FIRST TME HEARING FOSTER THE PEOPLE- PUMP UP KICKS (REACTION)

[@HalfAndJai]

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[@toyota420xp]

Here kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnWpfqCQaa6pjpY its what the songs about

[@bradleysuarez4]

The song is about the mass shootings in schools

[@no_alarm409]

I'm from Santa Fe TX we're a few years ago the high school I went too had a school shooting years after I graduated..great song but def hits different after being from a town with that type of tragedy happening in the community

[@janetta5153]

I do love this song. I wish more people would actually listen to the lyrics and see how deep and dark this song is and find the meaning.... The lead singer and band founder's name is Mark Foster. " all the other kids with the pumped up kicks you better run better run outrun my gun. All you other kids with the pumped up kicks you better run better run faster than my bullets" One of the members cousin was a Columbine survivor. They were close and he went to Colorado to be with her. He relayed everything to Mark and they penned this song over what happened at Columbine...

[@CrazeeAdam]

mmm. This song came out closely after the Omaha, Westroad's Mall shooting.. Robert Hawkins was the shooter's name.. and while, the band denies the relation between the song and incident, it's pretty eerie all the same. Was hoping they'd catch onto what this playful sounding song was actually about.

[@janetta5153]

@@CrazeeAdam there is a site called LETS READ where they have a series dedicated to finding and explaining the lyrics to "dark" songs. I hears the story behind this song the other morning... I was saddened when I heard that the cousin when was at Columbine was in the library during the attack. He spent a good amount of time with her saying they were like brother and sister.. She had survivor's grief.

[@FUBAR1986]

Columbine was pretty much the start of all these kids killing kids in schools…. I just don’t get it. This country is over 200 years old by this point & in the last 30 years all these school shootings are going on, all these crazy shootings period.. we seriously need to have mental health looked at and treated more in this country, otherwise, this damn reality is going to keep happening.😢

[@ET.AIMusic]

I think it was a after a shooting at a mall or school, don't remember where though.

[@janetta5153]

@@ET.AIMusic it was after Columbine.. A band members cousin was a survivor of the Columbine shooting

[@mollynash2597]

I had to laugh at Jai's face when she realized what the lyrics were. It's one of those songs that you feel guilty singing along too. I don't think too many radio stations play it anymore.

[@_eclipz_]

Gotta know the history behind it and unfortunatly most people don't...

[@thanossnap4170]

@@_eclipz_ The columbine stuff, right?

[@_eclipz_]

@@thanossnap4170 Yeah, think it was the lead singers cousin that died there.

[@thanossnap4170]

@@_eclipz_ Right. Or iirc the bassist cousin. Either way, same thing. Trauma all over. Must have been hard to write and perform the song. Still a banger, and i love the song. But sad that the message so often gets lost in how "happy" and "jolly" it sounds.

[@_eclipz_]

@@thanossnap4170 Yeah pretty much feel the same. Some people listen but don't hear.

[@rhondagreene637]

RIP to all the Kids that died in School Shootings. This song is fire, but the dark dark meaning gives me chills

[@DJSloter747]

It's great song once u find out one of the band mates cousin is a sruvior of columbine. It was more written to shock people in to action I believe

[@MrHartApart]

I heard something years ago about if your unfortunately enough to be in a sit like this... BUM RUSH. You hear shots? two chances.... flank that POS or run... you're going to take pills regardless .

[@raymihno]

Not ALL but most of those good souls !

[@kc_h7h]

​@@DJSloter747it can definitely encourage kids that already had intentions tho

[@lucasrinaldi9909]

This song gives me the best vibe possible.

[@shaunfoskey9958]

Jai knew from the get go...this song was deep.

[@itsdioxide7190]

he’s like “he’s stealing the shoes!” and she’s just like “u high ass mf” lmao

[@PsclDragonBorn]

This song is pure art. Such a deap meaning packt in such a vibe. I love this song.

