I will admit these boys are CUTE and the song is catchy.
The reason Pumped Up Kicks caught my ear was because I thought it was Beck sampling Jefferson Airplane's Miracles but it isn't.
So what's the significance of Pumped Up Kicks?
"Pumped Up Kicks" are the shoes the other kids in this song are wearing.
In the late '80s and early '90s, the Reebok Pump basketball shoe had a pump shaped like a basketball on the tongue.
The shoes were expensive and the song implies the kids with the kind of exposible income to spend on basketball sneakers thought they were better then those kids wearing Converse or Keds.
In this song, the kids with the Pumped Up Kicks, or at least these type of kids, are threatened with grave violence.
Songs have been written on the topic of bullying and revenge since The Boomtown Rats sang I don't like Monday's.
Anthony Michael Hall's character Brian Johnson in The Breakfast Club was caught with a gun in his locker.
Horrifically, these tragedies continue.....
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