Therapist Reacts to Sugar by System of a Down

[@pitonto16]

The beauty of System of a Down as a band is the ability to use comical riff sounds or singing approach to address serious topics that makes you question your point of view on those matters when you hear their lyrics.

[@kwm4404]

“I play Russian roulette everyday with a bullet called life.” That’s some real shit right there.

[@mumuspain2086]

A man's sport

[@thedevilsworkshop7720]

@@mumuspain2086 It's the only sport that matters .

[@craigdawson7632]

@@mumuspain2086 Duals, unprotected fencing seems more manly to me. If the gun goes click or bang seems more like rolling the dice. If you don't mind checking out it's worth a try perks up the dick and you live like your 10 years younger. Or you don't odds are well in you favour. Live a little

[@pleaseshutup7053]

@@thedevilsworkshop7720lmaoo

[@dangit459]

Lol

[@PotemkinDogpack]

Please do "Soil" next! Serj lost his friend to suicide, and it's about his emotions around that.

[@jasonbloated1252]

Soil is one of their best songs by a mile. Underrated.

[@aeri4ls_inthe.5ky]

WAIT REALLY??!

[@MacMc691]

System was always pushing the limits, notably the part about the media, which is still true to this very day. As Jim Morrison once said, "Whoever controls the media, controls the mind". It's amazing how easily people can still be influenced, even with the internet and the plethora of research one can do to form their own opinion.

[@RogueWolfArtist]

“The whole sound dynamic combined with the lyrics..” This is System of a Down.

[@xox4136]

this is music

[@FreiheitReiss09]

This, is Elon Musk.

[@airdawg16]

​@@xox4136 No, this is patrick

[@connorthomsen7531]

200%

[@thomasfosterjr.5247]

When my son was 5 and my twin girls were 4, I remember them in the back seat repeating, "Sugar!" when we would listen to this song.....proud dad moment. Lol

[@johnruss2475]

Great parenting 👍

[@ローハン]

teach them young!

[@kprocess9058]

type of experience that makes me want to have kids

[@A-stray42]

This song is such a call out for the Media. Remember, this song came out in like 2003, and Serj was/is a dissident who is against war in general. The sugar he refers to is the drug that is modern media.

[@andrewemison4027]

Nope, 1998, i was in high school

[@A-stray42]

@@andrewemison4027 Holy crap, it was. Dam, I feel old...

[@sipenarekbecha7193]

​@@andrewemison4027 earlier than that (at least from their demo) 😌

[@Narcolepsykid]

Pre 9/11

[@creativesolutionstoart]

My brother died in 1992… I remember he really liked this song so it’s at least 91

[@billbergeron634]

every person needs to see this band live awesome

[@dangit459]

Ozzfest 2003... Amazing! Great memory!

[@harmenoosterhof9604]

This band taught a whole generation to not feel strange for thinking that not everything shown by the media to be the absolute truth. I am not a consipracy nut, but it is a good lesson to know that everything you are being told by your favourite news spaces is colored. And to be aware of entering an echo chamber when you do. Everyone is weak to this, including myself. But I do take the time, sometimes, to question if what I am reading is colored. To get an objective report of what is happening at any given moment these days is so hard to get. It is almost impossible for any person today to not be in an echo chamber. You can only reach that clarity by actually doing manual effort to break out of that.

[@Knivez84]

Now we are just "conspiracy theorist" ... but we are batting a thousand

[@ELchupakabro]

damn she a good therapist, i'm hearing these songs in a new light.

[@brettvandermeer5297]

1:10 that "Oooo" was a foreshadowing without knowing xD

[@Rogue0257]

That dumbfounded look at the end of the video was hilarious.

[@craig2809]

You need to do Serj Tankian's Empty Walls

[@sevndust2123]

And "The Sky is Over"

[@Zeeboklown]

peak SOTD was lightning in a bottle with the chaoticness of their musical chemistry, but isn't just noise diarrhea . they were one of the most unique bands ever imho.

[@JiTiAr35]

Pearl Jam - Jeremy is a must

[@runsett]

watching people experiencing SOAD for the first time always feels good

[@pymsapero7644]

I love your reaction, your masterful facial expressions prove that, even 30 years later, SOAD blows minds! They hit the nail on the head! 🤩

[@ethandurnzie3876]

You are the only person besides Layedbakfr that didn’t smile and laugh through the intro.. much respect

[@marshallyarbrough2972]

Prison song by SYOAD also a good one.

