It was announced Thursday January 17th 2025 that Film Director David Lynch died of emphysema at the age of 78, just a few days before his 79th birthday on Monday. Both Lindsay and Manson paid tribute to Lynch on Instagram, with Lindsay posting in her stories a broken heart under the poster for Wild at Heart and Manson posting the poster for Lost Highway with the message: "May you live forever inside our dreams." Manson and Lindsay have both said that Wild at Heart (1990) is their favorite Lynch film and favorite romance film, to the point where their wedding theme in 2020 was inspired by Wild at Heart , and they even invited Nicolas Cage, the star of the film, to attend, which he did via a video call. Also, a quote from the film spoken by Crispin Glover can be heard in the song "Lunchbox", when you hear: "I'm making my lunch!" Manson's first film appearance was as a snuff film pornstar along with bandmate Twiggy Ramirez in Lynch's film Lost ...
Revolver Magazine Readers Choose Marilyn Manson's "One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1" for Album of the Year 2024
Revolver Magazine took a readers poll online for best album of 2024, and Marilyn Manson came on top again. This marks the second heavy rock and metal publication that took a readers poll and Marilyn Manson's album was number one, with Metal Injection being the first. Whereas with Metal Injection the writers of the publication itself didn't even include Manson's album in their own list of top 20 albums, Revolver Magazine writers haven't even produced their own list (yet) and focused on fan polls instead.
When referring to Manson's "polarizing and controversial" return in 2024, Revolver was not shy to say that it "only seemed fitting for the shock rocker’s career arc thus far." And they cannot deny the fact that at least for his fans, "the record marks a triumphant comeback." That they voted his album to the top of their list for best album of 2024, they remarked: "Shocking? Not really. As Manson has said himself: 'There’s nothing you can do anymore to be shocking.'”
It should be noted that Revolver is one of the few music publications right now that has been consistently fair and mostly positive towards Manson, with most others seemingly too afraid to even mention that he is making music again but are more than eager to do what they can to report any controversy.
Yes, unfortunately cancel culture is still a thing, at least in part in the music world, even though these fan polls are loudly saying that they want no part of it anymore.
One example of cancel culture that has chosen not to be silent about Manson, but is instead trying to give him as bad reviews as possible to make him go away and get people uninterested in him is an online publication called The Soundboard, which focuses on reviewing new music. When Manson's album was released in November, they were one of the only publications to review it, and the reviewer absolutely hated it, making it sound like it was the worst thing ever made in the history of music. The sub-headline to their review read: "There’s no more convincing argument for avoiding Marilyn Manson entirely than just listening to Marilyn Manson." So it shouldn't be surprising that on the same day Revolver released its poll for best album of 2024, which was Christmas day, The Soundboard editor Luke Nuttall voted Manson's album the third worst album of 2024, saying: "No album in 2024 had less of a right to exist than this one." He accuses Manson of gaslighting his listeners in real time, and manipulating his audience into thinking he is the real victim in the allegations brought against him. "The whole thing leaves a horrible, noxious vibe that seeps into the many cracks of its ugly mood, text and presentation," Nuttall writes. He ends saying it is "completely deplorable." In essence, the editor of this publication is doing what he is accusing Manson of doing; he is making himself a victim of Manson and crying about being gaslit and manipulated by the album, when in reality he is trying to manipulate people into believing it is bad not because of the music but because of who made it. But if you are going out of your way to accuse Manson of such things through his music alone, doesn't that make it a powerful album that is so good it can create such reactions in people who actually believe he is a horrible rapist and abuser? Personally, I think the reviews of this publication give the most powerful argument for why the album is so great - so great that you have to resist it.
The fact that there is such a dichotomy between reader polls and writers of music publications should serve as a powerful lesson, but unfortunately there are too many stubborn people in media to learn obvious things.
When referring to Manson's "polarizing and controversial" return in 2024, Revolver was not shy to say that it "only seemed fitting for the shock rocker’s career arc thus far." And they cannot deny the fact that at least for his fans, "the record marks a triumphant comeback." That they voted his album to the top of their list for best album of 2024, they remarked: "Shocking? Not really. As Manson has said himself: 'There’s nothing you can do anymore to be shocking.'”
It should be noted that Revolver is one of the few music publications right now that has been consistently fair and mostly positive towards Manson, with most others seemingly too afraid to even mention that he is making music again but are more than eager to do what they can to report any controversy.
Yes, unfortunately cancel culture is still a thing, at least in part in the music world, even though these fan polls are loudly saying that they want no part of it anymore.
One example of cancel culture that has chosen not to be silent about Manson, but is instead trying to give him as bad reviews as possible to make him go away and get people uninterested in him is an online publication called The Soundboard, which focuses on reviewing new music. When Manson's album was released in November, they were one of the only publications to review it, and the reviewer absolutely hated it, making it sound like it was the worst thing ever made in the history of music. The sub-headline to their review read: "There’s no more convincing argument for avoiding Marilyn Manson entirely than just listening to Marilyn Manson." So it shouldn't be surprising that on the same day Revolver released its poll for best album of 2024, which was Christmas day, The Soundboard editor Luke Nuttall voted Manson's album the third worst album of 2024, saying: "No album in 2024 had less of a right to exist than this one." He accuses Manson of gaslighting his listeners in real time, and manipulating his audience into thinking he is the real victim in the allegations brought against him. "The whole thing leaves a horrible, noxious vibe that seeps into the many cracks of its ugly mood, text and presentation," Nuttall writes. He ends saying it is "completely deplorable." In essence, the editor of this publication is doing what he is accusing Manson of doing; he is making himself a victim of Manson and crying about being gaslit and manipulated by the album, when in reality he is trying to manipulate people into believing it is bad not because of the music but because of who made it. But if you are going out of your way to accuse Manson of such things through his music alone, doesn't that make it a powerful album that is so good it can create such reactions in people who actually believe he is a horrible rapist and abuser? Personally, I think the reviews of this publication give the most powerful argument for why the album is so great - so great that you have to resist it.
The fact that there is such a dichotomy between reader polls and writers of music publications should serve as a powerful lesson, but unfortunately there are too many stubborn people in media to learn obvious things.