Eat Me, Drink Me

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Eat Me, Drink Me is the sixth full-length studio album by Marilyn Manson. It was released on June 5, 2007, debuting at number 8 in the United States with more than 80,000 copies sold in the first week. It was recorded in a rented home-recording studio in Hollywood, California by lead vocalist Marilyn Manson and guitarist and bassist Tim Skold.

A press-conference with Manson in April 2007 revealed that the album was a collaboration strictly between Manson and Skold. It was produced by Marilyn Manson and Skold, and mixed by Sean Beavan. It has been stated that there were originally around 20 embryonic songs, all written by Skold, two of which (that did not make the album) Manson considered complete with lyrics and vocals. Manson stated that he had a difficult time cutting some of them, but felt he had to in order to prevent the album from being "diluted".

This album was also the last to feature Tim Skold's contributions, having been replaced by Twiggy Ramirez the following January. The singer referred to the album as "very guitar-oriented and very melodic", and as featuring "various unconventional forms of percussion". He has also called it a romantic album, whose lyrical content involves "the unfulfilled yearning to be in another time or another place where you feel like you would fit in better".

"Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)" was released as the lead single of the album. The song peaked at #24 on U.S. Modern Rock Tracks. "Putting Holes in Happiness" was released as the second single from the album. Written on his own birthday Marilyn Manson describes the song as being "a romantic-misogynistic-cannibal-gothic-vampire ballad".

On May 31, the entire album was uploaded for streaming on Marilyn Manson's MySpace page, five days prior to its American release. "Eat Me, Drink Me" worldwide has sold more than 4 million copies to date.

Background and development

After spending time around the end of the "Grotesk Burlesk Tour" in severe depression contemplating leaving the music industry for good, Manson decided not to give up and recorded a duet of “Don't You Want Me” with Shirley Manson. This was originally intended to support the forthcoming ‘best of’ release but was felt by both artists not to live up to their standards and has yet to see release.

Lest We Forget was released on September 28, 2004. It was referred to by the singer as his "farewell" album; however, he insisted that it would not be the final Marilyn Manson album. After the release of the single "Personal Jesus", the band made a number of promotional appearances. Lest We Forget was certified Gold in 2005. When promotion for Lest We Forget concluded the band returned to the studio and recorded eight embryonic songs – some of which had vocals, and one notably a tribute to Andy Warhol. It was supported by the Against All Gods world tour.

The Against All Gods tour was marked by one release, a 2005 EP of "The Nobodies" featuring a new mix of the song (by Chris Vrenna) and other remixes.

Recording and production

Manson began his recording sessions on the album in November 2005 but was focused on his film Phantasmagoria, the process of opening an art gallery and personal troubles relating to his marriage. It was after opening the gallery, the Celebritarian Corporation Gallery of Fine Art on Halloween night of 2006, that Manson really began his contribution as a singer by working out melodies and structures around Skold's already existing compositions, writing lyrics quickly and usually recording on the same day. One result of this is that the album features six guitar solos from Tim Skold (comprising 3 minutes, 39 seconds of the album in total) and many other guitar moments while bass and keyboards – both played also by Skold – feature much less than on a usual Marilyn Manson release. Manson explained that "[he] was writing in the way you would write a diary" and as a result thinks that the record was written from a "more mature musical point of view."

"This is the record I've worked all my life to get to. You always have to transform, or you can’t continue as an artist, and this record has been the biggest transformation for me... It’s better heard than described... On this record I really wanted to sing, and that has to come from a naked, emotional place. It's not a record about me crying, or songs about my woes, but I think this record will probably speak to more people in different ways, because of its total human element... If I had to do a record review, I’d say it’s got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to it... The album's title [Eat Me, Drink Me] was also inspired by that story several years back of the German man who put out an ad that he wanted to be eaten, and the man who ate him. Although I can't relate to the relationship those two had, I found the story very compelling in a romantic way."

—Marilyn Manson, Revolver

Manson has stated that he sang most of the album lying down on the studio floor with his hands cupping the studio mic, resulting in a very distinctive vocal sound. Of Skold’s compositions a further two are said to have been turned into fully-fledged songs with lyrics, music and vocals completed but were not put onto album for fear of making it overwrought. Manson has raised the possibility of using the two as starting points for his next album.

