Rendering - Week 15

The article was published on April 15, 2013 on the site of New York Times by Ann Powers and which is called “Marilyn Manson, Forever Young and Miserable” and tells us about Marilyn Manson, who performed at Hammerstein Ballroom on Friday and Saturday nights and his tour progress at all.

The author points out , that Manson’s  nuances are stifled by a world view growing as tight as the leather corset that pinched his waxy flesh on Friday as he sang and that on his new album, ''Holy Wood,'' (Nothing/Interscope) Mr. Manson revisits the epiphany that resonates with his young fans: the realization that life is unfair, powerful people (high school teachers, for example, or presidents) can be corrupt, and striving does not guarantee success or even simple freedom.

It’s also necessary to admit, that this is the moral crisis of the bright adolescent, and Mr. Manson's hard music, alternately soporific and purgative, lets fans dwell in such green despair and then scream it out. Moreover, he sang on giant stilts, in clerical robes at a pew decorated with mannequin heads, behind a gun-adorned altar and from a platform that made him look like a titan encased in rock. , roaring :''I am a revolution,''.

Moreover, the reader should not forget that author clearly gives us a thought, that Mr. Manson's discontented howls form a cogent response to family values-based attacks on rock and his concept of the ''Wormboy,'' hated for embodying society's darker side, rings true, as do his surprisingly tender views of disenfranchised youth.

It's necessary to admit the fact, that despite all this ,Mr. Manson has been hounded by authorities on tour and in the press, and now knows the price of playing the nation's nightmare - instead of going beyond mere outrage, he has furrowed deeper in and in add to this his negativity is inching toward thoughtless conservatism: at the concert he cursed the homeless as well as priests and teachers.

The author draws conclusion, telling us, that when the band locked step on Friday, the ensuing noise had a certain gut-wrenching grandeur and it's easy to see why Mr. Manson is loath to give up such an easy rush.

In my opinion, Marilyn and the whole band could create the ideal image of dark group, with so elliptically charged music, but there is no evil inside such genre of rock – it’s just a symbol, a label with an extremely fresh ideas and lovely rhythms .