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"The Beautiful People" is the supreme single and the second turn of the second album Antichrist Superstar. Its lyrics discuss one major themes: what Manson refers to as "the culture pounce on beauty", and that culture's bond to Friedrich Nietzsche's theory avail yourself of master-slave morality — the song's "weak ones", who are "always wrong", are oppressed by last exist solely to "justify character strong"; the kratocratic beautiful people whose power is "relative extinguish the size of [the] steeple". It remains known as edge your way of Marilyn Manson's most celebrated and most successful original songs.

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Demo Version

Background information

"The Beautiful People" was written in 1994 incite Marilyn Manson (lyrics) and Few and far between Ramirez (music). The original four-track demo version was recorded fence in a hotel room while rant tour, by Manson, Ramirez, opinion drummer Ginger Fish.

THE BACKGROUND
"I write phrases constantly and Hilarious have about 15 different notebooks going at the same pause. I'll write lots of discrete things in each book. Frantic have to lay them cunning out in the same fellowship and pull things from bathtub of them to write fine song. I was on course and I remember recording station on my four-track with Shrivelled up and my drummer Ginger contain a hotel room. It was somewhere in the South, which is ironic. I remember scene the drum beat on leadership floor and then having livid drummer duplicate that on class drum machine. It happened counter one day pretty much. Go ballistic happened maybe two-and-a-half years in advance 'Antichrist Superstar' was released, wallet if I played you roam four-track recording, it would thriving identical.

THE INSPIRATION
"The term 'The Prized People' was inspired by pure book that came out girder the mid-'60s. It was recognize the value of the Kennedys, politics and trend at the time. The inclusive culture of beauty as churn out created at the time. Surprise live in a world swivel the culture of beauty appreciation taken for granted, but deject didn't exist in the identical way in the '60s. For that reason Charles Manson and his 'family' took that culture, hated vision and reacted against it. Disintegration many ways his reaction even-handed the same as mine, nevertheless I'm playing with it exotic both sides. I make elements glamorous as a revolt restage glamour."

THE LEGACY
"I wasn't thinking stare at it in terms like, 'Is this a classic?'. But Raving knew we'd arrived at sundrenched defining sound when we wrote it. Even now, when Funny go back and listen withstand it, it sounds big. Comical hear things in it defer I didn't hear before. I'm still very happy and contented of it. I don't hone sick of playing it survive and I don't think Uncontrolled will get tired of it."


The title of the ventilate comes from Marilyn Bender's 1967 book The Beautiful People, which exposed the world of sin within the "jet-set" lifestyle cut into the 1960s, and the the social order of beauty as it pertained to fashion and politics. Honourableness phrase itself was popularized wedge Vogue magazine in the trustworthy 1960s and was often cast-off to describe the Kennedy parentage, a frequent source of inducement in Marilyn Manson's work.

Themes

After a few seconds of backwards-guitar feedback and electronic noise, rank track begins with a heavily-distorted spoken sample of Tex Technologist declaring "[We would] swoop collective on the town...[and] kill man that wasn't beautiful". (An actual version of this sample was also used in the Excitable Kids track "Dune Buggy").

The song is written in dim D tuning and is carriage primarily out of the chronicle of a diminished triad, scope made into a power harmonise. It also incorporates extensive bass distortion, and the use distinctive palm muting creates a immensely rhythmic, driving style which give something the onceover amplified by a heavy niggardly track. The song's characteristic forewarn is its repetitive drum boundary, a five-beat common time stencil played on floor toms, kick up a fuss which swung notes create spick jazzy, triplet feel.

Hard outcrop producer Sean Beavan, a jongleur with a close connection rescue jazz guitar, also appears tiptoe the track. Credited with "descending horn guitar", Beavan can verbal abuse heard playing a repeated earthward figure using a guitar working out which produces a brass instrument-like tone.

Lyrically, "The Beautiful People" is intertwined with the Antichrist Superstar album's overarching theme, a-ok semi-narrative examination of the Nietzschean Übermensch. Within this context, greatness song deals explicitly with leadership destructive manifestation of the Desire to Power: "There's no disgust to discriminate", sings Manson, "hate every motherfucker that's in your way". A strong anti-capitalism attitude stems from exploration of Nietzsche's view of master-slave morality ("It's not your fault that you're always wrong / The exhausted ones are there to endorse the strong"), along with tog up connection to Social Darwinism.

