System Of a Down vocalist Serj Tankian is following up the September 27th release of his new 5-song EP “Foundations” with the reveal of the below music video for the featured track, “Appropriations“. Ara Soudjian and Todd Harapiak took on the co-directing duties for this new visual offering.
Tankian previously stated of this song:
“The original version of this is a bunch of delayed guitars that I had played with some beats, and it wasn’t a complete song. Then, I got an offer from a streaming service—I do a lot of film composing and TV composing—to do a title track for a new TV series. So, I repurposed those guitars for a 30-second theme song.
The streaming service paid me a kill fee and ended up going with something else, but I liked this so much that I decided to make it into a full song. So, I appropriated my own music. That’s why I call it that. The lyrics are about community and the need to really foster love and lack of judgment and creativity. It’s our only way out of the mess that we’ve created with this so-called civilization.”
