I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)

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"I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)"
I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me) cover
Song by Marilyn Manson
Album Mechanical Animals
Released September 14, 1998
Recorded 1997–1998 at the White Room, Westlake Recording Studios in West Hollywood, California and Conway Studios
Genre Alternative rock, psychedelic rock, funk rock, post-industrial rock
Length 5:03
Label Nothing, Interscope
Writer Marilyn Manson
Composer Twiggy Ramirez, Zim Zum
Producer Michael Beinhorn, Marilyn Manson
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"I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)" is the second single and the ninth track of the album Mechanical Animals. It features a guitar solo by Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro and soul singers.

Appearances[edit]

Albums[edit]

Singles[edit]

Versions[edit]

Vhs[edit]

An australian promo VHS tape of this single includes the video.

Music video[edit]

Manson bound to the crucifix of televisions.

The music video, directed by Paul Hunter during the third week of October 1998,[1] is highly surreal and for the majority parodies talk shows. Select scenes feature Manson bound to a crucifix made of televisions (this may refer to the theme of "God is in the T.V."), similar to the epitaph Manson portrays in the video for the "Coma White" single, albeit Manson is 'nailed' to a traditional wooden crucifix in that video. Throughout the video Manson is seen in various places, including a doctor's office, a live television talk show which he disrupts, and an abandoned factory complex, all of which are within a lower-class suburban area. All the people in the video, excluding the band members, are seen with disturbingly large eyes. The climax of the video sees Manson running up the stairs of the factory and jumping from a catwalk between two stairways to escape four, headless soldiers hunting for him on both staircases. This is followed by a scene of a set of televisions laid out on the ground to form a crucifix with Manson's body depicted throughout them; the television where Manson's head would be instead depicts static.

  • A rare VHS published to the labels in 1998. The tape contains the music video. The VHS was made in Australia then shipped over the labels
  • Doug Jones with the mask applied[2][3]

Lyrics[edit]

    Norm life baby
    "We're white and oh so hetero and
    Our sex is missionary."
    
    Norm life baby
    "We're quitters and we're sober
    Our confessions will be televised."
    
    You and I are underdosed and we're ready to fall
    Raised to be stupid, taught to be nothing at all.
    
    I don't like the drugs but the drugs like me
    I don't like the drugs, the drugs the drugs
    
    Norm life baby
    "Our god is white and unforgiving
    We're piss tested and we're praying."
    
    Norm life baby
    I'm just a sample of a soul
    Made to look just like a human being.
    
    Norm life baby
    "We're rehabbed and we're ready
    For our 15 minutes of shame."
    
    Norm life baby
    "We're talkshown and we're pointing
    Just like Christians at a suicide."
    
    You and I are underdosed and we're ready to fall
    Raised to be stupid, taught to be nothing at all.
    
    I don't like the drugs but the drugs like me
    I don't like the drugs, the drugs the drugs
    
    "There's a hole in our soul that we fill with dope
    And we're feeling fine."
    
    I don't like the drugs but the drugs like me
    I don't like the drugs, the drugs the drugs

Personnel[edit]

Trivia[edit]

  • The limited tour edition of Mechanical Animals includes a bonus eighteen page comic book, illustrating scenes from "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)" music video.
  • The song is similar to the David Bowie song "Fame".

References[edit]

  1. ↑ NEWS FOR YOU. MarilynManson.net. Marilyn Manson. October 12, 1998.
  2. ↑ Circa 1997 as a future product of our TV watching culture in a Marilyn Manson music video ... Had no idea what I said yes to when my agent called to tell me I had been requested for this video. My answer? - "Marilyn Manson? I haven't heard of her, but I'm sure she's lovely." .... (Yes, Dougie was out of touch, even back then). Make-up applied by @BarryKoper (and I'm sure I'm missing many team names who made the mask appliances). Also met @michaelkeyreal on this job. The love.actordougjones
  3. ↑ http://www.horrorchannel.co.uk/articles.php?feature=389&category=5&archive=2009&title=horror+channel+exclusive+interview+with+hellboy+star+doug+jones
Marilyn Manson videography
Music videos Get Your Gunn • Lunchbox • Dope Hat • Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) • The Beautiful People • Tourniquet • Man That You Fear • Cryptorchid • Long Hard Road Out of Hell • Apple of Sodom • The Dope Show • I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me) • Rock Is Dead • Coma White • Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes • Disposable Teens • The Fight Song • The Nobodies • Tainted Love • mOBSCENE • This Is the New Shit • Thrift • (s)AINT • Personal Jesus • Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand) • Putting Holes in Happiness • Arma-goddamn-motherfuckin-geddon • Running to the Edge of the World • WOW • No Reflection • Slo-Mo-Tion • Hey, Cruel World... • Deep Six • The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles • Third Day of a Seven Day Binge • WE KNOW WHERE YOU FUCKING LIVE • SAY10 • KILL4ME • Tattooed in Reverse • Cry Little Sister • WE ARE CHAOS • DON'T CHASE THE DEAD • As Sick as the Secrets Within • Raise the Red Flag • Sacrilegious
Home videos Dead to the World • Groupie • God Is in the T.V. • "Autopsy" • Guns, God and Government World Tour (The Death Parade) • The Mechanism of Desire • Doppelherz • Lunch Boxes & Choklit Cows (Bonus DVD) • Lest We Forget – The Best Of (Bonus DVD) • (s)AINT Video (Uncut, Unrated, Banned by Label) • Eat Me, Drink Me (Bonus DVD) • Guns, God, and Government – Live in L.A. • Fifth video album
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