“Heart Shaped Glasses” – Manson controversial again?

It seems that Herr Doktor has made a slight return to the controversy he used to inspire so effortlessly at his peak; and all it required was a rumor that the sex scenes in his latest video were not simulated.

This comes at a time when Manson claims to be uninterested in being shocking, and considering the themes of this latest era contain no controversial ideas, I take this claim at face value. After The Golden Age of Grotesque failed to raise any such controversy and suffered from a sense that Manson was trying a bit too hard, I see this kind of attention as a sign that his art is flowing more freely and honestly in this era, and I’m glad of it.