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"'''This Is the New Shit'''" is the second and final single and the second track 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 rallying against contemporary music, i.e., 'the new shit', and goes so far as to spell out what Manson viewed the formula for mainstream success to be:
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"'''This Is the New Shit'''" is the second and final single and the second track 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 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."
 
"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."

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