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

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  (#1) "The Beautiful People" (1996)

  "The Beautiful People" is one of Manson's biggest hits and arrived with a video equally as intense as the song. The video is downright disturbing, with Manson appearing in several different outfits including one in which he sported a dental device over his mouth.

  Another scene in the video shows Manson pale, extra tall, and bald with goggles on his head. Other parts of the video show a crowd of people seemingly giving Nazi salutes, adding to the truly creepy aesthetic of the clip. 
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  (#2) "Tourniquet" (1996)

  "Tourniquet," from Manson's massive 1996 sophomore album Antichrist Superstar, was inspired by Manson's own disturbing dreams.

  "I've always had these dreams about making a girl out of all these pieces of prosthetic limbs, and then taking my own hair and teeth that I saved from when I was a kid and very ritualistically creating this companion," he said in an interview with Rolling Stone. 

  The video for "Tourniquet" was just as dark as the dreams that inspired the song. Director Floria Sigismondi later recalled forcibly enduring sleep deprivation in order to come up with ideas for the clip. 

  "It was shocking to see that so many people responded to that imagery like they did," Sigismondi said. 
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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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  (#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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  (#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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  (#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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  (#8) "The Reflecting God" (1996)

  "The Reflecting God" is an industrial metal gem from Antichrist Superstar that deals with the concept of death. A summary of "The Reflecting God" from Genius cheerily described it as a "very nihilistic" song that "talks about how there is no god, and that we are merely cigarettes to be lit and thrown to ashes in the never-ending expanse that is eternity."

  It's a dark and depressing sentiment that's made even more intense with the heavy mid-tempo music that surrounds it. It's certainly not a Manson song for the faint of heart. 
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  (#9) "The Fight Song" (2001)

  Although the video for 2001's "The Fight Song" was meant to portray a dark football face-off between goths and jocks, it sparked real fighting and controversy when critics wondered whether the track from Manson's Holy Wood album was a response to those who criticized him after the Columbine shooting. The singer ultimately denied those claims. 

  "I'm trying to show that sports as well as music can be seen as violent, so I chose a traditional black vs white, good vs evil them for the video," Manson told NME after the video premiered.

  In another interview with NME, he criticized the media for perpetuating the notion that the video was at all connected to Columbine.

  "People will put into it what they want if it helps them sell newspapers or helps them write a headline. They're gonna want to turn it into something it isn't," he said. 
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  (#10) "Heart Shaped Glasses" (2007)

  Perhaps more uncomfortable than the sexually-charged video for "Heart-Shaped Glasses" is the debate over whether or not Manson and his then-girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood actually had sex in it. The scene in the clip was so real that it made headlines, prompting people to wonder whether or not any actual sexual activity was filmed.

  Manson refused to say whether or not he and Wood actually did the deed.

  "Let's say there were some conservative people involved [with the video] that got a little upset about things that were taking place, and there's been rumors back and forth, but I will not confirm or deny them," he told MTV.

  "I did insist that Evan be paid the most that any actress has ever been paid in music-video history to be in this, even though she wouldn't have asked for it. There's no one else that could've been in it, because it was inspired by her."

  The sex scene shows Manson and Wood kissing intensely, and Wood is seen in a later portion rubbing herself while watching Manson perform.

  "Anyone who is lazy or, I guess, has the lack of depth to expect [a video from me] to be shocking and then say it's not shocking, is essentially the same as saying your partner is bad in bed when you're a masturbator," Manson explained of that particular moment.

  "I wasn't intending to be shocking — I was intending to make something romantic."

   
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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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  (#12) "If I Was Your Vampire" (2007)

  2007's "If I Was Your Vampire" features some incredibly dark and intense lyrics -and that really says something for a Marilyn Manson song. Manson himself called the song his "death wish fantasy."

  "Blood-stained sheets, In the shape of your heart, This is where it starts, this is where it will end," Manson sings in the song from his 2007 album Eat Me, Drink Me, which features similar lyrical themes throughout.

  "If I had to do a record review, I’d say it’s got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to it," he explained in an interview with the Washington Post. 

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