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This one is for my people all the very people This one is for my people
We got trees growin out the dirt for us to climb on beats attackin your ears for us to ryme on
Our time with a bag of purp 3 5 dimes puttin shags to work
We on both sides of the river all around the ocean spinnin like a carousel stuck in fast motion
Like that champ out on his back flat on the map i been doin that
We runnin bare foot on broken glass i cant belive it but the shit is out there and were here to receive it
Catch me on the waterfalls with sexy ass mermaids washin my balls
Were throwin rocks in the sky puttin craters on the moon chillin with the creature from the black lagoon
Communication through your stereo for every body listenin here we go
This ones for my people
The people
The very people
Listenin here
And it dont matter where (Out there)
This ones for my people
The people
The very people
Listenin here
And it dont matter where (Out there)
We flyin with the red wall needles gettin shot at floatin on a iceberg wonderin were the pot at
Grease paint with a bottle of go fetch me a lette and im outta the doo
We take you higher then lex luger always stay true to scrubs universally on wanted juggalletes and thugs
I got a robotic arm and dont nobody know it i can rip your whole head and throw it
We are a never ending story that only gets better as we make our way through this life we live together
Hooptie ridin with my headphones on vision im in a bentley on hologram chrome
The wicked shit will never die put some hatchet in your ear holes real underground baby punchin through your stereos
Somthin wicked for the chosin few so for everybody listenin this goes to you
This ones for my people
The people
The very people
Listenin here
And it dont matter where (Out there)
This ones for my people
The people
The very people
Listenin here
And it dont matter where (Out there)
For my people livin downtown (it dont matter where)
For my people livin in the forrest (out there)
For my people livin in the dry desert and where the rain pours(out there)
For my people in the jungle for my people in the beatbox (out there)
For my people in the island for my people in the crops (out there)
For my people in the snowstroms for my people in the heatwaves (out there)
For my people bein born and all my people in the graves (out there)
For my people in the swamp lands for my people of the tundra (out there)
For my people in the penthouses and the others livin under (out there)
For my people in oriente for my people of the seas (out there)
For my people in the out back and my people from the trees (out there)
For my people of the mountains for my people on the road (out there)
This one is for my people all the very people This one is for my people
We got trees growin out the dirt for us to climb on beats attackin your ears for us to ryme on
Our time with a bag of purp 3 5 dimes puttin shags to work
We on both sides of the river all around the ocean spinnin like a carousel stuck in fast motion
Like that champ out on his back flat on the map i been doin that
We runnin bare foot on broken glass i cant belive it but the shit is out there and were here to receive it
Catch me on the waterfalls with sexy ass mermaids washin my balls
Were throwin rocks in the sky puttin craters on the moon chillin with the creature from the black lagoon
Communication through your stereo for every body listenin here we go
This ones for my people
The people
The very people
Listenin here
And it dont matter where (Out there)
This ones for my people
The people
The very people
Listenin here
And it dont matter where (Out there)
We flyin with the red wall needles gettin shot at floatin on a iceberg wonderin were the pot at
Grease paint with a bottle of go fetch me a lette and im outta the doo
We take you higher then lex luger always stay true to scrubs universally on wanted juggalletes and thugs
I got a robotic arm and dont nobody know it i can rip your whole head and throw it
We are a never ending story that only gets better as we make our way through this life we live together
Hooptie ridin with my headphones on vision im in a bentley on hologram chrome
The wicked shit will never die put some hatchet in your ear holes real underground baby punchin through your stereos
Somthin wicked for the chosin few so for everybody listenin this goes to you
This ones for my people
The people
The very people
Listenin here
And it dont matter where (Out there)
This ones for my people
The people
The very people
Listenin here
And it dont matter where (Out there)
For my people livin downtown (it dont matter where)
For my people livin in the forrest (out there)
For my people livin in the dry desert and where the rain pours(out there)
For my people in the jungle for my people in the beatbox (out there)
For my people in the island for my people in the crops (out there)
For my people in the snowstroms for my people in the heatwaves (out there)
For my people bein born and all my people in the graves (out there)
For my people in the swamp lands for my people of the tundra (out there)
For my people in the penthouses and the others livin under (out there)
For my people in oriente for my people of the seas (out there)
For my people in the out back and my people from the trees (out there)
For my people of the mountains for my people on the road (out there)
For my people everywhere that call themselves juggalos (out there)
This one is for my people all the very people This one is for my people
We got trees growin out the dirt for us to climb on beats attackin your ears for us to ryme on
Our time with a bag of purp 3 5 dimes puttin shags to work
We on both sides of the river all around the ocean spinnin like a carousel stuck in fast motion
Like that champ out on his back flat on the map i been doin that
We runnin bare foot on broken glass i cant belive it but the shit is out there and were here to receive it
Catch me on the waterfalls with sexy ass mermaids washin my balls
Were throwin rocks in the sky puttin craters on the moon chillin with the creature from the black lagoon
Communication through your stereo for every body listenin here we go
This ones for my people
The people
The very people
Listenin here
And it dont matter where (Out there)
This ones for my people
The people
The very people
Listenin here
And it dont matter where (Out there)
We flyin with the red wall needles gettin shot at floatin on a iceberg wonderin were the pot at
Grease paint with a bottle of go fetch me a lette and im outta the doo
We take you higher then lex luger always stay true to scrubs universally on wanted juggalletes and thugs
I got a robotic arm and dont nobody know it i can rip your whole head and throw it
We are a never ending story that only gets better as we make our way through this life we live together
Hooptie ridin with my headphones on vision im in a bentley on hologram chrome
The wicked shit will never die put some hatchet in your ear holes real underground baby punchin through your stereos
Somthin wicked for the chosin few so for everybody listenin this goes to you
This ones for my people
The people
The very people
Listenin here
And it dont matter where (Out there)
This ones for my people
The people
The very people
Listenin here
And it dont matter where (Out there)
For my people livin downtown (it dont matter where)
For my people livin in the forrest (out there)
For my people livin in the dry desert and where the rain pours(out there)
For my people in the jungle for my people in the beatbox (out there)
For my people in the island for my people in the crops (out there)
For my people in the snowstroms for my people in the heatwaves (out there)
For my people bein born and all my people in the graves (out there)
For my people in the swamp lands for my people of the tundra (out there)
For my people in the penthouses and the others livin under (out there)
For my people in oriente for my people of the seas (out there)
For my people in the out back and my people from the trees (out there)
For my people of the mountains for my people on the road (out there)
Louder, louder, louder, louder, louder, louder
louder, louder, Yeah
Yeah, it's for the People
This is street ra-dio, for unsung heroes
Ridin in they regal, tryin to stay legal
My daughter found Nemo, I found the new primo
Yeah you know how we do, we do it for the people
And the struggles of the brothas and the folks
With lovers under dope, experiment to discover hopes
Scuffle for notes, the rougher I wrote, times were harder
Went from rocky starter to a voice of a martyr
Why white folks focus on dogs and yoga
While people on the low end tryin to ball and get over
Lyrics are like liquor for the fallen soldiers
From the bounce to the ounce, its all our culture
Everyday we hustlin, tryna get them custom rims
Law we ain't trustin them, thick broads we lust in them
Sick and tired of bunchin it, I look on the bus at them
When I see them struggling, I think how I'm touchin them
The People
The day, has come
Now we, are one
Just take, your time
And then, you'll find
This is street ra-dio, for unsung heroes
Ridin in they regal, tryin to stay legal
My daughter found Nemo, I found the new primo
Yeah you know how we do, we do it for the people
The people said that I was sharp on TV
At the Grammy's, though they tried to India.Arie me
Got back stage, and I bumped into Stevie
He said no matter what, the people gone see me
Can't leave rap alone the streets need me
Hunger in they eyes, is what seems to feed me
Inside peace mixed with beast seem to breed me
Nobody believe, until I believe me
Now I'm on the rise doin business with my guys
Visions realize, music affected lives
A gift from the skies, to be recognize
I'm keeping my eyes on the people, that's the prize
This is street ra-dio, for unsung heroes
Ridin in they regal, tryin to stay legal
My daughter found Nemo, I found the new primo
Yeah you know how we do, we do it for the people
From Englewood to a single hood in Botswana
I see the I in We my nigga, yours is my drama
Standin in front of the judge with no honor
Barack stick, knight the people like Obama
The karma of the streets is needs and takes
Sometimes we find peace in beats and breaks
Put the bang in the back so the seats can shake
Rebel Cadillac music for the people sake
Money means nothing
My people mean everything
Promise when I got little more money that I will never change
Plus still the same
I kept my fig on earth
And I kept my promise
I kept my people first
My friends and my family got help to make an anomy
When I was down at
Ya here to help an enemy
So I return in the favour
I passing forward
Adversity don't wanna wait for amount tours in
Face it and brace it
I promise that you could make it
Time spit with your family you should keep that secret
Is more worth then any amount of money?
