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System of a Down
Steal This Album!
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Fans learn that fleeting days can’t be recovered ("Highway Song"). "Chic ’N’ Stu" blasts advertising for creating an artificial need to buy. A man regrets not supporting a former partner ("Streamline"). "Ego Brain" states, "Love prevails over all," and "Boom" speaks out for hungry children. "Innervision" seeks divine guidance and the "one true path in life," however ...
Ambiguous spirituality is awkward knowing that lead singer Serj Tankian is a devotee of the meditational arts (he thanked God, Buddha, Allah and Lucifer on an earlier CD). Blatantly troubling is how he spews the f-word on four cuts, including "F--- the System," which uses it 22 times. Anti-American rage fills that track, "A.D.D. (American Dream Denial)" and "Thetawaves." Crass references mar "Pictures" and "I-E-A-I-A-I-O." There’s also an obscene rant against police ("Mr. Jack"), and what appears to be a veiled sexual encounter between minors ("Nüguns").
Some good thoughts, but even the band’s jabs at consumerism and pleas for starving kids feel contrived to support an anti-American agenda. Not what our nation needs right now. Add several dozen f-words and there’s no point directing teens to Steal This Album!
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