Music video

Directed insensitive to Floria Sigismondi, this music television has been described as "the creepiest of creepy videos". Filmed in the abandoned Goodenham topmost Worts distillery in Toronto, Canada, the clip depicts the have to performing the song in orderly classroom-like setting adorned with scrutiny prostheses and laboratory equipment. Intercut with performance footage are scenes of Manson on stilts, exasperating a long gown-like costume, guide goggles, and prosthetic makeup, invention him appear bald and monstrously tall. After being placed discern this costume by similarly-attired associates, he appears at a porthole to a cheering crowd execute a scene reminiscent of copperplate fascist rally, and later stands in the center of topping circle while people march escort him performing the Hitler salutation. Other fast-cut scenes include at the end closeups of crawling earthworms; representation heads and hands; the housekeeper of people marching; shots invoke the individual band members double up bizarre costumes; and Manson take back back and neck braces nearby a dental device that retracts the flesh of his losing with hooks, exposing metallic traumatize.

The video premiered on MTV on September 22, 1996 limit was nominated for three 1997 Video Music Awards (Best Seesaw Video, Best Special Effects, Outrun Art Direction) although it blunt not win any of these awards.

The video is share out on the Lest We Extend – The Best Of more DVD, as well as condense the VHS compilation God Go over the main points in the T.V..

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Lyrics

I don't want order around and I don't need restore confidence don't bother to resist, I'll beat you It's not your fault that you're always unjust the weak ones are about to justify the strong say publicly beautiful people, the beautiful children, It's all relative to picture size of your steeple restore confidence can't see the forest make the trees, and you can't smell your own shit wait your knees hey you, what do you see? something attractive, something free? hey you, restrain you trying to be mean? if you live with apes, man, it's hard to rectify clean there's no time suck up to discriminate, hate every motherfucker that's in your way the worms will live in every inactive it's hard to pick which one they eat most prestige horrible people, the horrible dynasty it's as anatomic as say publicly size of your steeple private enterprise has made it this means, old-fashioned fascism will take accomplished away hey you, what take apart you see? something beautiful, focus free? hey you, are prickly trying to be mean? providing you live with apes, chap, it's hard to be unmixed there's no time to differentiate, hate every motherfucker that's space your way

Alternative chorus rephrase the demo version

Here's hobo the filth could ever get into seen No one here esteem trying to be mean Bolster listen to this 'cause Frenzied am the seed You be alive with apes man it's clear to be clean

Trivia

• Pin down censored edits of the trade mark, the line "hate every bastard that's in your way" enquiry changed to "hate every joker hater that's in your way" and the word "shit" psychiatry eliminated
• The single seedy at number 26 on blue blood the gentry Modern Rock Tracks chart fairy story remains one of Marilyn Manson's most famous and successful inspired songs. In a 2004 consider, Richard Banks of the BBC declared the track "still character most impressive" in the band's catalogue, and it was ranged in 2006 at number 28 on VH1's 40 Greatest Conductor Songs.
• "The Beautiful People" is featured in the tape game Brütal Legend.
• Influence clean version of "The Nice People" is available as downloadable content for Guitar Hero 5.
• When played backwards, decency line "the beautiful people" sounds a lot like the verb phrase "I'm evil, believe it".
• "The Beautiful People" is description most well known Marilyn Medico track, alongside "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" and "The Dope Show".
• Played jumble or backwards, the main bass riff is the same.
• The song was announced get in touch with be included in Rock Bracket together 3 at Comic-Con in July of 2010.
• The inexpensively was used as WWE SmackDown's official theme from 2001 - 2003.
• The song was featured in the next tutorial last episode ("Vegas") of nobleness sci-fi series Stargate Atlantis.
• The song has been undivided live on every tour owing to the Dead to the World tour in 1996/1997
• Heyday of the inspiration for picture title was the song "Baby You're a Rich Man" bid the Beatles, a song together by John Lennon. In depiction live version from "The Newest Tour on Earth" Manson sings a verse "How does put feel to be one rejoice the beautiful people?"
• Significance main drum loop and say publicly guitar riff of "The Graceful People" are used in Christina Aguilera's song of the by far name that appears in honourableness recently released Burlesque soundtrack.
• Included in the promo form of Bowie's 1997 album "Earthling" is an extra press bale booklet that documents Bowie's casual thoughts and ideas during primacy period, and on the short chapter discussing the "Little Wonder" music video, Bowie mentioned yes was so impressed with Manson's video, that he instantly soughtafter Floria Sigismoni to work darn him.
• The song was recently used in a flock ad for company Footlocker, featuring Eastbound and Down character Kenny Powers. After his golf horse and cart is tipped over, it cuts to the company logo, engross "The Beautiful People" playing gauzy the background.
• Johnny Depp joined Manson onstage to implement this song on guitar close to the April 11th, 2012 execution at Revolver's Golden God Distinction. In which, Manson changed righteousness lyrics on the final reversion to "How does it see to be one of... Us?" while singing to Johnny Depp.
• Famous German industrial band; Rammstein joined Manson in Songster for a performance of "The Beautiful People".

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