Shitty Song to Listen to After a Shooting by Penelope Scott

[@kami4309]

You never punch up You always kick down What do you mean there's no choices Of course there's choices just look around You can try your best your whole life Watch your loved ones die Because they just couldn't afford to live Or you can get lucky as shit Marry someone else rich And buy a nice big house in the woods So it can echo that much more When your loved ones die of something you paid Thousands of dollars to find on an MRI Or you can opt out and die You always kick down You never punch up Even though you of all people Should know how bad it sucks You know how bad it sucks so Fuck your face Fuck your dad Fuck every feeling that you ever had Fuck your heart Fuck your bones Have fun eating shit forever in hell alone I don't have to read anything you ever read or wrote You're not special just for torturing the poor You unoriginal spineless monster it's been done before If I could kill myself with no collateral damage I'd do it for something great I'd do it to help people I'd do it to save I'd fucking punch up How dare you kick down The thick dripping arrogance to even have this as an option Astounds anyone worth a shit And you're worth less than nothing so Fuck your lungs Fuck your mom Fuck your whole bloodline and your bitter tongue Fuck your brain Fuck your head I'd fucking kill you if you weren't already dead Watch your back you fucking clown 'Cause I'll spend eternity hunting you down Eat my shit Eat your blood Come to my house and I'll eat you for lunch No one has to listen to anything you ever read or wrote They all have important thoughts and feelings You're a monster and you don't You're not fucking special just for making people weep You're just like every other disgusting little creep Do me a little simple favor when you get to Hell tonight Take Nixon's dick out of your mouth for a second and cry

[@montysaints4750]

Thanks, I have trouble with understanding words so I really needed this. ❤

[@Narcotica.official]

Yes

[@judasiscariotes4133]

what song is this?

[@shadowsentertainment7237]

Shitty song to listen to after a shooting

[@shadowsentertainment7237]

Thats is the name of the song btw

[@agent3swife]

"you unoriginal spineless monster, it's been done before" my favorite lyric

[@bektela]

Same

[@pikachuneoncat6480]

This describes an incredibly special kind of hatred.

[@bloomph]

this weirdly describes my relationship with my father. just by the context of the song i think you can understand how i feel about him

[@GOOB3R_489]

this describes my hatred for my predator

[@pikachuneoncat6480]

@@GOOB3R_489 Same.

[@bloomph]

update im not really frustrated at my dad anymore, and although it still relates to him in a way, it more relates to my friend when i’m angry at her

[@Aylaphobicc]

This is accurate

[@arrowroot2933]

Honestly this song helps embody the feeling of knowing that even as an 18yr old. I may never be able to afford to retire, afford healthcare, to own a house, or go to collage without severe debt chaining me down. I will literally cannibalize at least one extremely wealthy selfish person before I die.

[@silversirena4507]

hey! food is expensive, share the rich person with a friend to split costs

[@arrowroot2933]

@@silversirena4507 damn yea you right, might as well turn them into a buffet to share🥰

[@caitlinanzovin1146]

Not all parts of the body are fit for consumption, please don't make yourself sick

[@arrowroot2933]

@@caitlinanzovin1146 Now that you mention it, I actually I do have an extensive plant collection with plants that need new soil

[@elainerogers9595]

recommend marrying a rich person, and taking their money when they "mysteriously" go missing

[@cloudthesheep]

This is straight up hating someone’s guts and I’m living for it

[@c0ffee.lvr__]

I love friends just playing in the background

[@myllojay6291]

fr thoughXD

[@pikachuneoncat6480]

Thank you for identifying the sitcom, it was driving me batshit crazy.

[@GoldenTheaterYT]

When?

[@maiz4299]

Oh my god I’m an idiot I read it as “a shooting by penelope Scott” like she was the shooter

[@genericpancakes]

imao 😭😭😭

[@random_frogg]

Ohh i thought that was what the title was

[@yellopop6974]

wait- WHAT ELSE-

[@bloomph]

@bird UAHUAHAUUAHAHA

[@hankbarcelona7314]

I would not be surprised

[@apollo3107]

Listened to this song on loop on a vc with my Minecraft bf for hours It is one of the best memories i have

[@Acousticlystrange]

Aww, I can't tell whether that's wholesome or creepy-cute but that sounds amazing.

