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"We Know Where You Fucking Live" (stylized in
all caps
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) is a song by American
rock
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* Rock music, a genre of popular music
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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 was released on September 11, 2017 as the
lead single
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A similar term, "debut ...
from their tenth studio album, ''
Heaven Upside Down
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'' (2017).
Composition and style
"We Know Where You Fucking Live" is an
industrial rock
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song,
and was the first song recorded by
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 ...
and
Tyler Bates
Tyler Bates (born June 5, 1965) is an American musician, music producer, and composer for film, television, and video game scores. Much of his work is in the action and horror film genres, with films like '' Dawn of the Dead'', ''300'', ''Suck ...
for ''Heaven Upside Down''. Bates later said: "When Manson and I began to speak again about making a new album, I told him 'If we're doing this again, we're gonna make a completely different record
rom ''The Pale Emperor''">The_Pale_Emperor.html" ;"title="rom ''The Pale Emperor">rom ''The Pale Emperor'' You gotta bring the fire! We gotta fuck some shit up!'. He was, of course, all in for it." The song was composed by Bates just several hours before the pair's first recording session, with Bates calling it a "a great starter for the album. I knew that track was the initial seed that I wanted to plant for him to work from."
It is reminiscent of material released by the band in the late '90s, and features subdued, predominantly
electronic
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verse
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s coupled with a Refrain">chorus
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consisting of loud, aggressive guitar riffs and the Marilyn Manson, eponymous vocalists' screamed vocals.
Nerdist Industries called the song "fiercely rocking and in-your-face". Manson said that he was "astonished that a record label put
he song
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out as the first single", due to its lyrical content,
which reference political corruption,
drone warfare
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and
global surveillance
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. The track was debuted live during the first date of the
Heaven Upside Down Tour,
which occurred on July 20 in
Budapest
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.
Release and promotion
Prior to its release, the song was advertised with a series of
fly poster campaigns at various music festivals throughout Europe, including the
Reading and Leeds Festivals
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. These campaigns were financed by
Loma Vista Recordings
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. The song premiered on
Zane Lowe
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's
Beats 1
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show on September 11, immediately after which it was made available via
streaming platforms.
Music video
The music video for the song was directed by Bill Yukich and
Perou
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,
and was posted onto YouTube on September 15.
The clip opens with a parental advisory warning for graphic violence and sexual content,
and begins with a quintet of nuns walking down a suburban street during a
solar eclipse
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. The nuns tear off their
habits
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, revealing them to be wearing latex undergarments and leather dominatrix gear, and carrying various handguns, assault rifles and rocket launchers. The group then encounters Manson and, after an initial standoff, proceed to blow up a van.