Concept

"This record is definitely so crucial to my life. I think this record shows a human side of me, shows a vulnerable side of me, which is linked to Lewis Carroll. (...) it is like the Christ's mythology with the vampires' mythology."

—Marilyn Manson on the album's concept.

"Manson probably needed something to shake up his music, which started to become comfortably predictable in the wake of his popular/creative peak of Mechanical Animals, but the stab at soul-baring on Eat Me might not have been the way to do it. But Manson is such a true believer in rock & roll mythos that he's wound up embracing the cliché of the post-divorce confessional album, peppering this album with songs about "broken relationships and new love. Personal songs are unusual for Manson, but that doesn't mean he's abandoned his tendency to write about grand concepts. The difference is that this time around, Manson himself is the grand concept - there's no excursions into neo-glam or decadent German glamour - which may give him a lyrical hook, but not a musical one. On a sonic level, this is a bit of Manson-by-numbers, but it feels as if his usual murky menace has lifted, with the music sounding clearer, less affected, and obtuse, while still retaining much of its gothic romanticism and churning heaviness. If anything, Eat Me is a bit too transparent, as its clean arena rock production - all pumped up on steroids, devoid of much grit - makes the album sound safe, a bit too close to Manson cabaret for comfort, especially when he's penning songs whose very titles feel like unwitting self-parodies ("If I Was Your Vampire", "You and Me and the Devil Makes 3" and "They Said That Hell's Not Hot"), or when he lazily spews out profanity as the chorus to "Mutilation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery." These are the moments where Manson seems like the eternal teenager, unwilling and unable to grow up, and they provide a bitter ironic counterpoint to the rest of the record, where he is striving for an emotional honesty he's never attempted before.

Themes

According to Manson, vampirism is just one of the dark themes running through Eat Me, Drink Me. "If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to it." Aside from the obvious Lewis Carroll and Jesus Christ references, Manson says the album's title was also inspired by the story of Armin Meiwes, who placed an ad online for a person consenting to be eaten. "Although I can't relate to the relationship those two had, I found the story very compelling in a romantic way. I think a lot of people wouldn't look at it as romantic, but it was to them in some sick way, and it is to me in some sick way, too".

Composition

The album opens with “If I Was Your Vampire”, an industri-goth wet dream. Quiet ringing guitars are offset by heavy drums, owing as much musically to the Sisters of Mercy as it does to Nine Inch Nails. And the lyrics are as much Bauhaus as Ministry with talk of “blood-stained sheets in the shape of your heart”. Majestic would be another way to describe it, as drenched in irony-deprived passion, Manson intones “Beyond the pale/ Everything is black/ No turning back.”

The lyrical auto-erotica that begins in the lead-off track (“Drive me off the mountain/ You’ll burn, I’ll eat your ashes/ Impossible wheels seducing our corpse”) continues with the wailing “Just a Car Crash Away” and the stand-out “Are You the Rabbit?”, which harkens back to the "glammy guitar feel" of "Mechanical Animals" in the midst of what should be a laughable full-on car metaphor that remarkably works.

In what can only be seen as a way to maintain a buzz with the generation behind, his very public attachment to Evan Rachel Wood is flaunted throughout the peripheral of this release — from his personal artwork to the song and video for the Lolita-inspired first single, “Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)”. The song itself is a fantastic piece of militant drum cadence mixed with raw adolescent sexuality in both Manson’s lyrics and delivery. “She’ll never cover up what we did with her dress.”

The blustery guitar of “You and Me and the Devil Makes 3” revels in the repetition of the title alongside the menacing delivery of “There’s not a word for what I want to do to you.” But it’s hard to take any song too seriously when it contains a “Murdercute happyrape” lyrical refrain. Although somewhat lyrically stunted, “The Red Carpet Grave” is a musically interesting piece on display here. "The Red Carpet Grave" is perhaps the most confessional track, with Manson repeating the line, "I can't turn my back on you, but you're walking away."

The new wave elements are present to a lesser extent on harder-rocking songs like "Mutilation Is The Most Sincere Form Of Flattery". The latter song is one of several that touch on Manson's marriage and subsequent divorce from Von Teese, as Manson writes about his personal life in his music for the first time.