[@zoequinn3401]

The music's great, I'm just not enjoying the prolonged relevancy of it.

[@Imthepr0blem]

The fact that her voice is beautiful even without autotune is chefs kiss🤌

[@Acousticlystrange]

I know I wuv Penelope!!!!!!!! Edit: I named myself after her. Honey Morrello 🫲🫱Su Morrello

[@dabading2860]

another Penelope Scott song that reminds me of my father! Nice!!!

[@tinywhineygrimeylad4445]

i thought the same thing

[@rarebonedisease6551]

@@tinywhineygrimeylad4445 little yucky funky boy

[@dacoomerX]

lmao wish you had a better relationship with your father. Couldn’t be me ! My dad loves me and treats me with respect and he’s proud of me !

[@dabading2860]

@@dacoomerX lmao good for you ig

[@wolfytsuki]

Reminds me of my ex. I hate it

[@etheriankid]

my favourite line is "come to my house and i'll eat you for lunch"

[@sirenx33]

I like the “so it can echo that much more when your loved ones die”

[@jackisbored2608]

I like "I'll spend eternity hunting you down!"

[@etheriankid]

@@jackisbored2608 "watch your back, you fuckin' clown, cuz i'll spend eternity hunting you down" YES AHAH, ICONIC, even the tone she says it with

[@user-xz9ub3nu9c]

@@etheriankid UGHH YES I LOVE IT. IT SOUNDS SO GOOD

[@MOVEDACC0UNTS]

I like the part when she said "f%$ your face. F%^&% your dad. F%&%$ Every feeling that you ever had" its the best part

[@madisnzz]

0:12 the laugh tracks make this all so much better

[@sagesaturn7973]

feeling like this is an eat the rich type beat

[@nerderiffic8682]

This hits rly hard after everything that happened in plymouth :/ i really hope everyone here is doing ok

[@natalie_the_ratalie]

- Gilroy Garlic Festival: 3 - Oxford High School shooting: 4* - Atlanta spa shootings: 8* - Charleston church shooting: 9* - Palm Sunday Massacre: 10* - Dayton shooting: 10* - Boulder shooting: 10* - Buffalo supermarket shooting: 10* - Geneva County shootings: 10* - Santa Fe High School shooting: 10 - San Jose shooting: 10* - Easter Sunday Massacre (family annihilation): 11* - Pittsburg synagogue shooting: 11* - Virginia Beach shooting: 12* - Washington Navy Yard shooting: 12* - Thousand Oaks shooting: 12* - Aurora movie theater shooting: 12* - Wah Mee massacre (robbery): 13* - Wilkes-Barre shootings (familicide): 13* - Howard Unruh’s 1949 “Walk of Death” (considered first major mass shooting in modern US history): 13* - Binghamton shooting: 13* - Columbine: 13* - Edmond post office shooting (going “postal”): 14* - San Bernardino: 14* - Fort Hood shooting: 14* - Stoneman Douglas High/Parkland shooting: 17* - Charles Whitman’s spree (not including his mother and wife, who were stabbed to death before): 14* - Robb Elementary School/Uvalde shooting: 21* - 1984 McDonald’s Massacre: 21* - El Paso Walmart shooting: 23* - Luby’s Cafeteria shooting: 23* - Sutherland Springs church shooting: 26* - Sandy Hook (including the shooter’s mother): 27* - Virginia Tech shooting: 32* - Pulse nightclub shooting: 49* - Las Vegas concert shooting (the shooter had 24 firearms): 60* *shooter used a semi-automatic weapon and these are just the ones with the highest death tolls or news coverage.

[@kaweenis]

maybe dont list them in order of deaths like some sick score board 👍

[@k4zperr]

@@kaweenis Literally any order could be compared to a scoreboard but comment what u want ig

[@ActualAlien_]

love living in a world where a list of mass shootings from 10 months ago is outdated. Wonderful.

