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"Chop Suey!" is a song by the American heavy metal band System of a Down. It was released on August 13, 2001, as the first single from their second album, Toxicity (2001). The single earned the band its first Grammy nomination in 2002 for Best Metal Performance at the 44th Annual Grammy Awards .
System of a Down is an Armenian-American heavy metal band formed in Glendale, California, in 1994.Since 1997, the band has consisted of founding members Serj Tankian (lead vocals, keyboards); Daron Malakian (guitar, vocals); Shavo Odadjian (bass, backing vocals); along with John Dolmayan (drums), who replaced original drummer Andy Khachaturian in 1997.
Similar to a scene in the "Chop Suey" video where Serj Tankian is seen eating chop suey, the band is shown eating seeds, corresponding with the lyrics "Eating seeds as a pastime activity". The video ends with a shot of the Milky Way. As of January 2025, the song has surpassed 1 billion views on YouTube. [8]
Toxicity produced singles for the title track, "Chop Suey!", and "Aerials". The last of these peaked at number one on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs and Alternative Songs charts. [1] Steal This Album! (2002) failed to repeat the same success as its predecessor, reaching the top 20 in only the US and Australia.
There I Ruined It is an ongoing music project created by Dustin Ballard during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the project, Ballard aims to ruin songs by making covers of them in styles very different to those of the originals. There I Ruined It distributes these covers via social media, such as TikTok, YouTube and Reddit.
"Chop Suey!" System of a Down: 2001 Written by Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian. [193] [194] "I Don't Care" Eva Tanguay: 1922 Recorded in 1905 [195] "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" Tears for Fears: 1985 Released as the third single from their second studio album Songs from the Big Chair. [196] "On the Good Ship Lollipop" Shirley Temple: 1934
System of a Down received acclaim from music critics. [15] Q called it "an excellent starting point for this most curious band". [13] The album is featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. [16] Loudwire included the album in its list of The Best Metal Debut Albums, at number 22. [17]
Chopsocky (or chop-socky [1]) is a colloquial term for martial arts films and kung fu films made primarily by Hong Kong action cinema between the late 1960s and early 1980s. The term was coined by the American motion picture trade magazine Variety following the explosion of films in the genre released in 1973 in the U.S. after the success of Five Fingers of Death.