Rumors also circulated for some time that Marilyn Manson wrote the song "Mutilation is the Most Sincere Form of Flattery" as an attack on the band My Chemical Romance, for his Eat Me, Drink Me release (which he later denied, saying that it was aimed at people in general seeking to imitate him). In another interview Manson stated that "I'm embarrassed to be me because these people are doing a really sad, pitiful, shallow version of what I've done". In response to this, Gerard Way, the lead singer of My Chemical Romance claimed nothing Manson could say would bring the band down.

Musical style

In this album, Marilyn Manson leaves his "hard rock style" and moves to a more goth rock driven style. Manson pulls off the multitude of styles in this album. Going from a cheap, 70s rock simplistic guitar riff to an 80s keyboard hook, the album seems a retrospective of the times, while keeping the shock rock style; even if this album has gone a bit more towards the typical mainstream. There's plenty other greats on Eat Me, Drink Me, like They Said That Hell's Not Hot, which incorporates a rather simplistic guitar riff into a catchy, easily radio-friendly song. "Are You the Rabbit?" builds off of Manson's obsession with Lewis Carroll, while pulling fairy-tale like lyrics off in style with an all-around catchy song and hook. The singer also referred to the album as "very guitar-oriented and very melodic", and as featuring "various unconventional forms of percussion". He has also called it a romantic album, whose lyrical content involves "the unfulfilled yearning to be in another time or another place where you feel like you would fit in better".

Promotion

Marilyn Manson performing "Red Carpet Grave" during Eat Me, Drink Me era in 2007.

On April 15, 2007 Marilyn Manson’s Interscope-administered Myspace page went live with promotional artwork. The next day "If I Was Your Vampire" was added to the player as Myspace Music’s ‘Single of the Week’. Hours later Manson’s official website went through a revision to coincide with the imagery of the new album. Later still but on the same day Interscope e-mailed out a press release containing the album artwork by Nela Koenig. Two days later Interscope opened a VampireFreaks account for Manson. The album leaked onto P2P networks on May 1, Manson said he was unconcerned by the leak as it mainly affects record companies and not the artists.

To promote the album Manson first traveled to France, the UK and Germany where he held both press conferences and listening parties. Similar listening parties for journalists and fan club administrators took place in other European countries and America. Measures taken to prevent an unauthorized recording or copy of the album from leaking included bag searching and the prohibition of recording devices and mobile phones. Manson appeared twice on BBC Radio 1; on April 17 on the Zane Lowe Show and on May 23 in the Live Lounge where he and Skold performed an acoustic version of "Heart-Shaped Glasses" and a cover of Justin Timberlake’s "What Goes Around Comes Around", having been given a choice by the station of Timberlake, Green Day, Amy Winehouse or Muse.

Marilyn Manson performing "If I Was Your Vampire" in the Eat Me, Drink Me era in 2007.

The next significant promotion took place on May 18 with the uploading to the official website of the album's 16-page linear booklet. The uploading coincided with Manson’s in store signing at Hot Topic in California where fans who had obtained an entry wristband days prior were given a copy of the booklet for Manson to sign though he signed other items on fans request for two hours. Also available at the event, and now available in Hot Topic stores and online shop, is an exclusive 2-track "Heart-Shaped Glasses" single. All Hot Topic stores across the USA held listening parties for the album on May 25. The stores are also added three new official t-shirts to the racks to coincide with the party and Manson recorded linking material for the songs.

Newbury Comics gave away licensed Eat Me, Drink Me pint glasses with each pre-order of the album. Further promotional oddities were to be found in the UK where boxes were distributed containing chocolates marked ‘Eat Me’ and mini bottles of Tequila with 'Drink Me' on the back.

An official Eat Me, Drink Me mini-site was discovered through a link found in the EU "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)" single. The site, www.marilynmansonvault.com, contains lyrics, a photo gallery, a mosaic, and the ability to stream up to two tracks per day starting on May 28, 2007. Upon completion of the mosaic, an Eat Me, Drink Me wallpaper becomes available for download, and three preview tracks ("Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)", "If I Was Your Vampire", and "Evidence") become available for streaming. The official release of the single coincided with the opening of the vault itself (for those with the single) to access a screensaver, ringtone and two ‘classic tracks for download’ ("Disposable Teens" & "The Dope Show").

The song "If I Was Your Vampire" was used in the soundtrack to the 2010 parody flick Vampires Suck. In the film it opens the end credits.

