![]() Viewers took Manson's appearance in the video as a sign that Reznor and Manson had renewed their friendship. The video was directed by Robert Hales and Marilyn Manson. The video ends back in the limousine, where the blonde removes her wig to reveal "her" identity as Marilyn Manson. ![]() The most explicit mockery is Reznor dunking an obese Courtney Love look-a-like into a waste tank. With the blonde videotaping his antics, Reznor attacks images of famous musicians via sideshow games: he shatters plates adorned with faces (including Marilyn Manson, Fred Durst, Mariah Carey, Billy Corgan, Michael Stipe, and Gene Simmons), tosses CDs into a toilet (Manson's Mechanical Animals & Smells Like Children and NIN's The Downward Spiral are visible), and throws baseballs through busts of Billy Corgan and himself. Reznor and an attractive blonde ride in a limousine to a deserted carnival. The music video for "Starfuckers, Inc." revolves around the same themes as the song in a darkly humorous manner. ![]() Reznor and Manson in the end of the "Starsuckers, Inc." music video. "Starsuckers, Inc." (video version) - 4:18.Its Nothing Records catalog number is INTR-10079-2.Īn extended version of "Starfuckers, Inc." was also included as a B-side of the first single from The Fragile, " The Day the World Went Away". ![]() It contains the original track, a radio edit in which the word "starfuckers" is replaced by the less-profane "Starsuckers", and the audio of the "Starsuckers, Inc." video with additional changes in lyrics. "Starsuckers, Inc." was released as a promotional three-track CD in the United States. The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 2000, but it lost to Black Sabbath's " Iron Man". The word "Starfucker" may have been taken from The Rolling Stones' song " Star Star" (original title "Starfucker") which appeared on their 1973 album Goats Head Soup or more likely from the song " Professional Widow", also rumoured to be about Love, by Tori Amos, to whom Reznor was close prior to what he refers to as "some malicious meddling on the part of Courtney Love". The video version of "Starfuckers, Inc." has change to "Starsuckers, Inc.". ![]() Other than Marilyn Manson, the lyrics are often speculated to be directed towards Courtney Love. ![]()
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