Not Your Kind of People World" contains a lyrical sample from the poem "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas. Both daughters of Steve Marker and Butch Vig laid down vocals on the album's title track. Finnish actress Irina Björklund performs the musical saw on "Sugar". "Beloved Freak" includes a sample of Klaus Nomi, as the group felt the artist fit Manson's lyrics about "people being an outsider, feeling like a freak, and not fitting in and trying to come to terms with that it's okay to feel like you're an outsider." KROQ-FM and MTV Buzzworthy described the sound of the
Good Night, Dear Heart Horton, the new Red Scare, the new boogeyman for the masses" and the then-pending ballot initiatives in the states of Colorado (Amendment 2) and Oregon (Measure 9) that would have stripped gay and lesbian people of the right even to petition for gay rights legislation in those states. Mangels criticized "Quantum Leap" for its portrayal of Stephanie as a lesbian killer and for the lack of positive gay portrayals on the series. Noting the series's theme of "setting right what once went wrong", Mangels wrote that "Up Against a Stonewall" was his attempt to do just that. Good Night, Dear