Throughout One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2 , Marilyn Manson constructs a dark journey through death, violence, accusation, isolation, mortality, and the search for something beyond him. “Don’t Answer the Door” speaks of a voice being a guiding light in the darkness, while “None of the Suns” speaks of running away from the daylight and being “in the black.” By the time we arrive at “Lucifer’s Teardrop,” the journey has reached a different point. The darkness is still present, but the speaker is finally prepared to stand before what shines. “Lucifer’s Teardrop” is therefore less a departure from everything that came before it than a turning point within it. The fallen angel at the center of the song has been cast out, wounded, and changed by what happened to him, but he is no longer simply defined by the fall. He is “finding my way home.” That movement becomes especially important when considered alongside Manson’s own explanation of the song. He said that its title was inspired...
Marilyn Manson and his wife Lindsay Warner attended the final show of The Savior's Tour at Petco Park in San Diego on September 28th, with Green Day as the headliner supported by The Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid and The Linda Lindas. Manson's friendship and collaboration with Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins goes back many years, and this marks their first public meeting since the allegations against Manson in 2021. And of course James Iha, the guitarist of The Smashing Pumpkins, is the brother-in-law of Manson, being married to Lindsay's twin sister Ashley. Green Day has been sampling and covering Manson's "The Beautiful People" since at least 1998 (listen here ), but on their The Savior's Tour throughout the summer of 2024 their Intro has been a cool mix of "The Beautiful People" with "The Imperial March" from Star Wars . This has not gone unnoticed by Manson, so while attending their show from the side stage in San Diego, Lindsay m...