liking a song then realized "pumped up kicks" is really disturbing

[Anonymous]

Here's another classic.

Sixty-minute man, sixty-minute man

Look a here girls I'm telling you now
They call me "Lovin' Dan"
I rock 'em, roll 'em all night long
I'm a sixty-minute man

If you don't believe I'mm all that I say
Come up and take my hand
When I let you go you'll cry "Oh yes,"
"He's a sixty-minute man

There'll be 15 minutes of kissing
Then you'll holler "please don't stop"
There'll be 15 minutes of teasing
And 15 minutes of squeezing
And 15 minutes of blowing my top

If your man ain't treating you right
Come up and see ol' Dan
I rock 'em, roll 'em all night long
I'm a sixty-minute man

Sixty-minute man
They call me Lovin' Dan
I rock 'em, roll 'em all night long
I'm a sixty-minute man

Sixty-minute man
They call me Lovin' Dan
I rock 'em, roll 'em all night long
I'm a sixty-minute man

There'll be 15 minutes of kissing
Then you'll holler "please don't stop"
There'll be 15 minutes of teasing
And 15 minutes of squeezing
And 15 minutes of blowing my top

If your man ain't treating you right
Come up and see ol' Dan
I rock 'em, roll 'em all night long
I'm a sixty-minute man, oh yeah
SIXTY-MINUTE MAN

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:not as bad as them singing along to rihannas Rude Boy

Yes, songs about sex are much worse than songs about murder.

Touche.

Saw some sort of action movie on broadcast TV a while ago. It was originally released as an 'R' rated movie. All of the scenes of actors being shot, stabbed, and otherwise mutilated were shown intact. But the network had dutifully dubbed in "shoot" for "shit", and "darn" for "damn".

We are an increasingly fucked-up and schizophrenic culture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's another classic.

Sixty-minute man, sixty-minute man

Look a here girls I'm telling you now
They call me "Lovin' Dan"
I rock 'em, roll 'em all night long
I'm a sixty-minute man

If you don't believe I'mm all that I say
Come up and take my hand
When I let you go you'll cry "Oh yes,"
"He's a sixty-minute man

There'll be 15 minutes of kissing
Then you'll holler "please don't stop"
There'll be 15 minutes of teasing
And 15 minutes of squeezing
And 15 minutes of blowing my top

If your man ain't treating you right
Come up and see ol' Dan
I rock 'em, roll 'em all night long
I'm a sixty-minute man

Sixty-minute man
They call me Lovin' Dan
I rock 'em, roll 'em all night long
I'm a sixty-minute man

Sixty-minute man
They call me Lovin' Dan
I rock 'em, roll 'em all night long
I'm a sixty-minute man

There'll be 15 minutes of kissing
Then you'll holler "please don't stop"
There'll be 15 minutes of teasing
And 15 minutes of squeezing
And 15 minutes of blowing my top

If your man ain't treating you right
Come up and see ol' Dan
I rock 'em, roll 'em all night long
I'm a sixty-minute man, oh yeah
SIXTY-MINUTE MAN

See-now that's art.

[Anonymous]

i am a child myself and it completely horrifies me that i was the first of my friend and family to discover the true lyrics. i believe that it is trying to glorify columbine and it should be taken off the radio immediatly. i hear it every morning while driving to school and it sickens me that people listen to this terrible song and are completely ignorent about the message this song is sending my generation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a song. Since the dawn of music, songs have dealt with controversial topics. If you read comments by the artists, they talk about how the song was meant to get people thinking about the topic in general, not Columbine specifically and was never intended to glorify.

Have any of you listened to country music lately? That has some of the most violent and abusive lyrics I've ever heard.

Please name some violent country songs.

Um, have you ever listened to any Johnny Cash songs?

Please name a lyrically offensive Johnny Cash song?

And exactly what current country song is full of violent and abusive lyrics? I'm no countr fan, but seriously? Country is pretty sanitized considering their fan base is heavily located in the bible belt.

"But I shot a man in Reno / just to watch him die." For starters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But WHITE folks since country music. It's totally different when white people do it!