[@stevemoyer1968]

I paused a movie for this (again) did not disappoint

[@gegart01]

Haha, me too

[@Bhanshee]

You consistently have the best reactions and analysis of these music videos/songs. Thank you so much! ❤❤🤘🤘🌹🌹

[@julijan2653]

Hey, just a suggestion; you should check out metallica's the day that never comes. It's a beautiful song and a very good one for a therapist to react to! Love your content!

[@BillyVatcher]

SOAD is core. A vital part of music. A turn point. More than just entertainment. Their message has been heard.

[@equisdexd4751]

This is the analysis I've been waiting for :D

[@Sarahlouisseize]

This is my favorite system of a down song. Fuck the news industry and any industry really that just prioritizes profit.

[@silversuperfan1412]

Please look into the band Citizen Soldier. All of their songs are based around mental health. I love the majority of their songs but here are a couple suggestions: Therapy, ICU, Tattoos, Face to Face, Say Nothing, Heavy, Wanted, Pretend my Pain Away, Strong for Somebody Else, I Hate Myself, Everybody Hates You, Broken Like Me, Waiting on the Sun, Always December, I’m Not Okay, Would Anyone Care

[@MrEpsilonZero]

Thank you, new band for me.

[@Lutefisk_Fettuccini]

Interesting that you’re listening to SoaD whilst, simultaneously, wearing a Fleetwood Mac sweatshirt. Just making an observation. As for your take of this song, it’s one of the better interpretations I’ve heard. Serj Tankian goes pretty deep when it comes to his lyrics. There’s always a lot of subcontext compared to what’s on the surface. Great analysis.

[@manuelsanchezclandestinebi1730]

This song is a smart and sharp description of the US's society.

[@masonyuzwa8717]

It's crazy that 26 years later and the themes of the lies of the news and how bad things are being covered up !! But yea..pretty spot on Taylor !! 👍🤘

[@serge.telipko]

'Went thru a washing machine' - that's a good one 😅 I wish I could erase my memory so I can listen to all these songs for the first time.

[@deletado12]

Thanks for the video Depeche mode - walking in my shoes Badflower - teacher has a gun Silverchair- freak

[@salyx]

Walking in My Shoes would be interesting!

[@deletado12]

@@salyx yeah!

[@krisgilkison4007]

This track, when it 1st was released, got me into System Of A Down! They ROCK & their message is very important!

[@bryanforis1839]

They were in Vegas last year great live band great performance great song

[@ejdergameng12]

its a miracle that theese guys still alive

[@RedPill05]

Can we all just take a moment to recognize her meme use. Its incredible. FILTHY FRANK FFS. I hit the like button so fast

[@Skurian_krotesk]

A FILTHY FRANK REFERENCE IN A PSYCHOLOGY HEAVY SYSTEM OF A DOWN REACTION?!?! IS THIS MY BIRTHDAY OR SOMETHING?! WTFFFFFFF❤❤❤❤

[@soadjt]

Been listening to this song for 20 years and never heard anyone analyze it and you killed it! Plus ur really cute!

[@kanenstuff]

One of the best bands I have seen live they sound amazing and I have all their album's.

[@PatBlackwell-z3i]

One of my favorite Systems of the Down Songs like ever

[@marcwright8395]

3:37 a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down 😉☂️

[@dun9295]

I came searching for this comment…

[@MultiChiplover]

this is one of the best reactions to SOAD I’ve ever seen

[@StevenPD]

Great post. What came to mind for me was the dichotomy of aspartame vs sugar and the fact both can be bad for one's health. Then I wondered about the differences of vicarious and authentic living. The sweeteners and the bitterness of life if you will. Interesting stuff.

[@multiplayermadness9315]

Hell yeah, would love to see your take on From Autumn To Ashes song "Alive or Just Breathing"

[@multiplayermadness9315]

Another song by them "Mercury Rising" is more of a spoken word and speaks to me personally as a diagnosed bipolar type 1 when at my worst, its only 50seconds so it could be a good addition to the end of the "Alive or Just Breathing" video :)

[@RexakonGaming]

Really liked your editing in the beginning with the cuts matching the music video part of the new anchor

[@gregthomas1346]

Brilliant tune from a brilliant band

[@Systemofadownfans1]

She was completely right about Serj being intresting hes the GOAT

[@koredragon2833]

Love your reactions

[@zeallust8542]

This is one of their most ambiguous songs. I really like your interpretation.

[@trecemundos]

spiders - system of a down you may also like ;)

[@gegart01]

Sure she will :)

[@emerje0]

This feels like the logical next big song for her to do, along with Serj's solo song "Empty Walls".

