10 Perfect Rock Songs That Were INSANELY Controversial

When songs get controversial, it normally has to do with everything other than what the song is actually about. If the world is in a delicate place, you're not going to want music that will make you think about the horrors that are affecting you all that much. Even though fans might look to music as a means of escape, Chop Suey deserved a much better fate than what it got.

Taken from System of a Down's breakthrough album Toxicity, this song is all about the people who are drawn to commit suicide based on the way they are treated everyday. While that may have been the core meaning at first, the line about crying when angels deserve to die meant something a lot different just a week after the album was released. Hitting store shelves just a week before 9/11, Clear Channel went too task condemning songs that were inappropriate, with Chop Suey being near the top of the list.

Granted, System could not have planned something like this if they had tried. If anything, the idea of censoring something like this just affirmed what the song's message was about, with Clear Channel being quick to judge what the music was trying to say without digging a little deeper to find the real meaning behind it. And since most of the other problems talk about on Toxicity haven't really been fixed in recent years, it might be time to take another look at the songs on this album and see where we are falling short.