Lie Lie Lie

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“Lie Lie Lie”
“Lie Lie Lie” cover
Single by Serj Tankian
from the album Elect the Dead
Released December 24, 2007
Format Digital download, CD (Promo)
Genre Experimental rock
Dark cabaret
Length 3:34
Label Serjical Strike/Reprise
Writer(s) Serj Tankian
Producer Serj Tankian
Serj Tankian singles chronology
"Empty Walls"
(2007)
"Lie Lie Lie"
(2007)
"Sky Is Over"
(2008)
Alternate Cover
The Myspace album art of "Lie Lie Lie".
The Myspace album art of "Lie Lie Lie".

"Lie Lie Lie" is the ninth track and a digital download and Promo CD single off Serj Tankian's solo debut album Elect the Dead. The music video is directed by Martha Colburn [1].

At first I was skeptical because you have to adopt different roles simultaneously. You have to learn to self-edit and fortunately I was able to be very critical. An example would be a song called ‘Lie Lie Lie’, which is a funny a song but I had some very serious lyrics to it. Man, I went in there five fucking times trying to make that song great, but it just wasn’t working. Then I realized the lyrics were way too serious for such a silly song. So I ripped them up, threw them on the floor and went in and did it all on the fly, just having fun and creating it all again from scratch. In the end the song became this really crazy, humorous drama. And you have to do that. You have to be critical and keep changing things until it sounds right.

Serj Tankian [2]

The music video is available on the iTunes order of Elect the Dead. The song is characterized by opera singer Ani Maldjian singing: "la la la la la la la la lie lie lie" either with Serj or by herself.

The song is currently featured in the opening titles of NBC's Fear Itself, a horror anthology show from the creators of Masters of Horror, and can be viewed on the show's main website.

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