Every once in a while, there is a song or a video that captures a sense of where teens are at. This one highlights the 'misfit' teen. Note also the challenge between cultural conformity and violent rejection/celebration of alternative paths.
How do you interpret this video? Is it an attack on contemporary American society? Youth culture? Consumer culture? Teen sub-cultures?
Is this an accurate depiction of the challenges of being a teen in today's world? Or is this a misrepresentation?
How should the Church respond to this?
They're gonna clean up your looks
With all the lies in the books
To make a citizen out of you
Because they sleep with a gun
And keep an eye on you, son
So they can watch all the things you do
Because the drugs never work
They're gonna give you a smirk
'Cause they got methods of keeping you clean
They're gonna rip up your heads,
Your aspirations to shreds
Another cog in the murder machine
They said all teenagers scare the living s*** out of me
They could care less as long as someone'll bleed
So darken your clothes or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone, but not me
The boys and girls in the clique
The awful names that they stick
You're never gonna fit in much, kid
But if you're troubled and hurt
What you got under your shirt
Will make them pay for the things that they did
They said all teenagers scare the living s*** out of me
They could care less as long as someone'll bleed
So darken your clothes or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone, but not me
Ohhh yeah!
All together now!
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