Manson brought back to the music scene in the 1990's, which not only made him a controversial and misunderstood figure, but unique and successful as well.
When I was growing up, rock & roll helped give me my sense of identity, but I had to search for it. I remember I loved the Clash, but I was an outcast because you were supposed to like Journey. Before that, I loved Kiss. The thing these bands gave me was invaluable - that whole spirit of rebellion. Rock & roll should be about rebellion. It should piss your parents off, and it should offer some element of taboo. It should be dangerous, you know? But I'm not sure it really is dangerous anymore. Now, thanks to MTV and radio, rock & roll gets pumped into your house every second of every day. Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman. That's why I applaud - even helped create - bands like Marilyn Manson. The shock-rock value. I think it's necessary. Death to Hootie and the Blowfish, you know. It's safe. It's legitimate.
Look at Marilyn Manson: They have no qualms about taking that whole thing on. The scene needs that, you know? It doesn't need another Pearl Jam-rip-off band. It doesn't need the politically correct R.E.M.s telling us, "We don't eat meat." Fuck you to all that. We need someone who wants to say, "You know what? I jack off 10 times a night, and I fuck groupies." It's not considered safe to say that now, but rock shouldn't be safe. I'm not saying I adhere wholeheartedly to all that in my own lifestyle, but I think that's the aesthetic we need right now. There needs to be some element of anarchy or something that dares to be different.