[@Narcolepsykid]

Hell yeah

[@Peteryification]

Welcome to the SOAD experience! This was my first album as a teen!

[@TheThundercool]

Sugar is so overwhelming it feels like it's almost too much to take at once, and that's exactly the whole point.

[@valeriebrousseau1053]

I feel like the hole videoclip is a psychological thriller . The first scene with the tv host is mind blowing. The first seconds make you feel like a verry typical old school news and then boom its like a badtrip psychosis. The psychological dread just hit you with a brick, jesus slap you in the face, you rethink your whole live in just 3 seconds. The whole acting , cinematography, just wow. Verry mindful. Not demure.love it.

[@willdawson6783]

I’d love to see some Blue October songs covered! His personal journey over the past two decades is inspiring. Definitely have to start near the beginning, though!

[@SaxonAwen]

I was just analyzing this song today. How synchronistic! Also, I can’t believe I’m commenting on almost all of your videos. What a nerd 😅

[@Groovy-z3x]

Sugar is addictive.😍

[@kenshin_cx]

Please either react to Painkiller or Never Too Late both by Three Days Grace These songs helped me get through my time in school and I still like listening to them occasionaly

[@ThatGuyWierd]

I always interpreted the "mushroom people" lyric as the metaphor of how mushrooms grow. Kept in the dark and fed shit. That's the masses. We are mushrooms

[@alannemtsev9651]

You're really smart your insights are on point and your rocking out face is really cute.

[@TomOlsen327mofo]

Hey, I'm not sure if you read all of your comments, but you've very quickly become one of my favorite channels, because ypou and I feel very similar about a lot of these songs. You love my favorite parts of the songs and react how i react to the lyrics how i do. Thank you for having a channel, you are a bomb therapist.

[@somemonkeystirnerite]

I love the red and black star design. It’s a great alternative symbol. I do wish there was an egoist version though.

[@TomOlsen327mofo]

@@somemonkeystirnerite thank you! It’s a tribute to my brother who passed away

[@louieserrano8952]

I am loving your reactions ! 😂

[@odium3510]

I wish we had artists making stuff like this right now, especially political stuff… we need it

[@kpayton2001]

I've always loved how the third verse is a murder confession. So metal.

[@spadoynkal]

I'm lost and I just want a few more days with people I love. Thank you for your words

[@itsjustafad]

Being lost is just a way to find new things. Hope everything is okay now.

[@sarumanork-orphanage5612]

6:20 "it's just something that we humans do, we put sugar on things" reminds me of a legendary title "pour some sugar on me" by Def Leppard; it also features a prominent and cryptic sugar metaphor in an otherwise very forward context.

[@gnorley]

I saw the title of this and was like, GOOD LUCK WITH THAT! And I was, mostly correct lol

[@DraconX3]

I feel like your analysis is right per say. Just think bigger SOAD is usually talking about larger global issues rather than say a band members personal issues.

[@Gary-os1sr]

So heavy🤘 their best,and they played it on the radio alot 🤣🤣🤣🤘

[@marksmith2402]

Great reaction. You should do a break down of the Skinny Puppy song 'deep down trauma hounds'

[@BoraHorzaGobuchul]

This song takes on a while did meaning in RU, where during the "b0mbings" which solidified poo teen's rule and provided pretext to the second Chechen war, bags of x-plosives placed by FSB were found by vigilant people of several apartment buildings in Ryazan city, and were explained away by the authorities as "bags of sugar" placed there for "training".

[@sipenarekbecha7193]

RAWrrr..self-titled album are *B@D@$$* , I'm not _sugarcoating_ it IMHO 😎👍🏼

[@edteller5821]

Another psychological roller coaster would be Everlast’s “The Stone in My Hand” or “Letters Home From the Garden of Stone”.

[@Defensive_Wounds]

Best way to describe this song for a first hear - Went through a washing machine!!

[@jessicacuster8767]

I think she did a fantastic job analyzing

[@KyleCollins-ny4em]

Everything is so fuckin sweet.

[@danchazier9115]

lol i love your reactions and specially you being a therapist and all.. new sub here!

[@jimbojones8978]

Yup.. this song started with a big old dramatic truth bomb... Love this band.

[@jimbojones8978]

Your 'washing machine' reference... To me it actually feels like this song really does cleanse you of the nonsense of the reality tv(news) sells us.

[@jimbojones8978]

you can add propaganda to cocaine and sugar... The propaganda is free in most cases.

