"I wanted this song to be a challenge to other people who maybe were not expecting social commentary on this album" honestly who listens to this band and thinks there's not gonna be social commentary? That's the whole point that's why we're here lmao

@mike__durrett

Жыл бұрын

Took the words right out of my mouth. Yes we're here for the heavy shit, but we're always here for the amazing lyricism.

Garrett is someone who inspires me to be an empathetic and introspective person. No one’s a perfect person, but Garrett comes across as such a genuine dude and I look up to him. I’m glad we have people like him in the metal scene

@US2A

10 ай бұрын

A Christian

@bleighhh

10 ай бұрын

His performance was mindblowing in Prague, hè really put his heart out. Then when I talked with Him afterward, you can tell hè is real and genuine. Gotta love the guy

The amount of quotable things that Garrett says is unfathomable. Basically every second sentence is something that could be put on billboards throughout any city.

I could listen to him talk all day.

@laurenfinley731

Жыл бұрын

His grocery list must go HARD

@thepowerlesspod

Жыл бұрын

Not to spam but he and I talked about this song and a bunch of other topics in a long form podcast if you’re ever interested 👍🏽 kzread.info/dash/bejne/anVrmtRpYKqpaM4.html

@user-ug5sb6qg1u

Ай бұрын

Could you imagine his to-do list?

I love listening to Garrett speak - always thoughtful and deep

Bro I've watched a handful of your videos/interviews and I'll have to say that I'm pretty Impressed with the depth of intelligence you have. Very bright dude you are!! And man I feel like I've got so many stories that are very similar. Just recently discovered your band and I've yet to find anything displeasing, I too play music and understand how crazy the peaks and valleys of mental health can be, for me it seems to be amplified as a creative person. Thank you for being brave and fighting to have the courage to create and share. Absolutely inspiring thank you!

Was very interested in this one. Love the phrasing and lyrics "were only tyrants until love overcomes" is so true. A message that needs to be heard today ("the death of my pride is the cost of peace" also too). Anhedonia too. Both previously The System and Visible Empire if I recall. Am very interested in Translate the Night too though. Then again though, the whole album intrigues me \m/

Love seeing the longer videos and appreciate your heart Gar

I could listen to Garrett talk all day. He really gets you thinking and explains everything so well. His story about the police in Belgium is so interesting to hear

Thank you for sharing your thoughts Garrett! I love your perspective, and that your songs and lyrics have rich meaning and honesty. Keep on creating, God bless!

This is why I love you guys. I don't always agree with your message. But, I really appreciate the fact that you guys dive into extremely difficult cutural issues and try to open discussions between very different peoples to find that medium. Keep it up, ill see yall live next time in CO

i want to write lyrics like garret but this man is so talented no matter how much i practice i wont get there😭 Bro is a genius

@gabrielgeorge5900

4 ай бұрын

Warning Unsolicited Optimism: You never know, even some of the top artists get commission and inspiration from admirers and unknown lyricists and poets.

Love you guys for being firm for what’s right. ❤ it’s so easy to just stand in the sidelines and I’m glad you guys didn’t do that.

A Scanner Darkly is not spoken about frequently enough

@yohananbadgardener

Жыл бұрын

Dude yes! That was such a niche thing to learn about the song back when Gart asked twitch to guess it. I’m so happy it’s more open to the public now!

Incredibly well said, I think you're an excellent orator.

2 minutes in and thankful for this explanation!

Wow - an absolute breath of fresh air listening to a musician speak with such clarity and empathy. I stumbled across the beautiful Superbloom video and then onto this - think I’ve found my new favourite band? Music absolutely needs to be in dialogue with the culture surrounding it. Being ‘apolitical’ is a political stance of apathy. Thanks for speaking up ❤

Honestly, I was agape at this song and it's one of my favorites from this album.

lol your point on twitter is great. love people, they're not so different from yourself

absolute banger of a video.

I think the best thing about music, is regardless of the topic, if it’s good music, it’s good music. Can’t say I necessarily agree with with everything about the song, but at the end of the day it provokes thoughts on both sides. And it’s generally just good music so who cares if you don’t agree.