[@R4ttaku]

penelope scott’s songs give off a “eat shit and live” kinda vibe

[@Acousticlystrange]

They do😂

[@nathanielstowe7507]

YES THANK YOU I'VE BEEN WAITING SO LONG FOR SOMEONE TO PUT IT ON HERE WOOO

[@alexrightnow2531]

The fact that this got recommended to me today after the Colorado Q nightclub shooting is so depressing

[@glato978]

For some reason I used to pronounce her name like penople. Idk why, and sometimes I find myself still doing it lol.

[@rarebonedisease6551]

WHAT LMFAO

[@bloomph]

penople scort

[@j4wbr34krr6]

I've always read it like that in my head

[@murdocpissingcompilation]

i dont but i regularly call her "plop scop"

[@Almost_Mid]

With the now common shootings this song keeps coming back to me

[@omni-paw4358]

Coming back here after the shooting at the Texas elementary school. Yeah.

[@Lampshade_productions]

I'm always scared that someone will listen to this song and think of me.

[@honeycomb690]

If you're scared of it, then it probably won't happen.

[@tisibutasimplechocopancook7923]

not sure if this is reassuring but generally speaking, you will always be a bad person to someone. but their perceptions cannot define you, you just have to keep trying to be a good person. hope they change their mind, but recognize they might never-- and that's not your problem. it just boils down to not defining yourself by other people. just keep doing your best to be kind and all that. good luck, internet stranger.

[@kaweenis]

sorting comments by newest is fucking depressing. its like a forum of shootings and the worst part is is i dont remember many of them. its ridiculous

[@drownedtrashrat3501]

Wow penelope really doesn't make a single bad song

[@beanmaster228]

Finally someone put it into words 😞

[@prageruwu69]

god this shit is cathartic

[@bri_obones2826]

i relate to every verse of this song. its so touching

[@MOSCOWDEATH161]

this song has suprisingly helped me a lot, it gave me the strength during a panic attack to email one of the support people at my school, now i'm in counselling and i'm doing a little better now :)

[@hockeyjulia]

Can I just say; this title is everything

[@bunkerman_who_digs]

Lewiston, Maine. Oct 26, 2023

[@sillygoose2347]

I wonder how much longer this song will have to be relevant

[@drownedtrashrat3501]

Probably until the world literally implodes, or until someone finally decideds to drop a nuke and we finally get to leave

[@vinnie8662]

It will never stop being relevant We’re all fucked and there’s nothing we can do anymore We’re all going to die

[@drownedtrashrat3501]

@@vinnie8662 doesn't mean we can't go out with a bang

[@YourFavoriteMenace-OwO]

Im alive i survived my overdose i know most of you probably don't care but those who do you can make it through the pain don't try to end it its not worth it life has meaning you just have to search for it sometimes

[@MiHiFiDi]

icare

[@ashurmcchamn475]

Got the new about Nevada while listening to this. Cheers. There's not much left to do but cry

[@Themadkiller10]

Well it’s time again

[@desmond_is_decaying8998]

Ingrahm highschool in seattle. I was one classroom over.

[@_shenly]

THANK YOU SO MUCH I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS ON YT FOREVER ❤❤❤

[@king_Smiley_Dust]

Nice pfp

[@_shenly]

@@king_Smiley_Dust I like yours too >:)

[@mrhelium_02]

Where else is it released?

