LogFAQs > #907127521

Let The Bodies Hit The Floor by Drowning Pool

Drowning Pool's debut single "Bodies" was a big hit on rock radio, peaking at #6 on Active Rock and #12 on Alternative. The song proved to be hugely memetic, quickly becoming the band's Signature Song and being featured in countless TV shows, movies, video games, sporting and pro wrestling events, and commercials.

However, the song very quickly came to be overused in AMVs, Notepad tutorials, and Windows Movie Maker videos, a result of it being featured as part of YouTube's AudioSwap library, which also included other singles from Wind-Up Records artists.

Even worse, however, was the controversy surrounding the song, with its chorus of "let the bodies hit the floor" and its connection to a number of high-profile crimes.

The song was repeatedly played to torture inmates at Guantanamo Bay, in 2003 a teenager shot and murdered his parents while listening to "Bodies", and most infamously, in 2011 Jared Loughner had uploaded a video set to "Bodies" of him burning the American flag before going on a mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona.

The song was also included in iHeartMedia's (then Clear Channel) list of "lyrically questionable" songs that was given out to their radio stations after 9/11.

Originally written as a mosh-pit anthem, "Bodies" very quickly came to be viewed as a mass murder anthem instead, and while Drowning Pool themselves condemned the Tucson shooting, their chart success slid down the drain until their 2016 album Hellelujah completely missed the Billboard 200.