"Pumped Up Kicks" - Vanity on the morality of the song

Fertile brain; link to a generic YouTube vid with lyrics ^ | 2/25/12 | Self

[Yaelle]

Unfortunately, where there is free speech, there will also be foolish speech.

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Of course, and I’d die for that right. But there is a limit on free speech if it results in mass injury, for no reason. Crying “Fire” in a crowded theater is ok if there IS a fire. The song’s writer would get away with it in my mind if at the end the boy goes to jail or hears sirens coming or some such. This way a sick teen who sees this as his way out can see that such violent fantasies have serious real consequences.

[Yaelle]

If he meant to provoke thought anNd discussion about HIM, AND HIS MOTIVATIONS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, He is successful. His juxtaposition of a pleasurable melody IS the subject, not the causes or horrors of teen mass shootings.

[Yaelle]

I think you are correct.

This may be santorum’s appeal too. He is the little boy telling us the culture emperor is empty, naked.

The mainstream mocks him for not being cool like they are, not being down with gay sex, illegal drugs, porn and guiltless living. But he isn’t trying to point out the culture is sinning. He’s trying to tell them they are standing for EMPTINESS.

When anything goes, there is no culture. Our lives become as meaningful as lives of rats. Our art becomes as meaningful as what a rat drags back into its hole from the dumpster.

[Yaelle]

Wow. It’s kinda sick. And if they are big Dem donors, buying their music is like being members of a politically connected union. I guess we now know how much of our entertainment dollars go to bad ends though.

You sound like you’re in the industry so this will come as no surprise to you but I know a musician who bought a chateau in France and a villa in Tuscany all from writing the jingles for a known toy’s tv commercials.

[House Atreides]

For those of you who watch the television series “Homeland” there was an interesting point where the song “Pumped Up Kicks” intersected the action.

In the final episode of Season One (ran in December) Sergeant Brody (a Manchurian candidate type) had donned a suicide vest under his marine uniform and was leaving his house to go on a suicide mission to blow up the Vice President and other high ranking US officials.

As he was leaving, Brody stopped in his kitchen to say goodbye to his teenage daughter who was there listening to her ipod (or maybe it was an iphone). As she removed her ear buds, you could hear that the music she was listening to at that moment was “Pumped Up Kicks”.

The daughter, who knew that her father had been acting strangely, was worried about him and asked him to not go. But he did go and played his part in the terrorist mission. I’m sure that the choice of the music was deliberate by the writers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_One_%28Homeland%29

[Norm Lenhart]

Nope. Just a hobbyist. You’d be surprised what you can find hanging out on musician’s forums though. People in the industry aren’t secretive about it at all. It gets talked about alot by people trying to get in to the business and those offering their advice. It’s just that ‘normal’ people never tread those waters, or really ever think about what goes on to make the things entertainment in this case) that they consume.

[carmody]

It is kind of ridiculous to think that Don Imus gets fired for his words and the ESPN fellow for “chink in the armor” ... and yet there is an entire industry built on shocking, distasteful, hateful speech and they are richly rewarded for it.

[Caipirabob]

Thank you Norm, I'll pull it up on Youtube.

Well, I found a GREAT "recruiting" video here Adele-Rolling In The Deep(Hot Ibiza Party Remix 2012) . I don't think it's "work safe", either - lol!

[Norm Lenhart]

That would be the ‘not so good’ ;)

Try Chicane - “Offshore”. That’s a bit more old school and better ;)

[Fire_on_High]

Seconded!