[@_shenly]

@@mrhelium_02 Penelope Scott's Bandcamp and maybe Soundcloud

[@mrhelium_02]

@@_shenly ty

[@jackisbored2608]

This makes me think of some many people, and one of my characters (My dad, "great-uncle", my mom's birth giver)

[@Lampshade_productions]

Same -_-

[@NeverToLoveAnAnchor]

TW!! I go to an alternative school and holy hell this rings true to some of the experiences here, I've been deeply traumatized by a lot of the stuff that's happened there and witnessed kids in my class bring in weapons and threatened to shoot up the school and this song is just cathartic to hear, especially since many of the social workers there don't much about it. It's just hhh this reminds me of many people I know there and just. Gah

[@athena122able]

THANK YOU SO MUCH I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS

[@thelonesomegrifter6718]

I am pretty sure that this song is about capitalism,racism,homo/transphobia, antisemitism, ableism and the other stuff that oppresses a good amount of people and how people will constantly try to get to the elites or the oppressive class by hurting people of the same minority or people who are already being oppressed. Like some queer/trans people will get close to conservatives to be “one of the good ones “ by bashing people of their same community or how some poc will play in the colorism view points or state that other poc are drug addicts and their “culture “ is violent but that they aren’t bad because they don’t practice their peoples “culture “. Or how some Jewish people will take conservative Christian rhetoric to target other marginalized religions to be more palatable to evangelical Christians.so I think this is a song about saying “ you are just as bad as the people people who are oppressing them when they are doing the same to others and we shouldn’t be tearing other people down but instead unionizing together to change the whole system together.

[@kikikiwi7536]

Dear brother, this shit is for you ❤

[@Acousticlystrange]

Man I just I'm just having some Penelope sad time it's great.

[@willowdontstarve4168]

what happened to my comment I put with the lyrics (っ˘̩╭╮˘̩)っ did youtube take it down because it violated guildelines or something I guess I'll analyze the song instead. note: I can only focus on one thing for a couple minutes so I'm gonna constantly be editing and adding on to this Penelope is addressing the shooter throughout the song when she says "you," but I don't think it's someone she knows personally, because the song is called "shitty song to listen to after a shooting," implying it's towards any shooter, regardless of who. although this isn't a theme within the song, something important to note is how our culture tends to be fascinated with shooters, they make tv shows, things the killer created are worth thousands, people read their works and analyze them, trying to find some way to rationalize of explain or humanize someone who committed an atrocity. this is sung in defiance of this fascination. "punching up" and "kicking down" mean two different things. the shooter kicks down, but never punches up. punching up and kicking down are both responses to pain, but kicking down is underhanded and hurts people where punching up is selfless. she's saying the shooter went and hurt people instead of doing something else. "what do you mean there's no choices, of course there's choices, just look around" shooters will often act like this was their only choice, that it had to end in death, but the world is so full with things to do besides committing a shooting the next few lines talk about trying your best, living a life, setting up the contrast between the shooter and the speaker, Penelope, because this is a more general "you" about how anyone could live their life

[@kami4309]

Probably

[@kami4309]

I can comment it for you

[@willowdontstarve4168]

@@kami4309 sure

[@GoldenTheaterYT]

The most American song

[@devynd6831]

yeah im here again.

[@prageruwu69]

here again after nashville.

[@bruhmonke8717]

This song made me cry

[@michaeladoodlez9709]

i love this

[@ActualAlien_]

Still relevant..

[@loomabcynot7909]

Is there anyway to find this on spotify

[@Ray-wz8sg]

anyone else coming back to this after what happened in Nashville?

[@somegalthing8399]

swag out loud

[@PotatoCat13-j4f]

“If I could k*ll myself with no collateral damage, I’d do it for something great.” This line hits hard because I have had suicidal thoughts before and what stoped me from doing it was the fact I have not done anything in life yet. Also that my parents and family are still alive and I don’t want them to have to grieve.

[@whyamihere_7604]

Funnily enugh we had one last year 💀

[@chrysoprase812]

idk if you knew but your channel name means 'hair' in Japanese

[@scooty1003]

that title is very very hard to read correctly

[@theaxolotlcute7261]

Thanks for doing what i do penelope❤ i love u for it

[@jadeforestnz]

hi!!! i dont mean to be annoying but could you please do drizzle?

[@kami4309]

Yep!! Gonna be a bit

[@jadeforestnz]

@@kami4309 tysmmmm

[@luesick5145]

I really like this song I’m gonna work a edit about this

[@jackisbored2608]

Friends in the background?

