{quote}An absolute classic OT
My only concern for the writers & performers here is that in these "new" days and in some places (countries/states/authorities etc) will see this as a form of implied terrorism and take it all too literally
Misunderstandings & in many cases imho political correctness now misses & confuses good humour and converts metaphors into some other reality. The world needs to smile occasionally without wondering if the person next to them has just insulted them, invoking some possibly...
Thanks for your insightful comments.
I started watching the video without any preconceived bias on what it was going to be about. For the first minute, it sounded like a different version of 'We are the world' with everyone singing about understanding and the need to unify towards achieving a goal that would makes all our lives better. After the minute one, when it said "It's time to..." I was still expect to hear the word 'unity' or some form of it but suddenly, the trajectory of the song completely changed. It was like a joke that you are hearing and you're predicting how it's going to be delivered and suddenly, you get blown away by a totally different and unexpected turn in the story. That's one of main basis of what humor is all about. It's a 'brain-fck' in a way that surprises us and results in laughter.
The rest of the song is really a filler. It delivers it's punchline after minute one and then you know what's going on and you can settle in with the message it is bringing. After the song is finished, the pondering begins as in; 'what the hell just happened?'. So, what just happened, aside from the humor and the punchline was that, this song makes you realize who is really the boss. Who put these politicians in charge and who gave them a mandate and who they are serving?
That thought not only impowers a person to know that they are actually the one in charge but at the same time, it makes one aware that they are not in charge at all. That is the second coming of this song and overall it's depressing. People have the power and exercise it the only way they can by voting and at the end, they don't really benefit from their voting power, unless the politicians' interests and goals just happen to be thoroughly inline with their own which is rare.
Anyways, I doubt a song like this is going to make people to actually want to bring in the guillotines and to behead the politicians because the idea is not new. Politicians have been assassinated or arrested and jailed by their rivals and replacements forever. What the song says is actually a far fetched fantasy. That is, somehow, people (or THE PEOPLE) without a leader, band together and in unison cry out a direction for themselves. It's just not something that the humanity is capable of. There have been the odd semblances of spontaneous uprising in history but when you dig into it, you realize that there have been leadership in the form of a charismatic person or a cadre that for some reason wanted to stay anonymous. Without that core, any movement, sooner or later splatters itself to oblivion.
So, to sum it up, this song is just a little old artistic curiosity that does it's thing and then it can be filed away in a folder of song collections to maybe played for someoone as 'mind-fck' novelty once and that's it.
Thanks , much appreciated your post and your infos.
