Stuck in America
| "Stuck in America" | ||||
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| Single by Sugarcult | ||||
| from the album Start Static | ||||
| Released | August 6, 2001 | |||
| Recorded | 2001 | |||
| Genre | Pop-punk[1] | |||
| Length | 2:57 | |||
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| Songwriter | Tim Pagnotta | |||
| Producer | Matt Wallace | |||
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| Music video | ||||
| "Stuck in America" on YouTube | ||||
| Music video | ||||
| "Stuck in America" alternate music video on Vimeo | ||||
"Stuck in America" is a protest song[2] and the debut single by the American rock band Sugarcult from their 2001 album Start Static and released as a single on August 6, 2001 by Ultimatum Music and Artemis Records and Epitaph Records in Europe.
Background
The song's narrative about being young and wanting to skip town.[3]
Music video
The music video, directed by Shawn Foster, featured the band performing at an Japanese talk show with being cheers by crowds primarily of Japanese girls.
Lyrical changes
Sugarcult's debut album, Start Static came out on August 21, 2001 — which was three weeks to the day before September 11 attacks. The band put out "Stuck in America" a few weeks before the album came out and the song started playing well on radio stations. After September 11th, radio stations started to dropping the song out. The line "blowin’ up the neighborhood" was deemed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to be too reminiscent of the attacks. Sugarcult changed the lyric "Everybody’s talking about blowin’ up the neighborhood" to "everybody’s talking about wakin’ up the neighborhood" out of sensitivity.[4]
See also
References
- ^ Loftin, Steven. "11 songs that remind us of home". Alternative Press Magazine. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
- ^ "Sugarcult's Brand of Alienation Tastes Sweet". The Washington Post. 2003-11-15. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
- ^ Piers, Ryan. "16 pop-punk albums from 2001 that you still know front to back". Alternative Press Magazine. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
- ^ Kaufman, Gil (2021-09-09). "Filter's Richard Patrick, Don McLean, Drowning Pool, Saliva & More Talk Post-9/11 Clear Channel Radio Scrub". Billboard. Retrieved 2025-12-09.