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* DemotedToExtra: Roli Mosimann was chosen to produce ''Portrait of an American Family'' due to his work with Music/{{Swans}}, but he turned in a flat and lifeless mix. As an AuthorsSavingThrow, [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] (who agreed with Manson that the mix "sucked") brought them to LA for seven weeks of remixing and re-recording, and Mosimann was demoted to "engineer" in the album credits. Daisy Berkowitz, after enough backstabbings to be legally a pin cushion, released this mix, which also has a previously unheard song, "Filth". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJHfAHmevI4 One can judge it for themselves]].

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* DemotedToExtra: Roli Mosimann was chosen to produce ''Portrait of an American Family'' due to his work with Music/{{Swans}}, but he turned in a flat and lifeless mix. As an AuthorsSavingThrow, [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] (who agreed with Manson that the mix "sucked") brought them to LA for seven weeks of remixing and re-recording, and Mosimann was demoted to "engineer" in the album credits. Daisy Berkowitz, after enough backstabbings to be legally a pin cushion, released this mix, which also has a previously unheard song, "Filth". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJHfAHmevI4 One can judge it for themselves]].



* NuclearFamily: Parodied with the cover artwork and deconstructed throught the album. The typical American family is deeply flawed, repressed, over-obsessed with TV and hypocritical with its morals on this album,
* RefugeInAudacity: Well, it's a Marilyn Manson album. The interior photography features fake Polaroid pictures of an apparently mutilated female body. Several lyrics uses NightmareFuel imagery or provide ideas to shock and provoke the listener into thinking in a different manner. Nevertheless, some of the earlier controversial ideas weren't used. For example, Manson planned to use a picture of himself nude as a baby for the album cover. Neither did they use artwork by serial killer John Wayne Gacy.

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* LyricalDissonance: Present throughout the album, that combines deliberately juvenile music with dark themes and tones, but the most striking example is "Dope Hat".
* NuclearFamily: Parodied with the cover artwork and deconstructed throught the album.song lyrics. The typical American family is deeply flawed, repressed, over-obsessed with TV and hypocritical with its morals on this album,
* RefugeInAudacity: Well, it's a Marilyn Manson album. The interior photography features fake Polaroid pictures of an apparently mutilated female body. Several lyrics uses NightmareFuel horror imagery or provide ideas to shock and provoke the listener into thinking in a different manner. Nevertheless, some of the earlier controversial ideas weren't used. For example, Manson planned to use a picture of himself nude as a baby for the album cover. Neither did they use artwork by serial killer John Wayne Gacy.



--> ''I do a crooked little dance with my funny little monkey" (Organ Grinder)''
--> ''The rabbit's just a monkey in disguise" (Dope Hat)''
--> ''I had a little monkey, I sent him to the country and I fed him on gingerbread" (My Monkey)''

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--> ''I do a crooked little dance with my funny little monkey" monkey (Organ Grinder)''
--> ''The rabbit's just a monkey in disguise" disguise (Dope Hat)''
--> ''I had a little monkey, I sent him to the country and I fed him on gingerbread" gingerbread (My Monkey)''



* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Get Your Gunn". This may be seen as a misspelling of "get your gun", as in "grab a gun" an be TriggerHappy. It may also be seen as a reference to Dr. David Gunn, who was murdered by a pro-life activist, thus meaning, "get your abortion doctor".

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* DepravedKidsShowHost: The stage magician in "Dope Hat" is turning a kid's show into something that's close to a drug feast.
* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Get Your Gunn". This may be seen as a misspelling of "get your gun", as in "grab a gun" an gun and be TriggerHappy.TriggerHappy". It may also be seen as a reference to Dr. David Gunn, who was murdered by a pro-life activist, thus meaning, "get meaning "kill your abortion doctor".



--> ''the prolife i will kill [...]''

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--> ''the prolife i ''The pro-life I will kill [...]''



--> ''but your selective judgements and goodguy badges''
--> ''don't mean a fuck to me''

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--> ''but ''But your selective judgements and goodguy badges''
--> ''don't ''Don't mean a fuck to me''



* LyricalDissonance: Present throughout the album, that combines deliberately juvenile music with dark themes and tones, but the most striking example is "Dope Hat".



--> ''VCR's and vaseline, tv-fucked by plastic queens''

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--> ---> ''VCR's and vaseline, tv-fucked by plastic queens''



--> ''I am the VHS, record me with your fist.''

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--> ---> ''I am the VHS, record me with your fist.''



* SurrealMusicVideo: "Dope Hat" is basically a reference to the boat ride in ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'', with a WorldOfChaos setting, many surreal images and Manson appearing as Willy Wonka. It's about drugs after all.

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* SurrealMusicVideo: "Dope Hat" is basically a reference to the boat ride in ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'', with the boat entering a WorldOfChaos setting, setting through the mouth of what sppears to be Charles Manson, many surreal images like fish coming out of a melon and Manson appearing as Willy Wonka. It's about drugs after all.

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* DeepSouth: The deep south gets the worst treatment in "Cake and Sodomy", which deals with the perversity and moral hypocrisy of the "white trash".

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* DeepSouth: The deep south gets the worst treatment DateRape: Alluded to in "Cake and Sodomy", which deals with Sodomy" where the perversity and moral hypocrisy of the "white trash".DeepSouth seems to treat rate rape as something not too bad.


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* DeepSouth: The deep south gets the worst treatment in "Cake and Sodomy", which deals with the perversity and moral hypocrisy of the "white trash".

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