Old Music News of article 28705 for 2005-05-26

System of a Down Downplays Politics

AP - System of a Down wants you to know they are not a political band. Yes, they came out against the war in Iraq. And yes, they hand-picked ultraliberal gadfly Michael Moore to direct their 2003 protest video, "Boom!" And yes, their latest single, the frenetic, guitar-crunching "B.Y.O.B.," contains angry rants like "Why don't presidents fight the war? Why do they always send the poor?"

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