Barry Walters of '' The Village Voice '' commented " '' The Dope Show '' is the first Manson single as memorable as its video . Over a skipping Gary Glitter beat , the pied piper of gloom celebrates the Clinton-era narcotics of oral stimulation and headrushing authority . Its sing-along chorus lends the social study a levity the Reznor period denied , and the bite-sized lyrics — bon mots like " Cops and queers make good-looking models " — help the medicine go down . Despite the guitars pumping the hook in the proven grunge tradition , this bouncy sugar pill is radical for Manson not only because it 's pop , but also because it 's something few '90s rockers have attempted : it 's sexy . " He went on to conclude , " This born sophist once merely dared to deconstruct sexiness . By now embodying it , Satan 's ambitious little helper has relocated Manson theory out of its logical head and into a freshly liberated and femme-y cyborg that sets it in motion . Its slinky gloss going against the rough Reznor grain , Manson 's alien mannequeen declares independence from the industrial factory . " '' Spin '' described the song as a " Warholian discourse on ... celebrity narcissism set to a creeping , pounding synthetic beat . " They described the lyrics as simultaneously " pedantic " and " mildly alarming " but complimented " Manson ’s campfire-ghost-story vocals and industrial rhythms " as the perfect complement to " druggy reveries and stomping choruses straight out of T. Rex ’s '' Electric Warrior '' . " " The Dope Show " was nominated for the '' Best Hard Rock Performance '' category at the 41st Grammy Awards ( 1999 ) . '' Spin '' ranked " The Dope Show " the 3rd Best Single in their 1998 End Of Year List and 17th in their 2018 retrospective '' The 88 Best Alternative Rock Songs of 1998 '' . The music video for the single would later win the '' Best Cinematography in a Video '' category at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards
1999 MTV Video Music Awards
1999 MTV Video Music Awards
The Dope Show