System of a Down: Why Saturday Night Live Banned The Heavy Metal Group

System of a Down: Why Saturday Night Live Banned The Group

The Replacements Banned From SNL
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Rage Against the Machine Banned From SNL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k13j_6u90o&t=4s

Elvis Costello Banned From SNL
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FEAR Banned From SNL
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I’ve covered a lot of artists who have been banned from SNL including the Replacements, Rage Against the Machine, FEAR and the temporary ban of Elvis Costello. The links to those vidoes are down below! But today I want to talk about a more recent incident that happened in 2005 that saw the band System of a Down anger NBC’s censors and resulting in the group being banned from the show.

2005 saw System of a Down release not one, but two albums mesmerize in may 2005 followed by hypnotic later in may of tha tyear. To promote their first release mesmerize the band appeared on the may 7th episode of the show with host johnny knoxville. Some episode highlights apart from system of a down that night were that american idol judge paula abdul made a guest appearance in the cold open and introduced system of a down’s second performance and it was jason sudekis first appearance as a cast member and will forte’s mother appeared on weekend update.

System of a Down performed two songs that night their massive hit ‘B.Y.O.B (Bring Your Own Bombs)’ off their new album followed by aerials off toxicity. BYOB’s strong anti-war message against the second iraq war made the NBC censors nervous, given how politically divisive the second iraq war was

While the song’s lyrics contain the profanity laden lyric “Where the f&&&are you?”. NBC allowed the band to play the song with the profanity but ran the show on a five second delay so it could be bleeped out. At this point in time SNL wasn’t running on a delay but made an exception that night. The network was successful in bleeping out the curse words, but it was an off the cuff moment that made it’s past NBC’s censors when guitarist Daron Malakian walked up to the microphone and said “fuck yeah!” An NBC spokesmanEW.com that the network has received no complaints regarding the incident, though the network issued a statement slamming System of a Down and their management for the and i quote “unscripted expletive” and claimed the off the cuff moment was removed from later broadcasts of the episode.

The band would never be invited again onto the show, but in 2018 host Tina Fey covered the song chop suey during a skit. 2005 was a crazy year for tv censorship as motley crue also landed themselves in hot water with NBC.

Motley Crue Story

Today’s story is a pretty strange one. Back in 2005 Motley Crue appeared on an American Television Network to promote their anthology album at the time. The whole appearance ended with the band turning around and suing the television network for hurting album and concert sales and violating their free speech rights Let’s explore what happened in today’s video.

On December 31, 2004 Jay Leno’s tonight show on nbc held a new year’s eve episode with Motley Crue as the musical guest. The band was promoting their anthology album called Red, White and Crue. Motley Crue performed two of their classic songs girls girls girls and dr. feelgood . During Motley Crue’s performance of Girls Girls Girls frontman Vince Neil turned to drummer Tommy Lee and said, used an expletive as you can see here.

Of course the Federal Communications Commission who is responsible for monitoring the broadcast ariwaves received viewer complaints that probably could be counted on one hand. Fearing the wrath of the federal government who could’ve fined the network or worse removed their licenses, NBC quickly banned Motley Crue from any future appearanc Tommy Lee would appear by himself in an upcoming television reality show called Tommy Lee goes to college despite the ban, Motley Crue’s lawsuit alleged the network censored the group as a whole to please the federal government so no actions would be taken against NBC

The band’s lawyers pointed to U2, System of a Down and John Mayer for having similar slip ups but not facing the same consequences. Motley Crue’s lawyers zeroed

on Bono’s acceptance speech at th

Source

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/s....ystem-of-a-down-bann