>Mezmerized the simple minded, propaganda leaves us blinded. He wants to de-hypnotize her and show her the true meaning of freedom and democracy. She is frightened about what this guy will show her because it will contradict all that she believes in and has been taught to believe. However, that someone is reluctant to go because she has been hypnotized and her dream and country are all that she puts value in. He is waiting for someone to come with him (the car signifies going in a new direction or changing opinions). >Dreams and her country, left with no-one there. >She's scared that I will take her away from there. >I'm just sitting in my car and waiting for my. Has to do with the "i shop, therefore i am" philosphy of Americans. We have been hypnotized by television to believe that that's what freedom is all about. The media/advertisers have made freedom and democracy all about buing material goods. They have been oppressed for so long that they would risk their lives for freedom. The something more is a desire for freedom and democracy and the end of the tyranny. >Was fashion the reason why they were there?ĭid the students at Tiananmen square risk their lives just so they could wear the latest fashions and buy other material goods? They were obviously doing it for something more. >Why don't you ask the kids at Tiananmen square? The question then becomes, how long can SOAD suckle the sour milk of Sony's teat before they totally compromise their recorded values? After all, you are what you eat.General CommentTo me, the main themes of this song are freedom and democracy and how we have come to misinterpret their meaning. That's the other half of the Sony argument, that System scores for themselves a larger audience with the RIAA than they'd find otherwise, which means more people will hear and possibly listen to them. but in a world where people consider the likes of Billy Talent and Sum 41 political, System is still essential for the pop-rocking, socially unconscious Billboard subscriber. Are there any nu-metal fans that are really this hardcore? Is this not the conclusion anyone really listening to the Serj's lyrics would come to? Why is SOAD still allowing themselves to be released by such a miserable corporation? Can they not start their own label by now or at least find an independent? So many questions. For a band that almost exclusively releases fiercely antiestablishment, anti-capitalist songs, it's somewhat odd that they would want to make hypocrites of their fans so obviously like this, for to truly believe the words of Serj Tankian is to not support the likes of Sony BMG. Sure, the CD booklet and packages of Hyp/Mez are made with recycled hemp paper and soy ink, but every purchase nevertheless puts money in the pocket of one of the worst consumer raping business entities in existence today. Of course, in light of Sony's recent suing over their use of criminally invasive, corporate-developed rootkits (which allow criminals access to your computer while destroying hard drives upon effort of deleting the bastards, all in the quest for copy control), the fact that all SOAD releases so far carry the copyright mark of the BMG beast, in my mind, glaringly taints the message of the band and the purchase of its associated products. Just as Nelly got his accountants' blessing to release Sweat and Suit together in one capitalist cocksucking package, in steps the second half of System Of A Down's Hypnotize/Mesmerize, which comes with linking packaging to tangibly mock the people dumb enough to buy all "three" Nelly products.
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