Release

"[I was] blown away as Manson debuted his new album, Eat Me, Drink Me. The key cut is "If I Was Your Vampire," a six-minute epic…If anyone thought Manson was down for the count, think again."

—Rolling Stone writer Austin Scaggs

Manson announced via his website in mid-January that the record was ‘nearly finished’, titled Eat Me, Drink Me, and that the band would be touring the world in support of the record that is scheduled for release on June 5, 2007. The album's artwork (primarily the work of Nela Koening, Perou and Anthony Silva) was wrapped up in early February thus bringing an end to the creative process in preparation for the imminent promotion and publicization of details. Since the release of the album, Manson appeared in Rolling Stone four times - the March article 'Manson's Dark Return', a further paragraph from the Smoking Section, a mention in the 50 Albums To Look Forward To This Summer issue and a small snippet featuring an explicit picture of Manson and Evan Rachel Wood in a hotel after the Heart-Shaped Glasses video shoot in which a naked Wood lies over Manson who has his fingers in the vicinity of her anus. Other publications to include original content with Manson have been the April issue of UK magazine Rock Sound ('Marilyn Manson Lays Soul Bare'), the May issue of Revolver (Feeding Frenzy), an interview with French RockMag, an MTV online piece focusing on Manson’s suicidal ideation, a longer, more in-depth interview in Rock Sound (Alas, In Wonderland), a long, very descriptive and open piece in The Observer Magazine (The Life and Loves of a He-Devil), a partial transcript of a friendly chat with Alejandro Jodorowsky, an interview in Germany’s lifestyle monthly BlondMag, the cover story of June’s Spin magazine stretched out over eight pages entitled ‘The Last Rock Star?’, an article in Rolling Stone from Austin Scaggs who spends a fair amount of time with Manson judging by the five pieces in four months he has contributed, The Sun newspaper’s Something For The Weekend section.

Cover and packaging

The cover art for Eat Me, Drink Me portrayed Manson as a vampire, dressed with a black-toned outfit, standing still looking at the camera next to a window covered of blood. The back of the cover features a photo of a woman with her eyes covered by a hand, possibly Manson's hand, with the track listing on the left side. In one of the booklet's page, Manson says: "I would like to thank the loyal few that waited, at the far end of the abyss, for me to make this record. My mother and father, my best friends (you know who you are). Tony, Bobby and everyone else who has forgiven me for my wrongdoings. This record is dedicated to those who stood by me. Most of all, this is for Evan." A tour Shirt was released to the online market and it featured the cover of the album.

The front cover was shot by Nela Koenig and the back cover by Anthony Silva. The inside photos were shot by Perou and Nela Koenig and all Polaroids by MM and ERW. The Heart-Shaped Eyes were self-portrait by Manson and the art direction and design by Marilyn Manson and Liam Ward.

Formats

The album was released in three physical formats. The standard jewel case CD release contained a single Enhanced CD and a 16 page booklet. The limited edition CD featured bonus tracks with acoustic version of "Putting Holes in Happiness" and three other remixes of the single "Heart-Shaped Glasses". An edition including a bonus DVD was also released. It featured a bonus CD including seven remixes of "Putting Holes in Happiness", "Heart-Shaped Glasses" and "You And Me and The Devil Makes 3"; and a DVD, including the music videos of "Putting Holes in Happiness" and "Heart-Shaped Glasses" and a "Track by track interview" video.

Singles

On April 17, 2007, "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)" was released as the lead single of the album and was added to the Marilyn Manson's official MySpace page on April 24. On April 27, 2007, Marilyn Manson released a clip featuring the last 34 seconds of the then upcoming music video for "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)" on YouTube, and later on the official website. The song peaked at #24 on U.S. Modern Rock Tracks.

"Putting Holes in Happiness" is Marilyn Manson's second single from the album. Written on his own birthday Marilyn Manson describes the song as being "a romantic-misogynistic-cannibal-gothic-vampire ballad". A two-track promotional disc was released in June 2007, but no confirmation of the song as the album's second single followed until Marilyn Manson confirmed the next single to be "Putting Holes in Happiness" on August 7, 2007. The song has already appeared on the radio in France, where a promo of the single has been sent out to several major radio stations.

