Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Lyrical Rhetoric

The song "Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the People actually has multiple ways for someone to read the message that the song gives. It also sends somewhat of a confusing message at the same time. For instance, the song is talking about how this kid stole a gun from his dad and is telling other kids they better run faster than his bullets. But it's being sang to a catchy kind of beat.

However, Marc Foster the guy who wrote this song had a career in jingle writing. So there is a chance that maybe it only has a catchy tune to it because that is what he was used to writing. Or maybe he wanted it to be that way. How I took the song was that it was a message to all the troubled kids in the world. The lyrics are how some of them might feel on the inside or might explain how they are having all the outragious thoughts going through their head. But, the catchy happy tune is how they are "pretending" to be, it's how they are showing their emotions on the outside.

This is a crazy song. When you think about it. Yeah you hear it on the radio and its upbeat song so everyone starts dancing around and seeing the words they think is being said. Then, you go and look at the lyrics and read exactly what they are saying and the first thing that pops in my head is who would write something like that? Or who could even come up with something like that? Overall it does have a message, but in all reality it is very disturbing. Maybe not to everyone, but to a lot of people it is.

It also has a lot of social and historical context to it. The historical issues would be school shootings, things can get so bad for kids at some schools that they just bring a gun to school and either shoot the kids that have tortured them, or even just shoot anyone in their sight. And thats when the social issues come into play. The kids in schools these days seem to have little or no respect for other people at all. They will say things to kids, or even pull pranks on them that will emotionally or even physically damage someone else and they don't even care. They don't even think twice about it. And sooner or later the kids that they are doing it to are going to reach their breaking point. Everyone handles it a different way but you have no idea what could be going through someones head or what could be going on in their life that you don't know about.

Makayla

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