[@trevorgreen8615]

Jai - 3:49 - Your face then 6:31 - 6:37 you nailed it. Only reactor I've seen really listen and get it. Not to mention the people who listen for years and don't ever realise.

[@NickKzig]

She caught it so quick! The way most of us missed it for years. I'm envious haha

[@CantiLudan1]

I remember people hating on this song. My thought back then and now... Maybe if we encouraged our kids to express themselves through music, art, poetry, and other productive means there would not be a need to express themselves with violence.

[@arsalsedo53]

The song is not about standing on a corner Jacking kids for their shoes, I almost died when you said that🤣🤣🤣. It's about teenage mental illness, “Pumped Up Kicks” holds a darker meaning behind its alt-pop dance sound. Foster wrote the track from the point of view of a deeply troubled youth named Robert, who’s named only once at the beginning of the song. Robert’s got a quick hand He’ll look around the room, but won’t tell you his plan … Yeah, he found a six-shooter gun In his dad’s closet, and with a box of fun things I don’t even know what But he’s coming for you, yeah, he’s coming for you After finding his father’s gun, Robert imagines others running from him as he wields the weapon. You better run, better run, outrun my gun. This scene never unfolds, though. Robert only imagines and toys with the idea of all the other kids running from him. It’s a horror of the mind.

[@quinndeskimo4132]

In defense of Half and why he came to his conclusion of kids jacking for their shoes. Half and I are from the same generation, not the same age but same generation and the same inner city culture. In the black inner city culture, we usually shot each other over disagreements and fights. We never intentionally shot innocent people who had nothing to do with our disagreements, stray bullets sometimes hit someone. Mass school shootings never happened in black schools because killing innocent people intentionally is foreign to black people. It doesn’t make sense to us and it never will. That’s why Half never thought that it could be about school shootings because it’s not something that he would ever have seen growing up in the inner city. Wearing pumped up kicks and possibly getting robbed for those kicks and running from kids with a gun is something that happens in the inner cities. I like the song and I didn’t make the school shootings connection either. It’s just a difference in culture and a difference in our experiences growing up that forms our perspective of things. You probably didn’t mean anything by it, but it was kinda insulting of you to laugh at Half’s perspective on the song. You are assuming that the message of the song is common sense, but it might not be obvious to everyone, especially people of different cultures and backgrounds. 😀

[@wpruitt82]

@@quinndeskimo4132 I know it's mainly whites in America, just wanted to point out the DC Sniper was black. I think what you meant to day was you don't understand why they do this and as a white person I don't understand it either.

[@jerfuhrer2581]

@@quinndeskimo4132 shooting somebody over a mere fight or disagreement is STILL killing an innocent. It's just an innocent person you're sorta mad at.

[@bendevine3438]

Half was on the right track i guarantee you didn't know what the song was about 1st listen i didn't and ill throw down with anyone regarding song meaning lyrical interpretation indie rock alternative rock anything don't be that guy man nobody likes that guy especially me

[@tyeefahmonk4146]

​@@quinndeskimo4132 Sorry but being a black female from the inner city, I remember when this song came out and ni IMMEDIATELY KNEW what this song was about. But irrelevant of what "generation" or hood or where you grew up, it's 2023 and how many mass school shootings have we had? This line "All the other kids...." should have been enough. Sorry for ranting, but it's too much goin on, for him not to catch on.

[@Koake1002]

3:33 can see her vibing but listening as soon as she heard gun you can see her facial expression did I just hear what I thought he said. Stops nodding her head to make sure: now she’s tuned in she gets it he didn’t 😊

[@tommy-_-2883]

The song is so good and catchy that sometimes u dont even realize the lyrics 😂 i remember the first time i saw what this song really meant and i couldn't believe it took me years to realize lol

[@RLucas3000]

So many songs hide super dark lyrics: ‘You’re Beautiful’ by James Blunt ‘Every Breath You Take’ by The Police ‘Maggie Mae’ by Rod Stewart

[@VelkanAngels]

@@RLucas3000 - I don't know about SUPER dark but I was never able to make out to the lyrics to Mmmbop by uh... the Hansons or whatever they were called. Once I read them, I was like "daaaayum"... Well, not quite but I was surprised and I'm too sleepy to accurately recount my reaction, lol.

