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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Antichrist Superstar is the second studio album by Marilyn Manson, released in 1996.It is part of a trilogy (or a "triptych") of Rock Opera Concept Albums alongside Manson's two following releases, Mechanical Animals (1998) and Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) (2000). However, since the series' story is told in reverse chronological order, Antichrist Superstar therefore ends the narrative.The central storyline on the album revolves around a supernatural being who seizes all power from humanity and becomes a hate-driven demagogue in order to initiate an apocalyptic end event, with the premise serving as a metaphor for the perceived fascism of conservatism and artificial beauty.In retrospect, Antichrist Superstar has been credited for bringing an end to the grunge craze within popular music and has been honored as one of the greatest hard rock albums of all time (although its sound is closer to Industrial Metal). It's best known for the title track and the single "The Beautiful People", which has gone on to become one of the band's signature songs and be used as the opening theme for WWE SmackDown between 2001 and 2003.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) |
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Subliminal Seduction |
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Subliminal Seduction: "Tourniquet" begins with a backmasked vocal saying "This is my lowest point of vulnerability." |
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Hydra Problem |
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Hydra Problem: "Antichrist Superstar" shows that fighting against the rising disintegrator is futile as is just too strong like the hydra. |
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Total Eclipse of the Plot |
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Total Eclipse of the Plot: In "Cryptorchid" the moon eclipsing the sun foreshadows the coming of the antichrist: |
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Ãœbermensch |
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Übermensch: The antichrist superstar himself. He reaches beyond conventional morality to break the chains of conservatism, religious belief and artificial beauty. |
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Face on the Cover |
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Face on the Cover: Marilyn's face is partially shown on the right side of the album. |
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Immediate Self-Contradiction |
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Immediate Self-Contradiction: "1996" |
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As the Good Book Says... |
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As the Good Book Says...: The booklet of the album makes reference to "Revelation", chapter 12, verses one to five. |
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Russian Reversal |
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Russian Reversal: Used in "Man That You Fear" to show the absurd level of obsession with television: |
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Offing the Offspring |
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Offing the Offspring: In "Man That You Fear" this is done by a desperate parent but can't heal the emotional wounds of the perpetrator. |
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World of Symbolism |
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World of Symbolism: "Cryptorchid" is the song that uses the most metaphors and figurative language and uses sythies and distorted voices. |
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List Song |
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List Song: "1996" lists all kinds of things the protagonist is against. |
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My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting |
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My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting: Used in "Irresponsible Hate Anthem" to show how uncritical obedience makes you an idiot: |
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Miniscule Rocking |
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Miniscule Rocking: The Hidden Track that ends the album is around one-and-a-half minutes long. |
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Hates Everyone Equally |
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Hates Everyone Equally: Invoked in "The Beautiful People": |
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Might Makes Right |
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Might Makes Right: Discussed in "The Beautiful People". Doubles up with Virtue Is Weakness: |
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Concept Album |
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Concept Album: The album deals with society's obsession with beauty as its highest ideal and is divided in three cycles: "The Heirophant" (track 1-4), "Inauguration of the Worm" (track 5-11) and "Disintegrator Rising" (track 12-99). |
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Cluster F-Bomb |
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Cluster F-Bomb: The pre-hook of "Irresponsible Hate Anthem". |
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Rock Bottom |
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Rock Bottom: Manson backmasked the line "This is my lowest point of vulnerability" into "Tourniquet". This was not an exaggeration as he admits in his autobiography. |
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Pun-Based Title |
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Pun-Based Title: The album title is a pun of Jesus Christ Superstar. |
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Serial-Killer Killer |
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Serial-Killer Killer: The idea behind "Irresposible Hate Anthem": |
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Anti-Anti-Christ |
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Anti Anti Christ: "1996" |
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Cool People Rebel Against Authority |
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Cool People Rebel Against Authority: Manson criticized society's obsession with organized religion and beauty as the highest ideal. This is further implied in the music video of "The Beautiful People" and manifests the most in "Irresponsible Hate-Anthem": |
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Downer Ending |
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Downer Ending: The album—and the whole overarching narrative of the triptych—ends with the protagonist transforming into the Antichrist Superstar, whose motivations transcend any sense of morality, as a result of being ostracized by society. They become so nihilistic and disgusted with humanity that they instigate a genocide of the human race that ends with the whole planet being destroyed. |