The Guitar Hero Remix by Nick Zinner version of the single was featured on early special editions of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.

"You and Me and the Devil Makes 3" was released as a promotional single from the album in September 2007.

Music videos

"Heart-Shaped Glasses" music video controversy

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Marilyn Manson and Evan Rachel Wood in one of the controversial sex scenes of the music video.

The video contains a 2:47 introduction featuring Manson and girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood kissing maliciously while having simulated sex and scenes of her being covered in blood, overdubbed with an instrumental of the Eat Me, Drink Me track "Evidence". At the 1:35 mark the scene cuts to Manson and Wood driving down a highway in the dark, Wood daring Manson to go faster, to which Manson proclaims "[I'm] going as fast as I can." Manson takes his hands off the wheel to take numerous pictures of Wood, who lifts her leg up to the wheel and holds a knife to her mouth while wearing heart-shaped glasses. The two kiss again, concluding the introduction, and the setting cuts to a club.

On stage, in front of a large crowd, Manson begins singing as Wood watches him intently, apparently masturbating, from the crowd (still wearing the heart-shaped glasses), while numerous photos begin to fall over the audience. Shots of the two driving are flashed throughout the video, as the scene once again changes, this time revealing Manson and Wood in a bed, drenched in what appears to be blood. The two begin kissing vigorously again before the final scene returns to the two of them speeding along the highway. The front of the car erupts in flames, and they continue along, kissing once again. Manson says "Together as one...", and Wood replies "Against all others", before they drive off a cliff and fall, the video ending as they crash. It has been rumored that the scenes in the video depicting sex between Manson and Wood was footage of legitimate sex between the two. To make matters more confusing, in an MTV interview with Manson, he did not confirm or deny the authenticity of the depictions, at one point dismissing it:

There were two crews there: one that was mine and one that hated me. Everything that I wanted to do was technically wrong to the people who hated me, because of the stellar acting and performances that took place in the sex scenes. They considered it to be pornographic, because they thought there may or may not have been too much realism to what was being filmed.

— Marilyn Manson, MTV News

And at another point implying the possibility that the sex was in fact real:

And Manson admits the scenes — in which Wood moans like a banshee, at times — seem very realistic but wouldn't confirm fans' suspicions one way or the other. "It does look real," he said, with a telling snicker.

— MTV News

Evan Rachel Wood has said the sex was not real, however.

In response to the video's release, and a string of claims from those on the set, bloggers across the web have offered their opinions on the validity of the sex act.

In an attempt to clear the air, Spin felt it wise to contact Janine Lindemulder, a porn star who stars alongside infamous starlet Jenna Jameson in "Janine Loves Jenna". She said: "I'm completely convinced. You can't fake that kind of raw passion, you can tell they are a couple and you can't fake that kind of stuff," Lindemulder told Spin. "It's one of the most erotic things I've ever witnessed, the subtleties, the realness. It feels like you're peering into their private sex life. It's hot."

"Putting Holes In Happiness"

The music video, directed by French filmmaker Phillipe Grandieux, is a simple performance by the band in an unknown, seemingly outdoor area. There is a young girl Manson is seen with many times in the video, and also a small boy who seems to be frightfully screaming from something not seen. Manson has stated in various interviews that select segments of the video were filmed in Germany during the shooting of the "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)" video in April 2007.

Reception

Critical response

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
Entertainment Weekly	(B)
LA Times
NME	(7/10)
Popmatters	(7/10)
Rocklouder
Rolling Stone
Slant Magazine
IGN	(7.8/10)
Sputnikmusic