Absolutely!

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

I love how well spoken and thoughtful Garrett is, I also love how he plays devils advocate to just saying fuck this country I hate it, you can tell he’s go a lot of love in his heart but also keeps an aware and insightful eye to the world around him and is great with translating that into music, never was the biggest fan of silent planet, loved panic room and of course superbloom and iridescent as whole albums, but I definitely love Garrett and how thinks and speaks, always been one of my favorite frontmen in the metalcore realm

A beautifully humble individual!

Much respect.

Garrett is such an interesting and insightful person. I find myself completely absorbed by anything he's saying.

Preach Garrett!!! 🙏🏼🙌🏼

Slight rant... Man. This is deep. Many wont understand. And sadly many will. Just because i dont understand another man's issues, doesnt mean i cant have compassion. I pray political idolatry ends especially in the American Church, which i havent attended in seven years. Christ's love changed me. Taught me to show compassion and love. That was long... but much love to all yall out there.

Garrett I think we both know Twitter is not just straw man’s, it’s truly about Nick Adams, alpha male.

@garrettrussell132

Жыл бұрын

haha ily so much\

Everyone that got mad about this song, especially the f**k the system will never not be hilarious F**K THE SYSTEM (x♾)

interesting video. i would like to see similar videos like this one

Love his reference to shut up and dribble

Intelligent 🖤

Last time you said how much you liked the ideas of The Matrix, and now you're talking up Cornell West? Damn now I really want to kick it with you. 😄 Side note: if you haven't watched the bonus disc in The Matrix box set where they go over the philosophy of the movies, please do it. Cornell West is in there, as are many other modern philosophers.

"I spoke system of a down...into it?"

The system is very much broken, if people would spend half the time they spend bickering and playing the blame game on actually trying to bring about positive change, things would start improving instantly

Homie mentioned two of my favorite people rn just causally. Cornel West is an amazing writer and philosopher and probably the greatest presidential runner ever. Then BELL HOOKS DUDE! I just finished her book, « the will to change » and wow it rocked my world and it got me to think about stuff like I haven’t before which is what a book should do. As an addendum, lemme just say: « I don’t give a damn which administration » is such a hard quote and very bell hooks. This song is so dynamic and this might be my favorite track-by-track! Thank you so much Jared, Gart, and the rest of sp (and System of a Down) for this awesome song and video!!

@mike__durrett

Жыл бұрын

I've been reading "the will to change" and I've had a similar experience. Any specific recommendations for Cornel West's work to check out?

@yohananbadgardener

Жыл бұрын

@@mike__durrett I’ve unfortunately only read his posts and listened to him speak, but I would love to read some of his work soon!

@mike__durrett

Жыл бұрын

@@yohananbadgardener Ahh okay! No worries friend.

Thank God someone in the metal community is talking about This. I don't understand Racism and especially Police mistreating the black community. Like The All Lives matter thing is so stupid because thats not what Black Lives is about. it's a distraction from the real issues. Everyone is beautiful and to hate people or judge them because they have a different skin color is dangerous. We need to unite and not divide. I always feel like a dick getting on to my friends to stop with these stupid jokes that are derogatory not only to black but any race. I have had similar situations (not as bad as what the black community has to deal with") where I have been beaten and harassed by police and constantly pulled over by the same cop because I'am a musician and dress different. We need more Love. That's the answer . Great Video! Please don't start any arguments under my comment.

From what I know that he speaks so well, is that he studies Psychologic. Someone said it to me. He is very intelligent as an Musician🤓😂

Both sides of the administration are at their roots the same. This song goes hard and it’s hilarious that people get stuck on SP dropping a fuck in a track.

