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Toxicity (Music)
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Toxicity is the second studio album by Alternative Metal band System of a Down, released on September 4, 2001. While their previous eponymous album garnered them a substantial following, this record propelled the band into the mainstream due to its impressive Genre Roulette and stunning originality.Expanding from their usual tirades about government oppression, Toxicity highlighted more specific issues in which the band was interested, such as the decriminalization of drugs, environmentalism, education, religion, war, and fame. One of the more hard-hitting political messages was "Chop Suey!", which was an all-out critique of "self-righteous suicide" (such as jihad) and religious fundamentalism. It became a hugely successful song, especially when 9/11 occurred just a week after the album was released.The band also dabbled with Lighter and Softer melodies while keeping their Hard Rock edge and Serj Tankian's characteristic metal screams, such as on the hit singles "Toxicity" and "Aerials" (the latter of which was nominated for a Grammy Award). The album has since sold 12 million copies and remains SOAD's most influential album to date, since it helped to further popularize the progressive metal genre.Tracklist: "Prison Song" (3:21) "Needles" (3:13) "Deer Dance" (2:55) "Jet Pilot" (2:06) "X" (1:58) "Chop Suey!" (3:30) "Bounce" (1:54) "Forest" (4:00) "ATWA" (2:56) "Science" (2:43) "Shimmy" (1:51) "Toxicity" (3:38) "Psycho" (3:45) "Aerials" (6:11)note Contains the hidden track "Arto" during its last two minutes | |
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Order Versus Chaos | |
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Order Versus Chaos: "Toxicity" makes this juxtaposition, showing the constant tension between the struggle to create order and the confusion which causes disorder. | |
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As the Good Book Says... | |
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As the Good Book Says...: "Chop Suey" quotes two verses from the Crucifixion of Jesus: "Father, into your hands, I commend my spirit" (Luke 23:46) and "Why have you forsaken me?" (Matthew 27:46). | |
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Alliterative Title: "Deer Dance" | |
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A Party, Also Known as an Orgy | |
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A Party, Also Known as an Orgy: Humorously invoked in "Bounce": | |
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Deadly Euphemism | |
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Deadly Euphemism: "Deer Dance" sarcastically invokes this: | |
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Concept Video | |
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Concept Video: In addition to showing the band perform, the video for "Aerials" focuses mainly on a young Circus Brat with... ugly features, wishing that he were famous. He also has a naive view of the world; he assumes nobody would give a second thought toward his physical characteristics, he imagines a reporter as a young boy, and he imagines that rich people do nothing but blow money up in the air all the time. It ends with him kneeling face-down in disappointment on the same ground where the band had been performing a minute ago. | |
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Uncommon Time | |
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Uncommon Time: "Toxicity" is largely done in a 6/8 time signature. | |
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Groupie Brigade | |
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Groupie Brigade: "Psycho" is a commentary about how groupies get entrenched in the culture of Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll in order to follow musicians they admire: | |
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Pun-Based Title | |
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Pun-Based Title: The original title for "Chop Suey!" was "Suicide" note the album version even confirms this, with one of the band members announcing "Rolling 'Suicide'". To make it more palatable to a mainstream audience, however, the band renamed the song after a certain Chinese takeout food, with "Suey", of course, short for "Suicide". (The band has said that they weren't really under pressure from management to do this, however.) | |
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Song Style Shift | |
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Song Style Shift: It is a System of a Down album, after all. | |
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Media Watchdog | |
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Media Watchdog: The 2001 Clear Channel memorandum, following the 9/11 attacks, actually banned (well, discouraged) a bunch of songs from playing on the radio that were apparently insensitive to the public, including "Chop Suey!". Since "Chop Suey!" was the lead single, it had already been playing on radios a month before the album's release date, so it was already popular enough to not be that affected by the ban. | |
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We Have Become Complacent | |
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We Have Become Complacent: The subject of "Forest" and "ATWA", both about the environment. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: "Deer Dance" features innocent, young protesters and the tired poor peacefully fighting against the system, which continually oppresses them. | |
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Magic Versus Science | |
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Magic Versus Science: "Science", contrary to lots of interpretations, is actually about how a more spiritual outlook toward our world can be more useful to humanity than a neutral, even devastating view toward ideas which govern our lives. | |
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Green Aesop | |
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Green Aesop: "ATWA" and "Forest" mainly serve as this, to show how complacency and an uncaring attitude can be destructive to the world surrounding us. | |
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Older Than They Think | |
