"WOW" is song by American
rock band
Marilyn Manson
Brian Hugh Warner (born January 5, 1969), known professionally as Marilyn Manson, is an American rock musician. He is the lead singer and the only original member remaining of the Marilyn Manson (band), same-titled band he founded in 1989. Th ...
. It is the ninth track from their seventh studio album ''
The High End of Low
''The High End of Low'' is the seventh studio album by American Rock music, rock band Marilyn Manson (band), Marilyn Manson. It was released on May 20, 2009, by Interscope Records. Multiple editions of the record were released by the label, each ...
'' (2009). Its title was revealed on April 7, 2009, in a blog which described both itself and another song from the album, "
Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon".
Music details
A blog by Metal Hammer describes "WOW" as "a grinding,
NIN-tinged sex anthem. Genuinely filthy and intensely sexy, The Wow sees Manson riding a dirty
Twiggy Ramirez bassline in an almost spoken-word style. Quirky keyboards interject all the way through the track while sexual female groans (occasionally spoken in German) swarm behind the crunching industrial backing track. The Wow doesn't have anything in the way of memorable hooks but it is the sort of track that would sound amazing in a goth
stripclub...if one existed."
Reviewing for Thrash Hits, Hugh Platt stated that "for every killer track there's one like 'WOW', a gutful of sickly electro honky-tonk with Manson at his lyrically most self-absorbed."
John Robb of The Quietus deems that the song "is very
Iggy op Iggy when he swerved and went industrial on The Idiot." In an interview with BBC Radio's 6 Music, Manson acknowledged this influence, and also explained the song has literary references to the 1868
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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novel ''
The Idiot
''The Idiot'' (Reforms of Russian orthography, pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform ) is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the journal ''The Russian Messenger'' in 1868–1869.
The titl ...
'' (which the aforementioned Iggy Pop record lifts its name from).
Music video
On May 11, 2010, a music video for "WOW" was released to Manson's
Myspace
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account. It was directed by Marilyn Manson and consists of nothing more than a two-second clip being looped for about six minutes. The clip shows
Evan Rachel Wood
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She began acting in the 1990s, a ...
, in make-up reminiscent of the
Black Dahlia, playing with the strap of her dress. According to the video's description it was filmed in 2008, about a year before the album's release, and was a "torture production technique
ansonused to write the song with the boys." Presumably this means the video existed before the song itself. Oddly the video continues for over a minute longer than the song.
Trivia
* Manson had the word "WOW" tattooed on his right wrist in April 2009.
* The hollow whistling noise at the beginning of the song is thought to be Manson "snorting something — whatever it might have been" as a percussive instrument. The substance was presumably, cocaine.
See also
*
Marilyn Manson discography
External links
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Marilyn Manson (band) songs
2009 songs
Songs written by Jeordie White
Songs written by Chris Vrenna
Songs written by Marilyn Manson