Mannequin Pussy – “I Got Heaven”

Photo by CJ Harvey

Marisa Dabice, full of fury, the Lord is with thee. In the face of those who weaponize Christianity for the lesser of mankind, the true intentions of the Good Word can be heard more so — and in filthier words, at that — from the spirit to her lips on Mannequin Pussy’s new single, “I Got Heaven”. Hypocrisy of the righteous is nothing new to call out, but as days go by, we become all the more terrorized by how dangerous organized belief systems can be within our political arenas and in turn, the way our society allows people to exist. Dabici is having none of it and she and the band are here to battle for everyone’s soul. “And what if we stopped spinning? / And what if we’re just flat? / And what if Jesus himself ate my fucking snatch?,” she bites back at modern religious rhetoric. With a candy-coated spite that positions the lush, Philly indie punks as an even less polite answer to Oliva Rodrigo’s alternative pop fuck-offs, hearing Dabici alongside guitarist Maxine Steen, bassist Colins Regisford, and drummer Kaleen Reading shove the Bible right down the throats of zealots and then some goes down hard, but it goes down well. In their version of “Heaven”, Mannequin Pussy have also found their calling in tearing down temples and restoring true faith in humanity by channeling spiritual aggression.

Directed by: Mason Mercer & Anthony Miralles

Mannequin Pussy’s “I Got Heaven” single is available now on Epitaph Records.