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{{Song
 
{{Song
 
| Name        = WOW
 
| Name        = WOW
| Cover      = The-High-End-of-Low.jpg
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| Cover      = Nocover.png
 
| Artist      = [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]]
 
| Artist      = [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]]
 
| Album      = [[The High End of Low]]
 
| Album      = [[The High End of Low]]
| Released    = May 20, 2009
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| Released    = May 25, 2009
 
| Recorded    = March 2008–January 2009 in Los Angeles and Hollywood, California
 
| Recorded    = March 2008–January 2009 in Los Angeles and Hollywood, California
| Genre      = synthrock, electronic rock, industrial rock
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| Genre      =  
| Length      = 4:55
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| Length      =  
 
| Label      = [[Interscope Records|Interscope]]
 
| Label      = [[Interscope Records|Interscope]]
 
| Writer      = [[Marilyn Manson]]
 
| Writer      = [[Marilyn Manson]]
| Composer    = [[Twiggy]], [[Chris Vrenna]]
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| Composer    =  
| Producer    = Marilyn Manson, Chris Vrenna, Twiggy, [[Sean Beavan]]
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| Producer    = Marilyn Manson, [[Chris Vrenna]], [[Twiggy Ramirez]], [[Sean Beavan]]
 
}}
 
}}
 
"'''WOW'''" is the ninth track from [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]]'s 2009 release ''[[The High End of Low]]''. Its title was revealed on April 7, 2009, in a blog which described both it and another songs from the album, "[[Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon]]".<ref name="March 27">[http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/marilyn-manson-new-tracks-previewed/ Marilyn Manson New Tracks Previewed]. ''Metal Hammer''. March 27, 2009.</ref>
 
"'''WOW'''" is the ninth track from [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]]'s 2009 release ''[[The High End of Low]]''. Its title was revealed on April 7, 2009, in a blog which described both it and another songs from the album, "[[Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon]]".<ref name="March 27">[http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/marilyn-manson-new-tracks-previewed/ Marilyn Manson New Tracks Previewed]. ''Metal Hammer''. March 27, 2009.</ref>
  
== Music details ==
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==Music details==
A blog by ''Metal Hammer'' describes "WOW" as "a grinding, [[Nine Inch Nails|NIN]]-tinged sex anthem. Genuinely filthy and intensely sexy, The Wow sees Manson riding a dirty [[Twiggy Ramirez]] bassline in an almost spoken-word style. Quirky keyboards interject all the way through the track while sexual female groans (occasionally spoken in German) swarm behind the crunching industrial backing track. The WoW doesn't have anything in the way of memorable hooks but it is the sort of track that would sound amazing in a goth stripclub...if one existed."<ref name="March 27"/>
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A blog by ''Metal Hammer'' describes "WOW" as "a grinding, [[Related bands and artists#Nine Inch Nails|NIN]]-tinged sex anthem. Genuinely filthy and intensely sexy, The Wow sees Manson riding a dirty [[Twiggy Ramirez]] bassline in an almost spoken-word style. Quirky keyboards interject all the way through the track while sexual female groans (occasionally spoken in German) swarm behind the crunching industrial backing track. The WoW doesn't have anything in the way of memorable hooks but it is the sort of track that would sound amazing in a goth stripclub...if one existed."<ref name="March 27"/>
  
{{cquote|"I got "WOW" tattooed on my wrist, because you'd be surprised how often it's said. I wanted to sing a song that had no inflection whatsoever. I was trying to talk without any sort of emotion. It sounds like a bunch of people in a room that are very, very fucked up - and that's what it was." |source=—[[Marilyn Manson]] Interview with Revolver Magazine}}
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==Appearances==
 
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===Albums===
Reviewing for Thrash Hits, Hugh Platt cited that "for every killer track there's one like 'WOW', a gutful of sickly electro honky-tonk with Manson at his lyrically most self-absorbed."<ref>[http://www.thrashhits.com/2009/05/album-marilyn-manson-the-high-end-of-low/ Album: Marilyn Manson - The High End Of Low]. Hugh Platt. Thrash Hits. May 25, 2009</ref>
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John Robb of The Quietus deems that the song "is very Iggy [Pop]; Iggy when he swerved and went industrial on ''The Idiot''." In an interview with BBC Radio's 6 Music, Manson acknowledged this influence, and also exclaimed the song has literary references to the 1868 Fyodor Dostoevsky novel ''The Idiot'' (which the aforementioned Iggy Pop record lifts its name from).<ref name="6 Music">[http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/news/20090601_marilyn_manson.shtml Meeting Marilyn Manson]. BBC Radio. June 1, 2009.</ref>
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== Appearances ==
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=== Albums ===
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* ''[[The High End of Low]]''
 
* ''[[The High End of Low]]''
  
== Versions ==
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==Versions==
* "WOW" <small>Appears on ''The High End of Low''</small>
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* "WOW" <small>&mdash; Appears on ''The High End of Low''</small>
* "The WOW" <small>Appears on ''[[The Unruly Demos]]''</small>
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* "The WOW" <small>&mdash; Appears on ''[[Unruly Demos]]''</small>
  
