Stuck in America

"Stuck in America" is a protest song 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.

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.

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" and "everybody's gonna watch it burn today" were deemed by the Federal Communications Commission 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.