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"Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the people
« on: October 22, 2011, 04:41:28 PM »


You may have heard this song on the radio and licked the melody line and upbeat rhythms.  However, it is a song about violence, bullying and guns,

This is not fringe or gansta music.  This is mainstream pop 40 music playing on stations running formats from teen to senior citezens.
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Re: "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the people
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2011, 08:14:59 AM »
Unfortunately songs like this have been written since people have been singing.  "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane was about heroin.  Hell, "Ring around the rosey" is about the plague.
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Re: "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the people
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2011, 12:50:29 PM »
A local radio station recently did a whole block on "murder" songs...songs about violence, good and bad, quite literally, run all the way through the spoken traditions. I've done a lot of blues songs on the podcast, dating from the beginning of recordings, that had the same subject matter as "Pumped Up Kicks."

It is our nature, perhaps, to glorify violence because we monkeys are so darn good at it.

After all. I shot the sheriff, but I did not shoot the deputy...

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Re: "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the people
« Reply #3 on: October 24, 2011, 02:55:58 PM »
Yep.
Violence-themed music has been around a long time.

Now where did I leave my .32-20?......HEY, Robert...............    ;)
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Re: "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the people
« Reply #4 on: October 24, 2011, 03:06:07 PM »
Good thing respectable folks like Jonny Cash would never sing about stuff like this... oh, oops! ;D
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Re: "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the people
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Re: "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the people
« Reply #5 on: October 24, 2011, 07:43:39 PM »
You find aggressive/combative songs every where.....


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Re: "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the people
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2011, 07:13:19 PM »
That fluffy pop music ain't violent. 

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Re: "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the people
« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2011, 08:23:11 PM »
Quote from: mauler on October 26, 2011, 07:13:19 PM
That fluffy pop music ain't violent. 



Is it just me, or does anyone else here want to yell "Turn That Sh!t Off"! I must be getting old. ;D
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Re: "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the people
« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2011, 09:12:54 PM »
Quote from: fightingquaker13 on October 26, 2011, 08:23:11 PM
Is it just me, or does anyone else here want to yell "Turn That Sh!t Off"! I must be getting old. ;D
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But the lyrics are so awesome.
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Re: "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the people
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