Loudwire and Kerrang both named it as System of a Down's best song. Loudwire included the song in its list of The Best Hard Rock Songs Of The 21st Century, where it was ranked at number one. The video has been viewed over one billion times on YouTube, making it the first metal music video to do so (shortly followed by " Nothing Else Matters" by Metallica). In the middle of the video the Flag of Armenia can be seen. The video makes use of the SnorriCam technique, in which an actor will have a camera attached to them with a harness, making it appear as though the background is moving and the actor is stationary. One scene briefly shows Tankian eating chop suey with some fans, the only reference to the title dish in either the song or the video. Editing devices are used to create the effect of the band members "walking through" one another and teleporting on and off the stage, an effect similar to one used in the Red Hot Chili Peppers video " Around the World". The members are performing the song on stage, surrounded by approximately 1,500 fans. The music video was the band's first collaboration with the acclaimed director Marcos Siega, and is set in the parking lot of the Oak Tree Inn motel in Los Angeles, hometown of the band. Most pressings of the album include an intro to the track where lead singer Serj Tankian can faintly be heard saying "we're rolling 'Suicide '" while drummer John Dolmayan is counting the band in. However, the band members claim this change was not caused by pressure from their record company Odadjian said the band simply chose their battles carefully.
The song title is therefore a wordplay: "Suey" is "suicide", "chopped" in half. The song was originally titled "Suicide" but Columbia Records forced the band to change it to avoid controversy. Hence the line, 'I cry when angels deserve to die.'" The lyrics for the midsection ("Father into your hands I commend my spirit") were randomly picked out by Serj Tankian from Rick Rubin's book collection after Tankian was struggling for ideas. Like, if I were now to die from drug abuse, they might say I deserved it because I abused dangerous drugs. In an interview, Daron Malakian explained, "The song is about how we are regarded differently depending on how we pass.
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