[@gregorybrandenburger9457]

You may have already, but I would recommend listening to "Youth of the Nation" by POD. Another really good one that touches on what young people have to face in today's society.

[@HammerdownProtocol]

I was dancing to this song on holiday, a few years ago, until my niece suggested I listen to the lyrics.

[@RLucas3000]

That is hilarious! It’s like Maggie Mae or You’re Beautiful, you have to really listen to hear how dark they really are

[@Elizabeth77536]

Bro said he’s taking their shoes that their momma couldn’t afford 😂😂😂😂

[@ohmightywez]

I appreciated the lyrics of this song when it came out; catchy and a good way to spread the message about the possibilities of loss, deprivation and school shootings. Then we moved to California and I got called to my daughter’s junior high because the school had an active shooter situation due to some fatherless, messed up kid hating on kids with “expensive kicks”. His bedroom window overlooked the football and track area. 5 years later her high school, Saugus, was attacked by a student who killed and wounded multiple students. I still appreciate this song for the message, especially since envy of shoes prompted one of two attacks on my daughter.

[@shaundlevine]

Love how long it took you both to get the song -- if only because you both took the time to examine and break it down (didn't take you all that long actually but I love the recording of you coming to the conclusion). Great channel, great couple, grateful to have found it.

[@bendevine3438]

Jai you're great at interpreting song lyrics on the 1st go its such a catchy song so it immediately puts your guard down i didn't put it together my first few listend Half was right there about jealousy of the things the shooter isn't afforded whatever those things may be just found your channel today you guys are great really enjoying it you touch on everything very c

[@PhantomSavage]

It's an unnerving exploration into the thought process of an isolated, depressed child with an absent only parent in a household of very little means or money. He's lonely, depressed, and probably bullied or at least jaded other kids and families are able to afford and experience important elements of childhood he's not getting. He has no friends, he lives at home alone, he eats nothing but frozen meals for dinner, he's miserable, lonely, taken to smoking hand-rolled cigarettes, and one day he finds his daddy's "six-gun" in the closet and the rest of the song is him fantasying about shooting all the other kids with the "Pumped-Up Kicks", or in other words, all the other kids with nice shoes. Its important to note the the song is from the perspective of the shooter, and is solely him fantasying about the act rather than actually acting upon it. Its by no means a glorification of violence so much as a means of bringing awareness to the kind of emotions and thought processes disadvantaged and troubled children often experience as a result of trauma and chronic depression. Powerful stuff. Dark, but powerful.

[@justaguy1109]

The song is so happy, but so dark.

[@starronin4580]

This song gets more and more relevant every year...

[@budlightpimp19]

You two are so awesome.

[@gabrielplattes6253]

Robert's 'tormentors' or/and those he despised for having 'great' lives, were the privileged ones, who he categorized/summarized as the ones wearing the kicks. His thoughts were in a dark place. I grew up in the surf scene in Australia, & this song was big. Back in the day I had no idea what it was about - it was a boppy tune played at all the beach-side venues. Not until a year back, did I finally comprehend what the lyrics were about. Darn deep, this song. ✌😄 Jai is one sharp cookie!

[@bsargent8935]

Best way I've heard it describe is "twisted pop song" so damn catchy

[@shazza175]

One thing is for certain and that is I can always rely on your two to bring the GOOD VIBES! Found you through Ren... sticking around for your solid vibes!

