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navree · 2 years ago

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people talk about pumped up kicks as the premiere "school shooting song that is really catchy" but they're fools because i don't like mondays by the boomtown rats is right there and has been for nearly fifty years.

#personal #first of all it does give 'if i had a nickel for every time an insanely catchy and upbeat sounding song about a school shooting came out'#'i'd have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird it's happened twice' because yeah foster the people and boomtown rats both doing it #that's a coincidence #(tho i think pumped up kicks is more speculative whereas i don't like mondays is literally about the cleveland elementary shooting)#but second of all that song is so good i listen to it more than i should considering the subject matter #and for anyone wondering 'hey amelie you were born in 1999 why are you so into songs from the seventies and eighties?'#my father was the parent responsible for driving me around to school and various weekend activities and he was born in 1962 #my music tastes have been so indelibly marked by his old white guy from wisconsin vibes #you wanna know my first exposure to the karate kid? wasn't from that gay netflix show #it was because he played 'young hearts' by commuter a lot and i REALLY loved that song when i was ten #and it happened to be in the soundtrack of the movie #and yes you did hear me right at ten years old one of my alltime favorite songs was one that came out in 1984 #from what appears to be an incredibly obscure band

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