A question for the music bloggers WTF-ing themselves into a tizzy over Marilyn Manson’s Justin Timberlake cover: Heh? Are you really that surprised by the notion of an “edgy” musician doing a semi-ironic cover of a pop song? This has pretty much been a go-to attention-getting ploy for years, which is exactly why Manson did it. In fact, the only thing shocking about this ca-razy cover is that Manson didn’t do it six months ago:
Marilyn Manson – What Comes Around Goes Around [MP3, link expired; via Whudahexup]
I’ll give him this much: I would have expected him to do “My Love” instead.
Agreed. This is a well established trend, even in his own genre. Both Frontline Assembly and KMFDM have covered Madonna.
It’s a well established trend for MM himself, considering the first song that got him airplay was his “sweet dreams” cover.
Eh, this is nothing earth-shattering. It’s from Jo Whiley’s Live Lounge program, whose raison d’etre seems to be “ironic” covers by the guests, like the Sugababes doing Hard-Fi and Franz Ferdinand covering Gwen Stefani.
@chrisb: If I’m not mistaken Sonic Youth aka Ciccone Youth was the first to do that Madonna trick…
Poor Marilyn Manson-still trying to outrage people with other people’s old ideas…
@chrisb:
And who can forget BiGod 20′s classic cover of “Like a Prayer”? It was sincere, too.
And not only did MM start off with “Sweet Dreams,” but his last attempt at career reclamation was a horrible industrial slow-jam cover of “Tainted Love” for a teen movie parody.
(Okay, so the former is a happy childhood memory, and the latter I remember because of the nightmares.)
It’s probably the most outlandish way he can think of to mourn Dita’s absence, now that he can’t “hold hands through hell” with her anymore.
… Evan Rachel Wood will never be half the woman Dita von Teese is.