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Marilyn Manson’s new song Kill4Me is not exactly his usual, but there is a lot of genuine Manson in it. Marilyn, in a philosophical mood, wanted to discuss his inner self or perhaps inner selves a bit. How much of Marilyn is “person” how much is “persona?”
Marilyn Manson told the Guardian he was both a person and a persona.
“I’m this and I’m this. A person and a persona. But I can’t really divide the two. There’s a difference on the stage; people I don’t know I just seduce, in a lot of ways. You go offstage and people … even me and you now, talking …”
Marilyn Manson is a contradiction in many ways. Much the same as his forerunner Alice Cooper, who pioneered the Shock Rock genre, created a stage persona, so Marilyn Manson is a stage character. Performances are dramatizations, similar to actors on a stage.