Scott's Metal Track of the Day - The Beautiful People by Marilyn Manson

Today's Metal Track is brought to you by Marilyn Manson. This was the band's first major original hit following on the heels off of their cover of the Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams. It was the first single and video released of their second album in 1996.

The title of the song comes from Marilyn 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. The phrase itself was popularized by Vogue magazine in the early 1960s and was particularly used to describe the Kennedy family, a frequent source of inspiration in Marilyn Manson's work.