Shirley Manson Casually Pissing
In a photo shoot for SPIN magazine, Shirley Manson from the band Garbage was peeing in a photo. SPIN made the (unfortunate) decision to edit out the pee. This is Shirley in an interview with VICE talking about the photo:
Vice: There's one photo in there that is very subtle. It was a photo that was in SPIN after being retouched, but you're very casually pissing in it. And the caption does not provide nearly enough information. Why were you pissing in this photo?
Manson: Well, because we'd been invited to be part of SPIN Magazine's calendar of the year, and I knew that there were gonna be photos of 12 bands, and we wanted ours to stand out, because that's your job. You don't want to just merge into the background. You want to be the photo everyone's talking about. And if you think about rock and roll- in rock and roll everyone has done everything. How many times do we have a rock and roll band smash guitars? It's been done. So I was thinking that the image of a woman fully dressed but where she's wearing no panties, having a piss casually is...you don't see that very often. I thought that would be a really arresting image. And that's what we did.
Vice: So did they photoshop that out before it ran?
Manson: Yeah, SPIN called us up in the end and said, "Look, our advertisers are gonna go crazy. We can't run the photo as is." And I was aghast, as you can imagine.
Anyway, here's the uncensored photo! It appears in This is the Noise that Keeps Me Awake, a book about the band.
Vice: There's one photo in there that is very subtle. It was a photo that was in SPIN after being retouched, but you're very casually pissing in it. And the caption does not provide nearly enough information. Why were you pissing in this photo?
Manson: Well, because we'd been invited to be part of SPIN Magazine's calendar of the year, and I knew that there were gonna be photos of 12 bands, and we wanted ours to stand out, because that's your job. You don't want to just merge into the background. You want to be the photo everyone's talking about. And if you think about rock and roll- in rock and roll everyone has done everything. How many times do we have a rock and roll band smash guitars? It's been done. So I was thinking that the image of a woman fully dressed but where she's wearing no panties, having a piss casually is...you don't see that very often. I thought that would be a really arresting image. And that's what we did.
Vice: So did they photoshop that out before it ran?
Manson: Yeah, SPIN called us up in the end and said, "Look, our advertisers are gonna go crazy. We can't run the photo as is." And I was aghast, as you can imagine.
Anyway, here's the uncensored photo! It appears in This is the Noise that Keeps Me Awake, a book about the band.
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