My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Iero has branded Marilyn Manson "two-faced", that's right "two faced". This is serious stuff, obviously. The branding follows Manson's previously reported ramblings in which he said that the song 'Mutilation Is The Most Sincere Form Of Flattery' off new album 'Eat Me, Drink Me' was inspired by MCR, adding: "I'm embarrassed to be me because these people are doing a really sad, pitiful, shallow version of what I've done".
Iero reckons that Manson is "two-faced" because he has always been so "pleasant" to the band whenever they have met in the past, meaning that the sudden outburst against them was something of a surprise. I don't know whether Iero is normally "pleasant" back to Manson, but he wasn't being all that "pleasant" now that the gloves are off.
"The funny thing is" he told reporters this week, "that he seems to have lashed out at us about the make-up. That's weird to me, because I had heard of Alice Cooper before I heard of Marilyn Manson. I don't know how he could be mad at us. We never came out and said we were going to call ourselves by a girl's name and then a serial killer's name. I'm really sorry if he feels we ripped him off. It would have been nice if he could have said something to our faces but he's been all smiles every time I've seen him. Maybe he's doing it for the press. Some people just like to talk".
It's not the first time MCR have responded to Manson's bitchiness, of course. Iero's bandmate Gerard Way told Rock Sound the other week: "If Elvis Costello said we sucked we would think about it a bit, but usually it is comments from someone with a new record to promote so the remarks ring hollow. We still haven't found someone that has knocked us down that we need to take seriously".