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Sampling |
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Sampling: "The Beautiful People" contains a distorted spoken-word sample of Tex Watson saying [We would] swoop down on the town...[and] kill everyone that wasn't beautiful." "Minute of Decay" begins with a heavily distorted sample from a film adaptation of 1984 that says "From a dead man...greetings". |
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Bookends |
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Bookends: The opening and closing seconds of the album include the distorted phrase: |
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Ambiguous Syntax |
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Ambiguous Syntax: In "The Reflecting God", is the protagonist looking at himself ashamed shortly after looking at god or is he already god and is as such watching himself? Also does "reflecting" mean like "pondering" or "in a mirror"? |
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Blind Obedience |
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Blind Obedience: A central theme thoughout the album, people just believe whatever they want to believe (mostly in "Irresposible Hate Anthem" and "Antichrist Superstar"). |
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If I Can't Have You… |
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If I Can't Have You…: "Mister Superstar" |
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Evil Laugh |
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Evil Laugh: Marilyn chuckles at the start of the "1996" after saying "light a candle for the sinners/set the world on fire". |
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Birth-Death Juxtaposition |
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Birth/Death Juxtaposition: In "Minute of Decay" to show that the downward spiral is inevitable. |
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AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle |
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Ac CENT Upon The Wrong Syl LA Ble: At one point in "The Beautiful People", Manson pronounces "capitalism" as "ca-PI-ta-LI-sm" to match the cadence of the song. |
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Epic Rocking |
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Epic Rocking: "Antichrist Superstar", "The Reflecting God", and "Man That You Fear" are all 5-6 minutes long. |
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Arc Words |
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Arc Words: "When you are suffering, know that I have betrayed you." |
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All-American Face |
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All-American Face: Parodied in "Irresponsible Hate Anthem": |
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Real Life Writes the Plot |
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Real Life Writes the Plot: "Kinderfeld" ("children field") is about Manson's grandfather who had model trains in his basement which he turned on full volume when masturbating in secrecy. One day Manson hid in the basement and witnessed this and became deeply disturbed. "Man That You Fear" was inspired by an incident during Manson's youth when he found a coffee can with something rotting inside. His mother told him it was discarded meat, but later told him that it was actually an aborted fetus. note Other sources cite that this song was created, when Brian Warner went to a family gathering, and nobody wanted to talk to him. |
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Biblical Motifs |
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Biblical Motifs: The anti-christ, also "your apple has been rotten" in "Man That You Fear". |
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Annual Title |
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Annual Title: "1996". The same year the album was released. |
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Prayer Is a Last Resort |
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Prayer Is a Last Resort: Parodied and deconstructed in "Man That You Fear" as it shows someone (a mother?) who desperately prays to escape her never-ending pain but sadly fails: |
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Careful with That Axe |
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Careful with That Axe: Aside from regularly screaming his lines, Marilyn lets out a straight-up scream multiple times in "1996". |
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I Know What You Fear |
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I Know What You Fear: Being confronted with the darkest things in one's own soul, as depicted in "Kinderfeld". |
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One-Man Song |
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One-Man Song: "Wormboy" and "Man That You Fear". |
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Monster Fangirl |
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Monster Fan Girl: Parodied in "Mister Superstar", where a female Loony Fan goes crazy about any kind of new "star": |
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The Beautiful Elite |
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The Beautiful Elite: Deconstructed in "The Beautiful People", as their so-called beauty is just artificial and hides a huge pile of darkness beneath, almost leading to Beauty Is Bad. |
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Rule of Three |
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Rule of Three: The album is divided in three cycles. |
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Accentuate the Negative |
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Accentuate the Negative: "1996" lists a lot of stuff the antichrist is against, many contradicting themselves. "The Minute Of Decay" |
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Be Careful What You Wish For |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: The antichrist superstar rises to become the Physical God he always dreamed of being, but crosses the Despair Event Horizon in the process and destroys the earth in a nihilistic rage. The last words of the album are actually "when all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed" - repeated over and over amidst a wall of static. |
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Foreign Language Title |
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Foreign Language Title: "Kinderfeld" is German and means "children field" |
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Added Alliterative Appeal |
