Boom! (song)

"Boom!"
Song by System of a Down
Album	Steal This Album!
Released	November 26, 2002
Format	CD, Airplay
Recorded	2002
Genre	Alternative Metal
Length	2:15
Label	American/Columbia
Writer	Serj Tankian, Daron Malakian
Producer	Rick Rubin, Daron Malakian
Steal This Album! track listing
"Bubbles" (3) "Boom!" (4) "Nüguns" (5)

"Boom!" is a heavy metal protest song from System of a Down's CD Steal This Album!. The song describes the uselessness of bombs and warfare, and compares how thousands can die from starvation and poverty when billions are spent creating bombs and weaponry. It also links the use of military action with corporate globalization and quotes the title of one of Noam Chomsky's books: "Manufacturing Consent is the name of their game. ", which is a reference to the media's role in war. For the music video, the band worked with Michael Moore, writer and director of Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11. The video incorporated most of its footage from the February 15, 2003 anti-war protest, showing interviews with the participants. The video also features a short satirical cartoon of George W. Bush, Saddam Hussein, Tony Blair and Osama bin Laden riding rockets over a city.^[1] The video was banned from MTV Europe after a while. ^[2] VH1 named the song as the 18th greatest protest song ever. ^[3] "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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