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What song did you love until you found out what it was about? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Or maybe you still love it, but now you have a different perspective.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not sure, if I stopped listening to mainstream music around that time, but uh, both of my examples are from 2011, apparently:

Kind of a classic response to this question, is "Pumped Up Kicks" from Foster The People. It's got that upbeat melody, and the lyrics are this:

All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You’d better run, better run, outrun my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You’d better run, better run, faster than my bullet.

And my other example is "The A Team", apparently originally from Ed Sheeran, and apparently also with an upbeat melody. I think, I only ever listened to a cover version. But yeah, it's about drug use and sex work, and how those kind of necessitate each other...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

I think pumped up kicks is actually a really poignant statement on how normalized gun violence is in the states, to the point where this song was all over radios and I'm sure all over high school dances and nobody thought twice about it. Like obviously the band did it intentionally but the fact that the point was missed so hard by everyone who sang along. It is like Hey Ya vibes to me, or smells like teen spirit for the older crowds. The point is to take these very serious ideas and use them to highlight people's willful ignorance.