I know I'm a year late to this party, BUT. "Why don't presidents fight the war/why do they always send the poor..." is a roll over from the Vietnam War. (History teacher here...so I can't help myself) During the Vietnam War, college students were exempt from the draft, so the vast majority of the army grunts were from the lower socio-economic levels - both blacks and whites. It was the poor who went and paid the price for America's adherence to the Domino Theory - the fear that if one country in a region fell to communism, all the others in the region would, too, and at the height of the Cold War, we couldn't afford that. Now days (and this song was written to protest the Gulf War), it's still the lower socio-economic folks who fill the ranks of our army. The college kids still go to college, while the poor fight and hope to survive to reap the rewards of the GI Bill. Love your reactions to SOAD; great band!
Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine is referring to the troops over seas in the desert at war. The "party" isn't an actual party, it's the war, hence the "where the fuck are you?" They push for military enrollment as a benefit to your future (which many in the lower class follow because to them it provides opportunities they may not have without it), but the leaders never seem to want to join the party because it wouldn't benefit them. It's a lovely critique. It makes my defiant brain happy. Sorry I was late to this one.😁
Dood. So happy you reacted to this song. They are so bada$$. I've seen them in concert twice. Their lyrics are so effin deep and real. They spit the truth and do it in a unique, energetic way. Serj is just on another level and seems so damn down to Earth. Whoop. I feel like a young adult again experiencing your first reaction with you! Hahaha. Thanks. Love your reactions.
I will say the bring your own beers interpretation could also work as a sort of inner conflict within the song, as on one hand it's about this awful war in foreign lands, and yet the parties continue in in an almost blissful ignorance. So on one hand, its bring your own bombs, and on the other they are asking to bring your own beers to the party Just a thought I had which feels very interesting from a song wrighting perspective. Edit: I only just realised this song is a play on bring your own beers, I've literally only ever heard the term bring your own bombs before from other media, I'm realising just how intentional the name is 😳. Seriously don't know how I didn't put that together sooner
This came out when the US declared we were going to war with Iraq. The "party" is the war - "Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine" . BYOB - Bring Your Own Bombs. Another good song they have on this topic is "Boom", but this is one of my favorite SOAD songs, I love when people react to it!
BYOB stands for bring your own bombs. The imagery in the video where it says things like BUY and OBEY is taken from a wonderful 80’s movie called ‘They Live’.
one thing I did want to mention was the chorus and how catchy it is. when recruiters go to high schools to get teenagers to join the military they do make it seem like a party. even the ads you see here on UA-cam are very misleading. they promise a lot but at the end of the day you are just a tool for the American imperialist machine . I think that's why SOAD made that chorus so catchy to begin with.
Everyone focuses on the government, and yes it is taking shots at the government. But it's also taking shots at the consumerism that keeps everyone shopping instead of getting pissed of, and also at the corporations who are bribing govt. so they can get a defense contract, or an oil subsidy.
There was a time when people used to brag about how much they paid in taxes to show their contribution to society. Rich men built libraries in their names as bragging rights while paying 80% taxes. Real strength comes with having the humility to realize your privilege in life and help those in need. Nobody makes millions of dollars in life without exploiting a worker. If monkeys hoarded bananas like billionaires hoarded money, we would study them intensely for their insane juxtaposition for perpetuating their species. Instead, we give these grifters accolades and put their names in history books. People who made money while making no actual contributions to society.
2:54 Amazing reaction!...Which oil indeed...is it the oil buried in the nation we are invading, or the oil that keeps our jets running, or are they one and the same? Lol, Keep up the great work!
SoaD are of Armenian descent. Listen to their song Holy Mountains. It literally makes me cry much of the time I listen to it, and I'm not even related to anyone Armenian.
The party they are referring to in this song is war. It's a parody of the "coalition of the willing" that bum rushed Iraq after the false pretense that they had weapons of mass destruction.
We need to help veterans a lot more than we do. I do my best to talk to every vet I come across and shake their hand and tell them thanks for serving the country. I do that because my grandpa was a marine corps vet from ww2.
System of a Down's "Hypnotize/Mesmerize" double album had just such a great flow to it, and had such a great track list. Brings back memories of my teens and 20s, working a record store job. Used to listen to those albums almost weekly.
This song will forever be a complete jam sesh! It came out when I was in hs and was in response to the war in Iraq at the time. There were quite a few bands/artists around that time, who came out with music about this topic, including Green Day. Another great song from that time would be Counting Bodies Like Sheep by: A Perfect Circle.
