The Beautiful People Lyrics

How to Format Lyrics:

  • Type out all lyrics, even repeating song parts like the chorus
  • Lyrics should be broken down into individual lines
  • Use section headers above different song parts like [Verse], [Chorus], etc.
  • Use italics (<i>lyric</i>) and bold (<b>lyric</b>) to distinguish between different vocalists in the same song part
  • If you don’t understand a lyric, use [?]

To learn more, check out our transcription guide or visit our transcribers forum

About

Genius Annotation

Marilyn Manson’s first original hit after the cover of “Sweet Dreams.” The song is preceded with a few seconds of backward-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.”

Lyrically, it is intertwined with 1996’s Antichrist Superstar overarching theme, a semi-narrative examination of the Nietzschean Übermensch. Within this context, “The Beautiful People” deals explicitly with the destructive manifestation of the Will to Power, while also exploring Nietzsche’s view of master-slave morality, particularly the concept’s connection with Social Darwinism and its relation to various political and economic systems such as capitalism and fascism.

Credits
Assistant Engineer
Performance Rights
Additional Engineering
Video Director
Mastering Engineer
Copyright ©
Phonographic Copyright ℗
Guitar Synthesizer
Recorded At
Nothing Studios (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Release Date
September 22, 1996
View The Beautiful People samples
Tags
Comments