![]() “It's an unusual song because the verse is so frantic. I love it.”Ģ:24 Rick Rubin is very open about how strange an offering this song is as a big single, but that’s what he likes about it, even if he can’t quite remember the words. And the emotion of the performances, it really reaches me. This is hard, but it's playful, and it's really danceable and funky. It's hard music, but a lot of hard music sounds very similar. He told Rolling Stone: “When I first saw System Of A Down, I loved them so much, it just made me laugh. He also owns a comic book shop in Las Vegas, Torpedo Comics.Ģ:13 SOAD’s ability to switch style and tone at the drop of a hat and go from this almost choral-sounding part to big giant riffs is part of what attracted Rick Rubin to working with them, co-producing the album with Serj and Daron. He also has another project, Scars On Broadway, who are a more classic metal-inspired band.Ģ:06 John Dolmayan was in Scars On Broadway for a while too, and has also played with Killing Joke, Scum Of The Earth and Tool. They all appear in Screamers, a documentary about that event and modern-day genocide denial.ġ:58 Like, if Daron didn’t have the big wacky fake tattoo, he’d still look scary, wouldn’t he? He’s so good at the eye thing. All four band members are Armenian-American – although only Shavo was born in the ASSR, while Serj and John were born in Lebanon, and Daron in LA – and the band has several songs about the Armenian genocide of 1915. It’s very good at producing a disorienting, 'Haha, wow, so sodding drunk' feeling.ġ:36 They’re, like, disappearing and reappearing? Director Marcos Siega has made some all-time classic videos, including Weezer’s Hash Pipe, blink-182’s All The Small Things and Papa Roach’s Last Resort.ġ:38 That flag being waved in the background is that of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, which stopped existing when the USSR dissolved in 1991. It’s used really well in The Hangover, 28 Days Later and Get Him To The Greek. ![]() Hence the line, ' I cry when angels deserve to die'…”ġ:21 This camera effect, where it stays focused on a person’s face as they lurch through the world, is called Snorricam. Like, if I were now to die from drug abuse, they might say I deserved it because I abused dangerous drugs. ![]() "The song is about how we are regarded differently depending on how we pass,” he said. 1:15 Daron Malakian told the NME that the crux of the song is how death, and the cause of death, affects how we view people.
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