This song needs to be listened to in context of the war against terrorism, the Iraq war, all that shit. Back in 2005 it was still all very real and happening. Think of the party reference as sarcastic commentary about the dissonance between having a beach party at home while bombing children abroad, and no one cares, it's just like "bro cool let's go fuck em up".
About war... There is a great line in the Patton movie. Soldiers are talking about how General Patton got the nick name Blood and guts. Tha soldier said yeah, our blood, his guts...
Rock radio stations still play SOAD here in New England sometimes, so it's impossible not to at least come across them growing up here. The only new ears i can reccomend this band to are people much younger than me, who don't use radio anymore lol most of my peers are fans, so this is fun.
Everybody likes the quiet “everybody going to the party” bit but the lyrics are still hard hitting. We were shown footage of the troops in the Iraqi desert “enjoying” themselves while they were at war…
That happened to the Tom reactions ..side note I subscribed ALL and thought dang what happened to him. Had to search to find you and saw posted 10 hrs ago was like WT HECK. YT foooook'n the free-thinking individuals
6:15 that's why the poor "volunteer" to go to war, but why do you think that's one of the few ways to climb out of poverty for a lot of people? Like the only real opportunity, unless your dad is rich and can buy your way through college and buy your way into a political office with dad's money. I disagree that it's always been like this, or that it has to be like this. It's a system that depends on us to protect it, through complacency.
it has always been my interpretation that the party could refer to the daily distractions and comforts of the first world (that are at least partly paid for by the suffering inflicted upon the developing world) and to the "Party" as in the illusion that (by participating in the politics we have allowed to take control) we in an alleged representative democratic republic have any real control over our political masters. SOAD doesn't spoonfeed, leaves a lot open to interpretation.
Little late to watch, but this song is great. And yes veterans should NEVER be homeless, free narcan for addicts but hungry veteran heroes makes zero sense. Love ya! ❤️❤️❤️❤️🤍
Entertaining reaction. Some of SOAD's lyrics have a little smoke and mirrors obscuring the meaning, or leaving the interpretation up to the listener. BYOB doesn't really do that. It's pretty on the nose with what it is trying to tell you. It's possibly my favorite track by them!
as to "why do they always send the poor" - you have to bear in mind that the overwhelming majority of people in the services are young, and the young haven't even begun to gain rewards from their own labor and decisions, and are thus poor. The young are also simply unformed, uninformed, and inexperienced enough to be molded to shape, to believe the big lies, to get excited and make durably life-altering choices out of emotion. That, and the fact that they are still generally physically relatively undamaged compared to, say, folks my age, and it makes them uniquely suited to forming the muscle of any top-directed mass application, be it a sociopolitical movement or a military. And, of course, there are so many of them compared to every other age bracket. That, plus the economic incentives, answers the question of why the cannon-fodder are always the poor.
Actually you sign up at your own free will, and if a young person has the courage to join the military to be part Of something bigger than themselves,or they realize it’s either join or spend the rest of their life on the streets complaining someone else should be making their life better. Either way, songs like this take’s away the wisdom and courage and selflessness of an individual , to better themselves. And turns them into yet another group of helpless victims, not to admire! and turns them into helpless
you should be able to get around not blurring it by adding this in description on videos. “All the videos, songs, images, and graphics used in the video belong to their respective owners and I or this channel does not claim any right over them. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.”
Dude... you are wondering why the poor have to go to war? It would be criminal for me not to tell you to listen to War Pigs by Black Sabbath , just sayen...
U looked up the lyrics. Automatically smarter than most reaction idiots. And u comprehend them for the most part? There is still hope. My hat is off to u sir. I will correct u though. I didn't grow up rich, but decent. I joined (and still serve) because I like what I do, and I want to be first in. I'd rather I'm the one they send, versus someone who is forced. We got rid of the draft because we are set with other people like me. BTW, this band is Armenian...
SOTD are like the Dead Kennedys of the 90s, very social, very political and didn't get the recognition that they deserved because they were considered social outcasts at the time and their music still rings true today, worth checking out
Capitalism requires a permanent lower class. In that lower class, things like healthcare, housing and education (something necessary for upper mobility) are scarce. One of the ways to get those things is to sell your body to the military. Also, america hasn't fought a "defensive" war since ww2 (even thats debatable). Every war since then has been predatory. For capitalist imperialism and lining rich peoples pockets. Gotta keep the ceo's at Raytheon and Lockheed Martin fed despite the many poor peoples lives lost.
