I was really expecting to love this, as it seemed right up my alley (and Chop Suey + Toxicity are pretty good), but I just can't get past how annoying, one note, gimmicky and stupid it is. I love zany and dumb music, but Serj makes me wince with his painfully forced and tryhard vocals, and the lyrics..god. They're not even dumb fun, they're just corny and asinine (especially from an, at the time, thirty three year old).
While I can see why someone would love this, it just feels like nails on a chalkboard mixed with some fairly decent nu-metal riffage being digested through Mike Patton.
"Jump! (Pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo)
Bounce! (Pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo)
Down! (Pogo, pogo, pogo) Up! (Pogo, pogo, pogo)
Jump! (Pogo) Bounce! (Pogo) Up! (Pogo) Down! (Pogo)"
“PULL THE TAPEWORM OUT OF YOUR ASS (HEY!)
PULL THE TAPEWORM OUT OF YOUR ASS (HEY!)
PULL THE TAPEWORM OUT OF YOUR ASS (HEY!)
PULL THE TAPEWORM OUT OF YOUR ASS (HEY!)”
"i’m the mushroom man, i’m the mushroom man. oh ho! oh! oh! In June 2003, Amnesty International published reports of human rights abuses by the U.S. military and its coalition partners at detention centers and prisons in Iraq.[26] These inclu-"
"Wired were the eyes of a horse on a jet pilot
One that smiled when he flew over the bay
Wired were the eyes of a horse on a jet pilot
One that smiled when he flew over the bay"