Mobscene
Sign in to save"Mobscene" (stylized as "mOBSCENE") is a song by American rock band Marilyn Manson. It was released in April 2003 as the lead single from their fifth studio album, The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003). The song was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance, but lost out to Metallica's "St. Anger". As of 2020, the song sold around 50,000 copies in the United Kingdom, where it has also been streamed almost 4 million times. In the US, the song reached number 18 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks and number 26 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.
Key facts
- Song.name
- Mobscene
- Song.cover
- marilyn_manson_mobscene.png
- Song.type
- single
- Song.artist
- Marilyn Manson
- Song.album
- The Golden Age of Grotesque
- Song.released
- April 2003
- Song.genre
- Industrial metal nu metal glam punk
- Song.length
- 3:25
- Song.label
- Nothing Interscope
- Song.writer
- John 5 Marilyn Manson
- Song.producer
- Marilyn Manson Tim Sköld
- Song.prev_title
- Tainted Love
- Song.prev_year
- 2001
- Song.next_title
- This Is the New Shit
- Song.next_year
- 2003
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- publication date
- 2003-04-22
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- Critical reception
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"Mobscene" (stylized as "mOBSCENE") is a song by American rock band Marilyn Manson. It was released in April 2003 as the lead single from their fifth studio album, The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003). The song was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance, but lost out to Metallica's "St. Anger". As of 2020, the song sold around 50,000 copies in the United Kingdom, where it has also been streamed almost 4 million times. In the US, the song reached number 18 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks and number 26 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart.
==Composition== Manson has said that "Mobscene" was "pulled from the weirdest parts of my imagination." Prior to writing the song, Manson had seen several Busby Berkeley films with all-female chorus lines. He then met with his band and told them that he wanted to create a song that evoked Berkeley's films, the writings of Oscar Wilde, and an elephant stampede.