A pounding industrial rhythm helped make “The Beautiful People” Marilyn Manson’s breakthrough anthem. Inspired by the idea of a social hierarchy built around power, beauty and status, the track appeared on 1996’s Antichrist Superstar. Its title was taken from a phrase associated with the fashionable elite of the 1960s. At Bizarre Festival in 1997, the song captured Manson during the controversial era that transformed the band into international stars.