[@tiacalhoun3841]

Apparently one of the band members had a relative that was involved in a school shooting so they wrote this song

[@piffyi1]

Jai’s face when she realized the lyrics😂. That was all of us, this song will forever be that one song with such a catchy melody & good vibe but such dark lyrics. My spine tingles when i hear it sometimes

[@jimmybobsap8729]

@3:00 autotune been around awhile just most didn't use it that's reverb and distortion anyways, then amplification on chorus

[@joshualaird5303]

The fact that people will literally shoot you for your shoes shows just how messed up this world is.

[@liamengram6326]

Pumped up kicks...90s air pumps. All the kids with the rich parents that bully...run. One of the band members lost their brother in the Columbine shooting and this was an odd tribute to spread awareness.

[@jimmybobsap8729]

This was a school shooting song on the radio lol imagine that now lol

[@stoneyhighhigh3677]

I'm 27 and this was my favorite song growing up even the dubstep version but it has a dark story

[@Krokmaniak]

How about bardcore version?

[@kgosimagano8966]

​@@KrokmaniakThe Old English vibes is 🔥

[@jackiegoodspeed1849]

This song got very popular. Crazy.

[@coreyrees840]

Basically singing from the “nerdy” school shooter who was bullied, and the pumped up kicks represent the “jocks” and “cool kids” with their cool sneakers who typically are the bullies in these situations. They’re his target

[@rogerdaly6326]

Yo Half thats not autotune its just heavy reverb being used. This may have been recorded in a very large room at a studio. When a big room is empty you can hear that sound like they're singing in a fifty-five gallon drum

[@chaunielynn]

First off Cher with do you believe in life after love was the first auto tune popularity. . . . And yeah All the other kids with the pumped up kicks better run better out run my gun and better run faster than my bullets. . .it's his warning them. And I love this song!!!

[@ronaldmillner6387]

They wrote this song from the head of a school shooter. The lead singer was badly bullied in school. The guitar player survived Colombine school shooting

[@tommywalker3746]

Remember those shoes you could pump them up to be tight on your feet? This song is about a poor kid jealous he didn't have them, so he swacked all his friends that did have them

[@Natasha-px2gw]

No so much autotune, he was using a filter on his voice, but it wasn’t auto tuning his voice. And one of the members of the band had a family member that was a survivor of the columbine shooting and that’s what this song is basically based around

[@angiedavis3200]

Yall had me looking up the meaning in the middle of the reaction! 🤣🤣 look it up

[@paullindsey9409]

"Dinner's in the kitchen and it's packed in ice" Daddy is an alcholic.

[@Eclipse5]

If you guys want another song with a deep meaning, try listening to I Don't Like Mondays by The Boomtown Rats that has a simular theme.

[@danielpettey8317]

Dee Brown made them famous in the dunk contest when he covered his eyes. Every kid in school went and got a pair.

[@cbrabo7651]

This song is about the Columbine High School shooting. 04/20/1999, Littleton, Colorado. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered 12 students and 1 teacher. 21 others were injured.

[@MustangFord]

nothing wrong with bringing awareness to america's problems. Some people like to hide that side of the nation under the rug.

[@Natasha-px2gw]

No so much autotune, he was using a filter on his voice, but it wasn’t auto tuning his voice.

[@mightymouse293]

Lol yea I'm do it cemetery gates..pantara please

[@behindenemylines9033]

This song was played at Angels Stadium between innings for quite awhile...

[@cynthiasmith5144]

It is so cool to see the younger generations listening to all kinds of things and voicing their thoughts and opinions. I just subscribed today and I listen to your LED Zeppelin’s Dazed and Confused. Their are also a couple comedy movies with that title. The Dave Chappell is the best one humor wise. The other was made in the 80s I think and it’s more about my generation and the older man that is still hanging with the high school crowd. Enough rambling you two are AWESOME ❤

[@Gennys]

I've got to say that trap beat makes my day I know I'm late lol

[@teresawommack9529]

The Message is clear in the lyrics..

[@tenabruce3548]

He’s giving people a chance to run, before he gets his gun out!! A Damn Good Song!!!

