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2007 single by Stone Sour
"Sillyworld"
Single by Stone Sour
from the album Come What(ever) May
ReleasedMarch 9, 2007
RecordedJanuary – April 2006 at Studio 606 In Northridge, California
Genre
Length4:08
LabelRoadrunner
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Nick Raskulinecz
Stone Sour singles chronology
"Through Glass"
(2006)
"Sillyworld"
(2007)
"Made of Scars"
(2007)

"Sillyworld" (stylized in all lowercase) is the third single from Stone Sour's 2006 album Come What(ever) May. It reached number two on the Mainstream Rock charts in 2007. A video for the song, directed by David Brucha, was released in February 2007, combining images of corporate America with pictures of clenched fists of resistance, revolutionists such as Mao Zedong, Ayatollah Khomeini, Che Guevara, and AK-47 assault rifles. According to the Roadrunner Records website: "The video for Stone Sour's 'Silly World' takes a crack at all the bullshit going on in the world today...apathy, tyranny, poverty, violence, and greed are all targets."

The lyrics are a critique of how ideas are becoming nothing but symbols through media corruption, and then dying off as they lose their significance. It speaks of instances such as love becoming "Just a song," or peace being "Just two fingers now... just a phase." Similar to "Through Glass", the content of the song is angry and has rebellious undertone, despite its softer, slower instrumental style.

The song was first time performed live on the 16 November 2007 at Pumpehuset in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Track listing

CD single
No.TitleLength
1."Sillyworld" (edit)3:48
2."Sillyworld"4:08
3."The Frozen"3:04
Promo CD single US (2006)
No.TitleLength
1."Sillyworld" (edit)3:45
2."Sillyworld"4:08
Promo CD single US #2 (2006)
No.TitleLength
1."Sillyworld" (clean edit)3:45
Promo CD single Europe (2007)
No.TitleLength
1."Sillyworld" (clean edit)3:33
2."Sillyworld" (edit)3:33

Chart positions

Chart (2007) Peak
position
US Billboard Alternative Songs 21
US Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks 2

References

  1. Roadrunner Records

External links

Stone Sour
Studio albums
Live albums
EPs
Singles
Tours
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