So I never let the money smash that from me
People get money and them start can make money
Is the money that making world you see
I see a five years son taking out this some
Cause money ain't the world to me
I do it for the people the people the people
Cause money ain't the world to me
The people the people the people
Cause money ain't the world to me
Daddy was a garbage man
Mammy ware real hearth
Me I'm a command
And the pi on the lord
Smart smith admit it
You didn't have a million dollars
Only thing you said to me was don't key to make you stronger
Hope for beginning
Make some sweat amaze
Look for hope every Tupac and John Lennon
In rolls sit goes
What your next move
Now you have a good president what you gone do
Be a better man
Let the crip da hade
Grow spiritedly
Hip about your community
Is the love that mama was cooking
That making taste good
Is the people not the money
That makes the neighbourhood
People get money and them start can make money
Is the money that making world you see
I see a five years son taking out this some
Cause money ain't the world to me
I do it for the people the people the people
Cause money ain't the world to me
The people the people the people
Cause money ain't the world to me
You see I do it for the love
Sometimes I do it just because
But for some reason I can't explain
I didn't do for the box
See Nappy Roots is a movement
That how about the class above
Da origin of da obvious
Sell the conscious like a alibis
We struggle for down the town
Did the opposite of a largumish?
But a hard word pays off
I'm leaving proof and promise in this
Educate yourself so any fantasy's of dollars
You say you want but proof that soon you gonna make it
But make it to your credulous kiss
Is day out the future?
We are the one that damage in it
Abuse is an opportunity with revolution time in it
Don't make evidence it
His movie doesn't have a sequel
If you don't do for you and your kids did
Do it for the rest of the people
People get money and them start can make money
Is the money that making world you see
I see a five years son taking out this some
Cause money ain't the world to me
I do it for the people the people the people
Cause money ain't the world to me
The people the people the people
The People
Written By: The Music
hey Monday morning,
See what you're missing,
I can't live my life like this boy,
I said hey little lady,
see what you're missing,
I can't get enough of your love,
she goes...out all alone and out on her own (x4),
how many times do,
I have to say this,
your match is a light for me babe,
I said hey little lady,
see what you're missing,
I can't get enough of your love,
she goes...out all alone and out on her own (x4),
all alone (x6),
the people (x3), change the way you live now,
the people (x3), change the way you live now,
hey Monday morning,
see what you're missing,
I can't live my life like this boy,
I said hey little lady,
see what you're missing,
I can't get enough of your love,
she goes...out all alone and out on her own (x4),
all alone (x6),
the people (x3), change the way you live now,
the people (x3), change the way you live now
People count on "nothing isn't worth it"
Enslave your bodies for money to buy freedom
The people are angry with you and each other
I will remember when you said you'd save me
You disappoint your fathers and your mothers
With your faith not lasting I wonder what you'll wonder
And soon you'll sing badabadabadada
And soon you'll sing badabadabadada
The people are angry with you and each other
But I will remember when you said you'd save me
Badabadabadada
Written By: The Music
hey Monday morning,
See what you're missing,
I can't live my life like this boy,
I said hey little lady,
see what you're missing,
I can't get enough of your love,
she goes...out all alone and out on her own (x4),
how many times do,
I have to say this,
your match is a light for me babe,
I said hey little lady,
see what you're missing,
I can't get enough of your love,
she goes...out all alone and out on her own (x4),
all alone (x6),
the people (x3), change the way you live now,
the people (x3), change the way you live now,
hey Monday morning,
see what you're missing,
I can't live my life like this boy,
I said hey little lady,
see what you're missing,
I can't get enough of your love,
she goes...out all alone and out on her own (x4),
all alone (x6),
the people (x3), change the way you live now,
the people (x3), change the way you live now
What makes the word "America" ring
With a sound that brightens the air?
It's people, her people,
Who have done their "own thing"
With blood, sweat and tears, and a prayer.
Louis Armstrong on a golden trumpet,
And Marian Anderson singing "The Lord's Prayer";
The savage power of Jack Dempsey,
And the quiet pride of Jesse Owens;
Merle Haggard singing "Okie from Muskogee,"
And Chet Atkins pickin' a guitar;
Bing Crosby at Christmastime,
And Charles Lindbergh crossing the Atlantic alone;
A sharecroppers's son, an immigrant boy,
A hobo who rode all the rails,
The magic guitar of an ol' country boy,
A lone eagle who pioneered trails;
Sandy Koufax staring down at a batter,
While Willie Mays chants his "Say hey!"
Maria Tallchief gliding in Swan Lake,
While Fred Astaire dances on gossamer wings;
Billy Graham bringing God to millions,
And Jonas Salk bringing hope to the world;
Mahalia Jackson closing her eyes in devotion,
And Johnny Cash singing at the White House!
What makes the word "America" ring
With a sound that brightens the air?
It's people, her people,
Who have done their "own thing"
With blood, sweat and tears, and a prayer.
Willie Shoemaker booting Swaps home,
While Eddie Arcaro wins the Triple Crown on Citation;
Arnie Palmer winning the Open,
While Eddy Arnold is winning hearts;
Tom Harmon threading the field for Michigan,
While Bob Morrison plays his heart out for Troy;
Kate Smith singing "God Bless America."
And Irving Berlin, who wrote it!
Then there are those, unheralded, whose dedication to
our country is strong and true: The builders of
America--those who make her factories hum, the loggers
of her great forests, the men who labor deep in her
mines and the man who works with his hands.
The farmer who toils from dawn to dusk, and those who
carry her bountiful yield to all the state of our
Union. The railroaders, our merchant sailors, the
airline pilots, and those modern knights of the
road...the truck drivers.
These, and others like them, have earned their rights
to walk proudly...with the knowledge that their goals
were acheived through honest toil and in the spirit of
harmony found in The People...working together...in
this great land.
What makes the word "America" ring
With a sound that brightens the air?
It's people, her people,
Who have done their "own thing"
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Birdy - People Help The People [Official Music Video]
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The People vs Winter
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Ice-induced pavement pile-up's, out of control vehicles, winter fail wipeouts and the usual death defiers. Nobody was hurt in the making of this video apart ...
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Planet Infowars: The People Are Awake
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A New Story of the People
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How do we change the world? Change the story. "The greatest illusion of this world is the illusion of separation." ~ Once the story our world is built on ref...
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Les Miserables OST 2012 - Do You Hear the People Sing?
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Music video by Foster The People performing Houdini live in Solana Beach. (c) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment.
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Music video by Foster The People performing Houdini live in Solana Beach. (c) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment.
