Controversy
Much of the media attention "You Get What You Give" received centered on the closing lyrics:
- "Health insurance, rip-off lying
- FDA, big bankers buying
- Fake computer crashes dining
- Cloning while they're multiplying
- Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson,
- Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson
- You're all fakes, run to your mansions
- Come around, we'll kick your ass in."
According to Alexander, he had written this section for the song as a test; to see whether the media would focus on the important political issues of the first few lines, or the petty celebrity-dissing. As suspected, a considerable amount of press begin to appear about the name-dropping, but the other political issues were largely ignored.
Marilyn Manson commented that he was "not mad he said he'd kick my ass, I just don't want to be used in the same sentence as Courtney Love.... I'll crack his skull open if I see him." Beck reported that Alexander personally apologized for the line when they met each other by chance in a supermarket, claiming that it was never meant to be personal. Alexander collaborated with Hanson, whose drummer, Zac Hanson, called him "a bit of a character, but a cool guy."
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