[@leannns19]

or the tv...

[@bloomph]

@@leannns19 “friends” as in the show f.r.i.e.n.d.s lol

[@kauliflower3527]

This is the only video I can find of this song is that the real name of the song???

[@fishy658]

Wow!!

[@forgor4410]

Where do people find all these rare songs?

[@kami4309]

Bandcamp

[@damien5620]

To everyone listening to this: What is your relationship with your father tbh

[@nixpixl442]

He’s de@d 😶

[@damien5620]

@@nixpixl442 how's the trauma sharty

[@bloomph]

@@nixpixl442 💀💀💀

[@nixpixl442]

@@bloomph just like him🥰

[@bloomph]

@@nixpixl442 OH YM GOD

[@Oliver32542]

Best fuckin’ song ever.

[@queenalice7483]

Me being the class clown 🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@lils5108]

999th liker :D

[@drownedtrashrat3501]

the pacifist hatred of harmful people who Just Dont Care about the damage they do

[@stoner_45]

Is this what it's really called?

[@kami4309]

Yes

[@michaupde3251]

thanks for this, also who's the guy in the picture?

[@dacoomerX]

mr spike spiegel. ps how’s your relationship with your father?

[@michaupde3251]

@@dacoomerX thanks! ps not good, havent talked to him in a while ( we live in the same house)

[@strawberryaliendeer]

Where did you find this originally, it's not on her KZbin for what I can see

[@R4TAT4T]

it’s from her bandcamp! i’d send a link but i don’t have it atm😅

[@generaldaddy2447]

i'm back to this song again kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4euaYOmabp7pKc

[@sugarllessgum]

piss

[@chrysoprase812]

yes

[@kiltedstrong]

P i s s i n d e e d

[@FrancescaTheMusician]

Agreed

[@kylie5209]

I have to add a comment so I can make it 69 comments.

[@StickBlender]

What is this song called?

[@spencervirens]

Shitty song to listen to after a shooting - it can be found on her Bandcamp under the "Junkyard" album

[@StickBlender]

@@spencervirens oh thanks I was not sure if that was the actual name

[@Acousticlystrange]

Highkey even as a called Christian i want to say these lyrics to my ex, i won't but it's tempting. Edit: i could care lesd about my ex, and this is my shower song.

[@dacoomerX]

can’t relate my dad loves me

[@AishiPlays]

is the name of the song “Shitty Song to Listen to After a Shooting” Or is that a description, like this is a shitty song to listen to after a shooting that penelope scott wrote

[@chrysoprase812]

it's the title

[@lilagotgame155]

this reminds me of my crush lol

[@Lampshade_productions]

Why do you hate your crush so much lol?

[@lilagotgame155]

@@Lampshade_productions he bullies me for being poor and he's rich, soooooo..

[@orangemlp5195]

@@lilagotgame155 I know it's not easy to stop liking someone and I know I've never met him, but he doesn't sound very good for you. You deserve better.

[@Halluw33n]

Did you sing this?

[@kami4309]

I did not, this is by Penelope Scott

[@Halluw33n]

@@kami4309 Okay.

[@clarethecat5199]

Who's the song about?

[@sporky9861]

actually i have no idea but I always assumed it was about school shooters

[@tatiana20109]

I’m not really sure, I think it’s about people who shoot others in public places (schools, stores, hospitals, etc.)

[@agnieszkasalach4395]

I guess that wherever your mind will go first reveals a lot about who you are and what worries you. To me it is about the most wealthy and priviledged, who made their fortunes off of various forms of capitalist exploitation

[@vinnie8662]

I always thought it was about school shooters based on the title not to mention the line “ it’s been done before “ as if it’s directed to the shooter Not the mention the line “you’re not special for making people weep” as if it’s a reference to the people the shooter killed and the emotional impact it had on everyone who lived

[@noreasonatall3852]

@@vinnie8662 Same, I always think about school shooters. Idk why but the Columbine assholes always come to mind for me, it seems to fit them in my head.