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I Would Do Anything For You - Foster The People
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Do You Hear The People Sing? - Les Misérables 2012
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Shower the People
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Nahko Bear (Medicine for the People) ღ Aloha Ke Akua
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28 May 2013
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This article is about the British newspaper. For other uses, see The People (disambiguation).
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| Type | Sunday newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner | Trinity Mirror |
| Editor | Lloyd Embley |
| Founded | 16 October 1881 |
| Political alignment | Labour |
| Circulation | 701,246 (March 2012)[1] |
| Official website | people.co.uk |
The People, also known for a while as the Sunday People, is a British tabloid Sunday-only newspaper. The paper was founded on 16 October 1881.[2]
It is published by the Trinity Mirror Group.[3] In July 2011 it had an average daily circulation of 806,544.[1]
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Notable columnists[link]
- Garry Bushell had a two-page television opinion page, "Bushell On the Box", but left in early 2007, later moving to the Daily Star Sunday
- Jimmy Greaves, the former England footballer[4]
Editors[link]
- 1881: Sebastian Evans
- 1890s: Harry Benjamin Vogel
- 1900: Joseph Hatton
- 1907:
- 1913: John Sansome
- 1922: Robert Donald
- 1924: Hannen Swaffer
- 1925: Harry Ainsworth
- 1957: Stuart Campbell
- 1966: Bob Edwards
- 1972: Geoffrey Pinnington
- 1982: Nicholas Lloyd
- 1983:
- 1984: Richard Stott
- 1985: Ernie Burrington
- 1988: John Blake
- 1989: Wendy Henry
- 1989: Ernie Burrington (acting)
- 1990: Richard Stott
- 1991: Bill Hagerty
- 1992: Bridget Rowe
- 1996: Brendon Parsons
- 1998: Neil Wallis
- 2003: Mark Thomas
- 2008: Lloyd Embley
References[link]
- ^ a b "First official figures give The Sun Sunday 3.2m circ". Press Gazette (UK). 9 March 2012. http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=48913&c=1. Retrieved 12 March 2012. (March 2012)
- ^ "Concise History of the British Newspaper in the Nineteenth Century". Archived from the original on 24 February 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080224071628/http://www.bl.uk/collections/brit19th.html. Retrieved 16 March 2008.
- ^ Oliver Luft and Stephen Brook (30 January 2009). "The People to make six staff redundant". The Guardian. UK. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/30/trinity-mirror-the-people-six-redundancies. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
- ^ Jessica Boulton; Katie Hind; Ben Duffy (28 March 2010). "CELEBRITY X FACTOR". People.co.uk. MGN Ltd. http://www.people.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/2010/03/28/celebrity-x-factor-93463-22143891/. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
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| Genre | Indie pop, alternative rock, neo-psychedelia | |||||||
| Length | 4:11 (album version) 3:38 (radio edit) |
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| Writer(s) | Mark Foster | |||||||
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"Pumped Up Kicks" is a song by American indie pop band Foster the People. It was released as the group's debut single in September 2010, and the following year was included on their EP Foster the People and their debut album Torches. "Pumped Up Kicks" became the group's breakthrough hit and was one of the most popular songs of 2011. The song was written and recorded by frontman Mark Foster while he was working as a commercial jingle writer. Contrasting with the upbeat musical composition, the lyrics describe the homicidal thoughts of a troubled youth.
The track received considerable attention after it was posted online in 2010 as a free download, and it helped the group garner a multi-album record deal with Columbia Records imprint Startime International before they had issued a commercial release. The song became both a crossover hit and a sleeper hit in 2011, as it received significant airplay on modern rock and contemporary hit radio stations. The song spent eight consecutive weeks at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States, making it the first Billboard Alternative Songs number-one single to crack the U.S. top 5 since Kings of Leon's "Use Somebody" in 2009. The song was widely praised by critics, and it has been licensed for use in a wide range of popular media since its release. "Pumped Up Kicks" received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.
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Recording[link]
Soon after Mark Foster formed Foster the People in 2009, he wrote and recorded "Pumped Up Kicks" in five hours while working as a commercial jingle writer at Mophonics in Los Angeles.[1][2] Thinking that he was just recording a demo, he played all of the instruments on the song. Ultimately, Foster's original version of the song is what ended up being released.[3]
Composition and inspiration[link]
"I like to write about real-life topics, and I like to write about different walks of life. For me, that song was really an observation about something that's happening in the youth culture these days. I guess I wanted to reveal that internal dialogue of a kid who doesn't have anywhere to turn, and I think the song has kind of done its job. I think people are talking about it, and it's become a point of conversation, which I think is a really healthy thing."
—Mark Foster[4]
The lyrics to "Pumped Up Kicks" are written from the perspective of a troubled and delusional youth with homicidal thoughts.[3] The lines in the chorus warn potential victims to "outrun my gun" and that they "better run, better run, faster than my bullet". Foster said, "I was trying to get inside the head of an isolated, psychotic kid."[3] He wrote the lyrics in order to "bring awareness" to the issue of gun violence amongst youth, which he feels is an epidemic perpetuated by "lack of family, lack of love, and isolation".[5][6] The song's title refers to shoes that the narrator's peers wear as a status symbol.[7] The issue of youth violence is a matter close to the group. Foster was bullied in high school, while bassist Cubbie Fink has a cousin who survived the Columbine High School massacre in 1999. Fink said of his cousin's experience, "She was actually in the library when everything went down, so I actually flew out to be with her the day after it happened and experienced the trauma surrounding it and saw how affected she was by it. She is as close as a sister, so obviously, it affected me deeply. So to be able to have a song to create a platform to talk about this stuff has been good for us."[4]
Contrasting with the dark lyrics of the song, the music, which was written first, is upbeat. Foster said, "It's a 'fuck you' song to the hipsters in a way—but it's a song the hipsters are going to want to dance to."[3] Jeffery Berg of Frontier Psychiatrist said, "I was so engrossed with the cheery melody of its chorus that it took me a few listens to discover that the lyrics suggest dark, Columbine revenge."[8]
Due to the opening lyrics, "Robert's got a quick hand," many have speculated that the song is a reference to Robert Hawkins, perpetrator of Omaha's Westroads Mall shooting. The band's publicist refutes this with "This is completely false. The character name in the song is just a coincidence."[9] For play on the television channels MTV and MTVu, the words "gun" and "bullet" were removed from the song's chorus.[10] Foster believes many have misinterpreted the song's meaning, and he has written letters to his record label and called radio stations to complain. He explained, "The song is not about condoning violence at all. It's the complete opposite. The song is an amazing platform to have a conversation with your kids about something that shouldn't be ignored, to talk about it in a loving way."[2]
Release and promotion[link]
Initial attention[link]
"Pumped Up Kicks" drew considerable attention online after Foster posted the song on his website as a free download in early 2010; Nylon magazine used the track in an online advertising campaign,[11] and through various blogs, it went viral.[12] Foster the People first performed the song live at the Stand Up Charity Benefit in Venice in February.[13] The group, yet to be signed, reached additional audiences with performances at the South by Southwest music festival in March 2010.[14] Foster was emailed by many people about the song, and needing professional guidance, he contacted artist manager Brent Kredel at Monotone, Inc., saying, "Everyone is calling me and emailing me—what do I do? Who are the good guys, who are the bad guys?" Kredel recalled that "He went from the guy who couldn't get a hold of anyone to being the guy who had hundreds of emails in his inbox." Kredel and Brett Williams were subsequently hired to co-manage Foster the People, and they helped the group get a multi-album record deal with Columbia Records imprint Startime International in May 2010.[11]
"Pumped Up Kicks" was licensed for use in a July 2010 episode of the TV series Entourage, the first of many instances in which Foster the People's music was licensed in popular media.[11] Wishing to release a record that would back up the song's success, the group wrote new material between July–September 2010.[11] The song received its first widespread radio play in July 2010 on Sirius XM's Alt Nation channel and the Australian radio station Triple J.[15] The song was released as their debut single on September 14, 2010.[citation needed] In November, the University of Maryland's radio station WMUC played the song, marking its debut on US terrestrial radio.[16] The song placed at number 32 in the Triple J's Hottest 100 for 2010,[17] a big achievement due to the band being relatively unknown in Australia. Still, the group was inexperienced as a live act, and as a result, their booking agent Tom Windish secured them several club shows "to help them get their sea legs." Foster the People promoted these concerts in January 2011 by emailing fans who had downloaded "Pumped Up Kicks" from their website, notifying them of the shows. The group continued to grow its fanbase with a month-long residency of concerts in January at The Echo nightclub in Los Angeles. By the group's third show at the venue, according to Windish, "there were hundreds of people trying to get in outside... It was an obvious turning point that could be measured in numbers." The residency also drew the attention of music supervisors in attendance who would later help the group license their music.[11]
