"Stupify" | ||||
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Single by Disturbed | ||||
from the album The Sickness | ||||
Released | April 12, 2000 | |||
Format | 12" gramophone record, CD single | |||
Recorded | November–December 1999 | |||
Genre | Nu metal | |||
Length | 4:07 | |||
Label | Giant | |||
Writer(s) | Steve Kmak Dan Donegan Mike Wengren David Draiman |
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Producer(s) | Johnny K | |||
Disturbed singles chronology | ||||
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"Stupify" is a song by the heavy metal band Disturbed. The song was released on April 12, 2000 as a single from their debut album, The Sickness. It peaked at number-twelve on the United States Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and number-ten on the United States Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song was also used in an English adaptation of the Dragon Ball Z movie Lord Slug, and remixed for the movie Little Nicky as "Stupify (Fu's Forbidden Little Nicky Remix)". Unlike a lot of other Disturbed songs, "Stupify" features synthesizers.
The song is against racism and discrimination. The song is about a relationship Disturbed's vocalist David Draiman was in with a Latina girl. He said her family didn't approve of him because of his different ethnicity.
The video for the song features the band performing the song in a rusted cellar-like room, intercut with footage of a young boy sitting in the same room. As the song progresses, the boy is revealed to be haunted by ghost-like images. David Draiman said that the boy represents his inner child and also said, "This inner child has been damaged in such a way that the world he sees around him is dark and frightening and marred by life experience. It's haunted by specters and ghosts from the past."