Just some things I've always wondered/ been curious about with Paramore. The most recent of these that I'm sharing is going to be about Jeremy "leaving", so I'm breaking my promise a bit. Some of these are my own, some I've found online, a...
Hey guys, I wanted to clear up my earlier post about the RCB video because some people didn't understand what it meant.
So I said I hoped it wouldn't get political but some of the pictures look like it might. People said they didn't understand how I got to that conclusion, and I use Chained To The Rhythm by Katy Perry as an example of covert politicism.
In the song Katy Perry talks about people being blinded by Rose Colored glasses:
"So put your rose colored glasses on and party on"
And because they're wearing these metaphorical glasses they're blind to the terrible things going on around them:
"Keep sweeping it under the mat, thought we could do better than that, I hope we can"
"So comfortable we're living in a bubble (bubble), so comfortable we cannot see the trouble (trouble)"
And these phrases match up in the video with allusions to our current political climate:
The video takes place in a futuristic amusement park called Oblivia, a play on the word oblivious, but everyone is wearing 1950s attire except Katy who is the hero, the one who sees through the facade. The people around her are blind to the bad things about Oblivia:
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This is a hint that Americans have became stagnant and complacent in our current political climate, so we're just putting those rose colored glasses on and smiling.
There is also a scene at a gast station that serves beverages called Inferno H20. At this time in America a law was passed deregulating the coal industry, and now allowing them to dump coal waste in local rivers and streams:
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Obviously this scene was a hint to the coal industries now being allowed to poison streams and rivers legally.
My final example is a ride at Oblivia, a large hamster wheel, and on this ride a line of people waiting to run. Every time a person of color runs on the hamster wheel they fail and fall, but white people are able to successfully run the wheel:
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