(OK, someone please prevent me from starting a meta-joke-thread called "Busted And The Jews" talking about how "Who's David" is really a thinly veiled anti-Semetic metaphor for the Palestinian situation... I mean, using the words "blah blah blah... SO I INVADED" and then rhyming that with "THE HOUSE OF DAVID" I mean, that's some pretty political content there for a bubblegum song. Please dear god, I'm having awful Kula Shaker flashbacks here, what with pretty public school boys making ill-advised anti-Semetic comments...)
(And besides, dammit, now I'm looking for the lyric sheet to get the exact quote, but HSA seems to hidden the album for some reason... ARRRGGHHH!!!)
-- The River Kate (masonicboo...), March 15th, 2004. (kate) (later)
'Crashed The Wedding' is a direct reference to Caina, 'Year 3000' actually refers to the time of NOAH, and 'Sleeping With The Light On' is a moving testament to the struggles of Moses's people as Egypt was troubled by the horrible asp
-- stevem (bluesk...), March 15th, 2004. (blueski) (later)
they even covered 'Hark The Herald Angels Sing' for crying out loud. New single 'And Rachel Was Turned Into A Pillar Of Salt' follows this Summer.
― The River Kate (kate), Monday, 15 March 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― The River Kate (kate), Monday, 15 March 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 15 March 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)
― The River Kate (kate), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 March 2004 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 March 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 15 March 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 March 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)
Jewish Bubblepunk, there's so a market for this. Can't you just see the album now? Oy Vey Chartbusters!
(Too bad the Beastie Boys already got there first...)
― The River Kate (kate), Monday, 15 March 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)
― the beebfox, Monday, 15 March 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 15 March 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 15 March 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Monday, 15 March 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 March 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Monday, 15 March 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 15 March 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Monday, 15 March 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― Ed (dali), Monday, 15 March 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 15 March 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)
― The River Kate (kate), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)
THAT IS SO FREAKING OFFENSIVE!!!
Busted sneaking onto Concorde through the wheel undercarriage and causing chaos in the cabin? THIS IS GLORIFYING INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM!!!
I can't believe this has snuck past the censors in this age of paranoia and sensitivity to security issues! Impressionable kids, starting to think that terrorism and sneaking onto airplanes is cool because Busted are cool.
OK, yeah, it's actually a really funny video, and yeah, punque rock is supposed to be all about being offensive and subversive, and perhaps I should be more offended by the inherent sexism of the song lyrics. (And the fact that the words "I messed my pants when we flew over France" were bleeped out for kids TV.) But I do actually wonder if there's going to be any kind of fuss over this.
Yeah, it's so clearly a joke, like "What I Go To School For" was so clearly a joke, and teenager boys sexually harrassing their teachers, oh no, that will *never* happen... (look up other threads on ILX for proof that it does...)
I'm surprised by my reaction to the video. My first reaction was to laugh hysterically. My second reaction was "Wait, this is actually kind of off..." and then my third reaction was to examine my own paranoia and why exactly I was offended.
Is this intentional, is this "genuine" punk rock, in being offensive (I hate to use the word transgressive) in a desire to force people to confront issues. E.G. the Sex Pistols and the way their deliberately shocking "God Save The Queen"/"Anarchy In The Uk" imagery played upon and reflected people's attitude towards the monarchy in the face of the Jubilee and social and economic chaos?
Or is this an unintentional result, teenage boys making the visual equivalent of fart jokes in a sort of sub-Viz-comics style humour? The "boyband in an airport, singing soulfully to the girl they miss" video is an utter pop staple, is it just a parody of this (Blink 182 did one, didn't they? Or was that Foo Fighters?)
And am I just being completely paranoid and over-sensitive and projecting my own fears and concerns onto a dumb parody where there is no actual subtext of terrorism? What's the line between parody and satire?
Dunno, sorry for being so serious on a Saturday morning. Pop videos aren't supposed to make you think, but this one did.
You may all continue ignoring this thread now...
― Psycho Kate (kate), Saturday, 27 March 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)
― Psycho Kate (kate), Saturday, 27 March 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)