8 Times Marilyn Manson Proved The World Wrong

5. He Has A Great Relationship With His Father

The image of the pained musician with a troubled paternal relationship is a bit of a cliché, but it's not entirely devoid of legitimacy. There are many, many fantastic musicians with complicated relationships with their father. Adele, for example -€“ whose father left when she was just three years old €“ once stated that if she ever sees him again she'll "spit in his face". Courtney Love has had a prolonged media battle with her father after he supposedly gave her LSD as a young child. And that's not to mention the infamous actions of Joe Jackson, Michael Jackson's father. Heck, even Mozart had a terrible relationship with his father Leopold, who tried to stop Mozart from moving to Vienna where many of his masterpieces were composed.

Looking at Manson, then, you can almost sense how much the media would delight in pinning his unique actions and aesthetic down to "daddy issues". But the truth is, Manson has a wonderful relationship with his father. The most notable example of this came in early 2015 when his dad surprised him at a photo shoot for Paper Magazine decked out in full Manson-esque face make-up, but there are other examples as well, like Manson's statement in a 2015 interview with The Guardian that they had supported one another after his mother's death.