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-nominated song by American

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band

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. The song is the fifth track on the band's tenth studio album, ''

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''. The audio samples in the song are from the documentary ''

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''.

Style

The song is one of the band's fastest songs, with

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reviewer David Jeffries describing the song as being " thrash-punk".

Music video

A music video was produced for the song and was directed by Zach Passero The video begins with a young boy watching a TV screen with animated soldiers marching. The boys gets up and runs out the room, with Jourgensen appearing right outside the window. The video cuts to the band performing the song in a room before cutting to a group of women dancing on tops of TVs during the pre-chorus of the song. The video briefly cuts back to the boy, who is watching then

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while eating dinner with his family. The video goes back to the band performing and shows the women dancing again. At the song's chorus, Jourgensen appears again outside the dining room window, with a nuclear explosion going off in the background and the family hides under the table. The TV cuts to a scene of a reporter talking about how "America has been hijacked" and pictures of George W. Bush and

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flashing across the screen (a reference to the song No W). The video shows the family sitting together in the living room, going on about their daily lives. Another explosion occurs with Jourgensen walking by outside. As the family takes cover, the boy from the beginning of the video (now a man) decides to take action and enlists in the

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. The video ends with the young boy/man marching away with the same Army shown at the beginning.

Awards

The song was nominated for

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at the

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, but lost to "

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" by

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In popular culture

* The song is featured in the 2007 film ''

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''. * The song is available as downloadable content for the video game '' Rock Band 2''.

Personnel

;Ministry *

Al Jourgensen Alain David Jourgensen (born Alejandro Ramírez Casas; October 9, 1958) is a Cuban-American singer, musician and music producer. Closely related with the independent record label Wax Trax! Records, his musical career spans four decades. He is be ...

– vocals, guitars, keyboards, production *

Tommy Victor Thomas M. Victor (born 1961/1962) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer. He is best known as the lead singer and guitarist for heavy metal band Prong, which he founded in New York City in 1986, as well as the guitarist for ...

– guitars * Paul Raven – bass ;Additional personnel * Mark Baker – drums

References

External links

Lyrics on AllMusic.com

Official Music Video on YouTube
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