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The word “Starfucker“ was apparently the original title of the Rolling Stones song “Star Star,“ released on the 1973 album, Goats Head Soup. The term “starfucker“ was later used by the artist Tori Amos in her song “Professional Widow,“ released on her 1996 album, Boys For Pele. In this song, the eponymous “professional widow“ and “starfucker“ is widely considered to be Courtney Love. “Starfucker“ is also the tenth track on Hanzel Und Gretyl’s 1997 industrial metal album Transmissions From Uranus. All three of these songs preceded “Starfuckers, Inc.“ A glammed-out Reznor and a strung-out, leggy blonde are riding in the back of a limousine. They stop at a run-down carnival at a trailer park and participate in the games there. These games include throwing CDs in a toilet, smashing plates bearing head shots of popular musicians, breaking busts of various musicians (including Reznor himself), and a dunk tank the involves a large man dressed like Courtney Love falling into a tank filled with toxic waste. At this point in the video, it becomes a commentary on the state of music at the time. Bands like Limp Bizkit were extremely popular while Smashing Pumpkins and REM seemed to be past their prime in the eyes of the record labels and many consumers. After the dunk tank, Reznor and the blonde return to the car. It is then that the blonde is revealed to be Manson dressed in drag. Many people speculated that the feud between Reznor and Manson had ended. The video contains several references to the films of David Lynch. The opening scene with the road and the red-tinted scenes refer to Lost Highway. The limousine and Reznor’s clothes and oxygen mask refer to the character Frank Booth in Blue Velvet, who has an addiction to gases and is the perfect figure of depravity. During the throwing of CD’s into a toilet, one of the discs is Marilyn Manson’s “Mechanical Animals“.
