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Foster the People - Pumped up Kicks

It isn’t very typical of tuneage to feature a song from the Billboard charts but Foster the People isn’t a typical band. Sources say their emergences into fame is thanks to websites like Hype Machine, which, granted, has helped the trio keep a pretty level head about their meteoric year. It also doesn’t hurt the band members grew up doing a lot of charity, like building homes in Haiti and helping orphanages in Mexico.

Still, despite their do-gooder attitude, Foster the People further prove the point that with a catchy, upbeat sound (bonus points if whistling is included), you can pretty much write any sort of lyrics you like. And I can’t help that I love the idea of lyrics being completely misunderstood or misheard - like Springstein’s Born in the USA or other songs I’ve written about. Is it wrong I get a kick out of imagining an audience happily singing along without thinking twice about the words?

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

fwarg posted this on Aug 19 2011. it has 714 notes and 8,061 plays Tagged: #foster the people #pumped up kicks

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