Listening Station: Marilyn Manson Comes Around

Brian Raftery | May 24, 2007 10:00 am
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A question for the music bloggers WTFing themselves into a tizzy over Marilyn Manson’s Justin Timberlake cover: Heh? Are you really that surprised by the notion of an “edgy” musician doing a semi-ironic cover of a pop song? This has pretty much been a go-to attention-getting ploy for years, which is exactly why Manson did it. In fact, the only thing shocking about this ca-razy cover is that Manson didn’t do it six months ago:

Marilyn Manson – What Comes Around Goes Around [MP3, link expired; via Whudahexup]