E5--Artistic Expressions of the Fixation

Trent Reznor yes I see as 5w6 space. He has the sp/sx to sx/so in another world freak in a cave plus male beauty big time. Also, tons of anxiety.

Marilyn Manson himself yah could be 4w5 or 5w4. I haven’t looked at him that much. This song though in particular just feels once again like 5 freak territory.

Radiohead is on a different plain from those. Way less sexual and very heady. They create otherworlds that just somehow feel like home to aliens. Their music also is very 9 ish. So, there’s a double withdrawn whammy that just literally mirrors my internal landscape.

Manson put his own stamp on “Tainted Love”. The original version by Soft Cell doesn’t have this “edge” or dungeony aesthetic at all.

I've read some of his lyrics. He seems to have been a classic 5 L6 Provocative Cynic 'punching out' to avoid falling into L7 Isolated Nihilism or worse (schizoid). Four is a terrible typing for him. He is chillingly non-reactive in some of these interviews and always very heady. Everything is he thinks, not he feels, he speaks of making people think, not feel, of having had to develop empathy...

To be fair to eidb, there were far fewer youtube videos available when they typed him 4w5. But I only went along with it because I was clueless. The thing is by the time I got there--and I actually only stayed on eidb proper for a year (but what a year...)--many people had been there for ten years or more. You would think someone would have realized he was a head type. I mean...Sylvia did here. (btw she got there a little before me and left not that long after).

Anyway...