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EAT ME, DRINK ME ; ALBUM & ERA | "This record is the best artistic thing that I could offer to represent Celebritarian ideology." Just as the name 'Marilyn Manson' is a dichotomy of opposing elements, the term 'Eat Me, Drink Me' is itself a union of opposites in the context of Alice in Wonderland. 'Eat Me', the cake, made Alice grow while 'Drink Me', the bottle, made her shrink. In other words, the album title can dually act as an extension of the black/white, good/evil dichotomy that Manson continually portrays.
'Eat Me, Drink Me' can be seen, to philosophize on a deeper level, as the union of expansion and contraction; dichotomy of opposites, Marilyn and Manson.
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HEART SHAPED GLASSES, VAMPIRISM & BLOOD RITUAL | The Vampire, whom Manson personified during 'Eat Me, Drink Me', in one regard is an inversion of the mythology of Christ. Both entities rise from the dead but as Christ offers his body and blood for his disciples to feast upon in communion with him, the vampire as contrary to this, devours the flesh and blood of his victims in order to make them one with him.
The aesthetic and dark, macabre imagery of 'Eat Me, Drink Me'.
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EAT ME, DRINK TWISTED HEART LOGO | A new direction for Manson emerged in the events leading up to the release of 'Eat Me, Drink Me': the cryptic elements from MarilynManson.com became less prominent, and has since been replaced with a new twisted heart icon, altogether seeming to shift towards a more raw, emotional & subjective examination of admittedly his most difficult year yet.
This particular heart however find its origins within a 1920's horror film of a perverse love gone awry...
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LOLITA - EVAN RACHEL WOOD & HEART SHAPED GLASSES | "Together as one against all others." The most prevalent literary influence on 'Eat Me, Drink Me'; Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, one of the most notorious books of the Twentieth Century. The song 'Heart Shaped Glasses' is the most obvious nod to Lolita as according to Manson, Evan Rachel Wood is also a huge fan of Nabokov and had deliberately worn heart shaped sunglasses upon meeting for a tryst when their relationship became romantic. Connections to the novel, however, are much deeper than simply the "inside joke" between Manson and Evan...
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MARILYNMANSON.COM - EAT ME, DRINK ME ERA | 'The Eat Me, Drink Me' incarnation of MarilynManson.com illustrates likewise as representative of Manson's personal and romantic (in the true sense of the world) impetus in crafting the dawn of the new era, via subtle and rather esoteric symbolism. Albeit grotesque and morbid in certain respects, the imagery conjures the renewed excitement and love life Manson has spoken of since the album's inception as being recent inspiration.
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THE RAPE OF THE WORLD TOUR | 'Eat Me, Drink Me' made fully animate, live and onstage around the world. The tour of 2007 - 2008 marked a return to the dark theatrical presentation of the new era, full of allusions to the album's themes and influences which range from Alice in Wonderland, Hamlet, Dracula, Elvis Presley to David Bowie.
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ME, DRINK ME - LYRICAL REFERENCES | The various lyric allusions of 'Eat Me, Drink Me' and the imageries which are referenced by Manson, not visual in this case but in verse form. As 'Eat Me, Drink Me' has been Manson's most personal album to date, the lyrics are full of self explorations of past themes which Manson has explored as well as many subtle (and some not so subtle) allusions to the album's inspirations.