Rock is Dead
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| Single by Marilyn Manson from the album Mechanical Animals & The Matrix: Music from the Motion Picture | |||||
| Released | 14 June 1999 | ||||
| Format | CD | ||||
| Genre | Industrial metal | ||||
| Length | 3:09 | ||||
| Label | Nothing/Interscope | ||||
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Rock is Dead is a single from Marilyn Manson's third studio album, Mechanical Animals. It is also featured on The Matrix Soundtrack and Midnight Club 3. It may be seen as a criticism of fresh young rock bands: "Your sex and your dope is all that we're fed; so fuck all your protests, put them to bed."
Concept
The song's title itself seems to further allude to Manson's ongoing interest in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, in this particular case, at least for the title, his concept of God is dead. This is possible, for the aforementioned lyric is sung in the fatalistic syntax of the character Omega refers to Nietzsche's outlook on Christianity as being an individually hindering concept. It could also be referring to the incumbent Western culture that has been widely accepted, and therefore "Rock is dead" could be used in the same fashion that Nietzsche was using "God is dead": to break the accepted mainstream consciousness.
Video
The video of the song features Manson in costume (as Omega) and his band (perhaps as the "Mechanical Animals" band) performing onstage. They are later shown destroying their instruments, an allusion to Manson's destruction of the life-size statuettes of himself (as Omega) in The Dope Show video. Another version of the video contains the same performance footage edited with footage from The Matrix for which the song was featured as a promotional single.
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