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Danm, you gonna love Fishbone. Start with Servitude ua-cam.com/video/59_FivvLXgA/v-deo.html
Also BYOB means Bring Your Own Bombs when it comes to the song title
"BARBARISMS BY BARBARAS" I like the way that Serj says that
I know I'm a year late to this party, BUT. "Why don't presidents fight the war/why do they always send the poor..." is a roll over from the Vietnam War. (History teacher here...so I can't help myself) During the Vietnam War, college students were exempt from the draft, so the vast majority of the army grunts were from the lower socio-economic levels - both blacks and whites. It was the poor who went and paid the price for America's adherence to the Domino Theory - the fear that if one country in a region fell to communism, all the others in the region would, too, and at the height of the Cold War, we couldn't afford that. Now days (and this song was written to protest the Gulf War), it's still the lower socio-economic folks who fill the ranks of our army. The college kids still go to college, while the poor fight and hope to survive to reap the rewards of the GI Bill.
Love your reactions to SOAD; great band!
"Yet you feed us lies from the tablecloth"
Such a powerful line
Gotta get those babies and kids on board with bloodshed while the gettin' is good.
Yup! Most rock songs have a deeper meaning than what it seems to be
Soad won a grammy for that song
It was written about the Iraqi war
Powerful riff and lyrics
Thank you
Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine is referring to the troops over seas in the desert at war. The "party" isn't an actual party, it's the war, hence the "where the fuck are you?" They push for military enrollment as a benefit to your future (which many in the lower class follow because to them it provides opportunities they may not have without it), but the leaders never seem to want to join the party because it wouldn't benefit them. It's a lovely critique. It makes my defiant brain happy. Sorry I was late to this one.😁
Love that you understood what they were getting at. Most people just love the jam sesh.
"imma have to pull up these lyrics"
That's system of a down for you
It's really nice to hear someone react to this song and dig into the meaning instead of just grooving on the riff changes.
Dood. So happy you reacted to this song. They are so bada$$. I've seen them in concert twice. Their lyrics are so effin deep and real. They spit the truth and do it in a unique, energetic way. Serj is just on another level and seems so damn down to Earth. Whoop.
I feel like a young adult again experiencing your first reaction with you! Hahaha. Thanks. Love your reactions.
This came out in 2005, and was very much about the American invasion of Iraq. "BYOB" means "Bring Your Own Bombs" here.
I will say the bring your own beers interpretation could also work as a sort of inner conflict within the song, as on one hand it's about this awful war in foreign lands, and yet the parties continue in in an almost blissful ignorance.
So on one hand, its bring your own bombs, and on the other they are asking to bring your own beers to the party
Just a thought I had which feels very interesting from a song wrighting perspective.
Edit: I only just realised this song is a play on bring your own beers, I've literally only ever heard the term bring your own bombs before from other media, I'm realising just how intentional the name is 😳. Seriously don't know how I didn't put that together sooner
This came out when the US declared we were going to war with Iraq. The "party" is the war - "Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine" . BYOB - Bring Your Own Bombs. Another good song they have on this topic is "Boom", but this is one of my favorite SOAD songs, I love when people react to it!
YES! Deer Dance is excellent too 🤘
BYOB stands for bring your own bombs.
The imagery in the video where it says things like BUY and OBEY is taken from a wonderful 80’s movie called ‘They Live’.
Love that film. Subliminal messaging.
Love where your head is at! Great reaction as always.
TooBlunt 4:29 YOU NAILED IT.
one thing I did want to mention was the chorus and how catchy it is. when recruiters go to high schools to get teenagers to join the military they do make it seem like a party. even the ads you see here on UA-cam are very misleading. they promise a lot but at the end of the day you are just a tool for the American imperialist machine . I think that's why SOAD made that chorus so catchy to begin with.
Everyone focuses on the government, and yes it is taking shots at the government. But it's also taking shots at the consumerism that keeps everyone shopping instead of getting pissed of, and also at the corporations who are bribing govt. so they can get a defense contract, or an oil subsidy.
Check out Prison Song next..
Still one of my favorite bands ever. Badass😍
Fuck yeah! Soad...
Another song that made you dance publicly. I’m also an introvert and these songs make me move involuntarily, too. This band is amazing.
There was a time when people used to brag about how much they paid in taxes to show their contribution to society. Rich men built libraries in their names as bragging rights while paying 80% taxes. Real strength comes with having the humility to realize your privilege in life and help those in need. Nobody makes millions of dollars in life without exploiting a worker. If monkeys hoarded bananas like billionaires hoarded money, we would study them intensely for their insane juxtaposition for perpetuating their species. Instead, we give these grifters accolades and put their names in history books. People who made money while making no actual contributions to society.
