Where should a tapeworm be removed from? Or perhaps, from whom. System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian has revealed how a single pronoun in the lyrics of one song almost caused the band to split up.Appearing on Rick Rubin’s ‘Broken Record’ podcast, among other thing’s Tankian discusses the making of System Of A Down’s 2001 album ‘Toxicity’, which was produced by Rubin.
Part of that discussion centres on a disagreement that occurred over one word in the lyrics of the second track on the album, ‘Needles’.“Originally, the chorus was ‘pull the tapeworm out of my ass'”, recalls Tankian. “Daron [Malakian, guitar] and Shavo [Odadjian, bass] didn’t like ‘my ass'”.He then expands: “They were like, ‘No, no, no, that doesn’t sound cool, that sounds bad, that.
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