PHOTO BY MARVIN SCOTT JARRETT, STYLED BY MARJAN MALKAPOUR, HAIR BY CLYDE HAYGOOD, MAKEUP BY TORSTEN WITTE, NAILS BY JAMAYKA HAMILTON.
NYLON X SHIRLEY MANSON
Meet our Music Issue Cover Girl!
Shirley Manson is a rock goddess, a grunge icon, and a one-time TV Terminator vixen. Now the 45-year-old singer is back with Garbage for their first new album in seven years. Ellen Carpenter interviewed Manson while on the road with the band in Austin, Texas.
On Being an Adult in an Industry Full of Teen Sensations:
I used to torture myself because I thought I wasn't pretty enough, that I wasn't young enough, I wasn't this or that enough. Now I'm like, fuck it... I love youth culture, but I also want some wisdom and I want some experience and I want some knowledge. I think we put far too much responsibility on young people's shoulders.
On Why Garbage Took a Break in 2005:
I felt that we had worn out our welcome as a band. We had enjoyed such a zeitgeist moment as with our first two records - people were excited by us - and then the music scene shifted so completely. Garage bands like The Strokes and The White Stripes came in and put us out of business, for lack of a better term. And I knew it: Oof, we are fucked. And I don't think we were quick enough to adapt. I just didn't know how to fix it. Nobody in the band did. We'd been on the road for so long in our little microcosm, and we had no idea what was happening in the rest of the world, and I think that affects your ability to be an effective artist.
On Becoming "Normal" After Fame:
For a decade I'd walk into a room, and I'd feel the temperature change - and you sort of get used to that, which I don't think is good for you as a human being at all. But it's like being a junkie: You have to be weaned off it. I went totally cold turkey. And there were a lot of tears and a lot of feelings lost and not being sure what to do about it.
On the Name of their New Album, Not Your Kind of People:
It felt almost like a war cry in a sense, because I think we have always felt like the oddball outsiders. But we inverted that idea this time around: Yes, we are outsiders, we are oddballs. Come join us if you feel the same way. We just sort of turned our gaze outward, and that was empowering for us.
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On Being an Adult in an Industry Full of Teen Sensations:
I used to torture myself because I thought I wasn't pretty enough, that I wasn't young enough, I wasn't this or that enough. Now I'm like, fuck it... I love youth culture, but I also want some wisdom and I want some experience and I want some knowledge. I think we put far too much responsibility on young people's shoulders.
On Why Garbage Took a Break in 2005:
I felt that we had worn out our welcome as a band. We had enjoyed such a zeitgeist moment as with our first two records - people were excited by us - and then the music scene shifted so completely. Garage bands like The Strokes and The White Stripes came in and put us out of business, for lack of a better term. And I knew it: Oof, we are fucked. And I don't think we were quick enough to adapt. I just didn't know how to fix it. Nobody in the band did. We'd been on the road for so long in our little microcosm, and we had no idea what was happening in the rest of the world, and I think that affects your ability to be an effective artist.
On Becoming "Normal" After Fame:
For a decade I'd walk into a room, and I'd feel the temperature change - and you sort of get used to that, which I don't think is good for you as a human being at all. But it's like being a junkie: You have to be weaned off it. I went totally cold turkey. And there were a lot of tears and a lot of feelings lost and not being sure what to do about it.
On the Name of their New Album, Not Your Kind of People:
It felt almost like a war cry in a sense, because I think we have always felt like the oddball outsiders. But we inverted that idea this time around: Yes, we are outsiders, we are oddballs. Come join us if you feel the same way. We just sort of turned our gaze outward, and that was empowering for us.
Get the NYLON Music Issue on stands next week!
This story was published on May 23, 2012.
CONTENT RATING:
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Seven
05/23/2012
This gives me faith to continue dressing how I like, and doing the things I like, even when I have "passed my prime" because imho, a person is much to fearful in their twenties to call them their "prime"...
Hector M
05/23/2012
The Nylon covers just keep getting better and better in 2012...
Tom-Even
05/23/2012
VOW that woman!!!! Perfection! <3
Jan-eric Skevik
05/23/2012
Beautifully scary pretty woman, L O V E !
roberto de la cruz
05/26/2012
love it-xxxoooooo
Eowyn
05/28/2012
Shirley deserves to be on your cover. P.S. So does PJ Harvey.
molly
05/29/2012
hazaah! love her- and please do buy her new album- it rocks!
Nahuel
06/04/2012
I think she's a goddess undercover... Such an intelligent mind, beauty and gorgeous, are a mix that can't be in a mortal
Peggy
06/08/2012
Oh gosh! I wanna be her!!!
Lucie Luh
06/08/2012
Thumbs up, all of them! :-P Wanna se more photos of her, more MORE!
BELOVED FREAK
12/28/2012
My only criticism is that aricle was too short.I did like the points you covered though and it was spot on.As a fan since G's inception it is great to see how beautifully she has settled in having such pride&faith in herself.Shirl is the most dynamic woman in music whose relevance can't ever be questioned again.She stands alone as the incomparable High Priestess of Music.
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