Marilyn Manson Comes Forward To Explain Controversial Lana Del Rey Video
After the release of an unsettling video that featured Lana Del Rey and Marilyn Manson surfaced, neither musician chose to speak on it. But almost a month later, the metal singer is breaking his silence about the controversial clip. The main scene that had many people talking was where Del Rey appeared to be violently raped, and Manson is letting people know that it was not for one of his videos.
In an interview with NME, he states: “It wasn’t a Marilyn Manson video. The editor of the company that put it out was somebody who’s edited my videos, that video was something that was done with a camera that Eli [Roth], who’s my friend, and I both wanted to test out, so I let him test it out […] what they filmed was put in context seemingly as if it were a Marilyn Manson video, and that was in no way the intention.”
He continued with saying he wanted to collaborate with Del Rey, but it just didn’t work out. “Eli and I wanted to do a music video with her but she was being such a problem. Although I still respect her, I’m friends with her. I just left, I was tired, I was not willing to make that part of the video. Eli and I originally had intentions of making a video with her, but that is not the intention that is represented in that film clip because that is not what I filmed, not for my video.”
[via Spin]
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