Commercial breakthrough[link]
In January 2011, the band issued their first commercial non-single release, a self-titled EP on which "Pumped Up Kicks" appeared. Around the same time, many alternative radio stations began playing "Pumped Up Kicks", including Los Angeles terrestrial stations KROQ-FM and KYSR, and it continued to gain popularity on Alt Nation.[11] Mark Foster credits Sirius XM's airplay with the song's success, saying, "Alt Nation played our music before any other radio outlet in the country."[18] On January 29, the song debuted on Billboard's Rock Songs chart and a week later, it debuted on the Alternative Songs chart. In May, the track debuted at number 96 on the Billboard Hot 100, and later that month, the group released their first full-length studio album, Torches, on which "Pumped Up Kicks" appears.[11] On May 23, 2011, BBC Radio 1 DJ Greg James selected the song as his Record of the Week, which ran until May 27. During this time, James released an accompanying video of him dancing to the song which he entitled and promoted "The Bum Dance".[19]
The song proved to be a crossover hit, peaking at number three on the Rock Songs chart in July and number one on the Alternative Songs chart in June, while breaking into the top 40 of the Hot 100 in late July and appearing on the Adult Top 40 and Mainstream Top 40 charts. Columbia senior VP of promotion Lee Leipsner said, "It was one of the only alternative bands I remember in a while that you could actually dance to. And the fact that the record has a groove and rhythmic feel to it—not heavy guitar-based at all—gave us a wide opportunity to cross the record." He credits the song's crossover success and push into the top 40 to a June presentation of new music by Clear Channel president of national programming platforms Tom Poleman. According to Leipsner, "After we showed our presentation, we had so many Clear Channel major-market programmers come up to us and say, 'The record I want to play besides Adele is Foster the People.'" "Pumped Up Kicks" peaked at number three on the Hot 100, spending eight consecutive weeks at the position.[11] It has been certified 3× platinum in the US, Canada,[20][21] and Australia,[22] while receiving a gold certification in Germany.[23] The song ranked as the sixth-best-selling digital song of 2011, selling 3.61 million copies.[24]
Music video[link]
The music video, directed by Josef Geiger, was filmed at multiple locations in Los Angeles with insert footage from San Francisco[citation needed] and features the band playing a show. There are also cuts to band members doing other activities, such as playing frisbee and surfing. The video peaked at #21 on the MuchMusic Countdown in Canada.[25] The video has received over 83 million views on YouTube.[2]
Reception[link]
Critical reaction[link]
"Pumped Up Kicks" received positive reviews from critics. Barry Walters of Spin said that with the song as their debut single, Foster the People "announce themselves as major players".[26] Jon Dolan of Rolling Stone described the song as having a "slinky groove, misty guitar flange and delicious astral-wimp vocals".[27] Rob Webb of NME drew some parallels between the song and other indie pop hits like "Young Folks", "Paris", and "Kids" describing its rise in popularity as thus: "artist writes (undeniably brilliant) pop song, makes it catchy as hell, but quirky enough for the 'cool' crowd, song subsequently gets some big pimping from every blog/radio station/Hype Machine user on the planet and, seemingly overnight, becomes utterly, irritatingly inescapable."[28] August Brown of the Los Angeles Times called it a "reputation-making single" that "cakes Foster in Strokes-y vocal distortion atop a loping synth bass".[29] Jon Pareles of The New York Times called it a "pop ditty with dazed, dweeby vocals and a handclapping chorus that warns, 'You better run, better run, outrun my gun'".[30] BBC Music's Mark Beaumont called the song a "psychedelic block party skipping tune". Reflecting on the song's fusion of various musical elements, Beaumont said the song is a prime example of how they "adapt Animal Collective's art-tronic adventurousness to incorporate the funky danceability of Scissor Sisters, the fuzzy pop catchiness of 'Kids' and the knack of throwing in deceptively downbeat twists akin to Girls, Sleigh Bells or Smith Westerns".[31] Matt Collar of Allmusic said the song, like other tracks from the album, is "catchy, electro-lite dance-pop that fits nicely next to such contemporaries as MGMT and Phoenix".[32] The Guardian's Michael Hann was less receptive, saying it "amounts to little more than a bassline and a chorus" and that "It's as irresistible as it is infuriating".[33]
Accolades[link]
A Rolling Stone readers poll named it the second-best song of summer 2011.[34] Claire Suddath of Time magazine named "Pumped Up Kicks" one of the Top 10 Songs of 2011.[35] In end-of-year polls, writers for Rolling Stone selected "Pumped Up Kicks" as the 11th-best song of 2011,[36] while the publication's readers voted it the year's sixth-best song.[37] A listeners poll by Toronto radio station CFNY-FM (102.1 The Edge) voted it #1 in a list of the top 102 new rock songs of 2011.[38] Entertainment Weekly selected the song as the second-best single of 2011.[39] NME ranked it number 21 on its list of the "50 Best Tracks of 2011", writing, "Unusually for a song so omnipresent, listening to its hyper-upbeat melodies about a psycho high-school kid-killer is still an enjoyable experience."[40] The magazine's readers voted "Pumped Up Kicks" the year's eighth-best song.[41] At the end of 2011, the song received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.[42]
Impact[link]
In an article for The Huffington Post, DJ Louie XIV singled out "Pumped Up Kicks" as one of several popular songs that helped usher in the return of commercially successful indie music. In discussing the growing acceptance of fringe cultures, he wrote, "It seems only fitting, then, that the soundtrack to this time period should be music that was itself once viewed as fringe culture."[43] Reflecting on the song's success, Gary Trust, the associate director of charts/radio for Billboard, said, "They're walking a tightrope very well in terms of eras, formats and styles. When you mix all that together, it becomes a very good recipe for a hit that works on so many levels. It's the perfect song." Foster said of the song, "There's a spirit there and that's what people resonate with. 'Pumped Up Kicks' wasn't an accident."[2]
Use in popular media[link]
The song was used in TV series such as Entourage,[44] Gossip Girl, CSI:NY, Cougar Town, Homeland, Warehouse 13 and The Vampire Diaries and also in the 2011 films Friends with Benefits[11] and Fright Night, as well as sampled in Shawn Chrystopher's song "All the Other Kids", from his 2010 hip-hop album You, and Only You. The whistling part of the song is part of the rotation of bumper music played on the Michael Medved syndicated radio program. The song is also used on the BBC programme Match of the Day. On October 8, 2011, Foster the People performed the song on Saturday Night Live. The song was also used in Australian beer XXXX's "XXXX Summer Bright Lager" television commercial.[45]
Cover versions and remixes[link]
The official remix of the single was released by New York City-duo The Knocks in April 2011, under the name "Pumped Up Kicks (The Knocks Speeding Bullet Remix)", and was made available to subscribers to the band's email list. The song was covered by Weezer during their 2011 North American Tour, at the Orange County Fair on August 4, 2011. Weezer also played the song during their grandstand performance at the Minnesota State Fair on September 3, 2011.[46] Mark Foster said in reaction, "Nine years ago, I met Rivers Cuomo at a party, and I had my acoustic guitar with me. He taught me how to play 'Say It Ain't So'. So nine years later, to watch him play one of my songs - it was wild. I can't wait to meet him and remind him of that story."[47]
In 2011, The Kooks covered song in BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge.[48] Australian musician Owl Eyes performed a version of "Pumped Up Kicks" for Triple J's Like a Version. In the Triple J Hottest 100, 2011, Owl Eyes' version came in at 28, four positions higher than the original did the previous year. Singer-songwriters Dani Shay and Justin Chase covered the song in a theatrical music video October 2011[49] and released the single in November 2011.[50] A parody of the song was performed by Taylor Swift and Zac Efron on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, as a serenade to the host. Its lyrics were about how they felt weird when Ellen used to put them as a couple when they were not.[51] On March 12, 2012 singers Lex Land and Charlotte Sometimes performed the song during the second "Battle Round" episode of The Voice.[52]
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| 1. | "Pumped Up Kicks" | 3:58 | ||||||||
| 2. | "Pumped Up Kicks" (Chrome Canyon Remix) | 4:49 | ||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 1. | "Pumped Up Kicks" | 4:13 | ||||||||
| 2. | "Chin Music for the Unsuspecting Hero" | 3:26 | ||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 1. | "Pumped Up Kicks" (a cappella) | 4:13 | ||||||||
| 2. | "Pumped Up Kicks" (instrumental) | 4:13 | ||||||||
Charts[link]
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Certifications[link]
Year-end charts[link]
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Release history[link]
| Country | Date | Format | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | September 14, 2010[54] | Vinyl | Columbia Records |
| United Kingdom | June 19, 2011[53] | Digital download |
See also[link]
- List of number-one Billboard Alternative Songs of 2011
- List of number-one dance airplay hits of 2011 (U.S.)
