(s)AINT

"(s)AINT"
(s)AINT cover
Song by Marilyn Manson
Album	The Golden Age of Grotesque
Released	May 5, 2003
Recorded	2002–2003 at the Doppelherz Studio in Hollywood, California; The Mix Room in Burbank, California
Genre	Industrial metal
Length	3:42
Label	Nothing, Interscope
Writer	Marilyn Manson
Composer	John 5, Marilyn Manson, Tim Skold
Producer	Marilyn Manson, Tim Skold, Ben Grosse

"(s)AINT" is the seventh track of the album The Golden Age of Grotesque. While it was not a single for the band, a music video was produced for the song which gained notoriety for its highly explicit nature and its ban in several countries.

Appearances

Albums

• The Golden Age of Grotesque
• Lest We Forget (The Best of) (Japan version)

Singles

• "(s)AINT" (DVD Single)

Versions

• (s)AINT — Appears on The Golden Age of Grotesque.

Music video

(s)AINT Video (Uncut, Unrated, Banned by Label)
Video by Marilyn Manson
Released	September 28, 2004
Recorded	November 15–16, 2003 in Hollywood, California
Genre	Industrial metal
Length	3:49
Label	Nothing, Interscope
Director	Asia Argento
Producer	Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Manson video chronology
Doppelherz (2003) (s)AINT Video (Uncut, Unrated, Banned by Label) (2003) Guns, God and Government - Live in L.A. (2009)

The music video is notorious for its extremely graphic nature. It primarily features Manson in a hotel room insufflating cocaine (from a table & on a Bible cover), depicting mounds of blood from his nose running down his neck and chest, several S&M scenes, and it involves explicit sexual activity [including masturbating in front of a girl].

The video was banned by Manson's record label in the United States and in Japan and Germany blurring was applied to a particularly graphic scene in which Manson performs cunnilingus. Along with the release of Lest We Forget (The Best of), Manson released a DVD single with the uncut, banned from the label, original version of the music video - which had a limited run of 3000 copies. When the video was uploaded onto the website in November 2005, a further 75 DVD's were offered with orders of Lest We Forget, most of which came with a bible page autographed by Manson.

Eric Szmanda makes a cameo appearance in the video, and he is seen licking Marilyn Manson's neck at one point, with the help of former bassist Gidget Gein. Other participants include Tim Skold, Dita Von Teese, Asia Argento (who also directed the video) and Vanessa Hutton. The video was shot at the Argyle Hotel (now known as The Sunset Tower) in a 2,000 square feet, split-level townhouse suite comprised of a master bedroom and bathroom, sitting room and a powder room. Manson himself financed the production costs for the video.

Lyrics

    I don't care if your world is ending today
    I wasn't invited to it anyway
    You said I tasted famous, so I drew you a heart
    But now I'm not an artist I'm a fucking work of art
    I've got an F and a C and I got a K too
    And the only thing missing is a bitch like yoU
    
    You wanted perfekt
    You got your perfekt
    But now I'm too perfekt for someone like you
    I was a dandy in your ghetto with
    A snow white smile and you'll
    Never be as perfekt whatever you do
    
    What's my name, what's my name?
    Hold the S because I am an AINT
    What's my name, what's my name?
    Hold the S because I am an AINT
    
    I am a bonetop, a death's head
    On a mopstick
    You infected me, took diamonds
    I took all your shit
    Your "sell-by date" expired,
    So you had to be sold
    I'm a suffer-genius and
    Vivi-sex symbol
    
    You wanted PERFEKT
    You got your PERFEKT
    But now I'm too perfekt for someone like you
    I was a dandy in your ghetto with
    A snow white smile and you'll
    Never be as perfekt whatever you do
    
    What's my name, what's my name?
    Hold the S because I am an AINT
    What's my name, what's my name?
    Hold the S because I am an AINT
    
    I've got an F and a C and I got a K too
    And the only thing missing is a bitch like yoU
    I've got an F and a C and I got a K too
    And the only thing missing is a bitch like yoU
    I am a dandy in the ghetto with a snow white smile
    Super-ego bitch, I've been evil awhile
    I am a dandy in the ghetto with a snow white smile
    Super-ego bitch, I've been evil awhile
    What's my name, what's my name?
    Hold the S because I am an AINT
    What's my name, what's my name?
    Hold the S because I am an AINT

Trivia

Former Marilyn Manson bassist Gidget Gein (left) and actor Eric Szmanda (right) are among those who make guest appearances in the music video.

• The line "Your sell by date has expired" was first used in the vocal track of the short film Doppelherz, which was recorded on April 1, 2002.
• In the song's music video, a shot of former Marilyn Manson bassist Gidget Gein's sculpture Incase of Emergency Break Heart can be seen when the lyrics "You said I tasted famous, so I drew you a heart" are spoken. Gein also makes a guest appearance in the music video.
• Manson compared the video to the John O' Brien novel and Mike Figis film "Leaving Las Vegas", describing the video as "an uncomprimised look at me at my absolute lowest point...the point where I have to look up to see shit, that I'm below that."
• An image of a bloodied Manson from (s)AINT was the splash page to his website throughout much of 2005 and the beginning of 2006. Manson, as revaled on the website's slideshow, photographed the picture while viewing the video for (s)AINT from his television screen.
• Also according to Manson's website the scenes in which Manson stares into a cracked mirror are intended to be evocative of what he called the "fractured personality" photograph that serves as the front cover for his autobiography, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell.
• The eyemask which Manson wears in the video is of a type popular in the Weimar republic and the scene in which Von Teese stands on the bed over another girl is almost identical to a photograph in "The Hot Girls of Weimar Berlin", a book which Manson mentioned owning in a 2004 interview with Howard Stern.

Personnel

• Marilyn Manson – vocals, lyrics, music
• John 5 – lead guitar, music
• Tim Skold – bass, producer, music
• Madonna Wayne Gacy – keyboards, loops
• Ginger Fish – live drums
• Ben Grosse – producer