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Older Than They Think: "X" dates back to before the band's first album, and it was played regularly on its tour as well. | |
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War for Fun and Profit | |
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War for Fun and Profit: "Jet Pilot" mainly deals with this. This song was actually written before the war in Afghanistan, when this criticism became par for the course for every anti-war protester. | |
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Non-Appearing Title | |
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Non-Appearing Title: "Chop Suey!" is justified mostly because it was a playful censorship of the song's original title, "Suicide". Although the music video, possibly as a joke, includes a single shot of the guys apathetically eating chop suey out of cardboard takeaway cartons. | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: Comparatively, "Psycho" has a pretty long solo from the rest of the songs on the record. It also sounds really cool. | |
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Police Brutality | |
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Police Brutality: In "Deer Dance": | |
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Academy of Evil | |
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Academy of Evil: "Shimmy" is a playful assertion that we have all become puppets of the education system: | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
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Villain Protagonist: "Chop Suey" is often interpreted to be about a religious terrorist's attempt to internally justify killing a large amount of people. | |
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The Something Song | |
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The Something Song: "Prison Song" | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "PSYCHO! GROUPIE! COCAINE! CRAZY!" | |
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One-Letter Title: "X" | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: After the deep, powerful melodies of "Chop Suey!", the band immediately moves toward the particularly weird, fast "Bounce". Serj has said that this was intentional, to provide a light-hearted contrast between "Chop Suey!" and the rest of the album. | |
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Like a Son to Me | |
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Like a Son to Me: "Forest" is mostly about how we are all children of the nature, and we have all disavowed ourselves from protecting our progenitor: | |
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Toilet Humour | |
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Toilet Humour: "Needles", which features the sarcastic, if odd, refrain, "Pull the tapeworm out of your ass." | |
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Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! | |
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Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Daron said during a live performance that "Toxicity" was mainly about Attention Deficit Disorder, with the "seeds" in the song representing the pharmaceutical drugging of the youth. | |
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Fun with Acronyms | |
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Fun with Acronyms: "ATWA" is short for "Air, Trees, Water, and Animals", though none of those words appear in the song. | |
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Martyrdom Culture | |
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Martyrdom Culture: "Chop Suey!" is a powerful, reflective critique of this. It mostly serves to show the absurdity of "self-righteous suicide" and pleading to a God before one's death. | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: "Needles", "Bounce", "Forest", "Science", "Shimmy", "Toxicity", "Psycho" and "Aerials". | |
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Limited Lyrics Song | |
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Limited Lyrics Song: "X" mostly repeats "We don't need to multiply" and "No need to nullify" a bunch of times. | |
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Album Filler | |
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Album Filler: Word of God confirms that "Bounce", "X" and "Shimmy" were mostly written for this purpose. | |
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Drugs Are Bad | |
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Drugs Are Bad: "Needles", which is a little ironic given that it's preceded by "Prison Song"note which isn't a song saying that drugs are good, per say, but is a song arguing that drug criminalization has gotten way out of hand. | |
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Word Salad Lyrics | |
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Word Salad Lyrics: "Bounce". It's about hopping on a pogo stick in front of your date's friends... and having a huge orgy, maybe? | |
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Hidden Track | |
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Hidden Track: The album version of "Aerials" fades out into a tribal-sounding instrumental the band calls "Arto". It's named after Arto Tunçboyacıyan, an Armenian singer-songwriter who contributed to the track; Serj has since collaborated with him on numerous occasions. | |
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Lamprey Mouth | |
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Lamprey Mouth: "Needles" compares a heroin syringe to the mouth of a tapeworm. Lovely. | |
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Science Is Bad | |
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Science Is Bad: "Science". Rather than outright denying it, however, the band instead compares religious wars to the more recent wars amplified by advances in science that allow for further destruction. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: "Prison Song" cites facts and figures (which were current at the time) to convince people that the system of incarceration within the United States desperately needs reform: | |
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