Broken Home (Papa Roach song)
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"Broken Home" is the second single from the band Papa Roach's second album, Infest. While "Broken Home" had some popularity, it did not have the same amount of popularity that their debut single "Last Resort" had.
Background, meaning and music
In an interview with Dan MacIntosh of Songfacts, Papa Roach member Tobin Esperance said that "Broken Home" "started out as a real funky kind of groove - a heavy guitar thing" and continued by saying "I was playing that at rehearsal, and it reminded me of Helmet; we were really into this band, Helmet, from the East Coast, and the riff kind of reminded us of one of their songs. I don't remember the exact song. We all just started jamming on it".[1]
Esperance also spoke about the what the song is about saying "Jacoby chose lyrically to set the topic in divorce, which is something that everybody in the band has dealt with and kids all over deal with. It's another painful subject to bring up, but people just let loose when it came to that song."[1]
Marcos Siega said that the song is "about a broken home and being torn between your parents".[2] Jacoby Shaddix said that the song "Broken Home" is about his family "falling to pieces pretty much and being stuck in the middle of two parents." He also said "One of them was actually not ever there. I had a bed-wetting problem for a lot of years, and I had a problem with my father."[3] Shaddix also said "When he was 18 or so, my biological father went to the Vietnam War to be a killer for the U.S. government, and it really put a tax on his life." Shaddix says angrily. "That war set up a lot of broken homes."[4]
Tobin Esperance said that his parents divorced when he was 6. Esperance said "My dad's cool, but I don't really know him that well". He also said "Coby didn't see his dad for, I think, 13 years."[5]
Music video
The music video shows the band performing in a house, with clips of a child's life. The music video shows a mother leaving a hospital in a wheelchair with a baby. The music video shows a kid playing with a racing set. It also shows the mother taking pills, police arriving and arresting the father, the father raping his wife (the mother), the father leaving the family and the father cheating on his wife (the mother). In the music video, Papa Roach's vocalist Jacoby Shaddix (who was known as Coby Dick when "Broken Home" was released) is seen hitting dirt with rage. Shaddix said "We wanted the video to be a mind fuck," Shaddix says "Like fuckin' fucked. I broke down during filming, freaked out." A production assistant was reported to have had a nervous breakdown and was reported to have stolen a van, too. The production assistant also was reported to have disappeared for two days. Marcos Siega, the director of the music video for "Broken Home", said "I wanted the actors to lose themselves in the roles," he says. "[The father] really forced himself on the woman playing the mom. I yelled 'cut' not to stop the action but to stop the actress from crying. It was difficult to watch."[5]
Siega said "I grew up in a broken home, my parents got divorced, and we touched on that in this video. And Coby [Dick], the singer, and I had a lot in common. I didn't talk to my dad for years, and he didn't talk to his dad for years."[2]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Broken Home" (Album Version) | 3:41 |
| 2. | "Broken Home" (Revised Version) | 3:28 |
| 3. | "Last Resort" (Album Version) | 3:19 |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Broken Home" (Album Version) | 3:45 |
| 2. | "Broken Home" (Radio Version) | 3:30 |
| 3. | "Never Enough" (Live) | 3:29 |
| 4. | "Broken Home" (Enhanced Video) |
Chart performance
| Chart (2000) | Peak Position |
|---|---|
| Austrian Singles Chart[6] | 42 |
| German Singles Chart | 34 |
| Swiss Singles Chart[7] | 96 |
| U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks | 9 |
| U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks | 18 |
References
- ^ a b "TOBIN ESPERANCE OF PAPA ROACH". Songfacts.
- ^ a b Rob Mancini (September 1, 2000). "Papa Roach, Blink-182 Return To Siega For New Videos". MTV.
- ^ Jill Pesselnick (November 25, 2000). "THE MODERN AGE". Billboard. 112 (48). Nielsen Business Media, Inc.: 95. ISSN 0006-2510.
- ^ Sacha Jenkins (2000). "NO WAY HOME". 16 (12). SPIN: 130. ISSN 0886-3032.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ a b Sacha Jenkins (2000). "NO WAY HOME". 16 (12). SPIN: 129. ISSN 0886-3032.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Austria Singles Chart (Retrieved January 5, 2010)
- ^ Switzerland Singles Chart (Retrieved January 5, 2010)