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

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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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  (#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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  (#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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  (#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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  (#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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  (#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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