Boom! (protest song)
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Single by System of a Down |
From the album Steal This Album! |
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"Boom!" is a single protest song and video from System of a Down's CD Steal This Album!. The song describes uselessness of bombs and warfare. In the music video, the band cooperated with Michael Moore, writer and director of Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11, to create a music video containing InterViews with pacifists and a satirical video of George W. Bush, Saddam Hussein, Tony Blair and Osama bin Laden riding rockets over a city. The video incorporated most of its footage from the February 15, 2003 anti-war protest. This video was banned from MTV after a while. VH1 named the song as the 18th greatest protest song ever.
"The video for the song was meant as a protest against the war in Iraq," lead singer Serj Tankian states. "We meant to release it before the war began, but ended up releasing it on the day it did, so it was basically kind of pointless."
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