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{{Song | {{Song | ||
| Name = The Beautiful People | | Name = The Beautiful People | ||
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| Released = September 8, 1996 | | Released = September 8, 1996 | ||
| Recorded = 1996 at Nothing Studios in New Orleans, Louisiana | | Recorded = 1996 at Nothing Studios in New Orleans, Louisiana | ||
− | | Genre = Alternative | + | | Genre = Alternative rock, Industrial metal |
| Length = 3:38 | | Length = 3:38 | ||
− | | Label = [[Nothing]], [[Interscope Records|Interscope]] | + | | Label = [[Nothing Records|Nothing]], [[Interscope Records|Interscope]] |
| Writer = [[Marilyn Manson]] | | Writer = [[Marilyn Manson]] | ||
| Composer = [[Twiggy Ramirez]] | | Composer = [[Twiggy Ramirez]] | ||
| Producer = [[Trent Reznor]], Dave Ogilvie, Marilyn Manson | | Producer = [[Trent Reznor]], Dave Ogilvie, Marilyn Manson | ||
}} | }} | ||
− | "'''The Beautiful People'''" is the first single and the second track of the second album ''[[Antichrist Superstar]]''. Its lyrics discuss two major themes: what Manson refers to as "the culture of beauty", and that culture's connection to Friedrich Nietzsche's theory of master-slave morality | + | "'''The Beautiful People'''" is the first single and the second track of the second album ''[[Antichrist Superstar]]''. Its lyrics discuss two major themes: what Manson refers to as "the culture of beauty", and that culture's connection to Friedrich Nietzsche's theory of master-slave morality — the song's "weak ones", who are "always wrong", are oppressed by and exist solely to "justify the strong"; the kratocratic ''beautiful people'' whose power is "relative to the size of [the] steeple". It remains known as one of Marilyn Manson's most famous and most successful original songs. |
− | == Appearances == | + | ==Appearances== |
− | === Albums === | + | ===Albums=== |
* ''[[Antichrist Superstar]]'' | * ''[[Antichrist Superstar]]'' | ||
− | * ''[[Lest We Forget | + | * ''[[Lest We Forget (The Best of)]]'' |
* ''[[Lost & Found]]'' | * ''[[Lost & Found]]'' | ||
− | === Singles === | + | ===Singles=== |
* ''[[The Beautiful People (single)|The Beautiful People]]'' | * ''[[The Beautiful People (single)|The Beautiful People]]'' | ||
* ''[[The Dope Show (single)|The Dope Show]]'' | * ''[[The Dope Show (single)|The Dope Show]]'' | ||
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* ''[[Personal Jesus]]'' | * ''[[Personal Jesus]]'' | ||
− | == Versions == | + | ==Versions== |
− | * The Beautiful People <small> | + | * The Beautiful People <small>— Appears on ''Antichrist Superstar, Lost & Found'' and the "The Beautiful People" single.</small> |
− | * The Beautiful People (Clean version) <small> | + | * The Beautiful People (Clean version) <small>— Appears on the "The Beautiful People" promotional single.</small> |
− | * The Beautiful People (Edit) <small> | + | * The Beautiful People (Edit) <small>— Appears on ''Lest We Forget (The Best of)''.</small> |
* The Beautiful People (Instrumental) | * The Beautiful People (Instrumental) | ||
* The Beautiful People (Acapela) | * The Beautiful People (Acapela) | ||
− | * [[The Horrible People]] <small> | + | * [[The Horrible People]] <small>— Appears on the "The Beautiful People" single, ''[[Remix & Repent]]'' and the Japan version of ''Lest We Forget (The Best of)''.</small> |
− | * [[The Not So Beautiful People]] <small> | + | * [[The Not So Beautiful People]] <small>— Appears on the "The Beautiful People" single, ''[[The Nobodies: 2005 Against All Gods Mix]]'' and the Japan version of ''Lest We Forget (The Best of)''.</small> |
− | * [[The Beautiful People (Full Metal Jacket Remix)]] <small> | + | * [[The Beautiful People (Full Metal Jacket Remix)]] <small>— Used as the opening theme for ''WWF RAW'' from 1996 to 1998; otherwise unreleased.</small> |
− | * The Beautiful People (Live) <small> | + | * The Beautiful People (Live) <small>— Appears on ''[[Dead to the World]]''.</small> |
− | * The Beautiful People (Live) <small> | + | * The Beautiful People (Live) <small>— Appears on ''[[The Last Tour on Earth]]''.</small> |
− | + | * The Beautiful People (Live) <small>— Appears on ''[[God Is in the T.V.]]''.</small> | |
− | * The Beautiful People (Live) <small> | + | * The Beautiful People (Live) <small>— Appears on the ''[[Guns, God and Government World Tour]]'' DVD.</small> |
− | * The Beautiful People (Live) <small> | + | * The Beautiful People (Acoustic) <small>— Recorded live with [[The Smashing Pumpkins]] on [[1997/10/18 Los Angeles, CA|October 18, 1997]] at a bridge benefit concert in Los Angeles, California.</small> |
− | * The Beautiful People (Acoustic) <small> | + | * [[The People]] <small>— Remix by Sébastien Léger. Appears on the ''Sólid Sounds 2009.1'' compilation.</small> |
− | * [[The People]] <small> | + | * The Beautiful People (Original) <small>— Appears in Stargate Atlantis Season 5, Episode 19, "Vegas".</small> |
