Mark: Marilyn Manson- The Beautiful People

The video 'The Beautiful People' by Marilyn Manson is a very different video to the ones we normally know of as it contains strange images and it is very gothic. This 'alternative metal' video/ single was released in September 2006 from the album 'Antichrist Superstar'. In the song, its lyrics discuss two major themes. What Manson refers to as 'the culture of beauty' and that culture's connection to Friedrich Nietzsche's theory of master-slave morality — the song's "weak ones", who are "always wrong", are oppressed by and exist solely to "justify the existence of the strong" (the so-called beautiful people).


This image is of Marilyn Manson with a kind of mouth brace on/ dental device. The influences for this image are probably pain, a gothic style theme and maybe death. It maybe to do with the pain that a dentist causes hence the dental device. I think this image and the theme of pain is being communicated to Marilyn Mansons fans and probably goths, emo's etc. It is being communicated (pain) by how the props and dress code are used. The makeup that Marilyn wears is very gothic as it is white foundation with normally black eyeliner around the eyes (as seen here.)



This image shows a part in the video where Marilyn Manson is in a dark room and he has a weird neck brace on. He does this strange flickering with his eyes that make him look as though he is in pain and is evil. The influences that the image reflect is the pain and anger that Marilyn Manson is portraying and the way it looks as though he is tied to a chair with no top on like in one of the 'saw' films. His face expression is also adding to the effect of pain and anger by the way he is clenching his teeth and his eyes being wide open.

This is the music video for 'MARILYN MANSON- THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE'. Notice how evil and angry the video is by the way the image is made so dark and the content and props in it.