Woah!! First time hearing Foster The People "Pumped Up Kicks" Reaction| Asia and BJ 

Very well put. The intelligence on this channel is crazy!

The US is at a slave ...for the dispicable Biden.

As time goes on we are going to see how Different the Millenials and Gen Z's lif exerpierence will have been. At this stage will still tend to lump then together but the world changed a lot from the time that Millenials were coming of age and the Gen Z Folk who are coming of age nowa days. I do agree with what you are saying though. Those Two generations have grown up with a difference sense of humor and a different view on what is a serious matter and what isn't and how to differentiate between the two amd how to cope amd tackle with issues

@@gamexsimmonds3581 my now adult kids were born in 93, 95, and 99, we didn't have our first computer in the house until 2005, my 23 year old considers herself a zoomer, my older two millenials, non of is had "smart " phones until around 2010, as a household we were fashionably late to the internet party, but it made zero difference as far as their lives being somewhat different than eachother, all of them were taught basic computer skills in elementary school, crazy to me, our first game system.as kid was an Atari 1800,lol my grandparents had pong

@@lisemzarate4029 Yeah. I guess yall were a little late to the party. It's crazy to think that the oldest Millenials will be turning 40 soon. And if you compare their upbringing to that of someone born in 1999. Generally speaking they have very different life experiences. Not only technology but the things and world events they experiences. Media they consumed. I love thinking about that stuff. I can't wait to see what Generation Alpha will be like. The folks born from the 2010s to the 2030s. This is the Generation my nephews belong to born in 2011, 2015, and 2019. Watching them grow I've already noticed differences to the way their mom and I grew up. Anyway take care Lisem 🙂

They terrorized our streets in 2020.

And oh boy was he right. Each generation keeps getting more and more mental health issues. Its scary

@@kinsal_9308 The more they keep pushing love, tolerance and acceptance, the more upset everyone becomes. It's really, really weird. The kids aren't all right.

@@LadyIarConnacht I believe it's because people need to experience hardship as kids. They need a sense of responsibility. But nowadays all these social boundaries are being broken down and kids are questioning this society that previous generations have built and continue to govern. I think a lot of kids feel lost these days because we like to act as though everybody is more social now, but are we really? Yes we talk alot over social media now but that's completely different to irl. There's so much terrible stuff happening in the world and it's a lot of what these kids see online, so we can't blame them for having a bleak view on the world. Not to mention kids don't want to come forward about their mental health because society treats them like a wounded animal now, so they either deal with it by doing drugs drinking and going clubbing or they isolate themselves and dive deeper into lonliness and/or depression. Then if they do decide to come forward about it they give them some drugs to rewire your mind and often make people disassociate from themselves, and they tell them they are not alone and that there are all these ppl that can help. A depressed kid wants an outlet, a way of bettering themselves or at least a way to come to terms with the life they are living. Not to be given drugs to almost force happiness onto them and sometimes makes them feel ill and have ppl talk to you like you are an animal being put down. It's sad really, this generation is truly the first of a new way of thinking and as much as previous generations try to do things as best as they can for them they end up doing the opposite. Tbh when you look at it from an outside perspective, it kind of is disgusting what we are leaving them with. Each generation grows into adults and becomes ignorant themselves and just conforms to these societies that are destroying the earth, killing our animals, killing people by destroying their health and mental health. Majority of the beautiful nature that was around for other generations is now urbanised buildings. And then we just leave it for the next generation and just try to comfort them about it whilst we are here for them.

@@LadyIarConnacht Jon Haidt's work will shed some light on these issues and more. If you don't like reading books much, then you can just watch his talks/lectures on RU-vid. Just type in 'Jon Haidt Gen Z'. That will cover all of this. It began around 2011 in a big way mostly among young girls, and things like school shooters are actually hyper rare still, but nonetheless, there are profound issues going on at all levels with the youth, boys and girls, under the age of 30 now; back in 2011, these people were closer to 15-years-old! (I'd also say merely talking about it in terms of 'mental illness' is a grave mistake and misleading to the deeper issues at play, and doesn't actually pinpoint the causes, effects, and possible cures for the generation, more so, the next generations. It's not a useful term these days, and not at all in this context. It's more like self-invented mental illness in the form of childhood underdevelopment. Later in life, this is simply understood as 'mental health issues', but that's useless info and very misleading, from both a medical and cultural standpoint.)

