Random Marilyn Manson’s Music Made People Really Uncomfortabl (12 items)

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  (#11) "Tainted Love" (2001)

  Manson's cover of Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" was released in 2001 as part of the soundtrack to the comedy film Not Another Teen Movie. Manson turns a relatively catchy new wave song from the 80s into something much darker and edgier - in full Manson style. The video, centered on Manson and goth crew overrunning a house party, featured half-naked women in bunny masks and bikini-clad goth models joining Manson in a hot tub party.

   
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  (#5) "Disposable Teens" (2000)

  "Disposable Teens" was the first song Manson released after the Columbine shooting. Panicked critics assailed the singer and cited his dark music as problematic for young people and an outsized influence on the horrific shooting. Manson later claimed the controversy "destroyed" his career. 

  Lyrics like, "And I'm a black rainbow, And I'm an ape of god, I got a face that's made for doing violence upon" seemingly reference the controversy surrounding his music, and the threats he said he faced as a result. 
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  (#3) "Man That You Fear" (1996)

  "Man That You Fear" is a song that gets more disturbing the more you examine its lyrics. One line in the song, "are all your infants in abortion cribs?" deals with a particularly dark incident the singer experienced as a child. He revealed the lyric's meaning in his 1999 autobiography Long Hard Road Out Of Hell. 

  "I found a coffee can across the street from my house in Ohio, at a butcher’s, and there were all these flies around it. I opened it up, and it had an aborted fetus in it. My parents told me that it was just raw meat," he said of the incident in an interview with Rolling Stone. 
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  (#4) "I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me)" (1998)

  Manson's plan of attack: Release a disturbing song and follow it up with an even more disturbing video. That's certainly the case of the song "I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me)" from his 1998 album Mechanical Animals. The groovy song is made much darker by the video which looks like it was taken straight from a nightmare: A white-haired Manson carries a cross made of TVs on his back while cartoon-looking, bug-eyed people watch television in their homes.

  The video makes a solid a statement about modern media and the effects that it has on people but the video is disturbing enough that you might not ever watch TV again.
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  (#7) "Coma White" (1998)

  Even for an artist who courts controversy, "Coma White" is one of Manson's most controversial songs. The problems began when listeners perceived the song to be about skin color, an interpretation the singer later refuted.

  "A lot of people thought that it was a race thing, and it was more of the idea that white is the composition of all colors," he said to Consequence of Sound.

  The song's video sparked a second wave of controversy when it was released, as it depicted the death of President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy's son was killed around the time of its release, and it was also close to the Columbine shooting. 

  When the video aired on MTV, VJs would often read a statement from Manson that said it was "a tribute to men like Jesus Christ and J.F.K., who have died at the hands of mankind’s unquenchable thirst for violence." 
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  (#6) "KILL4ME" (2017)

  While the song "KILL4ME" from Manson's 2017 album Heaven Upside Down is no more scandalous than previous Manson music, the accompanying video is loaded for scandal. The extremely NSFW video stars Johnny Depp eventually engaging in a threesome. 

  In an interview with NME, Manson described the lyrics to the song as almost a joke, meant to mock people who say they'd die for the person they love.

  "It’s very romantic – I wrote the lyrics almost as a poem. I just simply said, ‘Would you kill for me?’ It was almost trying to make fun of the fact that I hate songs where people are whining and saying ‘I’d die for you,'" he said. 

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