System of a down are also known to be bootlickers now (except Serj I believe).
We always used to mock people for not understanding the lyrics to their favorite bands. Seems though a lot of them didn't understand what they wrote anyways.
SOAD have some great songs with some great messages. But they're mostly successful at being critical of corruption, and broad topics like anti-war and governments overreaching their powers, which anyone with common sense should be opposed to.
They were never really solution oriented and are often just wrong on things. Science, for example, is a great song musically, but has an overall pretty terrible message of spirituality being more important than science. When I was younger I tried to justify the song being critical of the damages created by scientific advancements, like damage to the environment, but the song doesn't really go into detail about any of those things. Again, the band is generally very broad with their lyrics and gives you emotional impact with the intensity of the music itself and creating feelings of defiance and opposition.
The more I've listened to this song over the years, the more I feel like I've misattributed deeper meaning to the song as cognitive dissonance to justify liking it, and it actually is just a pretty moronic concept and message. If they managed to go into deeper depth in the actual damages resulting from technology, than I think it might get a pass, but the entire theme of faith trumping science is pretty poor considering the two aren't exclusive, unless you're a religious extremist.
Well said, they are entirely “I’m 15 and this is deep” surface level with their topics. They are good at raising issues but not actually talking about how, why, or what to do about any of it.
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u/Jumpy-Surround-9238 18h ago
System of a down are also known to be bootlickers now (except Serj I believe).
We always used to mock people for not understanding the lyrics to their favorite bands. Seems though a lot of them didn't understand what they wrote anyways.