we're from america we're from america we're from america...

i just finished listening to the free download marilyn manson's giving out. i was kind of scared to listen to it because the last two manson albums have been so, so bad. but i believe in twiggy's songwriting ability, so anyhow...

i actually think it's pretty good! some of the lyrics are kind of annoying and would have felt really rebellious and dangerous when i was 15 but are now just... i dunno. annoying. but manson himself has always bugged me. but yeah, musically it's really different than what was going on on "eat me, drink me" and that other one with the title i can't remember right now. it kind of reminds me of something that could have been on "mechanical animals," but a little fuzzier. and when the bass and heavy drums kick in at 1:47, it's pretty badass. and that little synth line that comes in at about 3:28 totally sounds like it belongs on a goon moon record.

i don't know how much more i can say about one single, so i'll stop. now i'm kind of excited to hear the new album. maybe it'll be good!

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on another note, i decided to give coldplay's "viva la vida" a listen. why? i don't know. because the single by the same name was EVERYWHERE, and despite my best efforts to hate it, i couldn't. it's a pretty song. THERE! i said it! so i thought that maybe the rest of the album would be good? so anyhow, i put it on and right away i'm like, "whoa, when did i put on a u2 album?" there are four songs i can remember right now that sound JUST LIKE u2!!! so i went online to go see if anyone else had come to that conclusion, and i found out coldplay's album was produced by brian eno (who also has produced many u2 records) and then it all made sense. but anyhow, i didn't really like the rest of the coldplay album. there were maybe 2 songs with potential. the rest just made me want to go turn on u2 instead, because they did it first and they did it better.