Lonely Day

0.5/5 because it might make you laugh, and that'll make your day a little less lonely.
System of a Down really should have stuck to screaming, screeching, and throwing in that occasional Armenian flourish. When Daron Malakain decided he would write and sing his very own sensitive ballad the product was one of the most laughably bad songs of all time. It opens with some brooding electric guitar, can't be all that bad, and then it hits you: the nasally whine of Daron Malakian. It's okay System, you can try and cover your mistake by doing some anthem rocking in the choruses, you can throw in that fancy guitar work at the end, but nothing can save you from the unintentionally funny pits of those verses. Daron gets so worked up during the course of the song that he goes so far as to say that this day, which he assures us is "the most loneliest day of [his] life", "shouldn't exist", and that it is surely a day "[he will] never miss". "The most loneliest day of my life" has to be one of the most awkward choruses I've ever heard. But I think the real gold is in the second verse when Malakin tells us, in his own special nasal ways, that this day "Should be banned/ This day that I can't stand". We get it, you had a bad day, now go buy a thesaurus.

Half the hilarity is how serious these guys take this song, so for added kicks watch the music video which features the band in slow motion, and random crap on fire for no reason. What a lonely day.