Foster the People's "Pumped Up Kicks", refers to a kid that has plans to shoot his classmates in school with a gun he found in his Dad's closet. The song has a line in it that goes, "All the other Kids with pumped up kicks you'd better run, better run, outrun my gun." This line refers to the shooter telling the Kids to have pumped up kicks because you'd better run from my gun or I will shoot you. The song has a rather dark meaning, but it is based upon the violent things kids do such as violent video games that make kids do violent acts.
The song was overall good for me, because even though the meaning is dark the sound of the pop triumphs over the fact that it is so dark. The beat and the slight murkiness of the lyrics makes it truly good pop. The chorus as well can pick up the audience and put more enjoyment into the song along with the whistling in parts of the song.
You couldn't blame the artist to create lyrics likes this sense what has happened in the past when the song was released. The amount of school shootings has rapidly increased in the last five years and this really affects the mood of the song and what it has to say. Overall this pop song was enjoyable for me and hopefully to others as well.
I like how you went over the lyrics of the song and really went into detail about it as it helped me understand the song, as well as connecting it to the recent school shootings. Some things to change it to be less general after going over a strong point. A good summary doesn't involve length but rather the details.
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