Upon the its release, the album met with mixed and positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score 63, based on 14 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". Allmusic gave the abum a mixed review and said: "Eat Me is a bit too transparent, as its clean arena rock production makes the album sound safe (...) "Eat Me, Drink Me" becomes an intriguing muddle, an interesting portrait of Manson at the cusp of middle-age melancholy even if as sheer music it's the least visceral or compelling he's ever been." LA Times praised the album's concept, saying "The songs too are sculpted from the darkest stone with special care. Previous Manson guitarists will envy the solo space allotted Skold; a number of exceptional ax workouts perfectly reflect moods that range from mounting pride to roiling anguish to moaning abjection." LA Times also noted that "Putting Holes In Happiness" stands out as "one of Manson's greatest songs." Jamie Fullerton of NME gave the album a rating of 7 out of 10, and said: "This album sees him rising from the hordes of spider-black hoodies, becoming a musical force beyond the Download ticket-holders.Eat him, drink him, but make sure you listen to him too." Popmatters also gave the album a rating of 7 out of 10, and said: "Eat Me, Drink Me should return Manson to his former successes, and rightfully so. There is an earnestness in the music designed to speak directly to fucked-up adolescence while often inexplicably foregoing the pander. There is something to be said for knowing where the line is and when to cross it. Call Manson what you will—genius, has-been, shock rocker, freak—but like his best work, Eat Me, Drink Me is as fun as it is cartoonishly scary." Slant Magazine gave the album a favorable review and said: " "Putting Holes in Happiness" is the best of the autobiographical tracks, with a melancholic guitar riff that matches the song's appropriately plodding arrangement. Hardcore fans may take offense to the lack of any songs challenging God, government, or society in general, but it's their loss. Eat Me, Drink Me is a bona fide creative rebirth." Sputnikmusic gave the album a rating of 4 out of 5 stars and said: "It's still strange and creepy, but Manson's passion has always been pure rock, and with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails out of his hair, it seems as if Marilyn Manson can finally do what he wants. Even though it drags at the end, Eat Me, Drink Me is a solid release that shows Manson progressing well and maturing his sound, while keeping the shock/industrial sound that made him a hit in the first place. Its a shame that most people will dismiss this album because its Manson, but actually listening to this album and giving it a chance will change what you know about the man behind the 'shock rock'."

Chart performance

On May 31, the entire album was uploaded for streaming on Marilyn Manson's MySpace page, five days prior to its American release. When released, debuted at number 8 in the United States with more than 80,000 copies sold in the first week. The album charted at number 1 in Estonia and Turkey. Its peak position was number 2, on the Austria Albums Top 75, it stayed there for 1 week. Its highest entry was number 2 in the Austria Albums Top 75. The album's initial entries in the charts were positive, it managed to reach the top ten in some countries, including Australia, Belgium (Wallonia), Canada, Croatia, Finland, Germany, France, Greece, etc. In the other hand, the album only reached number 38 in the Netherlands and 36 in Poland. "Eat Me, Drink Me" worldwide has sold more than 4 million copies to date.

Rape of the World Tour

Marilyn Manson performing "Putting Holes In Happiness", during the "Rape of The World", June 2007.

Rape of the World is the eleventh tour Marilyn Manson embarked on, under management of major record label Interscope Records. It was also the band's seventh tour to span over multiple legs. The band was on the tour from May 26, 2007 until March 2, 2008. During the North American dates the band toured with thrash metal band Slayer and hard rock band Bleeding Through. During the Australian dates, Manson was supported by Australian pop-punk band The Spazzys, who received harsh criticism from the crowds. During the Winter European tour leg the band was supported by Turbonegro. The support act for the Winter North American tour leg was OURS.

For this tour Manson returned to the theatrics of "Grotesk Burlesk", some influenced by Alice in Wonderland. Initially, Manson took to the stage wearing a leather jacket with cut off gloves and a black, long-sleeved shirt to perform the opener, "If I Was Your Vampire" and the follow-up, "Disposable Teens". When first performed as an encore on the European tour, Manson took to the stage for either "Are You the Rabbit?" or "The Nobodies" (and in the case of Paris, "EAT ME, DRINK ME"), wearing a striped white-gold, long-sleeved shirt. Manson later replaced the long-sleeve shirt for a black t-shirt with cut off sleeves. When the butcher’s knife microphone debuted, Manson performed the first song like this but also wore black, elbow-length gloves. On certain dates, Manson wore silver pants with his black shirt. "If I Was Your Vampire" then began to be performed in a black frilly shirt and a black feather boa and pink gloves for "Are You the Rabbit?".

