Analysis of The Features of Marilyn Manson’s Unique Style

During the middle and late 1990s, Manson, an amazing showman, became the latest and most notorious of the drug-abusing, crossdressing, self-proclaimed Satanists shaking up the music scene. He has been cataloged as the most chaotic thinker and the great exotic and extravagant artist. Indeed, Manson’s lifestyle has been lawless since he proclaimed, “My point on Earth is chaos”; therefore, his shocking messages and practices as to smoke humans bones or to perform dramatic representations of abortion has spawned squabbles as the charge of encouraging the Columbine tragedy through the 'lived by' song. Manson’s odd music renaissance sets made him gather huge audiences mostly disaffected adolescents: the lonely, the misunderstood, and the alienated. Shortly, some peculiar features as an awkward look, an eccentric life, and the leadership of almost lost musical genres made Brian Hugh Warner, better known as Marilyn Manson, stand up among other artists.

Marilyn Manson’s face covered with heavy makeup was the first thing to captivate everyone's eyes. To build his eccentric look, Manson used one white contact lens in his left eye and also used to apply colored eyeshadows and eyeliner to make his eyes pop. In fact, he wears two different color contact lenses in both eyes, each with a different size pupil giving a tribute to the legendary British musician David Bowie, who suffered from anisocoria, a permanently dilated pupil condition creating the illusion that both eyes are different colors. Furthermore, the usage of excessive amounts of powder turned his face completely white, and the black or red tones of lipstick on his lips and between his front teeth gave him the iconic look. The first time, Mason stole Max Factor Pan-Cake foundation to use the flour as a powder; then, people said, 'Marilyn Manson wears pancake makeup,' which was true. Indeed, Marilyn delight to wear lipstick on his teeth because he believes that is something that people didn't like to have, and he desired to be seen quaint. Thus, makeup swayed Brian Warner's metamorphosis into Marilyn Manson; the shock value of the occult prince in lipstick and powder appealing since Mason’s 90s heyday.

Manson’s beliefs on Occultism is another remarkable aspect of his uniqueness, and it’s shown in his tattoos. Manson has reflected on his skin his fanaticism for this field that explores the things that are outside the natural. For he is known for his love of the macabre and the darker side of life, Manson sports one tattoo on each arm; these tattoos are reportedly modeled a mythical creature called ‘Cyaegha, which is said to be driven by contempt and nihilism. Thus, Manson desired to come over hard stages; he wanted to look and be seen as unique to reinvent himself. Though he was proud of what he had created, in an interview alluding to his detractors, he established, 'People who didn't necessarily like what I create liked what I had to say”. In addition, Manson has led his career with a dark and demonic style and even has expressed the idea that he is as a kind of antichrist waiting for horrible events to happen. Actually, in 1996, the 'church of Satan' reverend Manson released 'Antichrist Superstar', and he declared himself the father of the chaos. Then, as Manson's cult-like popularity grew, his concerts were regularly picketed by the community of Satanism religious leaders. Therefore, Marilyn’s odd ideologies are mirrored on his tattoos.

His music exposed religion, drug addictions, and other topics with cruelty perspectives accompanied by bloody and spooky MVs. The exposure of his sexual life, the people he admires, his beliefs, and the consumption of substances are other aspects Manson is proud to show. In addition, focusing on Manson's bizarre and vampiric personal life The Rolling Stone magazine documented the Antichrist Start sexual habits; lately, he confirmed has given an interview for that magazine. Besides, in another conference, he mentioned that he admired much Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson, and he said that, indeed, his name is a mash-up of those two names. Accordingly, Manson chose the names, for those people’s lives commune with his anarchic tenets. Moreover, Menacing, confrontational, paranoid, Nihilistic, acerbic, aggressive, tense/anxious, theatrical, cynical/sarcastic, and hostile are the words that describe the music of Marilyn Manson. Thus, the legendary rock star is famous for being the pioneer of the growth of Shock, Goth, and Heavy Metal music genres. Actually, his music has always challenged every boundary whether it’s related to religion, addictions, society, or authority. Summarizing, the harsh Manson’s perspectives have coerced on his creepy music style.

Being the owner of a ghoulish and fiddly aspect, having an exotic lifestyle, and presenting his revolutionary music style, Marilyn Manson has been considered an antichrist artist. Whereas his ghostly makeup, his exotic tattoos, and the extravagant of his look is not what people expect to see in an artist, the Antichrist singer’s occultism religious ideology has encouraged him to do the opposite of what people await and to practice self-inflicted cuts during shows; hence, his body is covered in scars declaring himself as the God of mayhem. In fact, he told Rolling Stone, “I’m the third act of every movie you’ve ever seen. I’m the part where it rains and the part where the person you don’t want to die dies”. Furthermore, his music shows have portrayed his strong and rebellious beliefs as well as his pleasure of Satanism and Violence have been exposed through highly visual concerts, freakish costumes, and shock techniques as his controversial cover art of the album “Mechanical Animals” depicted Marilyn Manson as a naked androgynous alien figure, whom he calls Omega. Accordingly, all these characteristics made Marilyn Manson one of the most bizarre musicians.