voices and choices
daily dos
wed 9/24/2008
R&B singer Ne-Yo announced he will pair up with shock rocker Marilyn Manson to work on a new song: "I have no idea what the music will sound like or what direction we'll take, but it will be really cool."
drop a dime
daily dos
tue 7/17/2007
Marilyn Manson will begin shooting his horror film, Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll, later this year.
Daddy Yankee, Rihanna, T-Pain, El Chico Elizalde and Marilyn Manson.
the music press
wed 6/6/2007
- Daddy Yankee releases El Cartel: The Big Boss, the follow-up to his multi-platinum album Barrio Fino. We predict the album will be “the soundtrack of the summer.”
- Carribean R&B singer Rihanna’s third album, Good Girl Gone Bad, has “more feeling than any other R&B album in recent memory," according to Twisted Ear. Good Girl is a "thrilling throwback to more than a decade ago," and it "only goes bad when Rihanna tries her hand at treacly ballads and glum sentiment," qualifies Entertainment Weekly.
- Ex-Nappy Headz singer T-Pain is back with his second album, Epiphany, which gets three out of five stars from Rolling Stone for dishing out “another mix of shamelessly horny smoothies.” Gossip site Think2twice admits T-Pain can annoy “like a cockroach" but "[t]here is no denying his talents."
- Francisco “El Chico” Elizalde, carries on the legacy of his late brother Valentin with De un Elizalde para un Elizalde, which features songs Valentin used to blast out of his truck. The youngest of the Elizalde clan “shines on his own as a producer and vocalist,” according to Billboard.com, adding: “this homage shows a promising talent.”
- Marilyn Manson’s latest, Eat Me, Drink Me, is "far and away the best thing he’s ever done," but it's a "[p]ity no one’s bothered [to notice]," laments the UK’s The First Post. The Onion’s A.V. Club delivers a low blow: “[I]t’s a modernized version of Marilyn Manson: heavier guitar, a touch of neo-thrash, and some metalized Bravery-style new-wave pop."
move the crowd
daily dos
wed 6/6/2007
Marilyn Manson says "I'm embarrassed to be me" because My Chemical Romance is doing a "sad and pitiful" version of his music. Here is a new video from My Chemical Romance, "Teenagers."
la gatita is out of the bag
daily dos
fri 5/25/2007
Marilyn Manson covers Justin Timberlake's "What Goes Around (Comes Around)." (via Paper Thin Walls)
