System Of A Down followers “scare the shit out of” Serj Tankian in public by screaming ‘Chop Suey!’ lyrics

Serj Tankian has mentioned how System Of A Down followers “scare the shit out of” the singer by screaming the lyrics to ‘Chop Suey!’ at him in public.

The rock band’s iconic 2001 track opens with Tankian screaming the lyrics “get up!” which has change into a curse for him when going about his day by day life, as he revealed.

“Folks will scare the shit out of me once they yell, ‘Get up!’ behind me someplace — wherever, in public,” Tankian advised Revolver in a brand new interview.

“I’m like, ‘Fuck dude! Actually? Wow, I’m glad you’re excited however don’t do this.’ I get that so much.”

Regardless of this, Tankian says he's nonetheless grateful to have followers who join along with his music and wish to meet him. “It’s the most important praise on this planet, to start out with, that anybody would hearken to your music,” he mentioned. “And to me, the perfect factor to see is multi-generational listeners.”

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Elsewhere, Tankian just lately introduced a brand new EP, which he's releasing by an augmented actuality app.

‘Perplex Cities’ is the follow-up to the 2021 EP ‘Elasticity’ and a monitor is being launched by the Arloopa app every week beginning  from September 19 together with Tankian “showing in the identical house because the listener-viewer to elucidate the music and pay attention alongside.”

“I’m at all times making an attempt to create new and fascinating methods to attach with folks by way of my music,” Tankian mentioned in a press release by way of Rolling Stone. “We made some wonderful movies for the final EP ‘Elasticity’, so I needed to strive one thing completely different for ‘Perplex Cities’. I really like the thought of showing within the room with somebody listening to my music. It’s intimate, enjoyable, and completely different.”

‘Perplex Cities’ in its entirety will come out on streaming companies on October 21 by Tankian’s Serjical Strike label.

He’s additionally introduced a dwell present known as ‘Invocations’ at The Soraya in Northridge, California, which is able to embrace a full choir, a full orchestra, and soloists together with a tenor, an alto, a world singer, a loss of life steel singer, and Tankian himself.