— ♪ The Beautiful People ♪— （ Song by Marilyn Manson ） The Beautiful People is a song by American rock band Marilyn Manson. It was released as the lead single from the bands second studio album, Antichrist Superstar (1996) in September 1996. Classified as industrial metal, the song was written by frontman Marilyn Manson and Twiggy Ramirez, and was produced by Trent Reznor, Dave Ogilvie and Manson. Lyrically, it discusses what Manson refers to as the culture of beauty. The single peaked at number 26 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and remains known as one of Marilyn Mansons most famous and most successful original songs; in a 2004 review, Richard Banks of the BBC called the track still the most impressiven the bands catalogue, and it was ranked in 2006 at number 28 on VH1s 40 Greatest Metal Songs. Song information Origins The Beautiful People MENU0:00 A sample of The Beautiful People Problems playing this file? See media help. The Beautiful People was written in 1994; the lyrics are by Marilyn Manson and the 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. The title of the song comes from Marilyn Benders 1967 book The Beautiful People,[1] 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.[citation needed] The phrase itself was popularized by Vogue magazine in the early 1960s and was particularly used to describe the Kennedy family, a frequent source of inspiration in Marilyn Mansons work.
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