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== Trivia == | == Trivia == | ||
* The lyric "You were my mechanical bride" is a direct reference to Marshall McLuhan's critical study of popular culture ''The Mechanical Bride''. | * The lyric "You were my mechanical bride" is a direct reference to Marshall McLuhan's critical study of popular culture ''The Mechanical Bride''. | ||
− | * The lyric "I'm just a boy playing the Suicide King" has often been misinterpreted as Manson advocating suicide. The lyric is actually colloquial slang (and used on the song as such) referring to playing card ''The King of Hearts'', whose face always feature the King impaling his head with a sword. Such an action can be seen in a diagram underneath the Mechanical Animals lyrics in the album booklet. | + | * The lyric "I'm just a boy playing the Suicide King" has often been misinterpreted as Manson advocating suicide. The lyric is actually colloquial slang (and used on the song as such) referring to playing card ''The King of Hearts'', whose face always feature the King impaling his head with a sword. Such an action can be seen in a diagram underneath the Mechanical Animals lyrics in the album booklet. |
+ | * Furthermore, the same lyric refers to an incident in 1997 where a father found his son had comitted suicide while [["Antichrist Superstar"]] played on a loop. | ||
== References == | == References == |