− | * The Beautiful People ( | + | * The Beautiful People (Demo) <small>— Never officially released but put online by Scott Putesky in 2011 </small> |
− | * The Beautiful People ( | + | |
− | == Demo Version == | + | ==Demo Version== |
− | + | <youtube>_Bd_xsps5qM</youtube> | |
− | + | ==Background information== | |
− | + | "The Beautiful People" was written in 1994 by [[Marilyn Manson]] (lyrics) and [[Twiggy Ramirez]] (music). The original four-track demo version was recorded in a hotel room while on tour, by Manson, Ramirez, and drummer [[Ginger Fish]]. Manson recalled to ''Kerrang!'' magazine in May of 2005 that "It was somewhere in the South, which is ironic. I remember playing the drum beat on the floor and then having my drummer duplicate that on the drum machine. It happened in one day, pretty much". | |
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− | == Background information == | + | |
− | "The Beautiful People" was written in 1994 by [[Marilyn Manson]] (lyrics) and [[Twiggy Ramirez]] (music). The original four-track demo version was recorded in a hotel room while on tour, by Manson, Ramirez, and drummer [[Ginger Fish]]. | + | |
+ | From the May 2005 issue of Kerrang! Magazine:<br><br> | ||
'''THE BACKGROUND'''<br> | '''THE BACKGROUND'''<br> | ||
''"I write phrases constantly and I have about 15 different notebooks going at the same time. I'll write lots of different things in each book. I have to lay them all out in the same place and pull things from each of them to write a song. I was on tour and I remember recording it on my four-track with Twiggy and my drummer Ginger in a hotel room. It was somewhere in the South, which is ironic. I remember playing the drum beat on the floor and then having my drummer duplicate that on the drum machine. It happened in one day pretty much. It happened maybe two-and-a-half years before 'Antichrist Superstar' was released, and if I played you that four-track recording, it would sound identical.''<br> | ''"I write phrases constantly and I have about 15 different notebooks going at the same time. I'll write lots of different things in each book. I have to lay them all out in the same place and pull things from each of them to write a song. I was on tour and I remember recording it on my four-track with Twiggy and my drummer Ginger in a hotel room. It was somewhere in the South, which is ironic. I remember playing the drum beat on the floor and then having my drummer duplicate that on the drum machine. It happened in one day pretty much. It happened maybe two-and-a-half years before 'Antichrist Superstar' was released, and if I played you that four-track recording, it would sound identical.''<br> | ||
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Lyrically, "The Beautiful People" is intertwined with the ''Antichrist Superstar'' album's overarching theme, a semi-narrative examination of the Nietzschean Übermensch. Within this context, the song deals explicitly with the destructive manifestation of the Will to Power: "There's no time to discriminate", sings Manson, "hate every motherfucker that's in your way". A strong anti-capitalism sentiment stems from exploration of Nietzsche's view of master-slave morality ("It's not your fault that you're always wrong / The weak ones are there to justify the strong"), along with its connection to Social Darwinism. | Lyrically, "The Beautiful People" is intertwined with the ''Antichrist Superstar'' album's overarching theme, a semi-narrative examination of the Nietzschean Übermensch. Within this context, the song deals explicitly with the destructive manifestation of the Will to Power: "There's no time to discriminate", sings Manson, "hate every motherfucker that's in your way". A strong anti-capitalism sentiment stems from exploration of Nietzsche's view of master-slave morality ("It's not your fault that you're always wrong / The weak ones are there to justify the strong"), along with its connection to Social Darwinism. | ||
− | == Music video == | + | ==Music video== |
− | [[ | + | [[Image:TheBeautifulPeopleScreenshot.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Manson in his "grotesquely tall" form with the crowd.]] |
