Editing Chop Suey! (section)

==Song title==
The song was originally titled either "Suicide" (according to the bassist, [[Shavo Odadjian]]) or "Self-Righteous Suicide" (according to Rubin), but the name was changed in response to real or anticipated pushback from [[Columbia Records]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/rick-rubin-my-life-in-21-songs-26024/system-of-a-down-chop-suey-2001-29262/|title=Rick Rubin: My Life in 21 Songs |author=Kory Grow |date= February 11, 2016 |publisher=Rolling Stone|access-date=July 23, 2019}}</ref><ref name="shavoLW">Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/UvNpgwRfWCY Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200930122250/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvNpgwRfWCY Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvNpgwRfWCY| title = System of a Down's Shavo Odadjian - Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction? | website=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref> According to Odadjian, the song title is a wordplay: "Suey" is "suicide", "chopped" in half.<ref name="shavoLW"/> Most pressings of the album include an intro to the track where the singer, Serj Tankian, can faintly be heard saying "we're rolling 'Suicide{{'"}} while the drummer, [[John Dolmayan]], is [[Counting (music)|counting]] the band in.