Fall out Boy in Africa?
September 26, 2007
Ok so I hate the whole scene that Fall out Boy has jumped on, pop punk needs to die. But unfortunately they have made a good music video, something that seldomm happens abismal pop bands. “I’m like a lawyer, how I’m always trying to get you off” addresses the war in northern Uganda, and the thousands of children abducted to fight in this war. This only piqued my interest because of a book that was presented on the Daily Show a couple of months ago called, “A long way gone; Memoirs of a boy soldier” by Ismeal Beah, where he discussed the trials of becoming a man way too early and all of the terrible things that he was forced to do. Anyway back at hand, the Fall out Boy, video tells a story of two young lovers that live a modest life the boy who works hard to save money to go to school and tutor his girl. Until one night the boy is abducted by “freedom fighters” and forced to join their army, which has the living conditions of a pow camp, forced to fight one another for the amusement of others and to show their worth as warriors. One night, he along with another boy, make their escape. Our protagonist makes his escape successful only because of the other boys failure. The boy then returns back to his village a changed person but meets back with his love.
Strange fare for a Fall out Boy video. But if everyone that watches a Fall out Boy, there are a lot of them too, video gets the message and visits the website invisiblechildren.com, maybe something will happen.
Oh, BTW the song still sucks in my opinion.
I love this song becasue it just goes to show how much they care. unlike otherpunk rock artists or other artists period who dont give a dmn about what is going on in Northern Uganda, I think they did a damn good job of getting the point across. It’s also good becasue since they have so much listeners, ppl can really hear the message.
I listened to this on mute b/c Pats mixin loops, and I don’t like fall out boy. It is nice to see something with substance can still find its way into pop culture. I’d like to see somebody do a video protesting the 2008 Olympics and show whats happening to the Fulong Dafa. Or how bout a video showing the plight of the Malayan sun bears and the cruel harvest for their bile.
Yay, I cant wait to see you in Dec. and take you to my zoo. Yay! Wes is comin to town. cyalata