- List of number-one singles of 2012 (Australia)
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| "Helena Beat" | ||||
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| Single by Foster the People | ||||
| from the album Torches | ||||
| Released | July 26, 2011 (2011-07-26) | |||
| Genre | Indie dance, indietronica | |||
| Length | 4:36 (Album version) 3:52 (Radio edit) |
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| Label | Columbia | |||
| Writer(s) | Mark Foster | |||
| Producer | Greg Kurstin | |||
| Certification | Gold (Music Canada)[1] | |||
| Foster the People singles chronology | ||||
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"Helena Beat" is a song by American indie pop group Foster the People. It is the opening track from their debut studio album Torches and was released as the record's second single. It was solicited to radio on July 26, 2011[2], and solicited to radio in the United Kingdom on September 5, 2011.[3] On August 10, 2011, BBC Radio 1 DJ Greg James selected the song as his Record of the Week.
It was announced in January 2012 that "Helena Beat" was the most-played track on Australian radio station Triple J in 2011. The song appeared at number 15 on the Triple J Hottest 100, 2011 poll. "Helena Beat" was the fifth most streamed song of 2011 on Spotify.
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Inspiration and composition[link]
"Helena Beat" was written by the group's lead songwriter Mark Foster to embody the attitude of the drug culture within Hollywood. Foster says the lyrics—the line "yeah its okay, I tie my hands up to a chair so I don't fall that way" in particular—are meant to express the nonchalant attitude that people had to their destructive tendencies. He said, "They're the young, hot, up and coming, powerful people that are gonna run the world. But they're just going out and doing drugs every night. They're saying it with this big smile of their face like 'I'm great, everything's great,' 'but don't you see that you're completely out of your mind on drugs right now that you can't even stand?'." The title of the song is derived from an ex-girlfriend of Foster's that used to party heavily.[4]
Music video[link]
A music video, directed by Ace Norton, to accompany the release of "Helena Beat" was released onto YouTube on July 18, 2011.[5] The video debuted on the MuchMusic Countdown in Canada on August 11 at No. 30, and peaked at No. 18.
The video begins with singer Mark Foster fleeing from a destroyed Los Angeles in a dystopian future along with his dog – inspired by the film Mad Max. On the road out of the city, he finds a baby carriage and goes to investigate. When he gets out of the van, a gang of violent, rebellious children attacks him and takes him hostage while his dog flees. The other members of the band are taken hostage as well. They are then taken to the children's headquarters, where they are tortured, beaten, and abused. Foster is then turned into a child by a strange machine attached to an old man, who is also a captive of the children. After being turned into a child, he is now accepted as one of them.
Track listing[link]
| Album version | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 1. | "Helena Beat" | 4:36 | ||||||||
Chart performance[link]
| Chart (2011-12) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australia (ARIA)[6] | 74 |
| Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[7][8] | 75 |
| Canada (Canadian Alternative Chart)[9] | 1 |
| US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles[10] | 21 |
| US Alternative Songs (Billboard)[11] | 9 |
| US Rock Songs (Billboard)[12] | 15 |
Release history[link]
| Country | Date | Format |
|---|---|---|
| United States | July 26, 2011[2] | Alternative radio |
| United Kingdom | September 5, 2011[3] | Mainstream radio |
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Not to be confused with Lawrence Lessing.
| Lawrence Lessig | |
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| Born | (1961-06-03) June 3, 1961 (age 51) Rapid City, South Dakota, U.S. |
| Occupation | Founder, Creative Commons Founder, Stanford Center for Internet and Society Professor, Harvard Law School |
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Lawrence "Larry" Lessig (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic and political activist. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications, and he has called for state-based activism to promote substantive reform of government with a Second Constitutional Convention.[1]
He is a director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University and a professor of law at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining Harvard, he was a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. Lessig is a founding board member of Creative Commons, and also is on the board of MapLight.[2] He is on the advisory boards of the Sunlight Foundation[3] and Americans Elect.[4] He is a former board member of the Free Software Foundation, Software Freedom Law Center and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.[5]
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Academic career[link]
Born in Rapid City, South Dakota, Lessig grew up in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and earned a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Management (Wharton School) from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Cambridge (Trinity) in England, and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, he clerked for a year for Judge Richard Posner, at the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, Illinois and another year for Justice Antonin Scalia at the Supreme Court.[6]
Lessig started his academic career at the University of Chicago Law School, where he was Professor from 1991 to 1997. From 1997 to 2000, he was at Harvard Law School, holding for a year the chair of Berkman Professor of Law, affiliated with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.[6] He subsequently joined Stanford Law School, where he established the school's Center for Internet and Society.[7]
Lessig returned to Harvard in December 2008 as Professor and Director of the "Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics".[8]
Political activism[link]
Lessig is currently considered politically liberal. As a law clerk, however, he worked for both Judge Richard Posner and Justice Antonin Scalia, two influential conservative judges.
Lessig has emphasized in interviews that his philosophy experience at Cambridge radically changed his values and career path. Previously, he had held strong conservative or libertarian political views, desired a career in business, was a highly active member of Teenage Republicans, serving as the Youth Governor for Pennsylvania through the YMCA Youth and Government program[9] in 1978 and almost pursued a Republican political career.
What was intended to be a year abroad at Cambridge convinced him instead to stay another two years to complete a graduate degree in philosophy there and develop his changed political values. During this time, he also traveled in the Eastern Bloc, so acquiring a lifelong interest in Eastern European law and politics.
