Time & Perspective Quote by Daisy Berkowitz

“Quite differently” is the kind of band-speak that usually signals a clean break: new lineup, new sound, maybe a quiet apology tour to distance from old baggage. Berkowitz undercuts that expectation with the second clause, a tether snapped tight: “but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.” The line is half reassurance, half boundary-setting. Change is happening, but not the kind that threatens the brand.

The intent reads as protective and pragmatic. Berkowitz is talking like someone who understands that in rock, especially in a project as image-driven as Marilyn Manson, the “sound” isn’t just a collection of guitar tones and arrangements. It’s a signature atmosphere: menace, theatricality, industrial grit, a sense of transgression packaged for mass consumption. “Approaching” hints at process rather than product - new methods in writing or recording, different personnel dynamics - but the promise is that the end result will still land in the same emotional register fans came for.

The subtext is about continuity amid instability. It’s a preemptive answer to the audience’s fear: that experimentation equals dilution, or that a shift in creative control will fracture the identity. At the same time, it slyly admits how elastic that identity is. If you can “approach” things differently and still “sound like” the same entity, then “Marilyn Manson” functions less like a band and more like a franchise aesthetic - a set of cues recognizable enough to survive internal rewiring.

Contextually, it’s the classic tension point for any controversial, myth-heavy act: innovate to stay alive, but never step so far that the myth stops paying rent.