Following on from his appearance with Alice Cooper, Manson began to take to the stage in a t-shirt depicting a cartoon of a bunny rabbit, or on later occasions, a cut-off t-shirt with a skeleton chest on. Costume changes on these dates after the distinctly nontheatrical European tour first leg featured a top hat and striped pants (occasionally a leather trench coat and jacket) for "mOBSCENE", a jacket with ‘333 HALF EVIL’ patched onto it, and even at some dates, a boxing gown for "The Fight Song" with the iconic twisted heart on the front and the bleeding MM logo on the back, as well as a white jacket, reminiscent of Elvis Presley, for "Rock Is Dead" at later dates. Contrasting these changes, Manson still performed "Antichrist Superstar" in the navy blue-red suit, sometimes changed into a silver version of the rabbit shirt for later performances of "The Beautiful People" on dates on the European tour.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"If I Was Your Vampire"	5:56
2.	"Putting Holes in Happiness"	4:31
3.	"The Red Carpet Grave"	4:05
4.	"They Said That Hell's Not Hot"	4:17
5.	"Just a Car Crash Away"	4:55
6.	"Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)"	5:05
7.	"Evidence"	5:19
8.	"Are You the Rabbit?"	4:14
9.	"Mutilation is the Most Sincere Form of Flattery"	3:52
10.	"You and Me and the Devil Makes 3"	4:24
11.	"Eat Me, Drink Me"	5:40

Bonus tracks

No.	Title	Length
12.	"Heart-Shaped Glasses (Inhuman Remix)" (International bonus track)	4:07
13.	"Heart-Shaped Glasses (Space Cowboy Remix)" (UK/AU bonus track)	5:24
14.	"Putting Holes in Happiness (Acoustic Version)" (Japan bonus track)	4:10
15.	"Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand) (Penetrate the Canvas Remix)" (Best Buy bonus track)	4:48

Bonus DVD

Audio

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Putting Holes in Happiness (Boys Noize Remix)"	5:37
2.	"Putting Holes in Happiness (Robots to Mars Mix)"	4:23
3.	"Putting Holes in Happiness (Guitar Hero Remix)"	3:44
4.	"Putting Holes in Happiness (Ginger Fish Remix)"	3:15
5.	"Heart-Shaped Glasses (Penetrate the Canvas Remix)"	4:48
6.	"Heart-Shaped Glasses (Hamel Remix)"	7:01
7.	"You and Me and the Devil Makes 3 (Adam Freeland Remix)"	5:38

Video

• "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand) (Explicit)"
• "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand) (Clean)"
• "Putting Holes in Happiness"
• Track by track interview

Personnel

• Marilyn Manson
  • Marilyn Manson – vocals, percussion, lyrics, producer, photography, art direction and design
  • Tim Skold – guitars, bass, keyboards, music, lyrics, engineering, programming, producer

• Sean Beavan – mixing
• Ambooleg – photography
• Perou – photography
• Nela Koenig – photography
• Anthony Silva – photography
• Evan Rachel Wood – polaroid photography
• Liam Wood – art direction and design

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format
Worldwide	June 5, 2007	Interscope Records	Compact disc

Charts

Album charts

Chart (2007)	Peak position
Australia (ARIA)	9
Austria (Ö3)	2
Belgium (Flanders) (Ultratop 50)	19
Belgium (Wallonia) (Ultratop)	9
Canada (CANOE)	8
Croatia	7
Czech Republic (IFPI)	12
Denmark (Tracklisten)	18
Estonia	1
Finland (Mitä Hitti)	9
France (SNEP)	5
Germany (Media Control)	4
Greece (IFPI)	7
Hungary (Mahasz)	32
Ireland (IRMA)	23
Italy (FIMI)	7
Japan (Oricon)	7
South Korea (RIAK)	2
Mexico (AMPROFON)	12
Netherlands (MegaCharts)	38
Norway (VG-Lista)	12
New Zealand (RIANZ)	18
Poland (ZPAV)	36
Portugal (AFP)	25
Spain (PROMUSICAE)	7
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)	10
Switzerland (Hitparade)	4
Turkey (Mü-YAP)	1
United Kingdom (OCC)	8
United States Billboard 200	8

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Peak position
2007	"Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)"	U.S. Modern Rock Tracks	31
2007	"Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)"	U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks	24
2007	"Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)"	UK Singles Chart	19
2007	"Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)"	Sweden Singles Chart	27
2007	"Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)"	Austria Singles Chart	41
2007	"Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)"	Irish Singles Chart	46
2007	"Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)"	Germany Singles Chart	49
2007	"Putting Holes In Happiness"	Germany Singles Chart	83

External links

• Official Eat Me, Drink Me website
• Eat Me, Drink Me at MetaCritic