It’s a good song

The song was released in 2009*

Most people don't listen to the lyrics on a first listen and sometimes on subsequent listens. I knew someone who had heard the song 4 or 5 times and didn't know the meaning behind the song. Could be why it became so popular, people kept requesting it on radio stations lol

RIP your sister.

I had the same conversation with my coworkers. They were all shocked.

I was 18 in high school and I was a senior and I had mullet hair all throughout my senior year from 2010- 2011 so when I first heard of the song I thought the chorus was saying " all the other kids with the pumped up Kicks you better run better run faster than my mullet." Never really knowing what the song was actually talking about and it wasn't until maybe 5 or 6 Years After High School that I gave the song another listen. I was shocked to find out what the song actually means and what the song is actually saying I was shocked.

This is just my personal theory, but I always felt like *part* of the reason having the upbeat tempo with such disturbing lyrics could be to do with how many mask mental health issues with a happy/content outward demeanor. I have PTSD and I've realized I try to keep my tone upbeat as much as possible, mostly to keep from having to deal with others prying too much and asking what's wrong. It's not completely a conscious decision, but over time I think many learn that it's the best way to avoid those questions. Also, when you are feeling terrible it can feel like the only way to keep others happy and not bring them down is to act happy yourself, even when you aren't feeling it. 🤔 Even writing this I find myself trying to think of a way to end it with a happier tone lol. I'm sure they had other reasons that were more important, but it feels like this could be one of them. I think a big reason they may have wanted to contrast the tone with these particular lyrics and distort it in parts may be to show the disconnect and detachment from reality someone may be going through as well.

@@robincharles7057 Well said!

Great tune🤘

Correct ... so this terrifying trend has been around since the late 70's at least Are these kids just wired wrong,? to have such anger .They are sociopaths....

@@sallybannister6224 The girl who shot up the elementary school in 1979 was sexually abused by her father, iirc.

@@sallybannister6224 Adults create the world children live in so lets not point our fingers at the kids. The human brain is not fully developed until 25 years of age. In computer coding there is a phrase, "garbage in, garbage out". Children will do exactly what their parents, society and culture teach them to do.

Is it Brenda Ann Spencer case?

Thanks to the lock downs due to Covid, mental illness is going through the roof and will continue to climb over the next several years.

@@freedomfan4272 Sadly, this seems to be true… 😔

That’s so far from the truth, the day the song came out I knew it was about school violence. And ever since then people have been back pedalling on the issue here

😕 This sing was written in 2009/2010. School shootings became a regular occurrence long before that. I was in elementary school in the 90s and high school in the 2000s and it was definitely a concern then with Columbine as well as many other shootings. I don't think they mention a school in particular in the song, but I think when Sandy Hook happened this was one of the songs that some radio stations stopped playing. Maybe they stopped playing this when there was an uptick in school/mass shootings, but I don't see how they could be unaware of events like that when they wrote it, and I'm sure it was events like that that inspired it. Edit: I have a faint memory that there was a shooter that had mentioned this song as well. I don't remember what shootings it was or the particulars, but I'm pretty sure that it came out that a mass/school shooter had either been listening to or talking about this song. In no way would that lead to a shooting of course, but I think that media mentioned this and that it could have led to a bit of backlash as well.

You couldn’t be more wrong about everything you wrote.

Really? Kinda sad since I think the lyrics is low key a wake up call to be more aware these days…

A space between the period after 'topics' and before the word 'Here' will keep it from showing up as a hyperlink :) I've had someone reply to "you're link doesn't work" when I forgot to put a space and it showed as a hyperlink as well lol.

Bahhhh >.< I think it's a good song, but schools playing it seems a bit in bad taste. Kind of like playing My Heart Will Go On to passengers on a cruise >.>

That's a great song