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Added Alliterative Appeal: "Little Horn" |
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Used to Be a Sweet Kid |
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Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Summing up the whole premise in "Man That You Fear", the boy that everyone loved is now the person everyone is afraid of. |
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Tarot Motifs |
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Tarot Motifs: The whole album has them, the first cycle is called "The Heirophant" (a typical tarot motif). |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: "The Beautiful People" was inspired by Marilyn Bender's 1967 book of the same name. Her book dealt with world of scandal within the "jet-set" lifestyle of the 1960's, and the culture of beauty, as it pertained to fashion and politics. The song also has a distorted spoken sample, by Charles Manson member Tex Watson and the line: "How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?" is a reference to the The Beatles' song "Baby, You're a Rich Man," from Magical Mystery Tour. "The Beautiful People" has also been found to be related to the book "The Age of Manipulation: The Con in Confidence, The Sin in Sincere," which is also referenced in "Deep Six" off The Pale Emperor from 2015. The line "when you wish upon your star" in "Deformography," references the theme song "When You Wish Upon a Star" from Pinocchio. In the music video of "Man That You Fear", Manson portrays a man who is condemned to die and is "chosen" by random chance. The video features all events of his last day on earth, leading up to his death by stoning in an isolated location of the desert. It is very reminiscent of Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery. |
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Self-Deprecation |
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Self-Deprecation: "Tourniquet:" "1996:" |
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Wishing Well |
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Wishing Well: This is used for a clever wordplay in "Antichrist Superstar" where the protagonist just gives the audience what they wished for, nothing else. |
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One-Word Title |
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One-Word Title: "Tourniquet", "Cryptorchid", "Deformography", "Wormboy" and "Kinderfeld". |
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Dream Within a Dream |
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Dream Within a Dream: One is described in "The Reflecting God", although we can't be sure how it will work out. |
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Album Title Drop |
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Album Title Drop: Happens during "1996" and not, as you might assume, during the title track. |
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Album Filler |
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Album Filler: Tracks 17 until 98 are all silent tracks. |
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Broken Record |
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Broken Record: In "Man That You Fear", the last line is repeated over and over again: note This line originates from a fortune cookie. |
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From Nobody to Nightmare |
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From Nobody to Nightmare: The overarching storyline, at least from cycle II on (starting with "Little Horn"), the protagonist starts out as pathetic worm, gets his wings and becomes the antichrist superstar. |
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Call-Forward |
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Call-Forward: The following lines originating in "Cryptorchid" are then reheard six tracks later in "Antichrist Superstar": |
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Braces of Orthodontic Overkill |
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Braces of Orthodontic Overkill: Manson wears a very deformed version of this in the music video of "The Beautiful People" (here) alongside an old-timey flying hat. |
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Freud Was Right |
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Freud Was Right: In "The Beautiful People" we get a glimpse of what the size of steeples really means. |
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Surreal Music Video |
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Surreal Music Video: "Tourniquet" features an gallery of grotesque imagery within a dark and surreal environment. It is mostly about an odd humanoid, propped up on wheels to move. Watch it here. "Cryptorchid" uses scenes from Merhige's 1991 experimental horror film Begotten, which are black and white surreal collages, with new scenes including Manson pulling out his own intestines and holding them up to the camera. Can be seen here. |
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Hidden Track |
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Hidden Track: The album ends with one that follows the final song, "Man That You Fear", after 82 silent 4-second tracks. It has been referred to under multiple names like "Better Messiah", "Dying Years", "Minister", "Empty Sounds of Hate", "Untitled", and "Track 99". If the album is looped, the pacing of "Irresponsible Hate Anthem" matches the distorted recitation of the hidden track, forming a perfect loop. |
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Misfortune Cookie |
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Misfortune Cookie: The last line in "Man That You Fear" is taken from a fortune cookie but put into a much more destructive context. |
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Fading into the Next Song |
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Fading into the Next Song: "Irresponsible Hate Anthem" → "The Beautiful People", "Tourniquet" → "Little Horn", "Kinderfeld" → "Antichrist Superstar", "The Reflecting God" → "Man That You Fear", "Track 99" → "Irresponsible Hate Anthem" |
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Magical Abortion |
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Magical Abortion: Used in "Man That You Fear" to make a point how society disguises an abortion to keep up a shiny facade. One line refers to a story in which Manson as a child found a coffee can with something rotting inside. His mother told him it was discarded meat, but later told him that it was actually an aborted fetus. |
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Mushroom Samba |
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Mushroom Samba: In "Dried Up, Tied and Dead to the World" the hero goes through a heavy one when being high on cocaine: |
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