2:54 Amazing reaction!...Which oil indeed...is it the oil buried in the nation we are invading, or the oil that keeps our jets running, or are they one and the same? Lol, Keep up the great work!
Love this song
I used to jam out to this when I was in Afghanistan
Smart reaction, I can see you actually think about what you hear. Love SOAD and love your reactions
SoaD are of Armenian descent. Listen to their song Holy Mountains. It literally makes me cry much of the time I listen to it, and I'm not even related to anyone Armenian.
The party they are referring to in this song is war. It's a parody of the "coalition of the willing" that bum rushed Iraq after the false pretense that they had weapons of mass destruction.
We need to help veterans a lot more than we do. I do my best to talk to every vet I come across and shake their hand and tell them thanks for serving the country. I do that because my grandpa was a marine corps vet from ww2.
Yo my bro have you checked out Rage Against The Machine?
Not yet
@@TooBlunt you'll dig it
Ironically now they've become known as rage on behalf of the machine.
System of a Down's "Hypnotize/Mesmerize" double album had just such a great flow to it, and had such a great track list. Brings back memories of my teens and 20s, working a record store job. Used to listen to those albums almost weekly.
Every song is gold.
This song will forever be a complete jam sesh! It came out when I was in hs and was in response to the war in Iraq at the time. There were quite a few bands/artists around that time, who came out with music about this topic, including Green Day. Another great song from that time would be Counting Bodies Like Sheep by: A Perfect Circle.
This song needs to be listened to in context of the war against terrorism, the Iraq war, all that shit. Back in 2005 it was still all very real and happening. Think of the party reference as sarcastic commentary about the dissonance between having a beach party at home while bombing children abroad, and no one cares, it's just like "bro cool let's go fuck em up".
About war... There is a great line in the Patton movie. Soldiers are talking about how General Patton got the nick name Blood and guts. Tha soldier said yeah, our blood, his guts...
Rock radio stations still play SOAD here in New England sometimes, so it's impossible not to at least come across them growing up here. The only new ears i can reccomend this band to are people much younger than me, who don't use radio anymore lol most of my peers are fans, so this is fun.
Awesome channel! I'd recommend checking out some Black Sabbath specifically anything off the albums "Master Of Reality" or "Paranoia"
They send us cuz we're expendable.
Oh... this is a WHOLE thing! 😎💯
Love your reaction🤝. You speak wisely 🤟🏽.
I love how you immediately jumped into the video
Dancing in the dessert blowing up the sunshine....
Bring your own bombs...
Nuke the party...
With your comment about the veterans, you got yourself a new subscriber. This song could be sung today about another war 🇺🇦.
Love these guys. Almost doesn't seem right comparing them to Metallica, but they're phenomenal musicians and lyricists just like met.
You're right, and there's no more gold in Fort Knox. It means bring your own bomb.
Everybody likes the quiet “everybody going to the party” bit but the lyrics are still hard hitting. We were shown footage of the troops in the Iraqi desert “enjoying” themselves while they were at war…
🎉 I am so welcoming to your statement. I like where you are going. We all feel the same way. We know that’s something’s just not right.
I love this song but I danced to it alot at rock clubs at uni and it was exhausting
"the Party" is the Iraq war. Every body's having a great time dancing in the desert, blowing up the sunshine.
That happened to the Tom reactions ..side note I subscribed ALL and thought dang what happened to him. Had to search to find you and saw posted 10 hrs ago was like WT HECK.
YT foooook'n the free-thinking individuals
Way better then whom is now called rage with the machine, these guys call out ALL governments
Edit if you have not watch John carpenter's they live
6:15 that's why the poor "volunteer" to go to war, but why do you think that's one of the few ways to climb out of poverty for a lot of people? Like the only real opportunity, unless your dad is rich and can buy your way through college and buy your way into a political office with dad's money.
I disagree that it's always been like this, or that it has to be like this. It's a system that depends on us to protect it, through complacency.
Bro, I love your reactions, but your goatee got me OCD over here xD
You should look at some of his independent stuff. Start with Rumi... It's beautiful.
Will do :)
@@TooBlunt it is a song for his son.
You should do a reaction to Prison Song but with the lyrics
One of the best anti war songs ever
U mentioned a really great point here. U need to react to "the wrong side of heaven" from five finger death punch. Trust me.
Hot damm.... 2 reactions this week. maybe more?...
Lol yes. Got a big update as well
Exactly!