[@jenBuruato]

The bass player survived the Columbine mass shooting and it's a song from the perspective of the shooter and bad mental health. You have to listen to the beginning lyrics about Robert. Its to bring awareness.

[@nallaintiola]

The music:🌝 The lyrics:🌚

[@stevenpliler7951]

It is just a song. The words are sometimes reality. They did not 1 time show a gun or anybody being hurt. They were having fun .

[@GreenEyedDoll123]

R I p to all the kids who lost their lives in columbus and all the other school shootings

[@Desconhecido38284]

It's good to hear this song in the classroom

[@Akermy7zx_x]

I Love pumped up kicks

[@secondleasegamer8312]

Its told from the perspective of a school shoota. Its a troubled kid snapping and taking hist father's gun. It being done to this upbeat song is supposed to give you a feeling of eeri-ness and creeped out.

[@SarahsZombiebunniez]

The look on your face when you put the words together. . And the end realizing how messed up it is.

[@thomasslawson5159]

My understanding is that the drummers cousin survived the collimbine school shooting, and the singer was a bullied student.

[@AngelaEtter-v4p]

VERY TRUE . LOOK WHAT HAS HAPPEN EVEN HERE IN NASHVILLE, COVENT SCHOOL!😮. NOT ABout Shoes!

[@paula817]

I am cracking up at Jai figuring out it’s a school shooter but not believing they could write a catchy song about kids outrunning bullets..... Jai! I loved this song when I heard it on the radio when it came out and I didn’t even realize what the lyrics said. My reaction was exactly like yours once I realized. Ooh! Do Milky Chance - Stoned In Paradise next pleeeease! It’s totally from the same time as this track.

[@troyshilanski380]

Im old but that song came out and i never knew the words. Want some fun do Len steal my sunshine.

[@igromania2]

Ooo it’s my birthday 17 Feb!❤this video too

[@theonetrueking2685]

As a person who worked a few miles down the road from Columbine when the shooting happened, I knew what this song was about.

[@pj1995____]

This song is about a school shooter but it’s not glorified or anything, it’s more of a message about social status, wealth, bullying and mental health

[@ericrega2413]

I'm sure other people have informed you that this song is about a school shooting. In the beginning he talks about his dad coming home to bring him a surprise but he surprises his dad with a bullet to the head "his head is on fire". And I believe the pumped up kicks he was referring to the popular kids he's planning on Gunning down. So from what I heard was after the school shooting. He went home to finish off his family.

[@sreekumar08]

That's darker

[@bartondonnelly5293]

All the other kids with the pumped up kicks, you better run, better run. Outrun my gun. All the other kids with the pumped up kicks, you better run, better run faster than my bullet.

[@timmaples5734]

This song was written just after the Columbine School shooting in 99. The intent was to bring awareness to mental illness in teens. A lot of people misinterpreted the lyrics.

[@chriszilar3657]

I believe this a commentary on how some kids were getting shot for their kicks. People stealing their shoes. It seems like this was happening back in the 90s

[@itmustbesweet]

fire. used to run to this in gym glass in middle school lmaoo. colors and shapes mac miller pls. all of faces really. u already know

[@itmustbesweet]

(way before school shooter era)

[@alanoneill3065]

Very good...intense listening and decoding ...jointly

[@quinndeskimo4132]

I remember the pump shoes! I believe Nike came out with them first and then the other brands made them too. I also remember Dee Brown. He played for the Boston Celtics, or at least that was his first team. I also remember the tragedy of Len Bias, who I believe signed with Boston Celtics but died before the season started.

[@Lurch685]

This song is about a school shooter…dark themed lyrics with happy uplifting melody - like the band Ghost!

[@allencrameriii9305]

I've got the "VOLTRON" REE BOK PUMPS W/ the red lion. I need the other four!!!

[@accidental-life]

LOVE THOSE SHIRTS!

