Can’t say we didn’t see this coming.
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Foster The People’s 2010 hit “Pumped Up Kicks” has been pulled off L.A. radio in the wake of the Newtown Massacre.
Joining Ke$ha on the new list of banned artists since Friday’s Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, “Pumped Up Kicks” will no longer pump up the radio mix with its catchy hook.
The song’s hook is the source of trouble, as Mark Foster sings:
“All the other kids, with the pumped up kicks / You better run, better run, outrun my gun. / All the other kids with the pumped up kicks, / You better run, better run, faster than my bullet.”
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The lyrics to the smash hit are eerily similar to the developments of Sandy Hook, but that is because the track is about the 1999 Columbine School shooting in Columbine, Colorado.
The band’s bassist, Cubbie Fink, actually had a cousin who survived the 1999 massacre, which is what inspired the group to write the song.
We highly doubt Foster The People will disagree with this decision, plus this song is over two years old.
