History Music / MechanicalAnimals

!! Tracklist

* IWantSong: "I Want To Disappear"

-->''Norm life baby [...]\\
You and I are under dosed and we're ready to fall\\

* ParentalObliviousness and SuckySchool: "I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me)"

---> ''Sampled and soulless\\

--> ''Because it's a great big white world''
--> ''And we are drained of our colors''
--> ''We used to love ourselves''
--> ''We used to love one another''

* DealWithTheDevil: "I Want To Disappear"
--> ''I wanna die young and sell my soul''.

* DrivenToSuicide: "Fundamentally Loathsome"
--> ''Shoot myself to love you''
--> ''If I loved myself I'd be shooting you''

--> ''A pill to make you numb''
--> ''A pill to make you dumb''
--> ''A pill to make you anybody else''
--> ''But all the drugs in this world''
--> ''Won't save her from herself''

--> ''There's a hole in our soul, that we fill with dope''
--> ''And we're feeling fine''
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: "Last Day On Earth"
--> ''I know it's the last day on Earth''
--> ''We'll be together while the planet dies''
--> ''I know it's the last day on Earth''
--> ''We'll never say goodbye''

* HeavyMeta: "Rock Is Dead"
--> ''Rock is deader than dead''
--> ''Shock is all in your head''
--> ''Your sex and your dope is all that were fed''
--> ''So fuck all your protests and put them to bed''
* HollywoodHypeMachine: Parodied throughout the whole album but especially in 'The Dope Show':
--> ''They love you when you're on all the covers''
--> ''When you're not then they love another''

--> ''And I'm vague and I know that I'm homopolitan'' [[note]] A pun on the magazines "Vogue" and "Cosmopolitan" [[/note]]
--> ''(...) Correctly political''
--> ''I can choke and diet on coke'' [[note]] A pun on Diet Coke [[/note]]
--> ''(...) That I'm stoned and rolling'' [[note]] A pun of Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} and/or ''Magazine/RollingStone'' [[/note]]

--> ''And I was a hand grenade that never stopped exploding.''
--> ''You were automatic and as hollow as the "o" in God.''

* ObsessivelyNormal: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in 'I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me)':
--> ''Norm life baby [...]''
--> ''You and I are under dosed and we're ready to fall''
--> ''Raised to be stupid, taught to be nothing at all.''

--> ''Raised to be stupid, taught to be nothing at all''

--> ''This isn't me, I'm not mechanical.\

--> ''She's got eyes like [[UsefulNotes/ZapruderFilm Zapruder]]''
--> ''And a mouth like heroin''
--> ''She wants me to be perfect like Kennedy''
--> ''(...) In all of her dreams she's a saint like Jackie O.'' [[note]] A reference to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis [[/note]]

--> ''There's something cold and blank behind her smile''

--> ''I am never gonna be the one for you.''
--> ''I am never gonna save the world from you.''

--> ''I know it's the last day on Earth, we'll be together while the planet dies.''

* FifteenMinutesOfFame: A reoccurring theme throughout the album, but it appears most in 'Dope Show' and 'I don't like the drugs (but the drugs like me).
--> ''"We're rehabbed and we're ready for our fifteen minutes of shame"

--> ''I want to wake up in your white, white sun''
--> ''I want to wake up in your world with no pain''

--> ''Mother Mary miscarry''

--> ''Pitifully predictable, correctly political''

--> ''Sampled and soulless''
--> ''Worldwide and real webbed''

--> ''She's pilgrim and pagan''

--> ''She says: "I'm not in love, but I'm gonna fuck you 'til somebody better comes along"''

--> ''This isn't God, this isn't God, this isn't God''
--> ''God is just a statistic (...)''
--> ''God is a number you cannot count to''

--> ''I'm the new, I'm the new, new model I've got nothing inside \\
Better in the head and in bed at the office \\ I can suck it and smile.''
* BlasphemousBoast: "I Want To Disappear"
--> ''Look at me now, I've got no religion''

--> ''We're all stars now in the dope show (...)''
--> ''We love your face, we'd really like to sell you''

* CountingToPotato: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in 'Posthuman':
--> ''God is a number you cannot count to''
--> ''You are posthuman and hardwired''

* Omega, a gender-ambiguous alien that falls from Earth and is captured and turned into a rock star with a band called [[TitleDrop the Mechanical Animals]] that abuses drugs to cope with their reality as a product of a corporation

--> ''(...) That I'm stoned and rolling'' [[note]] A pun of Music/TheRollingStones and/or ''Magazine/RollingStone'' [[/note]]

It was the band's first #1 debut on the ''Billboard'' 200, and spawned several hit singles: "The Dope Show", "Rock is Dead", "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)", and "Coma White".

