Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks (Lyrics) 7clouds. 21.4M subscribers. 7.8M views 11 months ago #pumpedupkicks #7clouds #fosterthepeople. "Pumped Up Kicks" succeeds because of simplicity. The lyrics are spellbinding, around the issue of gun violence and absent parents. It can be very effective to almost belie the profundity of a lyric by setting it to a cheerful, bouncy chorus. Mark Foster explained the song's meaning to Spinner UK: "'Pumped Up Kicks' is about a kid that basically is losing his mind and is plotting revenge. He's an outcast. I feel like the youth in our culture are becoming more and more isolated. It's kind of an epidemic. Background According to Foster himself, the track as a whole indeed describes the problem of mass school shootings in the United States. When writing the song in 2009, he felt that the country's handling of these shootings would continue to become a growing problem rather than seeing any improvement. And say your hair's on fire, you must have lost your wits, yeah. All the other kids with the pumped up kicks. You'd better run, better run, outrun my gun. All the other kids with the pumped up kicks. You'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet. All the other kids with the pumped up kicks. "Pumped Up Kicks" was the ultimate breakthrough for Los Angeles-based alt-pop group Foster the People. It was a catchy crossover hit that catered to multiple genre formats, and it helped usher .

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