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...
Recently Marilyn Manson has been photographed modeling for the fashion brand Enfants Riches Déprimés , a Los Angeles and Paris based luxury fashion brand founded in 2012 by the conceptual artist Henri Alexander Levy , who has created a French punk streetwear line based on the movements of the late 1970s and Japanese Avant-garde movements of the 1980s. Manson and Lindsay attended one of the events for the brand on April 17th in Los Angeles. Today (5/29/24) they released three new photos on their Instagram page, with photographs taken by Brandon Bowen . Update (5/31/24): Enfants Riches Déprimés posted a video on their Instagram from the photoshoot with Marilyn Manson. View this post on Instagram A post shared by @enfantsrichesdeprimes Update (6/3/24): Enfants Riches Déprimés two new photos on their Instagram from the photoshoot with Marilyn Manson.