The title of the song comes from Marylin Bender's 1967 book The Beautiful People,[4] which exposed the world of scandal within the "jet-set" lifestyle of the 1960s, and the culture of beauty as it pertained to fashion and politics.[4][5] In the context of the album's concept, the song refers to the privileged class of elites whom the titular character, a populistdemagogue called Antichrist Superstar, fulminate against. Lyrically, it discusses what Manson refers to as "the culture of beauty".[4]
The single peaked at number 26 on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart and remains known as one of Marilyn Manson's most famous and most successful original songs; in a 2004 review, Richard Banks of the BBC called the track "still the most impressive"[6] in the band's catalogue, and in 2006 it was ranked at number 28 on VH1's 40 Greatest Metal Songs.[7]
Song information
Origins
"The Beautiful People" was written in 1994, with lyrics by Marilyn Manson and music by Twiggy Ramirez. The original demo version was written in a hotel room while on tour, and recorded to four-track by Manson, Ramirez, and drummer Ginger Fish. Manson recalled to Kerrang! magazine in May 2005: "It was somewhere in the South, which is ironic. I remember playing the drum beat on the floor and then having my drummer duplicate that on the drum machine. It happened in one day pretty much."[8]
The song is preceded with a few seconds of backwards-guitar feedback and electronic noise. It includes a heavily distorted spoken sample by Tex Watson, declaring "[We would] swoop down on the town. . . [and] kill everyone that wasn't beautiful".[9]
Sean Beavan, who mixed and co-produced Antichrist Superstar, is credited with "descending horn guitar" on the track. Beavan can be heard playing a repeated descending figure with a brass instrument-like sound using a guitar synthesizer.
Lyrically, it is entwined with the Antichrist Superstar album's overarching theme, a semi-narrative examination of the NietzscheanÜbermensch.[10] Within this context, "The Beautiful People" deals explicitly with the destructive manifestation of the Will to Power ("There's no time to discriminate / hate every motherfucker that's in your way"), while also exploring Nietzsche's view of master-slave morality ("It's not your fault that you're always wrong / The weak ones are there to justify the strong"), particularly the concept's connection with Social Darwinism and its relation to various political and economic systems such as capitalism and fascism ("Capitalism has made it this way/Old-fashioned fascism will take it away").
My fellow Americans, we will no longer be oppressed by the fascism of Christianity. And we will no longer be oppressed by the fascism of beauty. As I see you all sitting out there trying your hardest not to be ugly, trying your hardest not to fit in, trying your hardest to earn your way into Heaven, but let me ask you—do you want to be in a place that's filled with a bunch of assholes?[11][12]
After the speech, the band launched into "The Beautiful People", with Manson striking rigid poses as he sang. Manson removed his coat midway thru to reveal a second costume underneath that consisted of a leathercorset and g-string which revealed his bare buttocks, a pair of thigh-high fishnethosiery attached to a leather garter belt and knee-high leather boots. The performance came to its climax as the band smashed their instruments at the end of the song.[12] As the show closed, host Chris Rock teasingly yelled for the audience to "Run to church right now! Get your asses into church, or you're going to hell!".[11] Despite their extremely negative review of the program as a whole, Rolling Stone singled out the performance as "riveting".[13]
In live performances, Manson frequently incorporates the lyric "How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?" from The Beatles' "Baby, You're a Rich Man" into the song, either shouted over its instrumental break or as a lead-in to the introductory drums.[18]
Versions and releases
Fascist imagery, whether blatant or subversive, exists in everything. Rock'n'roll, sports, politics, they all carry an element of it. Totalitarianism fascinates me because I see it everywhere. You are told from birth to death that if you don't participate in various capitalist rituals, ie consumption, good behaviour, religious worship, you won't be accepted, loved or beautiful. That underlying suppression affects you and it's completely ignored ... Look, why do people want to be beautiful? To be loved, accepted, conquer their fear of exclusion. I finally realised after years of not being accepted—why not create your own standard and let other people be accepted or rejected by you? We've reversed the whole idea of the fascism of beauty and replaced it with our own standard. We destroyed it to create a new way.
In addition to the version on the Antichrist Superstar album and the version on the single (which differ only in the length of the introductory noise) a radio edit also exists, which removes the profanity. The phrase "hate every motherfucker" has been replaced by the alternate lyric "hate every other hater", and the word "shit" has been excised. This radio edit is the version used in the music video for "The Beautiful People".[citation needed]
Three official remixes of "The Beautiful People" have been released. The first, "The Horrible People", was created by Danny Saber and appears on the 1997 Remix & Repent EP; the remix features a fast-tempo drum n bass backing track, and accents the original song's swing jazz-inflected rhythm with brass and piano samples. J. G. Thirlwell's "The Not-So-Beautiful People" is a straight industrial reworking of the track, with rhythmic vocal samples and churning, filteredsynthesizers. It was used as the opening theme for WWF RAW is WAR for only a few weeks in March 1997. Later an edited version of the song was used as the opening theme for WWE SmackDown! from 2001 to 2003, and a remix of it was included on WWF Forceable Entry and a 10-inch picture disc single of the song.
