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Shirley Manson is firing back at critics.
On Sunday, April 13, the 58-year-old lead singer of the rock band Garbage posted to Instagram to respond to a recent Daily Mail article focused on the band members’ appearance.
The post included a screenshot of the story, which featured a black-and-white photo of the group. The headline reads: “Iconic American rock band look unrecognizable in new album promo snaps as they promote its first single.”
“What is THIS supposed to mean?!?” Manson wrote on Instagram. The Scottish musician noted that her male bandmates look “exactly the same as they have always done for thirty years so I can’t help thinking this is directed at me.”
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“Look — I’m nearly sixty years old,” she continued. “Of course I’m not going to look anything like my late twenties self?!? Quite honestly I think it would be a bit creepy if I did but hey that’s just me. Either way — this kind of language is weaponized to put a woman like me in my place.”
Manson explained that she’s “decided to reject this gift” and “continue to age as I am.”
“I will continue to wrinkle and flub — lose an inch of my height here and gain a new inch or two there — but I will still look cute in my pyjamas with bed head and no make up on and I will always,” she wrote in the post’s conclusion. “No matter what I look like — no matter what they say about me — I will always — and forever — rock HARDER than most.”
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Garbage formed in 1993 in Madison, Wis. In addition to Manson, the band consists of American musicians Duke Erikson, Steve Marker and Butch Vig, who have all been with the group since its inception.
In February 2025, the band announced their eighth studio album, Let All That We Imagine Be the Light, would be released on May 30.
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