== Music video ==
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==Lyrics==
[[File:F37.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|Still from the music video]]
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    I had a dream, this one I feel the need to mention
On May 11th, 2010 a music video for "WOW" was released to Manson's MySpace account. It was directed by [[Marilyn Manson]] and consists of nothing more than a two second clip being looped for about six minutes. The clip shows [[Evan Rachel Wood]], in make-up reminiscent of the Black Dahlia, playing with the strap of her dress.
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    I was happy for a while and I stopping scared
According to the video's description it was filmed in 2008, about a year before the album's release, and was a "tor­ture pro­duc­tion tech­nique [Manson] used to write the song with the boys." Presumably this means the video existed before the song itself. Oddly the video continues for over a minute longer than the song.
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    And ashamed to say what's on my mind
 
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    But you thought I'd change after a while
{{Videos
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    And said "you better treat me different or else"
| MaxNFmHrx3g = "WOW"
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    "Or else" seems like a stupid fucking thing to say to someone like me
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     Someone like me
 
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== Lyrics ==
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    I had a dream,
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     this one I feel the need to mention:
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     i was happy for 'awhile' and i stopped being scared and ashamed to say what's on my mind.
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     Wow
     but you thought that I'd change after 'awhile' and said,
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     Wow
     "you better treat me different, or else!"
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     Wow
    "or else" seems like a stupid,
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     Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow
    fucking thing to say to someone like me
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    someone like me?
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     wow
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    wow
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    wow
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    w w w w w w w wow
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     don't be surprised i can look you in the eye
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     Don't be surprised I can look you in the eye
     but it's hard
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     It's hard to take you serious when you take me inside
    to take you
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     Don't be surprised I can look you in the eye
    serious
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     It's hard to take you serious when you take me inside
    when you take me inside
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     don't be surprised i can look you in the eye
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     but it's hard
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    to take you
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    serious
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    when you take me inside
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     i am worse
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     I'm worse than what you think you'd catch from me
    than what you think you'd catch from me
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     Complicated's understated
     'complicated' is understated.
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     Did you stop and take a look at who you fell in love with?
     did you stop and take a look at who you fell in love with?
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     At who you fell in love with
     at who you fell in love with?
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     It doesn't matter how many times I say it
     It doesn't matter how many times I say it,
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     It never gets old  
     it never gets old,
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     That's why I have to say
     that's why i have to say WOW
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    wow wow wow
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    w w w w w w w WOW
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     don't be surprised i can look you in the eye
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     Wow
     but it's hard
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     Wow
     to take you
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     Wow
     serious
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     Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow
    when you take me inside
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    don't be surprised i can look you in the eye
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    but it's hard
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    to take you
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    serious
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    when you take me inside
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     It doesn't matter if you're  going to come
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     Don't be surprised I can look you in the eye
    or just going
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     It's hard to take you serious when you take me inside
    I never wanted you to come
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     Don't be surprised I can look you in the eye
     here anyway
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     It's hard to take you serious when you take me inside
    there is a word that's like you,
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     because it can be a noun, a verb, an exclamation
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    or the thing that I say
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    when something is unbelievable
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    when i am not able to believe, how unbelievably, unbelievable
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    that you believe that you could not be leavable
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     that's when I have to say
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    WOW WOW, WOW
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    w w w w w w w WOW
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     don't be surprised i can look you in the eye
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     It doesn't matter if you're going to come
    but it's hard
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     Or just going
    to take you
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     I never wanted you to come here anyway
     serious
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     There's a word that's like you  
     when you take me inside
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     Because it can be a noun, a verb, an exclamation or the thing I say
     don't be surprised i can look you in the eye
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    but it's hard
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    to take you
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     serious
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    when you take me inside
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     It doesn't matter how many times I say it,
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     When something is unbelievable
     it never gets old,
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    When I'm not able to believe how unbelievably unbelievable
     that's why i have to say WOW
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     That you believe you can not be leavable
 
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     That's when I have to say
== Trivia ==
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* Manson had the word "WOW" [[Marilyn Manson's tattoos#WOW|tattooed]] on his right wrist in April 2009.
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    Wow
* The hollow whistling noise at the beginning of the song is thought to be Manson "snorting something — whatever it might have been" as a percussive instrument. The substance was presumably, cocaine.
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    Wow
 
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    Wow
== References ==
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    Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow
<references/>
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    Don't be surprised I can look you in the eye
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    It's hard to take you serious when you take me inside
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    Don't be surprised I can look you in the eye
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    It's hard to take you serious when you take me inside
  
{{Videography}}
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==References==
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<references />
  
[[Category:Marilyn Manson songs]]
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[[Category:Marilyn Manson Songs]]
[[Category:Marilyn Manson songs with music videos]]
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[[Category:Songs from The High End of Low]]
 
[[Category:Songs from The High End of Low]]
[[Category:The High End of Low era]]
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[[Category:Unreleased works]]

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