The song's characteristic element is its repetitive drum beat: a five-beat common time pattern played on floor toms, with a shuffle note each measure creating a triplet feel. It also incorporates extensive use of guitar distortion, and the use of palm muting creates a highly rhythmic, driving style amplified by a heavy percussion track. The song is written in drop D tuning, and is built primarily out of power chords based on the notes of a diminished triad. It includes a heavily distorted spoken sample by Tex Watson, declaring " swoop down on the town. The song is preceded with a few seconds of backwards-guitar feedback and electronic noise. Problems playing this file? See media help. It happened in one day pretty much." Composition and lyrical content I remember playing the drum beat on the floor and then having my drummer duplicate that on the drum machine. Manson recalled to Kerrang! magazine in May 2005: "It was somewhere in the South, which is ironic. 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. "The Beautiful People" was written in 1994, with lyrics by Marilyn Manson and music by Twiggy Ramirez.
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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" in the band's catalogue, and in 2006 it was ranked at number 28 on VH1's 40 Greatest Metal Songs. Lyrically, it discusses what Manson refers to as "the culture of beauty". In the context of the album's concept, the song refers to the privileged class of elites whom the titular character, a populist demagogue called Antichrist Superstar, fulminate against. The title of the song comes from Marylin Bender's 1967 book The Beautiful People, 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. Classified as alternative metal, the song was written by frontman Marilyn Manson and Twiggy Ramirez, and was produced by Trent Reznor, Dave Ogilvie and Manson.
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It was released as the lead single from the band's second studio album, Antichrist Superstar, in September 1996. " The Beautiful People" is a song by American rock band Marilyn Manson.