DisposableCartman May 12th, 2008 02:56PM  
I can't believe no one's thrown this one out there yet.

Anyway, this song is about in society when you're a kid, and you're not even consider human until you're eighteen, or you're "disposable". This song addresses Columbine, as well:

"The more that you fear us/the bigger we get/
the more that you fear us/ the bigger we get/
and don't be surprised/ don't be surprised/
don't be surprised when we destroy all of this"

You can't use kids who are arleady oppressed enough as social tools, and then expect them to stay clean and smiling.

I might add that this song borrows a lyric from the Beatles song "Revolution", the line "you say you wanna evolution". Mostly because this album has many references to John Lennon, as well as JFK. Mostly JFK.

Most kids are so stupid, though, that they wouldn't understand the reference to the George Orwell book "1984", which is the line "a rebel from the waste down".

Also, Manson offers his true belief about God in this song:
"I never really hated a one true God/ but the God of the people I hated"

The music video had to be alternated in some places, due to the fact that the Catholics didn't like the image of Manson in a pope's hat, and a monkey swinging on a crucifix. The same monkey, later in the music video, sits at the Last Supper table.

PS: This song was used in the opening titles of the film Shadows: Blair Witch 2", and was the first single off of Holy Wood.

anonymous April 12th, 2009 12:11PM  
Disposable Teens is, as the title suggests, about the uncaring towards teens. Anyone remember his interview in Bowling For Columbine, when he said he's listen to the murderers in the Columbine high school massacre, unlike everyone else?

It's treating kids like shit. It keeps the evolution/revolution theme going, as well, with some stabs at stupid kids. "You say you want a revolution, man / And I say you're just full of shit" By the time teens become adults, the "revolution" they wanted against the adult sis gone, and they've "evolved" into the people that discard teens.