Stupify

Not to be confused with Stupefied.
"Stupify"
Single by Disturbed
from the album The Sickness
Released April 12, 2000
Format 12" gramophone record, CD single
Recorded November–December 1999
Genre Nu metal
Length 4:07
Label Giant
Writer(s) Steve Kmak
Dan Donegan
Mike Wengren
David Draiman
Producer(s) Johnny K
Disturbed singles chronology
"Stupify"
(2000)		 "Down with the Sickness"
(2000)

"Stupify" is a song by the heavy metal band Disturbed. The song was released on April 12, 2000 as a single from their debut album, The Sickness. It peaked at number-twelve on the United States Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and number-ten on the United States Modern Rock Tracks chart.[1] The song was also used in an English adaptation of the Dragon Ball Z movie Lord Slug, and remixed for the movie Little Nicky as "Stupify (Fu's Forbidden Little Nicky Remix)". Unlike a lot of other Disturbed songs, "Stupify" features synthesizers.

Meaning

The song speaks out against racism and discrimination. The song is about a relationship Disturbed's vocalist David Draiman was in with a Latina girl. He said her family didn't approve of him because of his different ethnicity.[2]

Music video

The video for the song features the band performing the song in a rusted cellar-like room, intercut with footage of a young boy sitting in the same room. As the song progresses, the boy is revealed to be haunted by ghost-like images. David Draiman said that the boy represents his inner child and also said, "This inner child has been damaged in such a way that the world he sees around him is dark and frightening and marred by life experience. It's haunted by specters and ghosts from the past."[2]

Track listing

Version 1

  1. "Stupify" - 4:34
  2. "Stupify" (live) - 4:34
  3. "The Game" (live) - 3:47
  4. "Stupify" (restrained edit) - 5:08

Version 2

  1. "Stupify" - 4:34
  2. "The Game" (live restrained) - 3:47
  3. "Voices" (live restrained) - 3:11
  4. "Down with the Sickness" - 4:38

European version

  1. "Stupify" (restrained) - 4:05
  2. "Stupify" (album version) - 4:05

US promo

  1. "Stupify" (the forbidden "fu" mix) - 5:08

Chart positions

Year Chart Position
2000 Mainstream Rock Tracks 12[1]
Modern Rock Tracks 10[1]

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Allmusic Single Charts". Retrieved 2009-01-25.
  2. 1 2 Pesselnick, Jill (October 14, 2000). "THE MODERN AGE". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media. 112 (42): 99. ISSN 0006-2510.

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