Disturbed

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“Land of confusion,” is a music video, animated by Todd McFarlane and music performed by Disturbed. Disturbed is an American heavy metal band. When the song was produced and released; the lead singer was David Draiman; Dan Donegan was playing the electric guitar; John Moyer played the bass guitar and was a backing vocal, and Mike Wengren was playing the drums. This song is on the album “Ten Thousand Fists,” released on September 20, 2005. The original was played in another music video by the British band called Genesis. Disturbed used drums, bass guitar, and electric guitar; changed one or two lyrics and made it their own music. This music is four minutes and forty-seven seconds long. This music video has met the majority of my criteria on …show more content…

Nowadays you hear songs about “boobs”, “ass”, and (pretty sure you heard it) “I’m sexy and I know it”. If a music has a message, it would be at least worth listening to and one can understand and learn the author's message/perspective about the world we live in. Music is like poetry blended with rhythms and instruments. Music that describes your affection for women’s body parts, drugs, and sex, is not worth calling true music. A music with a message is like a music with a purpose. It is what stays with the listener throughout his/her life. “I must have dreamed a thousand dreams. Been haunted by a million screams,” this lyric from the music video represents that the dreams are the benefited few that gain from the war and the million screams are the innocents’ suffering. “I remember long ago . . . We're not just making promises. That we know we'll never keep,” this verse means to talk about the time of Adam and Eve, and how did evil plague the land. And generation mentioned in the verse describes that the people of the time that the music was presented will try to fix the world by fighting the oppressive forces (3). The chorus verse, “This is the world we live in . . . to make it a place worth living in,” shows that people need to fight to live in a world where war, hunger, terror, and oppression no longer …show more content…

Just Like Dr. Dre’s music “f@$k the police.” It is still a meme in today’s media. People who like the Chuck Berry’s song, “my ding a ling,” this is the one. This music video inspires people to open their eyes and see the true colors of the world and government. The words sung has a deep meaning about the world, how disturbing and vile it really is. The original song by Genesis was aiming at the Cold War and the people who caused it, and this modified version by Disturbed was intended message was about the Iraq war and the politician of its time. The modified version aimed towards the generation of 2006 who understand that the dreams of the thousand people (rich people, Billionaires, PMCs, the masterminds behind the wars) are haunted by a million screams (the suffering of many innocent people around the world). You see in the video tanks, fighter jets, and foot soldiers with a dollar symbol on them (see fig.

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