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What Does Hypnotize Mean?
"She's scared that I will take her away from there
Dreams that her country left with no one there
Mesmerized the simple-minded
Propaganda leaves us blinded"
The early 2000s political climate was shaped largely by the United States' war in Iraq. This topic would be a major source of lyrical content for System of a Down, who were caught in the middle as US citizens who also had family in Iraq.
As guitarist Daron Malakian explains,
“My [maternal] grandmother lives there... and my aunts, uncles and cousins.”
“They’re alive. They’re not dead. They don’t say ‘We’re great,’ ’cause they’re not. But at least they’re not dead. It’s funny: Our family is in danger now, but nobody in my family is anti-American. So I don’t understand Americans who are so against the other side...."
Malakian would explain that the lyrics to Hypnotize reflect the songwriter's frustration in regards to political propaganda and those gullible enough to blindly repeat what the TV tells them.
"I see us as a socially conscious band, not just a political band... The guy sitting in his car waiting for his girl, while there's a world going on around him — that's what System of a Down mean to me..."
Daron would also relate the allure of popular rap music of the 2000s to wartime recruiting tactics of the US military...
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