In my opinion Mason is a commercial genius. He knew if created an image that parents and other authority figures hated, kids would love him, buy his cd's, go to his concerts and buy all his merchandise, and whatta ya know.......he's a millionaire! It's an image and that's it, just like Kiss had an image, jus like Alice Cooper did, and jus like many other musical artists have and probably will in the future. If people didn't make such a hype over him he probably would even be half as famous as he is today. I mean look at all the hype this thread has turned into simply because someone mentioned Marilyn Manson, LOL. The guys obviously done his homework, and his music's pretty good too.
Oh yea.... and as far as kids killing people because of music, that's the biggest crock I've ever heard. If someone kills someone they obviously have much greater issues than the music they listen to. People have tried these law suits before and always lose. Ozzy was sued once by the parents of a kid who supposedly committted suicide because he listened to the song "suicide solution". I think the parents shoulda at least looked up the lyrics before they made fools of themselves in a public court, since that song is about slowly killing yourself from drug and alcohol abuse, needless to say they lost. It's just another way for killers to try and plead "insanity" Spare me!