“Question!” by System of a Down

"Question!" was the second single from Mezmerize, System of a Down's fourth album, released in 2005, and the band picked it only after discovering that radio stations were already spinning it. Daron Malakian and Serj Tankian wrote the music, Tankian wrote the words, and the two share the vocals, with Tankian adding acoustic guitar. Malakian produced it with Rick Rubin and Andy Wallace mixed. It lurches from delicate, almost folky passages to full-bore metal detonations, which is exactly the whiplash this band does best.

Shavo Odadjian produced the video and co-directed it with Howard Greenhalgh, reportedly after a nightmare about a boy handing a girl poisoned berries. Most of it was shot in the Los Angeles Theatre, with the band in dark suits on the theatre's forestage, playing like an orchestra accompanying a play.

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