Mechanical Animals es un álbum de Marilyn Manson, publicado en 1998. El disco incluye 14 canciones, entre ellas «Great Big White World», «2The Dope Show», «Mechanical Animals» y «Rock Is Dead».
Sobre el álbum
La discografía de Marilyn Manson se reinventa con "Mechanical Animals", un álbum que, de inmediato, se percibe como una obra más glam y melódica, sin perder su esencia provocadora. Este disco explora temas de androginia, alienación y la artificialidad de la fama, fusionando el rock industrial con el glam rock y el pop gótico de una manera sofisticada. El álbum se siente como una transformación, un viaje a un futuro distópico lleno de brillo y oscuridad.
Las canciones combinan riffs de guitarra pegadizos con sintetizadores atmosféricos y ritmos bailables, creando una sonoridad que es a la vez comercial y transgresora. "The Dope Show", "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)" y "Coma White" se convirtieron en éxitos, demostrando su habilidad para crear melodías cautivadoras con un trasfondo crítico. Por otra parte, la voz de Marilyn Manson se muestra más melódica y versátil, adaptándose a los diferentes matices de las letras con maestría. El álbum suena elegante y perturbador, una obra de arte que desafió las expectativas.
"Mechanical Animals" no solo fue un éxito comercial y de crítica, sino que también consolidó la reputación de Marilyn Manson como un artista en constante evolución, capaz de reinventarse sin perder su esencia. Su impacto en la música rock y el arte es innegable, inspirando a innumerables artistas a explorar la androginia y la crítica social. Es una prueba irrefutable de la genialidad de Marilyn Manson y su habilidad para transformar la música en una declaración de identidad, como un animal mecánico que desafía la percepción.
Listado de Canciones
- Great Big White World5:01
Letra
In space the stars are no nearer Just glitters like a morgue And I dreamed I was a spaceman Burned like a moth in a flame And our world was so fucking gone I'm not attached to your world Nothing heals and nothing grows 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 All my stitches itch My prescription's low, I wish you were queen Just for today In a world so white what else could I say? And hell was so cold All the vases are so broken And the roses tear our hands all open Mother Marry miscarry But we pray just like insects And the world is so ugly now 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 All my stitches itch My prescription's low, I wish you were queen Just for today All my stitches itch My prescription's low, I wish you were queen Just for today In a world so white what else could I say? 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 All my stitches itch My prescription's low, I wish you were queen Just for today All my stitches itch My prescription's low, I wish you were queen Just for today In a world so white what else could I say? - 2The Dope Show3:46
- Mechanical Animals4:33
Letra
We were neurophobic and perfect The day that we lost our souls Maybe we weren't so human But if we cry we will rust And I was a hand grenade That never stopped exploding You were automatic and as hollow as the "o" in god [Chorus:] I am never gonna be the one for you I am never gonna save the world from you But they'll never be good to you Or bad to you They'll never be anything Anything at all You were my mechanical bride You were phenobarbidoll A manniqueen of depression With the face of a dead star And I was a hand grenade That never stopped exploding You were automatic and as hollow as the "o" in god I am never gonna be the one for you [Chorus repeat ...] This isn't me I'm not mechanical I'm just a boy playing the suicide king - Rock Is Dead3:09
Letra
All simple monkeys with alien babies Amphetamines for boys Crucifixes for ladies Sampled and soulless Worldwide and real webbed You sell all the living For more safer dead Anything to belong Anything to belong 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 God is in the TV Rock la la la la la la Rock la la la la la Rock la la la la la la Rock la la la la la One thousand mothers are praying for it We're so full of hope And so full of shit Build a new god to medicate and to ape Sell us ersatz dressed up and real fake Anything to belong Anything to belong 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 God is in the TV Rock la la la la la la Rock la la la la la Rock la la la la la la Rock la la la la la 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 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 - Disassociative4:50
Letra
I can tell you what they say in space That our earth is too grey But when the spirit is so digital The body acts this way That world was killing me That world was killing me Disassociative The nervous systems down, the nervous systems down I know I can never get out of here I don't wanna explode in fear A dead astronaut in space Sometimes we walk like we were shot through our heads, my love We write our song in space like we are already dead and gone Your world was killing me Your world was killing me Disassociative Your world was killing me Your world was killing me Disassociative I can never get out of here I don't want to just float in fear A dead astronaut in space The nervous systems down, the nervous systems down I know - The Speed Of Pain5:30
- Posthuman4:17
Letra
She's got eyes like Zapruder And a mouth like heroin She wants me to be perfect like Kennedy This isn't god, this isn't god, this isn't god, this isn't god God is just a statistic God is just a statistic [Chorus:] Say "show me the dead stars All of them sing." This is a riot Religious and clean God is a number you cannot count to You are posthuman and hardwired She's pilgrim and pagan Softworn and so-cial In all of her dreams She's a saint like Jackie O This isn't god, this isn't god, this isn't god, this isn't god God is just a statistic [Chorus] [Coma white:] "All that glitters is cold, all that glitters is cold." - I Want To Disappear2:56
Letra
Look at me now I've got no religion Look at me now I'm so vacant Look at me now I was a virgin Look at me now grew up to be a whore And I want it I believe it I'm a million different things And not one you know Hey and our mommies are lost now Hey, daddy's someone else Hey, we love the abuse Because it makes us feel like we are needed now But I know I wanna disappear I wanna die young and sell my soul Use up all your drugs and make me come Yesterday man, I was a nihilist and now today I'm too fucking bored by the time I'm old enough I won't know anything at all Hay, and our mommies are lost now [chorus repeat] - I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me)5:03
- New Model No. 153:40
Letra
I'm as fake as a wedding cake And I'm Vague and I know that I'm homopolitan Pitifully predictable Correctly political 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 I smile New, new, new model I can choke and diet on coke I'm Spun and I know That I'm Stoned and Rolling Lifelike and poseable Hopeless and disposable 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 and I smile New, new, new model Don't let them know how far you go Or that you use you "lovers" Oh look, you're like a VCR Stick something in to know Just who you are you New, new, new model - User Friendly4:17
Letra
Use me when you want to come I bled just to have it touched When I'm in you I want to die User friendly fucking dopestar obscene Will you die when you're high You'd never die just for me She says, "I'm not in love, but I'm gonna fuck you 'til somebody better comes along." Use me like I was a whore Relationships are such a bore Delete the ones that you've fucked User friendly fucking dopestar obscene Will you die when you're high You'd never die just for me She says, "I'm not in love, but I'm gonna fuck you 'til somebody better comes along." - Fundamentally Loathsome4:49
Letra
I want to wake up in your white, white sun I want to wake up in your world with no pain But I'll just suffer in a hope to die someday While you are numb all of the way When I hate it I know I can feel but When you love it you know it's not real No And I am resigned to this wicked fucking world On its way to hell The living are dead and I hope to join them too I know what to do and I do it well... When I hate it I know I can feel but When you're in love you know it's not real No Shoot myself to love you If I loved myself I'd be shooting you - The Last Day On Earth5:01
- Coma White5:40
Letra
There's something cold and blank behind her smile She's standing on an overpass in her miracle mile 'Cause you were from a perfect world A world that threw me away Today, today, today to run away 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 Her mouth was an empty cut And she was waiting to fall Just bleeding like a Polaroid That lost all her dolls You were from a perfect world A world that threw me away Today, today, today to run away 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 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 You were from a perfect world A world that threw me away Today 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 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