Watch The World Burn

Album: Popular Monster (2023)
Charted: 83
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Songfacts®:

  • In this emo-based rap-metal song, Falling In Reverse frontman Ronnie Radke wants to burn away his haters, critics and everybody else who stands in his way.
  • Radke kicks things off with some lines about his mental health issues.

    I got problems I got issues, yeah, apparently
    Trauma that I'm burying
    I think I need some therapy
    I battle depression


    Radke served two years in prison in the mid-'00s for his role in the death of a Nevada teenager. His time locked up resulted in him suffering from PTSD and social anxiety.
  • Throughout the rest of the song, Radke reacts aggressively towards his haters and rages against the machine. Such has been Falling In Reverse's success, he has the last laugh.

    Gripping and ripping I'm sticking the mark
    I'm tipping the ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-charts
  • Radke and his Falling In Reverse bandmates, rhythm guitarist Christian Thompson and bassist Tyler Burgess, wrote "Watch the World Burn" with:

    Tyler Smyth of the alternative rock/metal group Dangerkids. Smyth, aka Myth, is also a music producer and songwriter for the likes of blessthefall and I Prevail.

    Wage War rhythm guitarist and clean vocalist Cody Quistad.

    Radke and Smyth co-produced the song.
  • Los Angeles filmmaker Jensen Noen directed the effects-laden music video where Radke torches the world.

    At one point in the visual, laptops rain down from the sky and one of them hits a Sebastian Bach lookalike. Skid Row singer Bach beefed with Falling In Reverse in 2022 after the band had to back out of a festival performance because their laptops went missing. Bach criticized their use of computerized backing tracks to execute a live show.
  • Falling in Reverse scored their first entry on the Billboard Hot 100 when "Watch the World Burn" arrived on the chart dated February 18, 2023 at #83.
  • This is country star Carrie Underwood's favorite workout song. "It switches gears a lot, and it's kind of an epic song," she enthused to SiriusXM in a January 2024 interview, "Whenever you get a song that is just epic - like, it's long and visual and switching cadence - I always think that's cool. So that one gets me going."

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