W Garrett

Very concise thought process, with understandable sources...but what 2020 and on was to me, was an outcry of people who had been invalidated their whole lives, that they were grasping on to something to feel validated, and latched to a calling that their friends or social groups were clinging to. This is not to water down anything that took place, but I think what that did was cause a weird revolution where people are seeking a utopian life, but in reality...that just isn't going to happen. What will happen, is we will receive a more oppressive life than the one we are trying to be freed from.

ooohhh new song @ 7:11 "address the enemy inside" lyrics have to have at the end "I HAVE OVERCOME"

"'Well Trump didn't do this, Obama did this' and people just shifting the blame instead of being like 'children don't belong in fucking cages'" It's legitimately baffling that whenever people criticize aspects of the current administration, others seem to think that saying that the previous administration was also guilty of the same problems is a huge gotcha moment. Like, why the fuck do you just automatically assume that because I criticize one person for their injustices, that means I must suddenly be ok with it if the person before them also did similarly injust things but have slightly different political views and isn't white? Incredibly well spoken Garrett. This is the first of these breakdowns I've watched and this one intrigued me in particular. At first I just expected the usual "oh no how dare the 'Christian' band use a no-no word" but this was so much more than that.

@user-ug5sb6qg1u

Ай бұрын

Good comment.

Silent Planet remain the most based band alive

@lolhighimkc1316

2 ай бұрын

He's sounding like a liberal loon here but I'll check out more music in hopes that he's actually based

Anyone who gets upset that their MUSIC is political is an alien nut. Of all the things you can do with your music, why would you not talk about society.

I may fundamentally disagree with most of garrets social commentary but that’s the beauty of this country is that one day maybe, I could have a dialogue with garret about ways we could better our society without potential for persecution for our beliefs

@somethingiwrote9074

Жыл бұрын

i agree. i never agreed with most of his social/political opinions. But i love that he voices his opinion differently from many artists and i always want to hear how the other side is feeling and perceiving things in our culture. SP is one of my favorite bands because of their lyrical writings and banger songs

@user-ug5sb6qg1u

Ай бұрын

The most respectful disagreement anyone has posted, thank you.

I always like hearing to this man, great artist in every since of the word ✌🏻and Free Palastine 🍉💔

I wonder why police would be tense? They never deal with anyone who's violent?

GARRETT IS LIKE THE NEW JESUS, WELL, HE KINDA LOOK LIKE JESUS JUST DARKEN THE SKIN A LIL BIT

What were the 10,000 angry DMs about? People mad about a Christian band using the f word?

@carlprinston

Жыл бұрын

Probably haha, I was reading through some of the comments on Instagram and some people were mentioning the “woke” mentality and how politics shouldn’t be in music. Other people were saying stuff like “I remember when you were Christian.”

@lc81002

Жыл бұрын

@@carlprinston this is doing Christianity right if you ask me. 🤷🏼‍♀️

@carlprinston

Жыл бұрын

@@lc81002 Yeah, we're called to love others. Kinda breaks my heart seeing Christians up in arms when it is treating others as humans. It's hard though since we all have our flaws (not saying that excuses them though)

@skilletfan17

Жыл бұрын

People should leave them alone anyways, they’re not a Christian band and anyone who knows anything about theology would likely place Garrett as closer to a universalist than Christian lol. Great dude though.

@blockhead777

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, because I remember reading when Jesus was talking about the Roman government and talking about the broken system and saying "Fuck the Roman system." I remember Jesus being a political activist, sticking to Caesar and the Roman authorities and making his ministry about politics and focusing on the legislation of the Romans at the time. Yup, I totally remember when Jesus said that the broken system is a reflection of our broken nature. I remember when Jesus was talking about how abusive and violent the Roman soldiers were and how they murdered non-Roman citizens. If you agree with Garrett, then you've missed the point of Jesus ministry and mission. You've missed the point of being a Christian.

Nation wide riots * fixed it for you dude.

Silent Planet “fans” tone policing their most politically and socially charged song will never not be hilarious to me. Get a job challenge: impossible.

Disagree with the message but still love your guys’ music 👍

@xSmittyxCorex

Жыл бұрын

What about the message?

