Aerials (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Aerials

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Artist = System of a Down
from Album = Toxicity
A-side =
B-side = "Streamline" (Alternate version)
Released = June 11, 2002
Format = CD, Cassette, Vinyl, Airplay
Recorded = February 15, 2001 Cello Studios Hollywood, California
Genre = Alternative metal Hard rock
Length = 3:54 (without hidden track) 6:11 (with hidden track)
Label = American
Writer = Serj Tankian, Daron Malakian
Producer = Rick Rubin, Daron Malakian, Serj Tankian
Misc =
Certification =
Last single = "Toxicity" (2002)
This single = "Aerials" (2002)
Next single = "Innervision" (2002)"Aerials" is a single by System of a Down, released in 2002 from the album "Toxicity".

Aerials is arguably System of a Down's most successful song in the United States to date, hitting #1 on both the Modern and Mainstream Rock charts.

While the album version of Aerials is 6:11 minutes long, there is a hidden track that starts at 3:58 seconds. Aerials itself ends at 3:54.

Music Video

The video was directed by Shavo Odadjian and David Slade.

The video starts out in a desolate, desert-like place. The viewpoint then shifts to a circus tent. Inside, the band is getting ready, and being watched by a little boy whose face has been disfigured. The eyes are pulled back, and the mouth is very small. The boy, judging from the lyrics,is meant to look like a human boy, but with typical features of an outerspace alien, as seen in magazines and popular culture. The point is supposedly that the boy is an alien in a human body and is different from everyone else. The band starts playing. It then shifts to the boy surrounded by people in an urban environment, with a large group around him dancing. It then shifts back to the band playing inside the tent. Back outside, the boy is walking down the Hollywood walk of fame with two women in red dresses. The scene then becomes that of the boy, two different women in similar dresses as the first, and an older man, who seems to be interviewing them, or making an agreement. Exiting the building, paparazzi swarm the boy and begin photographing the boy. People begin interviewing him, but he is never seen to respond. It then cuts back to the band for a short period of time, where after it displays the boy in a photo shoot, being examined with different clothes. The scene continues to cut between the photo shoot and the band, until near the end, where it shows the boy with two women in red dresses, reaching for money that is falling from above. At the end of the song, every scene the boy has been shown in is shown briefly. He then walks to the middle of the circus tent, lays down in the middle, and closes his eyes, as the song ends.

Track listing

Aerials (UK Import)

CD1

CD2

Aerials (Australian LE)

Aerials (Maxi-Single)

CD1

Aerials (Promo Single)

Aerials (European Vinyl Single)

Aerials (7" Single)

External links

* [http://musicjesus.com/song_21223_System_Of_A_Down-Aerials.html Music Video]

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