Broken Home (Papa Roach song)
"Broken Home" is a song by American rock band Papa Roach. It is the second single and third track from their second studio album, Infest. The song discusses family conflict and emotions in the aftermath of a divorce.
"Broken Home"
Musical style[edit]
According to Esperance, the song "started out as a real funky kind of groove – a heavy guitar thing." He also noted the influence of alternative metal band Helmet: "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".[5]
Commercial performance[edit]
Although "Broken Home" had some popularity, it did not match the popularity of Papa Roach's debut single "Last Resort."[7] "Broken Home" peaked at number nine on the Modern Rock Tracks chart[8] and number 18 on the Mainstream Rock chart.[9] The song was on the Modern Rock Tracks chart for 20 weeks[8] and the Mainstream Rock chart for 19 weeks.[9]
Critical reception[edit]
Chad Childers of Loudwire wrote that the song displayed Shaddix as "a master at baring his soul."[10] Other reviews were less positive, citing a sense of immaturity; Sal Cinquemani of Slant called the track "painfully reductive"[11] and Scott Seward of Spin wrote that it "[tried] to pick at teendom's boo-boos with Jonathan Davis' self-lacerating edge."[12]