Marilyn Manson's 2004 greatest hits compilation, Lest We Forget, contains a slightly reworked version of the track. The longer introduction from the single version has been restored, and certain musical elements (most notably, an organ-like sound not noticeable in the previously released versions) have been made more pronounced. In 2010, Christina Aguilera released "The Beautiful People" from her film Burlesque, which samples the song.[20]
In 1997, MTV News reported that Manson had expressed interest in collaborating with Snoop Dogg to produce a rock/rap version of "The Beautiful People".[21][22] It is unknown if the collaboration ever actually occurred, although in his September 4, 1997 keynote address at the CMJ Music Marathon, the singer referred to the project as "something I would still love to do"[23] and blamed the hectic touring schedules of both his own band and the rapper for the delay. To date the remix has never materialized.[22]
Music video
Floria Sigismondi directed what has been described as "the creepiest of creepy videos"[24] for "The Beautiful People". The clip, filmed in the then abandoned Gooderham and Worts distillery in Toronto, Canada,[25] depicts the band performing the song in a classroom-like area decorated with medical prostheses and laboratory equipment. Intercut with these performance clips are scenes of lead singer Marilyn Manson in a long gown-like costume and aviator goggles, wearing stilts and prosthetic makeup which make him appear bald and grotesquely tall; after being placed in this costume by similarly attired attendants, he appears to a cheering crowd through a window in a scene reminiscent of a rally, and later stands in the center of a circle while people march around him pumping their fists into the air. Other fast cut scenes include extreme close-ups of crawling earthworms, mannequin heads and hands, and the boots of people marching; and shots of the individual band members bizarrely costumed, including Manson in back and neck braces, a leather aviator cap and an orthodontic cheek retractor, exposing metallic teeth.
"I'm a big fan of prosthetics and other medical fetishes. It was an interesting thing. It was used for dental operations and things of that nature. It did leave some bad cuts in my mouth that will unfortunately, probably never heal. But, you always have to suffer to make something great."[27]
As of October 2023, the song has over 260 million views on YouTube.
Reception
The single was generally praised on its release. AllMusic'sStephen Thomas Erlewine highly praised the song, stating that "With its mock menace and pummeling metal triplets, it was the first Manson song with an oversized hook -- the kind of song that even the group's detractors couldn't get out of their heads".[28] In its 1996 review of Antichrist Superstar, Rolling Stone magazine described "The Beautiful People" as "suspense-filled", with "a zombielike, repetitive quality [and] ghostly electronic sounds. . .", adding that in his vocal delivery, "Manson hisses his lines, punctuating certain words with a shrill, insane pitch, others with a retching scream".[29]
In the United States, the single managed to reach number 29 on the BillboardMainstream Rock Tracks chart and number 26 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.[30][31] In the UK, it reached number 18 on the UK Singles Chart, peaking on June 7, 1997.[32] In Sweden, although the song did not chart within the top 60, it was certified gold.[33] Despite peaking at number 42 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart,[34] it spent 56 weeks in the top 100[35] and became the 89th highest-selling single of 1997 in Australia.[36]
Accolades
In 2002, Kerrang! ranked "The Beautiful People" 5th in their 100 Greatest Singles of All Time.[citation needed] In 2003, Q ranked "The Beautiful People" 192nd in their The 1001 Best Songs Ever.[37]Q also included "The Beautiful People" under the Metal Tracks category of their Ultimate Music Collection in 2005.[38] The music video for the single would be nominated in three categories at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards namely, Best Rock Video, Best Art Direction and Best Special Effects.[26]
In 2011, Both the original version and the Scala and Kolacny cover would be used as the theme music for the "7" Scarezone at Universal Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights 21 Event
^ abcManson, Marilyn. "How I Wrote "The Beautiful People". May 2005, Kerrang!, reported by Blabbermouth.netArchived March 13, 2007, at the Wayback Machine; last accessed September 24, 2006.
^"Virtual Inanity". Rolling Stone. No. 748. Wenner Media. September 5, 1997. Archived from the original on October 16, 2007. Retrieved January 12, 2019.
^Neil Strauss, "POP REVIEW: Neil Young and Friends Gather to Have Fun For a Serious Purpose", October 20, 1997, The New York Times, reported by NYTimes.com; last accessed September 10, 2006
^Richard Skanse, "Manson Joins NIN Onstage in NYC", May 10, 2000, at RollingStone.com; last accessed September 10, 2006.
^Manson, Marilyn. Keynote address, CMJ Music Marathon, September 4, 1997 [speech]. As reported by spookhouse.netArchived October 17, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, last accessed September 22, 2006.
^Lance Teegarden, PopMatters (review of Lest We Forget), January 5, 2005, reported by PopMatters.com (review of Lest We Forget). Last accessed September 15, 2006.
^Carol Vernallis, Experiencing Music Video, Columbia University Press, 2004. ISBN0-231-11799-X
^MTV New Staff (November 8, 1996). "Is Marilyn Mainstream?". MTV. Viacom Media Networks. Archived from the original on January 7, 2019. Retrieved January 8, 2019.
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