Directed by Floria Sigismondi, this [http://youtube.com/watch?v=NcHvRELhoao music video] has been described as "the creepiest of creepy videos". Filmed in the abandoned Goodenham and Worts distillery in Toronto, Canada, the clip depicts the band performing the song in a classroom-like setting adorned with medical prostheses and laboratory equipment. Intercut with performance footage are scenes of Manson on stilts, wearing a long gown-like costume, aviator goggles, and prosthetic makeup, making him appear bald and grotesquely tall. After being placed in this costume by similarly-attired attendants, he appears at a window to a cheering crowd in a scene reminiscent of a fascist rally, and later stands in the center of a circle while people march around him performing the Hitler salute. Other fast-cut scenes include extreme closeups of crawling earthworms; mannequin heads and hands; the boots of people marching; shots of the individual band members in bizarre costumes; and Manson in back and neck braces and a dental device that retracts the flesh of his mouth with hooks, exposing metallic teeth. | Directed by Floria Sigismondi, this [http://youtube.com/watch?v=NcHvRELhoao music video] has been described as "the creepiest of creepy videos". Filmed in the abandoned Goodenham and Worts distillery in Toronto, Canada, the clip depicts the band performing the song in a classroom-like setting adorned with medical prostheses and laboratory equipment. Intercut with performance footage are scenes of Manson on stilts, wearing a long gown-like costume, aviator goggles, and prosthetic makeup, making him appear bald and grotesquely tall. After being placed in this costume by similarly-attired attendants, he appears at a window to a cheering crowd in a scene reminiscent of a fascist rally, and later stands in the center of a circle while people march around him performing the Hitler salute. Other fast-cut scenes include extreme closeups of crawling earthworms; mannequin heads and hands; the boots of people marching; shots of the individual band members in bizarre costumes; and Manson in back and neck braces and a dental device that retracts the flesh of his mouth with hooks, exposing metallic teeth. | ||
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The video premiered on MTV on September 22, 1996 and was nominated for three [[1997/09/04 New York City, NY|1997 Video Music Awards]] (Best Rock Video, Best Special Effects, Best Art Direction) although it did not win any of these awards. | The video premiered on MTV on September 22, 1996 and was nominated for three [[1997/09/04 New York City, NY|1997 Video Music Awards]] (Best Rock Video, Best Special Effects, Best Art Direction) although it did not win any of these awards. | ||
− | The video is available on the ''Lest We Forget | + | The video is available on the ''Lest We Forget (The Best of)'' bonus DVD, as well as on the VHS compilation ''God Is in the T.V.''. |
− | + | ==Lyrics== | |
− | + | I don't want you and I don't need you | |
− | + | don't bother to resist, I'll beat you | |
− | + | It's not your fault that you're always wrong | |
− | + | the weak ones are there to justify the strong | |
− | + | the beautiful people, the beautiful people, | |
+ | It's all relative to the size of your steeple | ||
+ | you can't see the forest for the trees, | ||
+ | and you can't smell | ||
+ | your own shit on your knees | ||
+ | hey you, what do you see? | ||
+ | something beautiful, something free? | ||
+ | hey you, are you trying to be mean? | ||
+ | if you live with apes, man, it's hard to be clean | ||
+ | there's no time to discriminate, | ||
+ | hate every motherfucker | ||
+ | that's in your way | ||
+ | the worms will live in every host | ||
+ | it's hard to pick which one they eat most | ||
+ | the horrible people, the horrible people | ||
+ | it's as anatomic as the size of your steeple | ||
+ | capitalism has made it this way, | ||
+ | old-fashioned fascism | ||
+ | will take it away | ||
+ | hey you, what do you see? | ||
+ | something beautiful, something free? | ||
+ | hey you, are you trying to be mean? | ||
+ | if you live with apes, man, it's hard to be clean | ||
+ | there's no time to discriminate, | ||
+ | hate every motherfucker | ||
+ | that's in your way | ||
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* In censored edits of the song, the line "hate every motherfucker that's in your way" is changed to "hate every other hater that's in your way" and the word "shit" is eliminated | * In censored edits of the song, the line "hate every motherfucker that's in your way" is changed to "hate every other hater that's in your way" and the word "shit" is eliminated | ||
* The single peaked at number 26 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and remains one of Marilyn Manson's most famous and successful original songs. In a 2004 review, Richard Banks of the BBC declared the track "still the most impressive" in the band's catalogue, and it was ranked in 2006 at number 28 on VH1's 40 Greatest Metal Songs. | * The single peaked at number 26 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and remains one of Marilyn Manson's most famous and successful original songs. In a 2004 review, Richard Banks of the BBC declared the track "still the most impressive" in the band's catalogue, and it was ranked in 2006 at number 28 on VH1's 40 Greatest Metal Songs. | ||
