New Video: Marilyn Manson beheads President Obama, pulls pages out of a Quran as part of his ‘circus and sideshow’
“As an artist my duty is to ask the questions. The viewer must answer them.” says Marilyn Manson about his graphic new music video for “SAY10”
Oh what? It wasn’t President Obama, it was Donald Trump. Oh it’s not the Quran, it’s the Bible.
Well, that would be more daring wouldn’t it.
The video, directed and conceptualized by Tyler Shields, depicts Manson seated on his throne in a smoky room. “Cash is the poor man’s money,” he sings, before tearing out pages of a Bible, and, in a lightning-fast montage: beheading a blond man in a dark suit and red power tie who resembles Donald Trump.
Cash is KING and Manson is a prostitute, resorting to the lowest form of blackface stereotypes and hyperbole.
Posted ahead of the election, Manson said: “Either way tomorrow goes, the visuals are meant to create contemplation. Because it’s obviously bigger than just tomorrow,” he says. “It’s about the desperate acts of people who believe something that is preached by an unbeliever.
“Right now we’re in such a state of confusion when it comes to religion, politics, sexuality, and how they all tie together, and it’s being turned into a circus and a sideshow—and that’s something that I’ve been described as a ringleader of,” Manson continues. “It seems like a time for me as an artist, and as an American artist, to make something that causes a new set of questions to arise that aren’t simply statements.”
Yes, you’re right Brian (his real name is Brian Hugh Warner), it’s a real “circus and a sideshow” – thanks for contributing to that.
Check out the NSFW clip below.