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"This Is the New Shit" is a song by rock band Marilyn Manson. Written by Marilyn Manson, John 5 and Tim Sköld, with Manson and Sköld sharing co-production duties, it is the second track (referred to as the opening track, at one occasion) and second single from the band's fifth studio album, The Golden Age of Grotesque. It has several new industrial beats that Tim Sköld added when he joined the band as the bassist in 2002. It was the most successful song from The Golden Age of Grotesque following "mOBSCENE".
The first track written for The Golden Age of the Grotesque, "This Is the New Shit" was inspired by Manson's fascination with the rhythms and beats of hip hop music and "and it brings out something that so many people like". Manson created the song's instrumentation before writing its lyrics, commenting that "it was worth trying to focus on making the beats first, and really making beats that had their own hooks to them, and then making riffs." To create the song's riff, he played a guitar into a Neve console. Manson told Jim Louvau of the Phoenix New Times that after creating the song's beat, "Then I wanted to address the simple absurdity of saying 'This Is the New Shit'–it's the most bitter, sardonic stab at fucking anyone who would listen to the song unless you get that, and therein lies the beauty." Manson also said that the track was inspired by Dadaism and is about "when you get to a point in history or in art or in your own creativity where you throw your hands up and you say 'I've done everything. Where do I go from here?'"
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