"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".