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“Megalomaniac” is a song by American alternative rock band Incubus, from their 2004 album A Crow Left of the Murder. It was released as a single in December of 2003, and eventually reached the top of Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks, where it stayed for a six-week period.
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Musical qualities

The song begins with a cyclic, scratchy warble that lasts about 30 seconds before fading into a more traditional build. The entire build lasts about one minute in all before climaxing into an electric bass riff, then leading into the first verse. The song is very low-pitched throughout and only up-tempo during the chorus and the intro.

Lyrical interpretations

Though the lead singer Brandon Boyd claims the song is not specifically targeting anybody [1], Megalomaniac has been called a “barely veiled condemnation of George W. Bush”[2]. The band maintains that the song’s meaning pertains to megalomaniacs in general.


Music video

The video for Megalomaniac, directed by Floria Sigismondi, features a bleak, dystopian view of the world portrayed using posterization and spriting (using 2D images in 3D settings). Much of the imagery was inspired by the anti-Nazi photocollages of German artist John Heartfield. Images of Adolf Hitler are interspersed with shots of the band and of many people who are either protesting or helpless and victimized. At the beginning of the 2nd verse, the video shows George W. Bush, then a man very similar to him in appearance, standing on a podium speaking to the revolutionaries. As the video progresses, the Bush look-alike sends officers to disperse the crowd. The speaker’s podium rises very high - then it is revealed that the podium is actually a gas pump.
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  • Nataliaa1

    <3

    March 2012

  • lost_in_blare

    jest moc !!!

    January 2012

  • old-man-jenkins

    this track is fking awesome

    January 2012

  • WhatTheAlex

    Band is great

    December 2011

  • Anni--x3

    So great <3

    December 2011

  • TribesAtWar

    Outstanding!

    December 2011

  • LexXxen0k

    AWESOME!!!

    November 2011

  • saykkk

    My Favourite Incubus Song <3

    October 2011

  • Jok3rNThi3f

    "I cut off both your wings, on principal alone". Fuck yeah, Incubus.

    October 2011

  • hey_crush

    Certainly one of my favs of them. That chorus is rocking as hell! [2]

    October 2011

  • Storchel

    Certainly one of my favs of them. That chorus is rocking as hell!

    September 2011

  • otter_

    Perfect......the whole experience!

    September 2011

  • linoceros

    just awesome!

    August 2011

  • Rivis5

    Yeah, you're no fucking Elvis !!!!!

    August 2011

  • Fuckafoe

    This song is mostachstic

    August 2011

  • DrownShips

    Amazing song and mind blowing musicvideo!!!

    July 2011

  • MoreIIi

    hahahaha, yoda fucking elvis!

    June 2011

  • Headbanger62695

    sounds like Rush's Ghostrider at some points, really awesome song though

    May 2011

  • braunblau

    aaaargh, ich liebe dieses lied =)

    April 2011

  • Lewishalo

    YODA FUCKING ELVIS

    April 2011
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