Does This Strike You As Irresponsible?

This song "Pumped Up Kicks" by the band ****** 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 **** 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 *** 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 **** ******* their classmates? "Yeah, that sounds like a hit, we should play the **** out of this jam." :facepalm:

I can hardly find any online articles that even begin to address the fact that a song about ******** ******* other ******** (presumably in a school setting?) is being plastered wall to wall across the airwaves?

I actually heard a *** 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) ****** 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 ***** is singing a song who's lyrics include "you'd better outrun my ***... (and) you'd better run faster than my bullet." Does this trend not confound anyone else?

Look at the fucking lyrics to this song:
Robert's got a quick hand.
He's looking 'round the room, he won't tell you his plan.
He's got a rolled cigarette, hanging out his mouth he's a cowboy ***.
Yeah, he found a six shooter ***.
In his ***'s closet
with a box of fun things, I don't even know what.
But he's coming for you, yeah, he's coming for you.

[Chorus]
All the other **** with the pumped up kicks, you'd better run, better run, outrun my ***.
All the other **** with the pumped up kicks, you'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet.

***** works a long day.
He's coming home late, yeah, he's coming home late.
And he's bringing me a surprise.
His dinner's in the kitchen and it's packed in ice.

I've waited for a long time.
Yet the slide of my hand is now a quick pulled trigger,
I reason with my cigarette,
And say your hair's on fire, you must have lost your wits, yeah.

[Chorus]
All the other **** with the pumped up kicks, you'd better run, better run, outrun my ***.
All the other **** with the pumped up kicks, you'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet.

Run, run, run, run, ru- ru- ru- run, run, run, ru- ru- ru- run, run, run, ru- ru- ru- run, ru- run, run, run, run.
[Whistling]

[Chorus]
All the other **** with the pumped up kicks, you'd better run, better run, outrun my ***.
All the other **** with the pumped up kicks, you'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet.

Since 2000 there have been more than Premium Link Upgrade 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.



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It doesn't even got a good beat.
 
It's sad and depressing however, talk of these type seems to be socially accepted. When a ***** actually shoots another ***** then this song will be held responsible, but untill that happens people just listen in and dont pay attention. Music and Media have a huge influence on how **** grow up, just need the parents and the actual singers to realise this. I blame the singers far more than i blame the parents and the **** tho.....
 
Re: Does This Strike You As Irresponsible?

At the very best it's irresponsible, but don't worry, it's only art. :facepalm:

Seriously, it's no wonder why western cultured couples are opting not to have ******** these days with **** like this looming around.

It's sad and depressing however, talk of these type seems to be socially accepted.
that and they become desensitized and jaded.
When a ***** actually shoots another ***** then this song will be held responsible
The media will blame the artists for a day and the guns forever... imagine that, blaming inanimate objects!!
 
I think the bigger problem is living in a nation that glamourises guns to the extent they are no longer seen as weapons designed to **** which is their primary function
 
Pearl Jam did it many years earlier...and a lot better.




I think both Pearl Jam and ****** the People were going for the same effect - both of the song writers' attempts to get inside the heads of psychos, as well as raising awareness to responsible *** ownership. However, the popish beats used in Pumped Up Kicks makes ******'s less successful, IMHO, as Vedder's was quite a bit darker.
Then again, bouncy songs about death have worked in the past.



Unfortunately, I think most of this post simply proves that I am getting too fucking old and turning into one of those angry old men yelling at **** to turn down the damn music.
Now if you will excuse me, those damn **** are on my lawn again.
 
I agree with you on the point that people need to listen to the lyrics. Every person I have talked to about the song has no idea what it is about, and they say they love the song.

It is an upbeat song with a very dark message. There are a lot of songs about terrible things that have happened, that doesn't mean they are bad songs. I love the song for the fact that it is so dark, but has a great upbeat fell. I think that is a great twist.
 
I'm not too surprised. **** all the time are allowed to play violent video games, stay out late, and watch and listen to whatever they want. Parenting these days is atrocious. But nudity, God forbid anyone see the natural human body.
 
It's just a song.

just add chemically unbalanced single parented youngster + a day of deep dark depression + some bong hits + a few swigs of Martin Remy + a friend's ******'s handgun + a venue....


...and to think that a song could spawn such horror. :eek:
 
God damn it Plump Rump! You hurt my ears by post that video, I had to listen to it because I've never even heard of that **** that passes for music.
But reading over the description, it sounds like it's about that boy who shot the younger Gay boy in class in front of everyone, because he thought he was being sexually advanced upon, and just got acquitted for committing ******.

Now these douches come along and ****** music, fitting.
 
I don't give a fuck, I love this song. ****** The People is a really good band, don't let that one song keep you from listening to their album, they make some good music.

 
It's a pretty crappy song. I think it's just as bad there are parents out there that mindlessly let their **** listen to or watch whatever they want without paying attention to what's happening.
 
I don't like the song or the band, but how do you consider it glamorizing the school shooting?

On a different note, I like THIS song about a school shooting better:

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