Date: October 17th, 2026 11:10 AM
Author: Tirant Lo Blanc
Crüe used their image as a typical sleaze metal band to quietly promote dissident thinking and the questioning of official narratives.
One example was the track “Use It Or Lose It” on the generally unheralded Theater of Pain album. Nikki Sixx — or his possible stand-in at the time, Matthew Trippe — offered up the following:
“JFK, Marilyn Monroe
Street walking gypsy, Margaret Trudeau
I said hey, you, what you gonna do
When time's run out on you?”
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5614298&forum_id=2#50193571)