mOBSCENE
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| 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 | |
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"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
- mOBSCENE — Appears on The Golden Age of Grotesque.
- mOBSCENE (Edit) — Appears on the "mOBSCENE" promo single.
- mOBSCENE (Sauerkraut Remix) — Appears on the "mOBSCENE" single and the Lest We Forget (The Best of).
- mOBSCENE (Overnight Mix - Reworked By Flint & Youth) — Appears on the "mOBSCENE" UK single.
- mOBSCENE Replet (Mea Culpa Mix By Bitteren Ende) — Appears on the The Nobodies: 2005 Against All Gods Mix and the "Personal Jesus" UK single.
[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
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" | ||||||