Lessig refuses to embrace conventional libertarianism. While Lessig remains skeptical of government intervention, he favors regulation by calling himself "a constitutionalist". In his blog, Lessig came out in favor of then-Democratic primary candidate Barack Obama, citing the transformative nature of Obama's campaign as one of his chief reasons. On one occasion, Lessig also commended the John McCain campaign for discussing fair use rights in a letter to YouTube where it took issue with YouTube for indulging overreaching copyright claims leading to the removal of various campaign videos.[10]
In a speech in 2011, Lessig revealed that he was disappointed with Obama's performance in office, criticizing it as a "betrayal", and he criticized the president for using "the (Hillary) Clinton playbook".[11] Lessig has called for state governments to call for a national constitutional convention,[12] and that the convention be populated by a "random proportional selection of citizens" which he suggested would work effectively. He said "politics is a rare sport where the amateur is better than the professional."[12]
Constitutional convention[link]
In 2010, Lessig began to organize for a national constitutional convention.[13] He co-founded Fix Congress First! with Joe Trippi.[14] Lessig called for a convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution[15] in a September 24–25, 2011 conference co-chaired by the Tea Party Patriots' national coordinator,[16] in Lessig's October 5 book, Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress – and a Plan to Stop It,[17] and at the Occupy protest in Washington, DC.[18] Reporter Dan Froomkin said the book offers a manifesto for the Occupy Wall Street protestors, focusing on the core problem of corruption in both political parties and their elections.[19] Lessig's initial constitutional amendment would allow legislatures to limit political contributions from non-citizens, including corporations, anonymous organizations, and foreign nationals, and he also supports public campaign financing and electoral college reform to establish the one person, one vote principle.[20] Lessig's web site convention.idea.informer.com allows anyone to propose and vote on constitutional amendments.[21]
Rootstrikers[link]
Change Congress, founded by Lessig and Joe Trippi, the Fix Congress First project, and the Rootstrikers project were created to help volunteers to address the problem of money in politics.[22][23] In November 2011, Lessig announced all three projects would become part of the "United Republic". http://unitedrepublic.org/. organization, along with Dylan Ratigan’s Get Money Out campaign.[24][25]
Money in politics[link]
At the iCommons iSummit 07, Lessig announced that he will stop focusing his attention on copyright and related matters and will work on political corruption instead.[26] This new work may be partially facilitated through his wiki, "Lessig Wiki", which he has encouraged the public to use to document cases of corruption.[27] Lessig criticized the revolving door phenomenon in which legislators and staffers leave office to become lobbyists and have become beholden to special interests.[28]
In February 2008, a Facebook group formed by law professor John Palfrey encouraged him to run for Congress from California's 12th congressional district, the seat vacated by the death of U.S. Representative Tom Lantos.[29] Later that month, after forming an "exploratory project", the decision was made not to run for the vacant seat.[30]
Despite having decided to forgo running for Congress himself, Lessig remained interested in attempting to change Congress to reduce corruption.[30] To this end, he worked with political consultant Joe Trippi to launch a web based project called "Change Congress".[31] In a press conference on March 20, 2008, Lessig explained that he hoped the Change Congress website would help provide technological tools voters could use to hold their representatives accountable and reduce the influence of money on politics.[32] He is a board member of MAPLight.org, a nonprofit research group illuminating the connection between money and politics.
Lessig has known president Barack Obama since their days of both teaching law at the University of Chicago, and had been mentioned as a candidate to head the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates the telecommunications industry.[33] However, this position is now held by Julius Genachowski.[34]
At his talk at the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival, Professor Lessig talked about Forbin Problems in a talk entitled Will Technology Change Our Lives?[35] and also about his idea that the American public has lost faith in the central institution of our democracy, Congress.[36]
Internet and computer activism[link]
"Code is law"[link]
In computer science, "code" typically refers to the text of a computer program (the source code). In law, "code" can refer to the texts that constitute statutory law. In his book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Lessig explores the ways in which code in both senses can be instruments for social control, leading to his dictum that "Code is law." Lessig later updated his work in order to keep up with the prevailing views of the time and released the book as Code: Version 2.0 in December 2006.
Legislative reform[link]
Despite presenting an anti-regulatory standpoint in many fora, Lessig still sees the need for legislative enforcement of copyright. He has called for limiting copyright terms for creative professionals to five years, but believes that introducing the bureaucratic procedure needed to renew trademarks, by making copyright need to be renewed for up to 75 years after this five year term, would mean that creative professionals' work, many of the independent, would become more easily and quickly available.[37] Lessig has repeated taken a stance that privatization through legislation like that seen in the 1980s in the UK with British Telecommunications is not the best way to help the Internet grow. He said, "When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place," "My claim is that we should focus on the values of liberty. If there is not government to insist on those values, then who?" "The single unifying force should be that we govern ourselves." [38]
Free Culture[link]
In 2002, Lessig received the Award for the Advancement of Free Software from the Free Software Foundation (FSF), and on March 28, 2004 he was elected to the FSF's Board of Directors.[39] In 2006, Lessig was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[40] Lessig is also a well-known critic of copyright term extensions.
He proposed the concept of "Free Culture".[41] He also supports free software and open spectrum.[42] At his Free Culture keynote at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2002, half of his speech was about software patents, which he views as a rising threat to both free/open source software and innovation.
In March 2006, Lessig joined the board of advisors of the Digital Universe project.[43] A few months later, Lessig gave a talk on the ethics of the Free Culture Movement at the 2006 Wikimania conference.
Lessig claimed in 2009 that, because 70% of young people obtain digital information from illegal sources, the law should be changed.[44]
Net neutrality[link]
Lessig has long been known to be a supporter of Net Neutrality. In 2006, he testified before the US Senate that he believed Congress should ratify Powell's four Internet freedoms and add a restriction to access-tiering, i.e. he does not believe content providers should be charged different amounts. The reason is that the Internet, under the neutral end-to-end design is an invaluable platform for innovation, and the economic benefit of innovation would be threatened if large corporations could purchase faster service to the detriment of newer companies with less capital. However, Lessig has supported the idea of allowing ISPs to give consumers the option of different tiers of service at different prices. He was reported on CBC News as saying that he has always been in favour of allowing internet providers to charge differently for consumer access at different speeds. He said, "Now, no doubt, my position might be wrong. Some friends in the network neutrality movement as well as some scholars believe it is wrong - that it doesn't go far enough. But the suggestion that the position is 'recent' is baseless. If I'm wrong, I've always been wrong." [45]
Combating sexual abuse[link]
In May 2005, it was revealed that Lessig had experienced sexual abuse by the director at the American Boychoir School which he had attended as an adolescent.[46] Lessig reached a settlement with the school in the past, under confidential terms. He revealed his experiences in the course of representing another student victim, John Hardwicke, in court.[47] In August 2006, he succeeded in persuading the New Jersey Supreme Court to restrict the scope of immunity radically, which had protected nonprofits that failed to prevent sexual abuse from legal liability.[48]
Media references[link]
Lessig appears as a character in a 2005 episode of the television political drama The West Wing ("The Wake Up Call", season 6, episode 14). Lessig’s character, portrayed by Christopher Lloyd, is intended to be a realistic depiction including such details as citing his book The Future of Ideas and his expertise in Eastern European constitutional law.[49]
Artist group Monochrom performed a "Love Song for Lessig" on Boing Boing TV in the November 15, 2007 episode.[50] The German term "lässig" (meaning "cool" or "relaxed") is pronounced the same as Lessig's last name, and "Love Song for Lessig" uses the homonym for humor.
"Prometeus - The Media Revolution", a video produced by Italian internet consulting company Casaleggio Associati that attempts to predict the future of media over the next 40 to 50 years, proposes Lawrence Lessig to become the new US Secretary of Justice and declare copyright to be illegal in 2020.