[@drange.79]

omg when u said sugar represents the sensionalization hahaha yes exaclty

[@Daddy_Skeletor]

prison also got great lyrics that realy stuck with me

[@giorgioottaviani3951]

I already love you, from Italy❤

[@Feech_La_Manna]

The only thing different today from the opening monolgue is the key factor is 'engagement' and 'sensationalism' is secondatry. Traditional media is sinister enough now internet and social media even more dystopian. They're either gonna tell you what they want you to know to make you happy or tell you something to make you mad. They've got you running in circles from 9 to 5 and 5 to 9....YOUR MINE

[@new_af28996]

day 1 of recomending Viagra Boys - Just Like You. ofc i know they are pretty goofy band and all but their songs are heavily focused on moving against society and also at the same time trying to fit in. these songs helped me so much in the past years to understand how important is to sometimes just stand on your own and accept yourself as you are even if you are maybe a "little out". now they are my all time favourite band. i might say that 20% of my personality now is from them :d just dont let the name of the band fool you

[@tonyzahn8911]

I just discovered Viagra Boys not that long ago. Troglodyte is such a good tune.

[@Mango_113]

DO SOIL!!!!!!

[@ghostbit2108]

Ah I'm glad you did sugar this is my favorite SOAD tune. SOAD is tougher for psych analysis because of a lot of their stuff is more politically motivated than some of the other metal you've covered.

[@recebabill995]

Soil or Spiders from Systen of a Down too! Please!!!!

[@JMulvy]

I am not embarrassed to admit that I too… am one of the kombucha mushroom people. Kombucha is awesome! 😂 So after Taylor’s mind was blown, yeah she totally nailed the song’s message.

[@Vffhndsercchi]

No, BabyGhost Stranger Deja Vu or Stressin is absolutely perfect for this channel. Also, more of the style of the therapist reacts that she might actually add to her playlist. You'll have to actually type in the title because she is a HIDDEN gem. I suggest BabyGhost Stranger Deja Vu. Everything she makes is underrated and beautiful. It's about moving on and actually therapeutic discovery.

[@vegasviking86]

Flaw - Whole

[@garrick7076]

love Flaw. Love that sound from back then.

[@sammitchell3657]

Agreed

[@titiram9522]

Thanks from France :)

[@dustinharris7439]

You should do DOWN IN A HOLE or ROOSTER by ALICE IN CHAINS. It’s a very strong song. I struggled a lot like Layne Staley did and I relate with all of his lyrics. I love what you do and I listen to you daily. Side note im in my 8th year of my sobriety and I’ve never struggled more then I am now and I have more then I ever thought I’d have. Makes no sense. Feel like I’m in a hole.

[@dw9679]

I never really thought about that one line. "In the end it all goes away", what if it's meant like the ends justifies the mean. That once you get the results, amnesia sets in on the means of how you got there.

[@EnragedPlatypus]

I don't know if you'd entertain the idea of analayzing some rap/hip-hop, but I would love to hear your opinion on some Aesop Rock tracks. I think the songs "Shrunk", "Rings", and "Kirby" are three decent fits for mental health discussion.

[@ianwood9771]

Hi. Can u react to Fear Factory. And the song is Fear Campaign!!! Great tune and great topic fear. Thanks

[@Djcimofficial]

🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@mobscene23ks]

The editing of this react is on point lol

[@PotemkinDogpack]

Pumped!!! Let's go!!!

[@JohnMartinezIII]

Sugar Coating the lies to make it sound oh so Sweet

[@golkarath2540]

You should do War? by System but the "live semi" version so good

[@gideondurham924]

Do some Life Of Agony, its got some dark turbulent lyrics.

[@generalribeiro887]

React to "crawling" by linkin park,this song talk about the suffering of Chester when he was just a kid

[@TheSkeletonKing]

The way he speaks about sugar and other sweeteners reminds me of the family guy episode that mocks the E.T (James Wood's role in the skit) scene where the alien follows the candy piece after piece toward a lured finish. ,,"Oooh, a piece of candy!" #stooge

[@TheSkeletonKing]

The sweetness leads the sheep to the wolves. Mind you, this is a band focused on politically savage philosophies , ergo Armenia genocide.

[@williamwatashe8258]

Gotta make that Money ❤

[@Ludd439]

Lol Sugar is a drug. One of the most addictive. That's why they get us hooked when we are young. They've always used addictive substances to control people, and sugar is addictive enough and doesn't have any psychotropic effects so is perfect for keeping a workforce under control and still capable.