mOBSCENE

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"mOBSCENE"
mOBSCENE 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 Heavy metal
Length 3:25
Label Nothing, Interscope
Writer Marilyn Manson
Composer John 5, Marilyn Manson
Producer Marilyn Manson, Tim Skold, Ben Grosse
Media

"mOBSCENE" is the first single of the sixth album The Golden Age of Grotesque. Lines in the song chanted by female vocalists, "Be obscene, be, be obscene..." are remarkably similar to "Be Aggressive", a 1992 song by Faith No More that features the chorus "Be aggressive, B-E aggressive," also chanted by cheerleaders.

Contents

[edit] Appearances

[edit] Albums

[edit] Singles

  • "mOBSCENE"

[edit] Versions

[edit] DVD and VHS release

A DVD single for "mOBSCENE" was released, including the audio track, plus three pieces of footage directed by Manson, one of them being a behind-the-scenes video for his role as Christina in Party Monster. A VHS tape of "mOBSCENE" was also released exclusively in Mexico which included an interview from the Holy Wood era and a making-of video of the "mOBSCENE" music video.

[edit] Music video

Manson performing in the video.
Manson performing in the video.

The music video, co-directed by Manson with Thomas Kloss, features a basic performance by the band in a Swing thirties-esque joint. The costumes worn by the dancers in the video were designed by Manson and then-girlfriend Dita Von Teese. Manson explains, "We took our inspiration from Busby Berkeley, U.S.O. shows, WW2 Berlin and Gottfried Helnwein's 'Macbeth.'"[1]

[edit] Lyrics

    "Ladies and Gentlemen"
    
    We are the thing of shapes to come
    Your freedom's not free and dumb
    This Depression is great
    The Deformation Age, they know my name
    Waltzing to scum and base and
    Married to the pain
    
    Bang we want it
    Bang we want it
    Bang bang bang bang bang
    You came to see the mobscene
    I know it isn't your scene
    It's better than a sex scene and it's
    So fucking obscene, obscene, yeah.
    
    You want commitment?
    Put on your best suit, get your arms around me
    Now we're going down down down
    You want commitment?
    Put on your best suit, get your arms around me
    Now we're going down down down
    
    GIRLS (In the spirit of Oscar Wilde):
    Be obscene, be, be obscene
    Be obscene, baby, and not heard.
    
    The day that love opened our eyes
    We watched the world end
    We have "high" places but we have no friends
    They told us sin's not good but we know it's great
    War-time full-frontal drugs, sex-tank armor plate
    
    Bang we want it
    Bang we want it
    Bang bang bang bang bang
    You came to see the mobscene
    I know it isn't your scene
    It's better than a sex scene and it's
    So fucking obscene, obscene, yeah.
    
    You want commitment?
    Put on your best suit, get your arms around me
    Now we're going down down down
    You want commitment?
    Put on your best suit, get your arms around me
    Now we're going down down down
    
    GIRLS (In the spirit of Oscar Wilde):
    Be obscene, be, be obscene
    Be obscene, baby, and not heard.
    
    You came to see the mobscene
    I know it isn't your scene
    It's better than a sex scene and it's
    So fucking obscene, obscene yeah.
    
    You want commitment?
    Put on your best suit, get your arms around me
    Now we're going down down down
    You want commitment?
    Put on your best suit, get your arms around me
    Now we're going down down down
    
    "Ladies and gentlemen, be obscene! Be obscene!"
    GIRLS (In the spirit of Oscar Wilde):
    Be obscene, be, be obscene
    Be obscene, baby, and not heard.
    
    Bang bang bang bang bang
Marilyn Manson singles
Commercial Get Your Gunn (song) · Lunchbox (song) · Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (song) · The Beautiful People (song) · Tourniquet (song) · Long Hard Road Out of Hell (song) · "The Dope Show" · "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)" · "Rock Is Dead" · "Disposable Teens" · "The Fight Song" · "The Nobodies" · "Tainted Love" · "mOBSCENE" · "This Is the New Shit" · "Personal Jesus" · "Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)" · "Putting Holes in Happiness" · "We're from America" · "Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon"
Promotional Dope Hat (song) · Antichrist Superstar (song) · Man That You Fear (song) · Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes (song) · "Coma White" · "Working Class Hero" · Thrift (song) · "You and Me and the Devil Makes 3"
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