One scene briefly shows Tankian eating chop suey with some fans, the only reference to the title dish in either the song or the video. Editing devices are used to create the effect of the band members "walking through" one another and teleporting on and off the stage, an effect similar to one used in the Red Hot Chili Peppers video " Around the World". The members are performing the song on stage, surrounded by approximately 1,500 fans. The music video was the band's first collaboration with the acclaimed director Marcos Siega, and is set in the parking lot of the Oak Tree Inn motel in Los Angeles, hometown of the band.
Most pressings of the album include an intro to the track where lead singer Serj Tankian can faintly be heard saying "we're rolling 'Suicide '" while drummer John Dolmayan is counting the band in. According to Odadjian, the song title is a wordplay: "Suey" is "suicide", "chopped" in half. The song was originally titled either "Suicide" (according to Odadjian) or "Self-Righteous Suicide" (according to Rubin), but the name was changed in response to real or anticipated pushback from Columbia Records.
Although it was not revealed what book the lines were taken from, they are quoted from the Sayings of Jesus on the cross (Luke 23:46 and Mark 15:34). ) were randomly picked out by Serj Tankian from Rick Rubin's book collection after Tankian was struggling for ideas. Hence the line, 'I cry when angels deserve to die.'" The lyrics for the midsection ("Father into your hands I commend my spirit". Like, if I were now to die from drug abuse, they might say I deserved it because I abused dangerous drugs. In an interview, Daron Malakian explained, "The song is about how we are regarded differently depending on how we pass. "Chop Suey!" is often considered the band's signature song. The single was released in Augand earned the band its first Grammy nomination in 2002 for Best Metal Performance. In the hands of other bands, this combination might have sounded convoluted or chaotic, but System Of A Down’s methodical technique and intellectual bent led to greatness up until 2005’s Hypnotize, after which the band took an extended hiatus from recording to focus on live dates." Chop Suey!" is the first single from American heavy metal band System of a Down's second album Toxicity. Unique time signatures, dizzying rhythmic passages, and Tankian’s motormouthed vocal delivery collided with inventive guitar work based around stinging riffs (“B.Y.O.B.”), evocative soundscapes (“Aerials”), and prog-caliber complexity (“Hypnotize”). However, beginning with 2001’s Toxicity, System Of A Down leaped into an entirely distinct musical realm, thanks to Malakian’s unorthodox approach to composition. On the group’s self-titled 1998 debut, piledriving metal riffs and Tankian’s gruff vocals made them mainstream metal darlings the band opened for Slayer and Metallica and landed a slot on Ozzfest. Guitarist Daron Malakian and Tankian initially started playing music together in the early ’90s. The California band’s songs condemn war, violence, and oppression, with 2005’s “Holy Mountains” specifically raising awareness of the Armenian Genocide, an early-20th-century event that affected family members of frontman Serj Tankian.
System Of A Down rose to prominence in the age of nu-metal, but the group’s socially conscious lyrics have far more in common with the ’90s punk underground and political firebrands such as Rage Against the Machine.
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