Chop Suey!

"Chop Suey!"
Standard retail artwork
Single by System of a Down
from the album Toxicity
B-side"Johnny"
ReleasedAugust 13, 2001 (2001-08-13)[1]
RecordedMarch 2001
StudioCello (Hollywood)
Genre
Length3:30
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
System of a Down singles chronology
"Spiders"
(1999)
"Chop Suey!"
(2001)
"Toxicity"
(2002)
Music video
"Chop Suey!" on YouTube

"Chop Suey!" is a song by the American heavy metal band System of a Down. It was released on August 13, 2001, as the first single from their second album, Toxicity (2001). The single earned the band its first Grammy nomination in 2002 for Best Metal Performance. "Chop Suey!" is often considered the band's signature song, and its music video has reached one billion views on YouTube.[5]

  1. ^ Wiederhorn, Jonn (August 13, 2001). "System Of A Down's Schizophrenia Aggravated On Toxicity". MTV. Archived from the original on October 1, 2015. Retrieved April 15, 2015. The first single from Toxicity is "Chop Suey", which starts with a guitar strum and a tribal beat and segues to a serrated stop-start punk verse before drifting into an ethereal chorus colored by a bouzouki, a Greek stringed instrument.
  2. ^ Evans, James (April 17, 2013). "Crashing the Party". Archived from the original on December 6, 2013. Retrieved April 6, 2015. Not so long ago, I was frequenting an exclusive South Leamington cocktail bar. Compelled by housemates proffering a certain glowing green beverage, I was giving a passionate rendition of System of a Down's alternative metal anthem, 'Chop Suey'.
  3. ^ Chesler, Josh (May 18, 2015). "10 Nu-metal Songs That Actually Don't Suck". Phoenix New Times. Retrieved March 13, 2016.
  4. ^ Lil Uzi Vert Covers System of a Down, Features Bring Me the Horizon + Babymetal on New Album, June 30, 2023, retrieved August 11, 2023
  5. ^ Krol, Charlotte (November 28, 2020). "System Of A Down's 'Chop Suey!' reaches one billion views on YouTube". NME. Retrieved October 2, 2023.