@boomerbob5115

Жыл бұрын

@@xSmittyxCorex I don't think that anything justifies violent rioting and looting which put my wife and other family members in direct harm during that time. Such actions should not be celebrated, they should be denounced swiftly and unequivocally. The police force in America is highly oppressive and militarized. However, the movement referred to here is meant to divide Americans by propping up mostly controversial cases of actual criminals who resisted arrest. There are literally thousands of better examples which could be used to actually unite Americans against the incompetence, evil, and corruption of police and actually create change and reform. Instead, they divide Americans by race and cause us to destroy our own neighborhoods, knowing full well that no change will happen and the people will continue to be oppressed. Why does everyone know about the George Floyd video but hardly anyone knows about Daniel Shaver? Why does the media not show the thousands of videos of police nonchalantly murdering dogs when they enter houses? Why not show the police who choke slammed teenage girls for not wearing a mask? Why does the media not show the videos of police entering homes without warrants and "accidentally" shooting little kids in the face? It's because they don't actually care about these events, they only prop up events which they know will divide people.

@neylafranca3302

Жыл бұрын

You are white.

@ThirstRockers1

11 ай бұрын

@@boomerbob5115 well said

@theniceguy7824

9 ай бұрын

​@@neylafranca3302spoken like a true racist

To talk about the US. We elected a president with dementia. Our economy is on the verge of collapse. Housing is becoming unaffordable. Lawlessness is rampant and enforcement of the law is walking a tightrope. Violent persons are considered guilty or innocent based on race. Look at the tensions unchecked immigration is causing in Chicago. With all these problems, are people trying to come here or leave here?

Damn it sucks to hear him be so naive and ignorant. He’s obviously a very smart guy and you would think he be able to to see for himself what’s going on. Anyway this was a bummer watch.

It’s not disproportionate when they do it to themselves in a crime world, don’t break laws don’t be in certain situations

Lmao Americans talking about racism in 2023

Garret msm consoomer

Hard disagree. There are plenty of topics or subjects that can inspire art that have nothing to do with political or social climates.

Jesus christ. He's a part of the problem. This is a turn off from the band.

@user-ug5sb6qg1u

Ай бұрын

Jesus is part of the problem? Why? What did Jesus ever do to you?

Ok cool bro but like what is a woman ?

If this band was conservative, this video and comment section would be waayyy different. Sad they went woke. Too bad.

@xSmittyxCorex

Жыл бұрын

Why are you so convinced that’s bad? What does “woke” mean to you?

@phantomtearsca

Жыл бұрын

Woke = Not being racist. And if we're using that logic, Silent Planet has been "woke" since day one, you just haven't been paying attention.

@leeandyleee

Жыл бұрын

Lol they’ve always been like this. They’ve talked about social issues and criticized American institutions from the very beginning. It’s funny that somehow the conservative Christian listeners never picked up on this. I remember years ago people picking on Garrett because he talked about liberation theology and how he’s some progressive liberal Christian aka not a real Christian. Y’all funny

@vvubbihikngidhdhhd

11 ай бұрын

​@@leeandyleeethere is nothing such as "real Christian" religion can be followed as people want, there's no rules.

@ephilbin

11 ай бұрын

@@xSmittyxCorex "Woke" is when insane, hideous people make it increasingly impossible and illegal to be normal and sane. To sound less like rhetoric, it's marxism without the economics. Instead of seizing wealth and the means of production, it seizes the means of cultural acceptance, usually giving it to those who genuinely don't deserve cultural acceptance. Does that make sense? "There is no difference between sleeping with 37 men once, and sleeping with one man 37 times." ^ this is an example of a woke statement.

TRUMP 24 baby

@xSmittyxCorex

Жыл бұрын

🙄 mature…

@twentysevenwithnecktats2313

Жыл бұрын

Good band, just liberals

@theniceguy7824

9 ай бұрын

​@xSmittyxCorex I mean would you rather things keep progressing like they are or would you rather try something different?

@user-ug5sb6qg1u

Ай бұрын

Didn't we already try that guy, and then the country went nuts, their were riots and fires and we couldn't go outside for a while and no one could work and and there was no toilet paper and we were supposed to drink bleach and some idiot held a stolen Bible upside down and then a bunch of idiots tried to red dawn congress.