I’ve made a near lifelong habit of tuning out the lyrics, unless there’s something actually compelling or of merit contained in them.
This song hit the airwaves last year here, in the fall. The refrain is unavoidable but the subtext isn’t. The tension between the atmospheric alt-pop sound and singsong, almost childish vocals, with the startling threat of gunfire that just sort of pops out of the blue, is the reason for the pull it exerts, or exerted, since it’s been long played to death and has fallen out of rotation.
There is much cause for concern in modern society, and has been since the sixties at least, and popular music provides the soundtrack. The envelope is continually pushed, toward ever greater depravity.
As disturbing as you found this, there are far worse examples.
This song hit the airwaves last year here, in the fall. The refrain is unavoidable but the subtext isn’t. The tension between the atmospheric alt-pop sound and singsong, almost childish vocals, with the startling threat of gunfire that just sort of pops out of the blue, is the reason for the pull it exerts, or exerted, since it’s been long played to death and has fallen out of rotation.