Foster the People (Pumped Up Kicks) Song Analyses
It was getting dark out and my dad was still stuck in traffic, so I decided it would be best to cook dinner so my dad wouldn't have to stress about it when he finally got home. As we turned on the radio to prepare dinner, my brother's favorite song came on. All my siblings were singing along, meanwhile, my brother and I were arguing about the lyrics. He thinks it says “Run faster than my brother,” and I think it says “Run faster than my baby.” Later that night while everyone else was eating me and my brother looked up the lyrics, it actually says “Run faster than my bullet.” At the time we weren't even concerned with the lyrics. A couple days ago I was listening to pandora on my way to work and the song came on, I realized that now that I’m was in high school these lyrics actually made sense.
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Mark Foster, the writer, and founder of the band claims that our society is an epidemic perpetuates by the lack of family, lack of love and isolations. Before Mark Foster created the band Foster the People he was a jingle writer, so for his song he used the beat and rhythm to get the lyrics stuck in out head, like an annoying commercial. Instead of writing about victims and some tragedy, he wanted to get into the killer's mind, like Truman Capote did in In Cold Blood. By putting the listener in the mindset of a shooter, our brains we are able to think deeper about the disastrous events going on around us and analyze the mind of the