SEE SYSTEM OF A DOWN'S "BOOM!" VIDEO
TODAY on MTV2 (see below)
TOMORROW (Wednesday), MTV adds the video to its regular rotation
You will also be able to view the "BOOM!" video beginning Wednesday afternoon at
www.systemofadown.com
System of a Down has joined forces with activist/Oscar-nominated director Michael Moore and the
crew from "Bowling for Columbine" to make the video for "BOOM!" Much of "BOOM!" was shot by
independent media activists and local guerilla filmmakers at the various marches that took place
across the globe over the weekend of February 15 - Presidents' Day weekend - Berlin, Cape Town,
Rome, Paris, Tokyo, Washington, D.C., London, Chicago, Oslo, Rio de Janeiro, St. Louis, Los
Angeles - and Iraq - to mention just a few of the 40+ locales where footage was incorporated
from.
"BOOM!" LYRICS:
I've been walking through your streets,
Where all your money's earning,
Where all your building's crying,
And clueless neckties working,
Revolving fake lawn houses,
Housing all your fears,
Desensitized by Tv,
Overbearing advertising,
God of consumerism,
And all your crooked pictures,
Looking good, mirrorism,
Filtering information,
For the public eye,
Designed for profiteering,
Your neighbor, what a guy.
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM,
Every time you drop the bomb,
You kill the god your child has born.
BOOM, BOOM,BOOM, BOOM
Modern globalization,
Coupled with condemnations,
Unnecessary death,
Matador corporations,
Puppeting your frustrations,
With the blinded flag,
Manufacturing consent
Is the name of the game,
The bottom line is money,
Nobody gives a fuck.
4000 hungry children die per hour,
from starvation,
while billions spent on bombs,
create death showers.
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM,
Every time you drop the bomb,
You kill the god your child has born.
BOOM, BOOM,BOOM, BOOM
BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM
Why,why,why,why must we kill,kill,kill,kill, our own,own,own,own kind......
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM,
Every time you drop the bomb,
You kill the god your child has born.
BOOM, BOOM,BOOM, BOOM
BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM
Every time you drop the bomb.
― echase (samjeff), Tuesday, 18 March 2003 17:04 (twenty-three years ago)
Tom I always love engaging you in this line of discussion because your thinking on it is so clear & you express your position so well, thanks for taking the time
I do take issue with iii) the forms of anti-consumerist agit-prop should ideally reflect their content insofar as it seems to say "if you're opposed to the way things get done in the most publicly visible forum, then you must renounce its tools" -- this is the sort of unsubtlety for which the anti-consumers themselves are often loudly & often rightly denounced! I don't think System of a Down are unaware of the small irony in needing the commercial marketplace to make an anti-commercial point. (The song does sound like it's quite hamfisted indeed so I'm not defending the song, though I can get behind a li'l SOAD now and again despite their truly wretched bandname.)
What I mean is "ideally reflect their content" = ! well yes, and ideally lots of other stuff should happen, too, but we gotta play the cards we're dealt
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)