* "The Beautiful People" is featured in the video game ''[http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/101/1012369p1.html Brütal Legend]''. | * "The Beautiful People" is featured in the video game ''[http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/101/1012369p1.html Brütal Legend]''. | ||
* The clean version of "The Beautiful People" is available as downloadable content for ''Guitar Hero 5''. | * The clean version of "The Beautiful People" is available as downloadable content for ''Guitar Hero 5''. | ||
− | * When played backwards, the line "the beautiful people" sounds | + | * When played backwards, the line "the beautiful people" sounds alot like the phrase "I'm evil, believe it". |
− | * "The Beautiful People" is the most well known Marilyn Manson track, alongside | + | * "The Beautiful People" is the most well known Marilyn Manson track, alongside "[[The Dope Show]]". |
* Played forwards or backwards, the main guitar riff is the same. | * Played forwards or backwards, the main guitar riff is the same. | ||
* The song was announced to be included in ''Rock Band 3'' at Comic-Con in July of 2010. | * The song was announced to be included in ''Rock Band 3'' at Comic-Con in July of 2010. | ||
* The song was used as WWE SmackDown's official theme from 2001 - 2003. | * The song was used as WWE SmackDown's official theme from 2001 - 2003. | ||
* The song was featured in the next to last episode ("Vegas") of the sci-fi series ''Stargate Atlantis''. | * The song was featured in the next to last episode ("Vegas") of the sci-fi series ''Stargate Atlantis''. | ||
− | * The song has been performed live on every tour since the | + | * The song has been performed live on every tour since the [[Dead To The World Tour]] in 1996/1997 |
* Part of the inspiration for the title was the song "Baby You're a Rich Man" by the Beatles, a song composed by John Lennon. In the live version from "The Last Tour on Earth" Manson sings a verse "How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?" | * Part of the inspiration for the title was the song "Baby You're a Rich Man" by the Beatles, a song composed by John Lennon. In the live version from "The Last Tour on Earth" Manson sings a verse "How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?" | ||
* The main drum loop and the guitar riff of "The Beautiful People" are used in Christina Aguilera's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlesque_(soundtrack)#Track_listing song of the same name] that appears in the recently released ''Burlesque'' soundtrack. | * The main drum loop and the guitar riff of "The Beautiful People" are used in Christina Aguilera's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlesque_(soundtrack)#Track_listing song of the same name] that appears in the recently released ''Burlesque'' soundtrack. | ||
− | * Included in the promo version of Bowie's 1997 album "Earthling" is an extra press kit booklet that documents Bowie's random thoughts and ideas during the period, and on the brief chapter discussing the "Little Wonder" music video, Bowie mentioned he was so impressed with Manson's video, that he instantly | + | * Included in the promo version of Bowie's 1997 album "Earthling" is an extra press kit booklet that documents Bowie's random thoughts and ideas during the period, and on the brief chapter discussing the "Little Wonder" music video, Bowie mentioned he was so impressed with Manson's video, that he instantly seeked Floria Sigismoni to work with him. |
* The song was recently used in a television ad for company Footlocker, featuring Eastbound and Down character Kenny Powers. After his golf cart is tipped over, it cuts to the company logo, with "The Beautiful People" playing in the background. | * The song was recently used in a television ad for company Footlocker, featuring Eastbound and Down character Kenny Powers. After his golf cart is tipped over, it cuts to the company logo, with "The Beautiful People" playing in the background. | ||
− | * Johnny Depp joined Manson onstage to perform this song on guitar during the April 11th, 2012 performance at Revolver's Golden God Awards. | + | ** Johnny Depp joined Manson onstage to perform this song on guitar during the April 11th, 2012 performance at Revolver's Golden God Awards. |
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− | + | ==See also== | |
+ | *[[Review:1996/10/13 The Bold and the Beautiful]] | ||
− | + | [[Category:Antichrist Superstar Era]] | |
− | [[Category:Antichrist Superstar | + | [[Category:Marilyn Manson Songs]] |
− | [[Category:Marilyn Manson | + | |
[[Category:Songs from Antichrist Superstar]] | [[Category:Songs from Antichrist Superstar]] | ||
[[Category:Songs from The Last Tour on Earth]] | [[Category:Songs from The Last Tour on Earth]] | ||
[[Category:Songs from Lest We Forget (The Best Of)]] | [[Category:Songs from Lest We Forget (The Best Of)]] | ||
− | [[Category:Marilyn Manson | + | [[Category:Marilyn Manson Songs With Music Videos]] |
+ | [[Category:Marilyn Manson]] | ||
+ | [[Category:Twiggy]] |