I. The Backlash: When Social Media Becomes the Story When Slipknot announced their 2027 (sic)est Stadium Tour , with Marilyn Manson opening the Wembley Stadium show and joining them for the South American dates, including The Town in São Paulo, the reaction was almost immediate. Thousands of comments appeared beneath the announcement, many from people saying they would no longer attend. Some described the decision as disappointing, others said they would not spend money on a concert that included Manson, and some presented the booking as a betrayal of what they believed Slipknot represented. The reaction was real, and there is no reason to pretend otherwise. What interests me, however, is what happens after that initial reaction: how it is collected, amplified, repeated by music publications, and gradually transformed from a collection of individual responses into something that can begin to look like a universal verdict from “the fans.” The current coverage makes that process fairly e...
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.
Update (6/3/24):
