System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian is featured on a new episode of Mythical Kitchen’s “Last Meals.” You can check that out below. Notably, the frontman was also surprised with a banana terracotta pie, the dessert he sang about on the “Hypnotize” track “Vicinity Of Obscenity.”
Tankian said the following about the lyrics for the aforementioned song:
“It’s Dada-esque basically. I like creating relationships between things that don’t have a pre-existing one. I was thinking of banana — I don’t know how it even came up in my head — but banana terracotta pie. Like, I’m thinking, okay, so this is a banana, where’s the terracotta? Like what does that have to do with the price of beans, right? So it’s kind of…
What I do remember is our producer, Rick Rubin, at first, he was just like — when we were playing it in rehearsals — it was just the song…. I can’t even say he… He didn’t like it at all. Like, he was just like, we’d play it, and he’d just be like, ‘What is that?’ Like, he would just be… by the time that we actually went through recording it, and he had heard it enough times, he said, ‘it’s one of my favorite songs on the record. I can’t imagine putting out this record without this song.’ It’s one of those that just kind of hassle you into loving it.”
He also added the following about the juxtaposition between silly and serious lyrics:
“It makes it more palatable. Because if you just preach no one’s gonna listen. But if you’re laughing, if you’re doing, you know, like you gave the ‘Prison Song‘ is a great example, you know? And then Daron comes in with his kind of funny, ‘I buy my crack, my smack, my bitch,’ whatever. And he’s just, like, funny, you know?
And then so it takes… Suddenly, there’s a light mood, and then, boom, boom, boom, boom, serious, serious, light mood. You know, it’s like, same with the music, fast, slow, slow, fast, you know, or heavy and mellow, whatever.”
[via The PRP]
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