- This band should be called the screaming band.
- What the heck did you show me?
♪ (playful intro) ♪
- (FBE) So today, we are going to have you
listen to a selection of songs from the same band.
- Okay.
- (FBE) And it is called System of a Down.
- What?
- Never heard of that before.
- It could really be anything.
- My dad, he listens to them.
- Yes! I watched their music videos
on YouTube. I love them.
- ♪ (metal guitar) ♪
♪ Why do they always send the poor? ♪
- What is this?
- ♪ Why do they always send the poor? ♪
- Yes.
- Oh God, I like it already.
- ♪ Victorious victorious kneel ♪
- I don't know how to feel about this.
- ♪ Marching forward hypocritic and hypnotic ♪
- They're talking really fast.
- ♪ You depend on our protection Yet you feed us lies ♪
- Oh my goodness.
- I think he's being really crazy and I don't
understand what he's doing.
- ♪ La, la, la, la Everybody's going to the party ♪
- Interesting. It changed so quickly.
- This is a weird music video.
- It's like a combination of everything.
It's sort of cool, actually.
- I like their music, except in the beginning
when he was screaming all weird, like that.
- ♪ Blast off ♪ - Ah!
- ♪ It's party time ♪
- This is so much metal and I love it.
- ♪ Why do they always send the poor ♪
- There's a lot of yelling in it.
- ♪ Why do they always send the poor?
- It's just so amazing.
- Awesome. I loved it.
- That was crazy.
- It's something. It could take some time
getting used to.
- ♪ Why don't you ask ♪
- I know this one.
- Okay, I've seen this before, but I don't think I like it
as much as the others.
- Well, I can't understand what he's saying,
but it's slower.
- What the...
- Look at all their people.
- I like this one.
- ♪ Leaves us blinded ♪
- Goodness, his eyes are just like, ah!
- ♪ In my car and waiting for my girl ♪
- This is okay.
- I liked that one better than the first one.
- I sort of think it would be better if it's more clear.
- I think it's good to have multiple singers in a group,
'cause I feel like you can get variety,
so if you don't like one of the singers,
there's always songs with the other singer.
- ♪ Conversion software version 7.0 ♪
- You sure these are the same people?
- Is this even the same guy or what?
- What the...
- Please put a shirt on.
- ♪ Of our city You, what do you own the world? ♪
- He starts screaming, of course.
- Still a lot of yelling.
- ♪ Now somewhere between the sacred silence ♪
- I mean, not bad.
- ♪ You, what do you own the world? ♪
- What is he saying?
- I'm confused about what the song's about.
- They're not horrible. It could be way worse,
but I think it could be better.
- ♪ Disorder ♪
- Ah!
- What the heck? (laughs) What was that?
- At first, it starts out slow, but then it gets more
intense and tense.
- I like this one more.
- What the heck did you show me just now?
- ♪ Warning Post hypnotic suggestions ♪
♪ Running the ships ashore ♪
- I don't like it.
- I don't really like this one a lot.
- (laughs)
- It sounds like a chipmunk.
- The guy sounds really crazy.
- ♪ We need to evacuate the light post ♪
♪ It's all over ♪
- No, no, no. This is screaming.
- Okay, that's good.
- A lot of yelling. I don't get it.
This band has some issues.
- When you listen to a song, you're supposed to feel something,
have an emotion that's supposed to go with the song.
With this, all I hear is just screaming.
- ♪ Such a lonely day ♪
- Ah, this is The Most Loneliest Day of my Life.
- ♪ The most loneliest day of my life ♪
- If you're lonely, why are you with a bunch of other people?
- There's fire. Why is that man
just walking away from fire?
- It's a little sad.
- ♪ I wanna go with you ♪
- I've heard most of the songs because of my dad.
- I don't think anybody would wanna listen to this one.
- It's like a depressing song even though it's still amazing
at the same time.
- What? Why is a car burning up?
- I like this song, but the storyline
looks kinda weird.
- ♪ The most loneliest day of my life ♪
- He's a pretty good singer.
