Marilyn Manson has released an official video for his track “Third Day Of A Seven Day Binge”, which comes from his recent album The Pale Emperor. The majority of the video is simply Manson standing in front of a bright light, fog hovering behind him, his face and hands covered in makeup. The rest of the video is basically the same thing but different back drops and colored lights thrown into the mix, descending at points into shaky cam territory.
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Honestly, it feels like yet another phoned in video, just like “The Mephistopheles Of Los Angeles” (watch here). Manson used to release videos that, while I may not have liked them all, were at the very least creative and spurred discussion and thought. This doesn’t have creativity. This doesn’t spur any kind of productive discussion. This feels like it was conceived, shot, edited, and finished in the space of 24 hours, including a lunch break for the crew.
I hope Manson finds that flame of creativity that pushed him so strongly for so many years because I’m beginning to think that he’s doing this simply because he doesn’t know what else to do at this point. And that’s sad, because I never thought he stopped having something to offer