[@Greaseball_gamer]

I remember getting sent up to the high school principal in 2018 for playing this song during lunch , can’t I just play a cache song for it being cache 😅.

[@molotovvvblonde4859]

Have you guus ever heard of the band P.O.D.? They did a song called Youth of the Nation thats about just thta and will bring tears to your eyes!!!! Please please PLEASE checl that out. I would love to see your reactions to it. Not one of the larger known songs for its time sadly. But an amazing song.

[@ronroc]

This is a psychological examination of what motivates a school shooter.

[@lawannalw]

They donated all of the money that they made off this song to a great cause. It was a song against school shootings.

[@kyleprice5253]

This isn't auto tune. Auto tune existed before this

[@bellsTheorem1138]

In the song he kills his dad when he comes home and goes to school with the gun. It's super dark but it's a jamming tune.

[@hunterharrison7675]

Anyone feel free to chime in with additional info but I'm pretty sure the song was made about either the Sandy Hook School shooting, or about the Calamine School shooting

[@marklawrence2239]

You had the nice shoes, I hope you didn't look down on people for having lesser shoes. I remember in Grade school if you didn't have Jordan's you got shit on. I was like 11 and my folks didn't have the money for my adult feet. Yeah song is about him going after kids hat picked on him, and those kids had the nice shoes, and they were the type of kids that looked down on him. So it broke him into doing something horrible.

[@stevejiminez7791]

You know when bullies use to pretend they were gonna kick you, right

[@nragoobar]

You already reacted to "Foster the People - Sit next to me" about a year ago.

[@jacobburns3053]

This song came out right after the columbine shooting they say it’s not about school shootings but you heard the lyrics and no way it ain’t about school shootings just saying

[@Brutalis317]

Columbine happened in 1999 this song came out in 2011. If you want a song that blatantly follows a tragedy then the Toby Keith 9/11 nonsense is what you're looking for.

[@deesavage5198]

Its crazy how they made a bop out of a dark subject matter

[@tabbywilson1]

Can y'all PLEASE do Guns N Roses November Rain? It's mine and my husbands song. We actually started dating in November 1998 & it was the 1st song we ever kissed too 😉😆. But I think y'all would enjoy it. I love y'all BTW.

[@michaelmcrorie2330]

Dope

[@BigFuzzy507]

Reactions to this song are brilliant. This is a tragic song but if you dont listen to the lyrics it just seems like a light catchy tune. Foster the People crafted this song very well.

[@sussychachi]

he using a old micophone thats ones that you press the button and talk and it has a speaker! not autotune

[@mountainechoes1886]

Dee brown in da dunk contest when he pumped up the kicks

[@tenabruce3548]

I just looked up, what the meaning is to Pumped Up Kicks! Mental Illness in kids, who end up finding his dads gun, and just sees if people will run from him!!! Story on u tube!!!

[@helenfb74129]

This was a song that was written after the West Mall shooting several years after. It's not really about Columbine, but there's a lot of kids that use it as an anthem. Unfortunately, Brazil is one of the countries where shootings were where they found at the individual was referring to this song. Very dark song. Very very dark song

[@CrazeeAdam]

Do you mean the Westroads Mall shooting, in Omaha? While Foster denied the relation to it, the name of the shooter was Robert Hawkins. So it's eerie regardless

[@RocknRollDina]

millennial here and geez, me and my Bff up in da club in the college years, dancing to this...a less sinister time when school shootings weren't so prevalent.

[@hellaflushatl97]

Ayee!!!🔥🔥🔥💪🏼💪🏼

[@PoliticallyPink]

Such a catchy beat and such a dark topic as school shooters - almost feel guilty bobbing along to it.

[@js01141]

Jai's realization lol

[@1mrgoods]

3:48 💡👀

[@Billydoesyoutubenow]

I believe it’s a sad satire about how kids killed over shoes. I’m 53, the shoes were crazy. Vilolence over the shoes is a symbol for crazy life and kids were back in that day.