Mobscene

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"Mobscene"
Single by Marilyn Manson
from the album The Golden Age of Grotesque
Released	April 22, 2003
Format	Vinyl record 7", 10", CD
Genre	Industrial metal, alternative metal
Label	Interscope Records
Producer	Marilyn Manson and Tim Skold
Marilyn Manson singles chronology
Tainted Love (2002) Mobscene (2003) This Is the New Shit (2003)

"Mobscene" trademarked as "mOBSCENE" is the inaugural single taken from the 2003 album The Golden Age of Grotesque by Marilyn Manson. Lines in the song chanted by female vocalists, "Be obscene, be, be obscene..." are inspired by a quote by Oscar Wilde that has been commonly used as a chant among cheerleaders. Many critics have also compared lines in this song to the TV gameshow in the 2000 film, Requiem for a Dream, starring Jared Leto. The song was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance, but lost out to Metallica's, "St. Anger."

Track listing

1. "Mobscene"
2. "Tainted Love" (Re-Tainted Interpretation)
3. "Mobscene" (Rammstein's Sauerkraut Remix)
4. "Paranoiac"

Track listing US

1. "Mobscene"
2. "Paranoiac"

Notes

• "Tainted Love - Re-Tainted Interpretation" is in fact an acoustic rendition of Gloria Jones' hit.
• The video features Dita Von Teese whom Manson was dating at the time (and would subsequently marry, and then divorce).
• The cover art is a photograph by Gottfried Helnwein and parts of the video were inspired by Helnwein's stage, costumes and make-up of the theater-production "Macbeth"- in Heidelberg, 1988 and Berlin, 1995[1].