I'm sure people would, and that's the scary part. So there is fear, of course. What artist has officially retired their most well-known song? So it's something that I'm really wrestling with, but I'm leaning towards retiring it, because it's just too painful.
Where we're at now, compared to where we were 10 years ago, is just horrific. We played Life Is Beautiful in Vegas a couple of years ago and it was a massive crowd -- I think it was , people at our show -- and it was very close to the anniversary of the [Route 91 Harvest festival] shooting in Vegas and we opted out [of performing the song].
I was like, "I don't want to play the song here, it's just too much, it's too dark. We're in the place where this happened. And after we were done, I said goodbye and we walked off stage and there was a large group in the crowd of people chanting, "Pumped Up Kicks.
Yeah, it just felt really dark. It's like, "Wow, we just left you with this unifying song that everybody knows, and there's f--king clowns hanging from the ceiling and spinning around and rose petals being blown into the air.
What more do you want? And like I said, the song, the symbol of the song changed -- the public made it what it was, and if the public wants to make it something different, that's okay. But that's my choice of how I want to react to that. Yeah, I've thought about it. But I don't know, I'm not a huge fan of sequels. If I can figure out a way to do it in a way that's authentic and feels fresh and not preachy, I'll do it.
I've even thought about releasing that same exact song, with completely different lyrics. Or continuing the story, and talking about where Robert went from there -- because nobody knows how that story ends. So people fill in the blanks, and I think sometimes horror is the most powerful when you let the imagination fill in what happens.
After Sandy Hook happened, some radio stations began to take the song off the air and MTV censored some of the lyrics. What was your reaction to that? I think in the beginning, when that first started happening, I felt like it was bulls--t and I felt like the song was being treated differently, because it sounded like West Coast sunshine pop. If you look at the content on television and the shows that are getting nominated for Emmys every year, and movies that are getting nominated for Oscars every year, the content that we desire tends to be pretty dark.
The stories that get rewarded are the ones that tend to be really dark and talking about the deepest, darkest parts of humanity that people don't want to discuss. That's the most interesting thing for people to read in a book, that's the most interesting thing for people to make a movie about. But for whatever reason, songs are held in a different regard when it sounds like, "This is something that my three-year-old kid would really like. This is safe. This doesn't have any bad words in it or cuss words.
I think that nudity should be allowed on TV, but watching someone's head get blown off shouldn't. But you know, that's a much bigger subject to talk about. That's just how we are, and people want things to stay the same.
People aren't used to things changing and people aren't used to things creating a ripple in society, and when something does, people react to it and most of the time when something changes, your natural reaction is fear. The United States, since the age of the Western, early cinema, we've been watching people get shot, we've been rooting for that character to gun somebody down in the OK Corral.
And Clint Eastwood, you know, here he comes to save the day, he just murdered a bunch of Native Americans, the good guys win again. That's something that we grew up on and so we're desensitized to it until it comes in a different form and then in that different form you see the horror of it because you didn't have your walls up from the years of propaganda that you've been fed to be numbed to receiving it in a certain way.
I'm curious if radio stations and MTV would have reacted the same way if the song wasn't as upbeat and the melody wasn't as high and it sounded more dark and ominous.
It would've been fine, but nobody would've cared about the song. So now, in anticipation of 'Supermodel,' and the promise of more hooks, more perfectly crafted pop arrangements, more obscurely grim lyrics, here are Foster The People's five best songs. The 25 best albums of What were your favorite albums of the year? Read Story. One of the most infectious choruses ever written about teenage mental illness. There have been songs written about heroin addiction before, and I'm sure there have been songs written about heroin addiction with an equally catchy chorus.
I just can't think of any of them right now. This inevitably attracted the attention of major labels, and eventually the band signed to Columbia imprint Startime International. Early in they released a self-titled EP that featured "Pumped Up Kicks," and with the major-label support, the song became a worldwide hit. Despite the rapid climb of the single, the bandmembers were afforded time to concentrate on writing their debut full-length, while "Pumped Up Kicks" grew in popularity and was featured on television shows including the likes of Gossip Girl, Homeland, and a host of commercials.
Later that summer the band released its debut record, Torches , which was produced mainly by Greg Kurstin Kelly Clarkson , Ellie Goulding , with Paul Epworth Adele , Friendly Fires also contributing to a handful of tracks. They then embarked on tours across North America and Europe to support its release. Foster the People began writing material for their sophomore record while on tour, and they laid tracks down on a portable setup before they entered the studio.
Their sophomore album, the Paul Epworth -produced Supermodel , was released in March The album received middling reviews, but performed better than its predecessor, reaching number three on the U.
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