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“The Beautiful People” is a song from Marilyn Manson’s second full length album, Antichrist Superstar, released as a single in September, 1996. An industrial metal hit written by Marilyn Manson and Twiggy Ramirez, and produced by Trent Reznor, Dave Ogilvie and Manson, 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 strong”; the kratocratic beautiful people whose power is, in a double entendre of phallic and religious implications, “relative to the size of their steeple”. The single peaked at number 26 on the Modern Rock Tracks... Read on...