Due to his experience and personality, his work was totally like an alternative to the music at that time. To express inside, Manson chose industrial metal to be the main genre of his band. His work influenced a lot on popular music in 1990s. All of his music, lyrics and images resist general artist stereotypes of race, gender, religion and made him become one of the most controversial artist in the world today. Marilyn Manson is thought to be an antiracist. A lot of evidence from his musical video showed that he is a real antiracist. He thought that we human being should not discriminate on Negro because of their skin. In one of his musical video “sweet dreams (are made of this)”, there is a scene that a black man tries to domesticate a pig and rode it at last. There exists a metaphor …show more content…
Whatever his appearance, images or lyrics all show his tendency to be female. In one of the music video “The Dope Show”, Manson appears as the image of the album cover. He wears a pair of silicone breasts, black rubber gloves and covers his whole body with flesh-colored rubber clothes without sexual organ. Manson met with some doctors and was taken to be studied. In the other hand, it turns out that transsexual people are treated unfairly in this world. In addition, there is a story about the image of his fourth album “Mechanical Animals”. Due to its album cover is the same appearance as him in “Dope Show” without obvious sexual identity, most of the music store refuse to sell. This was Manson’s idea about gender in the early years. But after a few years, he is much more frequent to show female behavior in his music video which lead to a controversial topic gender bending. A research on gender bending shows that people link Marilyn Manson with gender bending at once when they are talking about femininity. Most participants defined gender bending as a play with masculinity and femininity, mostly expressed in the testamentary elements. Some of them describe gender benders as a third sex or androgyny: ‘Like the image of Marilyn Manson, you don’t know what it is. He plays masculinity or femininity.’ In the music video “Mechanical