I like that you actually broke down the lyrics most people just react and don't actually take in what they are saying
Yeaa I can’t really watch those videos. Id rather. Listen to the song myself if you’re not going to give your take on it
it has always been my interpretation that the party could refer to the daily distractions and comforts of the first world (that are at least partly paid for by the suffering inflicted upon the developing world) and to the "Party" as in the illusion that (by participating in the politics we have allowed to take control) we in an alleged representative democratic republic have any real control over our political masters. SOAD doesn't spoonfeed, leaves a lot open to interpretation.
Little late to watch, but this song is great. And yes veterans should NEVER be homeless, free narcan for addicts but hungry veteran heroes makes zero sense. Love ya! ❤️❤️❤️❤️🤍
❤️ you saying you'd pay more taxes so Veterans aren't homeless.. is worth 1000 likes
Entertaining reaction. Some of SOAD's lyrics have a little smoke and mirrors obscuring the meaning, or leaving the interpretation up to the listener. BYOB doesn't really do that. It's pretty on the nose with what it is trying to tell you. It's possibly my favorite track by them!
Bro 8:26 had me DYINGG 🤣
please react to Hypnotize if youre loving the politically charged fire singles they released!! i think itll be right up your alley
and for a deeper cut in your own time check out 'prison song' too
Bring Your Own Bombs ... BYOB
Dude you should give skindred a listen check out the track nobody 🤘😁🤘
as to "why do they always send the poor" -
you have to bear in mind that the overwhelming majority of people in the services are young, and the young haven't even begun to gain rewards from their own labor and decisions, and are thus poor.
The young are also simply unformed, uninformed, and inexperienced enough to be molded to shape, to believe the big lies, to get excited and make durably life-altering choices out of emotion.
That, and the fact that they are still generally physically relatively undamaged compared to, say, folks my age, and it makes them uniquely suited to forming the muscle of any top-directed mass application, be it a sociopolitical movement or a military.
And, of course, there are so many of them compared to every other age bracket.
That, plus the economic incentives, answers the question of why the cannon-fodder are always the poor.
Bring
Your
Own
Bodybag
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🚒🚒🚒🔥🔥🔥🔥🧯🧯
Prison song next please
😍😍😍😍🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
If you haven't already, you should do a collab with SomeBlackGuy
Bring your own beer? 😃🍺
Most definitely a shot to the government.
Actually you sign up at your own free
will, and if a young person has the courage to join the military to be part
Of something bigger than themselves,or they realize it’s either join or spend the rest of their life
on the streets complaining someone
else should be making their life better. Either way, songs like this
take’s away the wisdom and courage
and selflessness of an individual , to
better themselves. And turns them
into yet another group of helpless victims, not to admire!
and turns them into helpless
See also: They're Trying To Build A Prison :/
you should be able to get around not blurring it by adding this in description on videos.
“All the videos, songs, images, and graphics used in the video belong to their respective owners and I or this channel does not claim any right over them.
Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.”
I’ve tried that, it doesn’t really work. It’s all up to the content id system
I tried…I really tried…🤐
It's not a good song unless you need to pull the lyrics up 😂
I'm terrified for your generation. This song still applies. Check out another classic, Black Sabbath's "War Pigs." Stop the War Pigs, Trump 2024!
Dude... you are wondering why the poor have to go to war? It would be criminal for me not to tell you to listen to War Pigs by Black Sabbath , just sayen...
Libertarian metal
U looked up the lyrics. Automatically smarter than most reaction idiots. And u comprehend them for the most part? There is still hope. My hat is off to u sir. I will correct u though. I didn't grow up rich, but decent. I joined (and still serve) because I like what I do, and I want to be first in. I'd rather I'm the one they send, versus someone who is forced. We got rid of the draft because we are set with other people like me. BTW, this band is Armenian...
SOTD are like the Dead Kennedys of the 90s, very social, very political and didn't get the recognition that they deserved because they were considered social outcasts at the time and their music still rings true today, worth checking out
lost in hollywood is another good song by them
Capitalism requires a permanent lower class. In that lower class, things like healthcare, housing and education (something necessary for upper mobility) are scarce. One of the ways to get those things is to sell your body to the military.
Also, america hasn't fought a "defensive" war since ww2 (even thats debatable). Every war since then has been predatory. For capitalist imperialism and lining rich peoples pockets. Gotta keep the ceo's at Raytheon and Lockheed Martin fed despite the many poor peoples lives lost.
Danm, you gonna love Fishbone. Start with Servitude ua-cam.com/video/59_FivvLXgA/v-deo.html