Serj Tankian Tries Nonsense Food From System of a Down Lyrics

Serj Tankian has lastly tried the nonsense meals from the lyrics in System of a Down’s “Vicinity of Obscenity.”

Yes, you guessed it — banana terracotta pie.

“Vicinity of Obscenity” is from System’s 2005 album Hypnotize, which was technically the final full physique of work that they put out. “Banana terracotta pie” is a phrase that is repeated all through most of the tune.

System of a Down, ‘Vicinity of Obscenity’

The singer truly simply received to eat banana terracotta pie for the primary time throughout an look on the YouTube collection Last Meals.The dessert was introduced out as a shock on the finish of the second course.

Upon wanting on the pie, Tankian admitted he did not know what it was. That is, till host Josh Scherer talked about that the container holding the pie was made of terracotta.

“It’s a banana terracotta pie with Nilla wafers!” the singer stated enthusiastically earlier than high-fiving Scherer. He additionally added that he is by no means eaten it earlier than.

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“I like creating relationships between things that don’t have a pre-existing one. I was thinking of a banana… I don’t know how it even came up in my head — banana terracotta pie,” he defined.

Tankian smiled and recalled that producer Rick Rubin did not just like the lyric when he first heard System rehearse the tune. However, by the point they went in to file the monitor, it had grown on him and have become one of his favorites on the album.

The vocalist then acknowledged that the silliness in some of System of a Down’s songs makes their music “more palatable.”

“If you just preach, no one’s gonna listen,” he prompt, citing Daron Malakian’s half in “Prison Song” as a good instance of a lighthearted second balanced with a severe topic.

Unfortunately, we do not get to see Tankian’s response to consuming the pie, however you possibly can nonetheless watch the complete Last Meals episode under.