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why is marilyn manson a success

roup, and an uncanny ability to manipulate mainstream media for his own benefit.A large portion of ones leisure time is spent attempting to escape reality. This is the reason that television is so successful as well as books have been in the past and now video games. Individuals like to be able to let go and explore different things that they would never experience or think to experience in their daily routine. Marilyn Manson allows this to occur by inviting people into his world and the reality he sees. In his song Minute of decay, Manson invites the listener very personally into his world stating Im on my way down, Id like to take you with me. Purposefully over the top, (Manson, Strauss 1998) Mansons message encourages fans to let go of their preconceptions of the world around them or at least take a second look at it.Not unlike a cartoon character in a lot of ways (Plotz, 1997), Marilyn Manson is very much larger than life itself as he cannot quite be described by standard rules of conduct and mostly, he doesnt particularly look like a normal person. The image of the band is at least if not more important than the music in getting across his message and Manson rarely leaves the house without makeup (Mattingly). This is all done purposely to illustrate Mansons view of society (Manson, Strauss), which is influenced heavily by the beliefs of Anton Laveys Church of Satan to which Manson is an ordained minister (Manson, Strauss). Manson, like the church, encourage self-reliance, independence of thought and as some would argue absolute rejection of contemporary religions. While some fans may in fact take Mansons message literally, most just view Manson as a character and as entertainment I just came to have fun, not to start a holy war. (Young, 1997) A great deal of the success of Marilyn Manson came from his ability to convince the world that he was in fact the antichrist. Many music industry analysts credit Mansons popularity to the pu...

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