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This is unbelievable. A Perfect Circle did a perfect job on emphasizing the points made by this song, even better, possibly than Lennon. And people, those of you who said that their video sucked, I spite you. In addition to being a truly touching video, it was real. In an interview with MJK, he told us that the video was comprised of actual videos shown on the news. The freaking news! All of these events were made available to the public. The news is saying "we are doing so great in Iraq, helping them so much" while they are showing videos of things blowing up and children looking like they haven't been fed in weeks. Do you see the irony? Also, they throw in a satirical little bar at the bottom like news programs, furthering their point. Do you notice that their sports teams are called things like "The rockets" etc, war terms? Things so violence-oriented have sports teams named after them that are celebrated by entire cities. The irony returns. The bullets are victorious! The bullets? Someone got shot? Huh? ... anyway. Person who said Pet was an anti-Bush song, I wouldn't exactly say it's anti-Bush. Bush isn't covering anything up. Now their "Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums" video is probably more anti-Bush, as he stood their watching sheep, which probably represented 'brainwashed' humans be led to their destruction because of the media and television's influence. But Pet, is more made to, in my opinion, have maynard representing the media, or of course drugs as another interpration would agree, but for my use, the media. He is saying "step away from the window, go back to sleep" saying that people shouldn't look around in the real world, and instead should watch the media, taking in highly media-propogandized material, and believing that it is true. The media is there to comfort the american individual, and keep it under its influence, saying "stay with me" "hold you and protect you from the other ones, the evil ones, don't love you son, go back to sleep" meaning that the real world wouldn't be so comfortable, they wouldn't be able to be happy knowing what was really going on in the world, and that they should just remain ignorant, without their own view of the world, instead having the media's faked view of the world rerouted and used as their own. These are my interpretations of these songs, use them as you will :D |