- He keeps changing his tone of voice, like
(high and low pitched sounds)
- That one was slow and it was really crazy.
- That one was a lot calmer, but I feel like it still had
some of their craziness and screaming in it.
- ♪ Wake up Grab a brush ♪
♪ And put a little makeup Hide your scars ♪
♪ To fade away the shakeup ♪
- I know this one. Is this the Chop Suey one?
- ♪ Grab a brush and put a little makeup ♪
- Okay, this is good.
- ♪ You wanted to Why'd you leave ♪
- This is so weird.
- ♪ I don't think you trust ♪
- Oh no, they're merging into one.
- Why are they going through people?
What?
- It has a lot of their screaming,
but then it also has a little bit
of their slower stuff.
- All right, there we go.
- This band should be called the screaming band.
- ♪ Father, father ♪
- It's really loud, crazy, and their faces are really fun.
- ♪ In your eyes forsaken me ♪
- I don't understand this!
- ♪ I cry ♪
- What the hell?
- ♪ When angels deserve to die ♪
- Beautiful.
- I don't like it.
- Eh. They were too screamy.
- I have mixed feelings for it. I like them until they scream.
- I would like to see more of the songs,
but I would not want to go to their concert.
- (FBE) So, now that you've heard some of
System of a Down's music, I'll talk a little bit
about their background. We actually have the names
of the band members to show you now.
- Okay.
- Oh, are they Armenian? I'm Armenian too.
- Shavo Odadjian, Serj Tankian.
What the heck?
- Forgive me, people.
Serji Tayon. That's unique.
- Shavo Odadjian. They're really hard to pronounce.
- Daron Makaladdin.
- Daron Makala-- That is so many A's.
- (FBE) So, their names may be hard for some
to pronounce, but all four members are of
Armenian heritage. - Yeah, they are,
because the "yan" and the "ian"'s. - (FBE) Did you know that?
- No, I didn't, but I looked at them and they looked Armenian.
- (FBE) And they've always been very open to talking
about that and are very proud of their background.
They even made songs about the history of the Armenian people,
including about bad things that happened to
the Armenian people in the past where there was prejudice
against them, leading to many Armenians back in 1915
to be murdered. - What?
Why would people do that?
- Most of their songs are pretty sad.
- I don't like talking about controversial things,
especially the genocide, but it brings attention to it.
It brings to attention to the thing that happened in the past
and it brings attention to Armenian culture and stuff.
It's a controversial topic.
- (FBE) So, they also have songs that are political
and a lot of their music stands for things
that they think are wrong in the world.
- Yes, I can see that.
- (FBE) When you hear metal music like this,
do you normally expect that kind of message
in such loud music? - I actually kinda do.
I just don't get the screaming.
- It's kinda unique in doing that,
'cause I don't hear a lot of people doing that.
- You can sort of hear it. I guess I can see why
many people would like that. I like that,
just maybe more presentable.
- I don't see that. As a little kid, it's hard
'cause they yell so much, it's like they're angry,
but they're actually just trying to make music.
- I think they just want to express their feelings,
so they just hurry up and say it. I'd rather have them
talk about their feelings more loudly than
a regular song.
- It's kind of a pro and a con to get political with stuff,
'cause some people may not like your idea or something,
so it can maybe lower the amount of people
that wanna listen to your music, but it's all of them,
it's all of their heritage and they're all connected in a way
and they probably wanna embrace that in their music.
- (FBE) Finally, even though the band is not officially
broken up and have toured on and off for the last few years
including this year, they have not put out
new music in a long time. If they did come back
with a new album today, do you think they'd still
be popular? - No.
'Cause many kids listen to the radio
and they'd be like, "Ugh, what is this?"
- Probably. They're a good band.
- Yeah, I think so because they're pretty popular.
- I think a good amount of people would listen to them.
- I think a lot of people who grew up with
their music would come back to it and watch it again
and since there are a lot of Armenians in the world now
because in Los Angeles and stuff, they would also pay attention
to their music.
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