Legal challenges[link]
Lessig's political opinions on copyright law have led to legal challenges where he has attempted to put them into action without legislative change. In March 2003 he acknowledged severe disappointment with his Supreme Court defeat in the Eldred copyright-extension case, where he unsuccessfully tried to convince Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who has sympathies for de-regulation, to back his "market-based" approach to intellectual property regulation.[51]
Notable cases[link]
- Hardwicke v. American Boychoir (representing plaintiff John Hardwicke) Pending[48]
- Golan v. Gonzales (representing multiple plaintiffs)
- Eldred v. Ashcroft (representing plaintiff Eric Eldred) Lost
- Kahle v. Ashcroft—(also see Brewster Kahle) Dismissed
- United States v. Microsoft (special master and author of an amicus brief addressing the Sherman Act[52])
- Lessig was appointed special master by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in 1997. The appointment was vacated by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.[53] The appellate court ruled that the powers granted to Lessig exceeded the scope of the Federal statute providing for special masters. Judge Jackson then solicited Lessig’s amicus brief.
- Lessig himself says about this appointment: "Did Justice Jackson pick me to be his special master because he had determined I was the perfect mix of Holmes and Ed Felten? No, I was picked because I was a Harvard Law Professor teaching the law of cyberspace. Remember: So is 'fame' made."[54]
- MPAA v. 2600 (submitted an amicus brief with Yochai Benkler in support of 2600[55])
Personal life[link]
Lessig is married to Bettina Neuefeind, and is the father of three children (Willem, Teo, and Tess) [1].
Bibliography[link]
- Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (2000) ISBN 978-0-465-03913-5
- The Future of Ideas (2001) ISBN 978-0-375-50578-2 - available as a free Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerical (by-nc)
- Free Culture (2004) ISBN 978-1-59420-006-9 - available as a free Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial
- Code: Version 2.0 (2006) ISBN 978-0-465-03914-2 - available as a free Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (by-sa)
- Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy (2008) ISBN 978-1-59420-172-1 - available as a free Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd)
- Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It (2011) ISBN 978-0-446-57643-7
See also[link]
- 99 Percent Declaration
- Copyleft
- Free software movement
- Free content
- FreeCulture.org
- Open educational resources
- Gratis versus Libre
- Open content
- Law of the Horse
- Lobbying in the United States
- Second Constitution of the United States proposal for constitutional reform
References[link]
- ^ Alesh Houdek (Nov 16 2011). "Has a Harvard Professor Mapped Out the Next Step for Occupy Wall Street?". The Atlantic. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/11/has-a-harvard-professor-mapped-out-the-next-step-for-occupy-wall-street/247561/. Retrieved 2011-011-17. "Lawrence Lessig's call for state-based activism on behalf of a Constitutional Convention could provide the uprooted movement with a political project for winter"
- ^ Maplight. "Board Members" at MapLight.org
- ^ Board and Advisory Board Sunlight Foundation, February 14, 2011
- ^ Americans Elect. List of "Leadership" at AmericansElect.org.
- ^ Lessig, Lawrence. "In Defense of Piracy". The Wall Street Journal. October 11, 2008.
- ^ a b Lawrence, Lessig. "Curriculum Vitae". http://www.lessig.org/info/resume/. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
- ^ Lawrence, Lessig. "Short Biography". http://www.lessig.org/info/bio//. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
- ^ "Lawrence Lessig named professor of law at HLS, director of Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics". Harvard Law School. December 12, 2008. http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2008/12/12_lessig.html. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
- ^ "YMCA Youth and Government Pennsylvania (PA State YMCA)". Ymcapa.org. http://www.ymcapa.org/. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
- ^ Lessig, Lawrence (2008-10-13). "McCain/Palin to YouTube: Get real (Lessig Blog)". Lessig.org. http://lessig.org/blog/2008/10/mccainpalin_to_youtube_get_rea.html. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
- ^ Lawrence Lessig (Nov 16, 2011). "Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It". Google, YouTube, Huffington Post. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik1AK56FtVc. Retrieved 2011-12-13. "(see question & answer session near the end of the video; see 50:30+)"
- ^ a b Lawrence Lessig (Nov 16, 2011). "Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It". Google, YouTube, Huffington Post. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik1AK56FtVc. Retrieved 2011-12-13. "(see 32.06 minutes into the video)"
- ^ "Call a Convention". Call a Convention. http://www.callaconvention.org/. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
- ^ About, Fix Congress First!
- ^ "The Movement to Organize the Call for a Convention" CallAConvention.org
- ^ Conference on the Constitutional Convention, Harvard University, September 24-5, 2011
- ^ Lessig, L. (2011) Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress – and a Plan to Stop It (New York City: Hachette/Twelve) excerpt
- ^ Tackett, C. (October 19, 2011) "Could #OccupyWallStreet Become a Constitutional Convention?" Discovery / TreeHugger.com
- ^ Froomkin, Dan (October 5, 2011) "Lawrence Lessig's New Book On Political Corruption Offers Protesters A Possible Manifesto" Huffington Post
- ^ Hill, Adriene (October 4, 2011) "Campaign finance, lobbying major roadblocks to effective government" Marketplace Morning Report (American Public Media)
- ^ Lessig, L. (2011) "Propose Amendments to the Constitution" convention.idea.informer.com
- ^ Who We Are, Rootstrikers
- ^ About Us, Rootstrikers
- ^ Rootstrikers and United Republic, Lawrence Lessig, United Republic, November 16, 2011
- ^ About Us, United Republic
- ^ Lessig, Lawrence (2007-06-19). "Required Reading: the next 10 years (Lessig Blog)". Lessig.org. http://lessig.org/blog/2007/06/required_reading_the_next_10_y_1.html. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
- ^ "Lessig’s blog July 29, 2007 11:55pm". http://lessig.org/blog/2007/06/just_because_im_not_working_do.html.
- ^ Lawrence Lessig (February 8, 2010). "How to Get Our Democracy Back". CBS News, The Nation. http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-215_162-6186201.html?pageNum=2. Retrieved 2011-12-14.
- ^ "Draft Lessig — Change Congress". Draftlessig.org. http://draftlessig.org/. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
- ^ a b Lessig, Lawrence (2008-02-25). "On why I am not running (Lessig Blog)". Lessig.org. http://www.lessig.org/blog/2008/02/on_why_i_am_not_running.html. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
- ^ Previous post Next post (2008-03-20). "Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig Bets 'Wikipedia' Approach Will Transform Congress | Threat Level from Wired.com". Blog.wired.com. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/stanford-law-pr.html. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
- ^ "Sunlight Foundation Webcast". Visualwebcaster.com. http://www.visualwebcaster.com/event.asp?id=46510. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
- ^ Kumar, Vishesh; Rhoads, Christopher (December 15, 2008). "Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web". The Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122929270127905065.html?mod=googlenews_wsj.
- ^ FCC Internet Services Staff. "FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski". Fcc.gov. http://www.fcc.gov/commissioners/genachowski/. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
- ^ "AIF 09: Will Technology Change Our Life? (2)". Youtube.com. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Q53rr8bg8&feature=player_embedded. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
- ^ "Aspen Ideas Festival 2009". Aifestival.org. http://www.aifestival.org/index2.php?menu=3&sub=1&title=316&action=full_info. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
- ^ Drew Clark. Software Freedom Fighters. The National Journal 33(30), July 28, 2001.
- ^ Elinor Mills. Domain games: Internet leaves the U.S. nest. InfoWorld Daily News. October 13, 1998.
