Eat Me, Drink Me
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Eat Me, Drink Me is Marilyn Manson's sixth studio album. The album is completed, and will be released in June of 2007 in America.[1] Eat Me, Drink Me was recorded in multiple studios in California, by lead vocalist Marilyn Manson, guitarist and bassist Tim Skold, keyboardist Madonna Wayne Gacy, and drummer Ginger Fish, along with "an assortment of other musicians".[2]
I feel as if there's more like three albums' worth of material, [because] I don't want to cram a long record into a place that doesn't have the attention span for that. . . I'd like to return to the old-fashioned records that had eight or nine songs [that] were all very important. Not to say that I made records that had filler material. They were all based around a central idea, and the central idea in this one is my pain and its ability to be unashamed to repeat itself.
— Marilyn Manson, MTV News[2]
The singer also referred to the album as "very guitar-oriented and very melodic",[3] and as featuring "various unconventional forms of percussion".[2] He has also called it a romantic album, whose lyrical content involves "the unfulfilled yearning to be in another time or another place where you feel like you would fit in better".[3]
Current status
In October 2005, the album was being referred to as 'nearly finished'.[2] In a brief Rolling Stone interview nearly a year later, Manson referred to "about half an album's worth of tracks";[4] it is unknown whether previously-recorded material was scrapped, or whether any additional work had been completed on the album since 2005. In mid-October, 2006, the singer again told an interviewer that the album was "almost done now".[5]
At the October 312006, opening of his Los Angeles, California, art gallery, Manson spoke again with Rolling Stone, saying "the process of opening a gallery ended up inspiring me to make a new record. . . we're about two songs away from a finished album that we didn't even have a few months ago. It sounds rather pretentious sometimes, but it's easier for me to just call myself an artist — if I decide to do music or if I decide to do a film, it works. I just want to uphold a level of integrity".[6]
On January 192007, the official Marilyn Manson website formally disclosed the album's title as Eat Me, Drink Me, a title which may be interpreted to hold several meanings, not the least of which are obvious references to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the Eucharist. The announcement also made mention of a world tour set to coincide with the album's release, which is set for June of 2007.
On February 262007, MarilynManson.com revealed the opinion of Rolling Stone upon first hearing the album as being:
Things got really interesting on Saturday when the Smoking Section drove out to the Valley at the behest of Marilyn Manson. The S.S. joined Manson in his rec room where we worked our way down the belly of a bottle of German absinth and were blown away as Manson debuted his new album, Eat Me, Drink Me. The key cut is "If I Was Your Vampire," a six-minute epic with the lyric "The hole is where the heart is." If anyone thought Manson was down for the count, think again.
— Austin Scaggs, Rolling Stone[7]
On March 8th, 2007, MansonUSA.com annouced that Eat Me, Drink Me's set release date for North America is in fact sometime in June, a world tour will be launched coinsiding with the release.
Track listing in alphabetic order
Confirmed working titles
- "If I Was Your Vampire"[8] - A "six-minute epic" with the lyric "The hole is where the heart is."
- "Rebels Without Applause"[4] - Mentioned by title by Manson to Rolling Stone as a song lyrically critical of the current crop of new, young rock bands.
Possible inclusions
- "Celebritarian Hymn" - The apparent title of a short piece of music within a Flash animation at MarilynManson.com
- "Eat Me, Drink Me" - Starting with Antichrist Superstar, every album was named after a song on it.
Personnel
- Marilyn Manson – vocals
- Madonna Wayne Gacy – keyboards and electronic drums
- Tim Skold – guitars and bass
- Ginger Fish – drums
References
- ^ Retrieved from [1],. Last accessed January 202007.
- ^ a b c d Chris Harris. Marilyn Manson Likens His New Guitar God to a Naked Woman, MTV.com, reported by MTV.com October 282005. Last accessed October 22006.
- ^ a b Marilyn Manson. Dramatic New Scenes for Celebritarian Needs, Reported at MansonUSA.com. Last accessed October 32006.
- ^ a b "The Smoking Section", Rolling Stone № 1010, September 142006 , as reported by MansonUSA.com, last accessed October 22006
- ^ Marilyn Manson. The Nightmare Before Christmas 3-D Premiere!, interview with Melodie Gore. Independent Entertainment News, reported at IESB.net October 172006. Last accessed October 212006.
- ^ "Rolling Stone" № 1014, November 302006 , as reported by MarilynManson.com, last accessed December 52006
- ^ John Moreland. "Rolling Stone listens to Eat Me, Drink Me." marilynmanson.com reported by MarilynManson.com[2] Last accessed February 282007.
- ^ Rolling Stone № 1021, Page 41, February 242006
