“Pumped Up Kicks” would have received tons of backlash if it were released today
there were seven school shootings the year the song was released. thats why they released the song. it wasnt a poorly planned fictional piece of music, it was written as a response to tragedies that were happening at the time. dork
They pulled it from the radio after Sandy Hook happened.
“indigenous people gave gold for mirrors!! how dumb they were!! spaniard were so smart” is such a strange thing say, such a basic perspective by europeans.
like, imagine if aliens came to the earth and their “economic system” is based on……lettuce. they say that they will give you a Thing that you dont have and u are like yes, i want the cool thing !! and for some unknown reason you see the aliens being fascinated by lettuce ; and u are like. sure, my dude ? have some lettuce ? lets exchange things, u weird alien?
and then the aliens spend years saying how dumb u were for giving them lettuce for one of their basic artifacts (that u never seen) and you are like. bro it was just lettuce ? i have more ? lol
and then they torture, slave and kill all your people for lettuce.
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