- ^ "Leadership - Free Software Foundation". Fsf.org. http://www.fsf.org/about/leadership.html. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
- ^ "Eight scholars elected to academy of arts and sciences". News-service.stanford.edu. 2006-04-24. http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2006/april26/aaas-042606.html. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
- ^ "free_culture". Randomfoo.net. http://randomfoo.net/oscon/2002/lessig/. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
- ^ "Spectrum Policy: Property or Commons?". Cyberlaw.stanford.edu. 2003-03-02. http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/spectrum/. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
- ^ "Digital Universe Adds Leading Internet Expert Lawrence Lessig to Board of Advisors". California: Prnewswire.com. 2006-03-13. http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-14-2006/0004319554&EDATE=. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
- ^ Lawrence Lessig (January 8, 2009). Colbert Nation. Comedy Central. Event occurs at 2:16. http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/215454/january-08-2009/lawrence-lessig. Retrieved 2009-05-19.
- ^ CBC NEWS. Google accused of turning its back on net neutrality. December 15, 2008.
- ^ Heilemann, John (2005-05-21). "Lawrence Lessig and John Hardwicke Fight Sexual Abuse and the American Boychoir School". Newyorkmetro.com. http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/features/12061/index.html. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
- ^ Lessig, Lawrence (2005-05-25). "living with ghosts (Lessig Blog)". Lessig.org. http://www.lessig.org/blog/2005/05/living_with_ghosts.html. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
- ^ a b "Hardwicke v. American Boychoir". http://lawlibrary.rutgers.edu/decisions/supreme/a-17-04.doc.html.
- ^ Lessig’s comments on his blog
- ^ "BBtv: Mark's Curie Engine / Monochrom's love song for Lessig". Boing Boing. 2007-11-15. http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/15/bbtv-marks-curie-eng.html. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
- ^ Lessig Backs Away From Copy Fights In Courts, Congress. Washington Internet Daily 4 (42). March 4, 2003.
- ^ http://www.lessig.org/content/testimony/ab/ab.pdf
- ^ "USCA-DC Opinions - Released On 1/21/2011". Pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov. http://pacer.cadc.uscourts.gov/common/opinions/199806/97-5343a.txt. Retrieved 2011-01-23.
- ^ Lessig blog
- ^ http://www.lessig.org/content/testimony/dvd/dvd.pdf
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| Short description | Founder, Creative Commons, Founder, Stanford Center for Internet and Society, Professor, Harvard Law School |
| Date of birth | June 3, 1961 |
| Place of birth | Rapid City, South Dakota, U.S. |
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| Origin | Ireland |
| Genres | Rock |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Labels | Dirtbird Records |
| Associated acts | The Stunning |
| Website | The Walls Official Website |
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The Walls are an Irish rock band. They were formed in 1998 by two ex-members of The Stunning.
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Members[link]
- Steve Wall
- Joe Wall
- Carl Harms (Guitar/Keyboards) (left February 2004)
- Rory Doyle (Drums)
- Jon O'Connell (Bass) (joined February 2004)
Biography[link]
1998–2000[link]
Brothers Steve and Joe Wall (previously of The Stunning) returned to Ireland after a two-year failed label stint in London. Their Camden housemate Carl Harms joined the band on guitar and keyboard duties. Drummer Rory Doyle joined soon afterwards. They set up their own label, Earshot Records (later changing it to Dirtbird Records) and recorded and released a string of singles. A remix of one of the album tracks, "Bone Deep", clicked with radio and became a nationwide hit. Many of the songs have featured on a number of TV series and feature films such as Bachelors Walk, Dead Bodies, Goldfish Memory and On the Edge (starring Cillian Murphy).
2001–2004[link]
The Walls heard rumour of a second Slane Castle date for U2 (as the first concert had sold out in hours). They sent four copies of their album to the band. Bono loved it and offered The Walls a support slot. That day the band played to their biggest crowd to date – around 80,000 people. "To the Bright and Shining Sun" was their next single. That June they supported Red Hot Chili Peppers. They spent the next year gigging while building their own studio in Dublin.
In February 2004, original member Carl Harms decided to leave the band to make his own record. They recruited bassist Jon O’Connell, who had just 2 weeks to learn all the songs before a two week tour of the new EU accession states: Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. "To the Bright and Shining Sun" also featured on the EA Sports soundtrack for the UEFA Euro 2004 official licenced game.
2004 - 2006[link]
For the next album, the band went to Studio Black Box in France to record with producer and ex-The Frames guitarist David Odlum. Originally scheduled for a release date in September 2004, The Walls decided to hold their album until the new year. U2 were releasing How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb that autumn and according to Steve "we thought that it would be a fair and gentlemanly gesture to stand back and give them a fair crack of the whip, so to speak".[citation needed]
In October 2004, they released a taster - "Drowning Pool" - a blistering, spleen-venting, blues explosion, 2min 52sec long. It took people by surprise and divided opinion - exactly what the band wanted. They supported Bob Dylan to a capacity crowd in Galway that summer and played a storming set that showed there were changes afoot in The Walls sound. They christened the album New Dawn Breaking after the final track on the record. It went straight into the Irish charts at No. 5 in its first week of release in June 2005 and has produced four hit singles: "To the Bright and Shining Sun", "Passing Through", "Drowning Pool" and "Black and Blue".
2007[link]
The band kicked off 2007 with a gig in Dubai and are presently negotiating gig offers in France, Italy, the Czech Republic and China. They also supported Crowded House on their Australian comeback tour before retreating into their studio to work on album number three.
2010 - 2012[link]
In 2010, the double A-side "Carrying The Fire"/"Phantom Power" was released. Following this, in March 2011, the "Bird In A Cage" EP was released, of which the title track was revealed to also be on the bands forthcoming album "Stop The Lights", which is to be released in 2012. Following this announcement, the band's new single "Stop The Lights" was released in January 2012. The band are currently using the innovative "Fund It" in order to finish their third album. The welcome newcomer Kevin Crowley from Newcastle West playing the spoons.
Discography[link]
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Studio albums[link]
- Hi-Lo (released May 2000).
- New Dawn Breaking (released June 2005) (reached No. 5 in Irish charts)
- Stop The Lights (released 2012)
Singles and albums[link]
- "The Night I Called It A Day" (Single, released Feb 1999)
- "Broken Boy" (Single, released Sept 1999)
- "Something's Wrong" (Single, released Apr 2000)
- Hi-Lo (Album, released May 2000). A remix of one of the album tracks, Bone Deep, was popular in Ireland. Some songs featured on TV series and feature films: Bachelors Walk, Dead Bodies, Goldfish Memory and On the Edge (starring Cillian Murphy).
- "To the Bright and Shining Sun" (Single, released 2002) reached No. 11 in the Irish charts.
- "Drowning Pool" (single, released 2004)
- New Dawn Breaking (Album, released June 2005) reached No. 5 in Irish charts and has produced four hit singles: "To the Bright and Shining Sun", "Passing Through", "Drowning Pool" and "Black and Blue".
- "Carrying the Fire" / "Phantom Power" (double-A sided single, released Jun 2010)
- "Bird In A Cage EP" (4 Track EP, released Mar 2011)
Cover versions[link]
- Cover version of Chaka Khan's "Ain't Nobody" on Even Better than the Real Thing Vol. 1
- Cover version of Natasha Bedingfield's "These Words" on Even Better than the Real Thing Vol. 2
- Cover version of U2's "With or without you" on Even Better than the Real Thing Vol. 3
Career highlights[link]
- Supported U2 at Slane Castle, 2001
- Supported Red Hot Chili Peppers, 2002
- Supported Bob Dylan, Galway, 2005
- Supported Crowded House, Australia, 2007
References[link]
External links[link]
- Official band website, contains free MP3s; gig info, photos, Walls shop, press releases etc.
- The Walls at MySpace, contains some sample MP3s.
http://wn.com/The_Walls
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