Just on Saturday I wrote a post on “Pumped Up Kicks,” a song that I felt might be seen as enticing school shootings for troubled kids.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2851135/posts
I wonder if this shooter has this in his playlist. You can’t blame, but musicians can on their own decide to be more responsible. The worst offense in the sing is the happy, sweet tune and the lyrics don’t include anything bad happening to the perp.
Let’s put it this way: a film producer will not finance a movie from the point of view of a teen school shooter who enjoys killing his fellow students like it was a video game, enjoying them try to outrun his bullets in their expensive shoes, and nothing bad happens to the shooter. Why? Because the producer is afraid some attorney WILL blame the film for a future act.
I feel the song’s happy beat juxtaposed with an abused kid taking fire at innocents is irresponsible even though I wouldn’t take away his artistic right to be edgy. I’d add another verse where he either gets put away or killed or something.
“The worst offense in the sing is the happy, sweet tune and the lyrics don’t include anything bad happening to the perp.”
The point is the contrast, it’s kind of like “Sunny Came Home” in that regard. The next layer of “depth”: He’s thinking about it, it’s not made clear whether or not he acts on his thoughts.
“The worst offense in the sing is the happy, sweet tune and the lyrics don’t include anything bad happening to the perp.”
The point is the contrast, it’s kind of like “Sunny Came Home” in that regard. The next layer of “depth”: He’s thinking about it, it’s not made clear whether or not he acts on his thoughts.
So “Pumped Up Kicks” caused the shooting?