What? What you wrote made no sense. White folds since country music. What is that suppose to mean?

Not the PP, but it's obviously a typo, and is meant to read, "But WHITE folks sing country music. It's totally different when white people do it!" (Seriously, you really didn't get that? Wow. Violent song lyrics are the least of your problems.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a song. Since the dawn of music, songs have dealt with controversial topics. If you read comments by the artists, they talk about how the song was meant to get people thinking about the topic in general, not Columbine specifically and was never intended to glorify.

Have any of you listened to country music lately? That has some of the most violent and abusive lyrics I've ever heard.

Please name some violent country songs.

Um, have you ever listened to any Johnny Cash songs?

Please name a lyrically offensive Johnny Cash song?

And exactly what current country song is full of violent and abusive lyrics? I'm no countr fan, but seriously? Country is pretty sanitized considering their fan base is heavily located in the bible belt.

Early one mornin' while makin' the rounds
I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down
I went right home and I went to bed I stuck that lovin' 44 beneath my head

Got up next mornin' and I grabbed that gun took a shot of cocaine and away I run
Made a good run but I run too slow they overtook me down in Juarez Mexico

Late in the hot joints takin' the pills in walked the sheriff from Jericho Hill
He said Willy Lee your name is not Jack Brown
You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down
Said yes oh yes my name is Willy Lee if you've got the warrant just aread it to me
Shot her down because she made me slow
I thought I was her daddy but she had five more

When I was arrested I was dressed in black
They put me on a train and they took me back
Had no friend for to go my bail they slapped my dried up carcass in that country jail

Early next mornin' bout a half past nine I spied the sheriff coming down the line
Talked and he coughed as he cleared his throat
He said come on you dirty heck into that district court
Into the courtroom my trial began where I was handled by twelve honest men
Just before the jury started out I saw the little judge commence to look about

In about five minutes in walked the man holding the verdict in his right hand
The verdict read in the first degree I hollered Lordy Lordy have a mercy on me

The judge he smiled as he picked up his pin 99 years in the Folsom pen
99 years underneath that ground I can't forget the day I shot that bad bitch down
Come on you've gotta listen unto me lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be

Cocaine Blues is my favorite song. I'm white female, 38. I don't think I'll be reinacting this song, ever. But it makes me laugh everytime I sing it.

Same with other songs. Just because I like the song does not mean I will act on the lyrics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a song. Since the dawn of music, songs have dealt with controversial topics. If you read comments by the artists, they talk about how the song was meant to get people thinking about the topic in general, not Columbine specifically and was never intended to glorify.

Have any of you listened to country music lately? That has some of the most violent and abusive lyrics I've ever heard.

Please name some violent country songs.

Um, have you ever listened to any Johnny Cash songs?

Please name a lyrically offensive Johnny Cash song?

And exactly what current country song is full of violent and abusive lyrics? I'm no countr fan, but seriously? Country is pretty sanitized considering their fan base is heavily located in the bible belt.

Early one mornin' while makin' the rounds
I took a shot of cocaine and I shot my woman down
I went right home and I went to bed I stuck that lovin' 44 beneath my head

Got up next mornin' and I grabbed that gun took a shot of cocaine and away I run
Made a good run but I run too slow they overtook me down in Juarez Mexico

Late in the hot joints takin' the pills in walked the sheriff from Jericho Hill
He said Willy Lee your name is not Jack Brown
You're the dirty hack that shot your woman down
Said yes oh yes my name is Willy Lee if you've got the warrant just aread it to me
Shot her down because she made me slow
I thought I was her daddy but she had five more

When I was arrested I was dressed in black
They put me on a train and they took me back
Had no friend for to go my bail they slapped my dried up carcass in that country jail

Early next mornin' bout a half past nine I spied the sheriff coming down the line
Talked and he coughed as he cleared his throat
He said come on you dirty heck into that district court
Into the courtroom my trial began where I was handled by twelve honest men
Just before the jury started out I saw the little judge commence to look about

In about five minutes in walked the man holding the verdict in his right hand
The verdict read in the first degree I hollered Lordy Lordy have a mercy on me

The judge he smiled as he picked up his pin 99 years in the Folsom pen
99 years underneath that ground I can't forget the day I shot that bad bitch down
Come on you've gotta listen unto me lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be

Cocaine Blues is my favorite song. I'm white female, 38. I don't think I'll be reinacting this song, ever. But it makes me laugh everytime I sing it.