* {{Bowdlerize}}:

* LyricsVideoMismatch: Notably 'Coma White' - the song is about drugs and how they can or cannot save you from yourself, the video is a reenactment of the Kennedy Assassination. The are many theories how this will go together but neither the lyrics nor the video gives a clear answer.

** "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)": Manson runs around with a blonde wig being crucified to a croos made out of TV sets with many other surreal and bizarre lightings an images.

[[caption-width-right:350:''We were neurophobic and perfect\\
The day that we lost our souls'']]
->''Rock is deader than dead\\

God is in the TV''
-->'''"Rock is Dead"'''

* ContemptibleCover: Omega in the nude, but without genitals and the nipples from the fake breasts hidden behind the title. More than enough for K-Mart, Wal-Mart and Target to [[http://tinyurl.com/zb49maj refuse carrying the album]], but also enough for it to be deemed as some of the greatest cover art of all time.

* CrapsackWorld: "Great Big White World" describes Manson as looking down on Earth, which is a destroyed world and everybody is hollow, empty and "mechanical" and instead of doing something about it, they wait for someone (god?) to change everything. Also the theme of race is present:

* NonAppearingTitle: 'Coma White', the title doesn't appear anywhere in the song and can only be seen as metaphor.

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--> ''Pitifully predictable''

--> ''God is just a statistic''
--> ''(...) God is a number you cannot count to''

--> ''We're all stars now in the dope show''
--> ''(...)We love your face, we'd really like to sell you''
* CrapsackWorld: "Great Big White World"

* DrugsAreGood:
** "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)".
--> ''There's a hole in our soul, that we fill with dope''
--> ''And we're feeling fine''
* DrugsAreBad:
"Coma White"

** The music video of "Coma White" is a shout-out to UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy's assassination. "Posthuman" also references Kennedy's assassination:

** Creator/BillyZane has a cameo appearance in the music video of "The Dope Show".

--> ''I know it′s the last day on Earth, we'll be together while the planet dies.''

* ConceptAlbum: It continues the story of the antichrist superstar from ''Music/AntichristSuperstar''.
* ContemptibleCover: Omega in the nude, but without genitals and the nipples from the fake breasts hidden behind the title. More than enough for K-Mart, Wal-Mart and Target to [[http://tinyurl.com/zb49maj refuse carrying the album]], but also enough for it to be deemed as some of the greatest cover art of all time.

* DrugsAreBad:

** "Coma White"

* SurrealMusicVideo: "The Dope Show", directed by Paul Hunter, shows Manson in the androgynous costume he wears on the cover and being examined in a lab, after which he performs on stage.

* {{Bowdlerize}}:
** Some stores refused to store the album without hiding the album cover in a brown paper bag.
** The original album cover itself had a slight example of this; Omega originally had nipples on their breasts, but they were removed at the record company's demand.
** Creator/{{MTV}} airings of the video for "The Dope Show" edited out the words "drugs" and "queers".
* BSODSong: The entire album follows the decay of the antichrist superstar.

* ConceptAlbum: It continues the story of the antichrist superstar from ''Music/AntichristSuperstar''.
* ContemptibleCover: Omega in the nude, but without genitals and the nipples from the fake breasts hidden behind the title. More than enough for K-Mart, Wal-Mart and Target to [[http://tinyurl.com/zb49maj refuse carrying the album]], but also enough for it to be deemed as some of the greatest cover art of all time.

* ExtraDigits: Omega has six fingers on each hand, according to the cover.
* FaceOnTheCover: Manson as Omega in the center of the image.
* FakeBand: The album concept revolves around the band led by Omega, [[http://www.everythingcollectible.com/images/products/9095.jpg which even got its own album cover]].
* GoodAngelBadAngel: Alpha and Omega.

* HiddenTrack: An untitled one.

* Letters2Numbers: "Marilyn Manson" is portrayed as "[=MAR1LYN=] [=MAN5ON=]" on the album cover.
* LighterAndSofter: It's less dark than Manson's previous works, being influenced mostly by Music/DavidBowie-esque glam rock, although the lyrics are still just as dark.
* NightmareFace: Omega's stare to the viewer on the cover.

* SelfParody: Manson parodied his own demonic public image on this album.
* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: This is the hedonistic lifestyle of the Antichrist Superstar.

* [[FourFingeredHands Six Fingered Hands]]: Manson has six fingers on each hand on the album cover.

* SurrealMusicVideo: "The Dope Show", directed by Paul Hunter, shows Manson in the androgynous costume he wears on the cover and being examined in a lab, after which he performs on stage.

** The music video of "Coma White" is a shout-out to UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy's assassination. "Posthuman" als references Kennedy's assassination:

--> ''She's got eyes like [[ZapruderFilm Zapruder]]''

[[caption-width-right:350:''God is in the TV.'']]

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