This song "Pumped Up Kicks" by the band Foster The People has seemingly become a big hit recently and is being played all over the radio. The song has reached #3 on the Canadian and US Billboard "Hot 100" lists, and has apparently received a good deal of critical acclaim.
My question is this: Why the hell are we applauding this piece of shit song that glamorizes a young boy shooting his classmates dead? Does no one listen to anything anymore? After the huge outcry from Columbine and the efforts on certain sides of the political aisle to curb/restrict gun ownership, etc. why is no one saying anything about the irresponsible nature in which this song is being promoted? God forbid a boob ever show up on basic cable, that would be the end of the world. But a song about school-aged kids killing their classmates? "Yeah, that sounds like a hit, we should play the shit out of this jam."
I can hardly find any online articles that even begin to address the fact that a song about children killing other children (presumably in a school setting?) is being plastered wall to wall across the airwaves?
I actually heard a kid at Jack In The Box the other night singing the lyrics to this song, he looked all of 12 years old, and his (what I'm assuming was his) mother was just standing there, dumb as could be, trying to decide what combo meal to stuff her fat face with, completely ignoring the fact that her child is singing a song who's lyrics include "you'd better outrun my gun... (and) you'd better run faster than my bullet." Does this trend not confound anyone else?
Look at the fucking lyrics to this song:
Since 2000 there have been more than 65! school shootings in the United States alone, with more than 110 victims, and we're allowing this piece of garbage song to be played 4,000 (a bit of an overestimate, but still...) times a day on any given radio station? How does this make any sense? Of all the bullshit things people in this country get uppity about, we're allowing what has become a pretty significant and all to common occurrence in our schools to be glamorized?
I just don't get it, at all.
My question is this: Why the hell are we applauding this piece of shit song that glamorizes a young boy shooting his classmates dead? Does no one listen to anything anymore? After the huge outcry from Columbine and the efforts on certain sides of the political aisle to curb/restrict gun ownership, etc. why is no one saying anything about the irresponsible nature in which this song is being promoted? God forbid a boob ever show up on basic cable, that would be the end of the world. But a song about school-aged kids killing their classmates? "Yeah, that sounds like a hit, we should play the shit out of this jam."
I can hardly find any online articles that even begin to address the fact that a song about children killing other children (presumably in a school setting?) is being plastered wall to wall across the airwaves?
I actually heard a kid at Jack In The Box the other night singing the lyrics to this song, he looked all of 12 years old, and his (what I'm assuming was his) mother was just standing there, dumb as could be, trying to decide what combo meal to stuff her fat face with, completely ignoring the fact that her child is singing a song who's lyrics include "you'd better outrun my gun... (and) you'd better run faster than my bullet." Does this trend not confound anyone else?
Look at the fucking lyrics to this song:
Since 2000 there have been more than 65! school shootings in the United States alone, with more than 110 victims, and we're allowing this piece of garbage song to be played 4,000 (a bit of an overestimate, but still...) times a day on any given radio station? How does this make any sense? Of all the bullshit things people in this country get uppity about, we're allowing what has become a pretty significant and all to common occurrence in our schools to be glamorized?
I just don't get it, at all.
