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"This Is the New Shit"

"This Is the New Shit" is the second single of the fifth album The Golden Age Of Grotesque. The song was seen as poppy, with the chorus - and title - possibly referring to the fact that Tim Skold had joined the band, bringing with him a completely new and different style of music that featured industrial beats and sounds previously ignored in earlier Manson albums. While this could be regarded as Manson's attempt to sell to the masses, the song in fact is railing against contemporary music, i.e., 'the new shit', and goes so far as to spell out the what Manson viewed the formula for mainstream success to be:

"Babble, babble, bitch, bitch, rebel, rebel, party, party, sex, sex, sex, and don't forget the violence, blah, blah, blah, got your lovey-dovey sad and lonely, stick your stupid slogan in, everybody sing along."

Appearances

Albums

• The Golden Age Of Grotesque
• Lest We Forget

Singles

• "This Is the New Shit"

Versions

• This Is the New Shit — Appears on The Golden Age of Grotesque.
• This Is the New *Hit — Appears on the "This Is the New Shit" single.
• This Is the New Shit (Marilyn Manson vs. Goldfrapp) — Appears on the "This Is the New Shit (Marilyn Manson vs. Goldrapp)" promo single.
• This Is the New Shit (Marilyn Manson vs. Goldfrapp Edit)— Appears on the "This Is the New Shit (Marilyn Manson vs. Goldrapp)" promo single.
• New *Hit Invective (Obiter Dictum Mix by Bitteren Ende) — Appears on the The Nobodies: Against All Gods EP.
• This Is the New *Hit (Sergio Galouan Mix) — Appears on the The Nobodies: Against All Gods EP.

Music video

Manson as he appears in the music video

The music video, co-directed between Marilyn Manson and the Croenworths, features a basic performance by the band, intertwined with scenes of the band members preparing for a concert in the dressing rooms. An alternate vocal-recording was used with the lyrics "This is the new hit" and the song title reading "This Is the New *Hit."

Trivia

• The first song written for the album, Manson felt that the first four lines posed a question to himself.
• "This Is the New *Hit" was featured in an episode of CSI titled "Suckers", during a scene in an underground gothic nightclub.

Lyrics

    Everything's been said before
    There's nothing left to say anymore
    When it's all the same
    You can ask for it by name
    
    Babble babble bitch bitch
    Rebel rebel party party
    Sex sex sex and don't forget the "violence"
    Blah blah blah got your lovey-dovey sad-and-lonely
    Stick your STUPID SLOGAN in:
    Everybody sing along.
    Babble babble bitch bitch
    Rebel rebel party party
    Sex sex sex and don't forget the "violence"
    Blah blah blah got your lovey-dovey sad-and-lonely
    Stick your STUPID SLOGAN in:
    Everybody sing,
    Are you motherfuckers ready
    For the new shit?
    Stand up and admit,
    Tomorrow's never coming.
    This is the new shit.
    Stand up and admit.
    Do we get it? No.
    Do we want it? Yeah.
    This is the new shit,
    Stand up and admit.
    
    Babble babble bitch bitch
    Rebel rebel party party
    Sex sex sex and don't forget the "violence"
    Blah blah blah got your lovey-dovey sad-and-lonely
    Stick your STUPID SLOGAN in:
    Everybody sing along.
    Everything has been said before
    There's nothing left to say anymore
    When it's all the same
    You can ask for it by name,
    Are you motherfuckers ready
    For the new shit?
    Stand up and admit,
    Tomorrow's never coming.
    This is the new shit.
    Stand up and admit.
    Do we get it? No.
    Do we want it? Yeah.
    This is the new shit,
    Stand up and admit.
    
    And now it's "you know who"
    I got the "you know what"
    I stick it "you know where"
    You know why, you don't care.
    And now it's "you know who"
    I got the "you know what"
    I stick it "you know where"
    You know why, you don't care.
    
    Babble babble bitch bitch
    Rebel rebel party party
    Sex sex sex and don't forget the "violence"
    Blah blah blah got your lovey-dovey sad-and-lonely
    Stick your STUPID SLOGAN in:
    Everybody sing.
    
    Are you motherfuckers ready
    For the new shit?
    Stand up and admit,
    Tomorrow's never coming.
    This is the new shit.
    Stand up and admit.
    Do we get it? No.
    Do we want it? Yeah.
    This is the new shit,
    Stand up and admit.
    
    So,
    LET US ENTERTAIN YOU
    LET US ENTERTAIN YOU...
    Blah blah blah blah everybody sing along.