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If you’ve taken the time to truly listen to Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks,” you’d soon realize the ten-year-old tropical tune is saying something rather sinister. But I wouldn’t blame you if you didn’t notice. The laidback instrumental is pure ear-candy -- overshadowing the song’s darker narrative. Lyrically, the track speaks of a troubled teen who plans to shoot his classmates at school. It’s not very subtle. I mean the chorus tells us about seven times.
Despite it’s questionable subject matter, it became the group’s breakthrough hit: ushering in a new wave of commercially viable indie-pop, sitting at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 for eight straight weeks and claiming Spotify’s most streamed song of 2011. How can such a cheerful track put such a dark and depressing twist on its lyrics? More surprisingly, why did we continue to enjoy it, even after we knew of the grim details?
Let’s take a look at THE TRUE MEANING BEHIND PUMPED UP KICKS
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Foster The People
Pumped Up Kicks Lyrics
Robert's got a quick hand
He'll look around the room, he won't tell you his plan
He's got a rolled cigarette, hanging out his mouth he's a cowboy kid
Yeah found a six shooter gun
In his dad's closet hidden oh in a box of fun things, I don't even know what
But he's coming for you, yeah he's coming for you
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, out run my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, out run my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet
Daddy works a long day
He be coming home late, he's coming home late
And he's bringing me a surprise
'Cause dinner's in the kitchen and it's packed in ice
I've waited for a long time
Yeah the slight of my hand is now a quick pull trigger
I reason with my cigarette
And say your hair's on fire, you must have lost your wits, yeah
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, out run my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, out run my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, out run my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, out run my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, out run my gun
All the other kids with the pumped up kicks
You'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet
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