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* The screams and garbled voices at the beginning of "Wrapped in Plastic" are sampled from the final episode of Twin Peaks. | * The screams and garbled voices at the beginning of "Wrapped in Plastic" are sampled from the final episode of Twin Peaks. | ||
*Manson has stated that the song is an indirect reference for the false personalities families put on when guests arrive in their homes. | *Manson has stated that the song is an indirect reference for the false personalities families put on when guests arrive in their homes. | ||
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+ | ==Review by J7== | ||
+ | *This section is only for archive purposes and has not been confirmed by any authority, and is only J7's interpretation written for your pleasure. | ||
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+ | The most scathing and biting critique of the hypocrisy of American values on the entire album is found in the song Wrapped In Plastic. It is exceptional for its slow, droning tempo and its decadent yet delicious vocals. The song is an overt reference to the TV series Twin Peaks, and the screams and garbled voices heard on the track are sampled from the final episode of that series. Portrait of an American Family as a whole dabbled with subjects like children, innocence, fiction, and religion. Wrapped in Plastic sums up these themes with phenomenal accuracy, and is perhaps the best song to describe the Portrait of an American Family era. The overall essence of the song is how American families cover their furniture in plastic to “keep the dirt out” whilst unknowingly “keeping the dirt in.” This is an indirect reference to the false personalities families put on when guests arrive in their homes. They regard the children like “steak,” meat to be kept in a restrictive claustrophobic environments, with no room left to breathe. With lyrics and a beat as sick and disgusting as a tiled kitchen painted in white, Wrapped In Plastic stands to this day as one of the best Marilyn Manson songs ever written. | ||
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"Wrapped in Plastic" | ||
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Song by Marilyn Manson | ||
Album | Portrait of an American Family | |
Released | July 19, 1994 | |
Recorded | August–December 1993 at Criteria Studios in Miami, Florida, Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles, California, The Village Recorder and Pig | |
Genre | Alternative rock | |
Length | 5:35 | |
Label | Nothing, Interscope | |
Writer | Marilyn Manson | |
Composer | Daisy Berkowitz | |
Producer | Marilyn Manson, Trent Reznor |
"Wrapped in Plastic" is the eighth track on the 1994 release Portrait of an American Family. The earliest recording of this song dates back to the band's Refrigerator cassette tape, released in 1993. The song is an overt reference to the TV series Twin Peaks. It recycles lyrics from another Manson song, "I.V.-T.V.".
Contents
Appearances
Cassettes
Albums
Video
Refrigerator Version
Versions
- "Wrapped in Plastic" (Demo) — Appears on Refrigerator.
- "Wrapped in Plastic" — Appears on Portrait of an American Family.
Refrigerator Version
At around 40 seconds into the Refrigerator version of "Wrapped in Plastic" there is a subliminal message which reads just the first two lines of the song backwards:
guilt is a snake we beat with a rake to grow in our kitchen in the pies we bake
Lyrics
guilt is a snake we beat with a rake to grow in our kitchen in the pies we bake feed it to us to squirm in our bellies twisting our guts make our spines to jelly stay, don't want to go now drove the children from their chores handcrafted housewives into whores fear of the beast is calling it near creating what we're hating, it's only fear that is here stay, don't want to go now come into our home, won't you stay? i know the steak is cold but its wrapped in plastic come into our home, won't you stay? i know the steak is cold but its wrapped in plastic i'm only as deep as the self that i dig i'm only as sick as the stick in the pig "thin and so white, thin and so white" daddy tells the daughter while mommy's sleeping at night to wash away sin you must take off your skin the righteous father wears the yellowest grin "don't wanna go now" stay, don't wanna go now, stay, don't wanna go now come into our home, won't you stay? i know the steak is cold but its wrapped in plastic
Trivia
- The screams and garbled voices at the beginning of "Wrapped in Plastic" are sampled from the final episode of Twin Peaks.
- Manson has stated that the song is an indirect reference for the false personalities families put on when guests arrive in their homes.
Review by J7
- This section is only for archive purposes and has not been confirmed by any authority, and is only J7's interpretation written for your pleasure.
The most scathing and biting critique of the hypocrisy of American values on the entire album is found in the song Wrapped In Plastic. It is exceptional for its slow, droning tempo and its decadent yet delicious vocals. The song is an overt reference to the TV series Twin Peaks, and the screams and garbled voices heard on the track are sampled from the final episode of that series. Portrait of an American Family as a whole dabbled with subjects like children, innocence, fiction, and religion. Wrapped in Plastic sums up these themes with phenomenal accuracy, and is perhaps the best song to describe the Portrait of an American Family era. The overall essence of the song is how American families cover their furniture in plastic to “keep the dirt out” whilst unknowingly “keeping the dirt in.” This is an indirect reference to the false personalities families put on when guests arrive in their homes. They regard the children like “steak,” meat to be kept in a restrictive claustrophobic environments, with no room left to breathe. With lyrics and a beat as sick and disgusting as a tiled kitchen painted in white, Wrapped In Plastic stands to this day as one of the best Marilyn Manson songs ever written.