Same with other songs. Just because I like the song does not mean I will act on the lyrics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i am a child myself and it completely horrifies me that i was the first of my friend and family to discover the true lyrics. i believe that it is trying to glorify columbine and it should be taken off the radio immediatly. i hear it every morning while driving to school and it sickens me that people listen to this terrible song and are completely ignorent about the message this song is sending my generation.

This is the beauty of radio -- there is an on/off button. You can chose to turn it off if you don't like the tune. No one is holding you down and forcing you to listen to it.

[Anonymous]

What about Blister in the Sun? Not violent, but about drug use, and ultimately whining that your girlfriend won't put out so you need to masturbate.

When I'm out walking
I strut my stuff
And I'm so strung out
I'm high as a kite
I just might
Stop to check you out

Let me go on like I
Blister in the sun
Let me go on
Big hands, I know you're the one

Body and beats
I stain my sheets
I don't even know why
My girlfriend
She's at the end
She is starting to cry

Let me go on like I
Blister in the sun
Let me go on
Big hands, I know you're the one

When I'm out walking
I strut my stuff
And I'm so strung out
I'm high as a kite
I just might
Stop to check you out

When I'm out walking
I strut my stuff
And I'm so strung out
I'm high as a kite
I just might
Stop to check you out

Body and beats
I stain my sheets
I don't even know why
My girlfriend
She's at the end
She is starting to cry

When I'm out walking
I strut my stuff
And I'm so strung out
I'm high as a kite
I just might
Stop to check you out

Let me go on like I
Blister in the sun
Let me go on
Big hands, I know you're the one

[Anonymous]

OMG I was just starting to like that "pumped up kicks" but didnt have clue what it was about. I'm not Tipper Gore but I will never listen to it again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i am a child myself and it completely horrifies me that i was the first of my friend and family to discover the true lyrics. i believe that it is trying to glorify columbine and it should be taken off the radio immediatly. i hear it every morning while driving to school and it sickens me that people listen to this terrible song and are completely ignorent about the message this song is sending my generation.

No. It isn't trying to glorify Columbine. But I can understand the confusion for children who aren't sophisticated enough to get the nuance of lyrics that appear to support this. I've seen interviews with the group/singer who wrote the lyrics and they were trying to raise awareness. And they have, haven't they? People are talking about the song. Some find it wrong to play, but the point is that people are TALKING about it. TALKING about things like Columbine and gun violence and the isolation that some teens feel that brings about violence is a GOOD thing.

If you hear this song on mainstream music and don't want to have a discussion with your kid, then turn it off. My kids are too young to listen to this type of music - we don't play any of this mainstream stuff in the car. My 4 yo tends to prefer Duran Duran and - though he is too innocent to understand the lyrics - it isn't like those are completely benign either.

Personally, I prefer Pumped Up Kicks over songs like Motivation (love the song, but no WAY am I letting my kids listen to it. I don't need to have that conversation with them just yet).

[Anonymous]

Maybe this is irrelevant but Pumped Up Kicks is actually about a mall shooting in Omaha in 2008.

I agree with the PP that I don't think this song is meant to glorify violence at all. To me, as disturbing as it is to hear these lyrics paired with such chipper, upbeat music, it reminds me that we do live in a violent society where people do awful things to each other for no reason, and to always be mindful of what it takes to keep civil society together. Granted, teenagers probably don't hear it in the same way. I have to admit, after playing it in the car a few times, my kids fell in love with it and begged me to download it so they could hear it at home. And I did. And they request it on a regular basis. I sing over the chorus so they don't hear the true lyrics.

[Anonymous]

Regardless of the lyrics, the song makes my ears bleed it is so bad.

[Anonymous]

I love that song.