"Fear appeals" voor jongeren om zich via deze song/lyrics & video te houden aan Coronamaatregelen
Vandaag hoorde ik voor het eerst Parasite Eve van Bring me The Horizon bij 3FM
Het bombastische nummer werd opgenomen tijdens de quarantaine van 2020 en hoewel de inspiratie voor de track niet afkomstig was van de COVID-19-pandemie, zijn er veel verwijzingen in de lyrics te herleiden.
En ik voel een boodschap van gedragsverandering “Fear appeals” * in de lyrics voor jongeren en ook oude rotten zoals ik die deze muziek beluisteren (of zoals Rutte vanmiddag vertelde na zijn persconferentie na ministerraad “de grijze voetbalhooligans die afgelopen zondag vechtend demonstreerden.
(* Fear appeals een angstaanjagende oproep in dit voorbeeld in de lyrics van deze song bedoeld om het beoogde publiek bang te maken door een ernstige bedreiging voor hen te beschrijven bij het niet in acht nemen van coronamaatregelen zoals handen wassen en social distancing en het beoogde publiek (in dit voorbeeld wellicht vooral jongeren te motiveren om zich te houden aan de afspraken op basis van angst.)
'Parasite Eve', is de tweede single van aanstaande album Post Human.
De band over deze nieuwe (Covid-19) song
We moeten het onder ogen zien.
We moeten het voelen.
We moeten het ademen.
We moeten het soms beleven om hier doorheen te komen.
Het is begrijpelijk dat we deze gevoelens willen onderdrukken, en soms moeten we beschaafd worden om aspecten van onszelf te onderdrukken die niet passen in het gestructureerde ideaal van onze samenleving.
Lyrics
Parasite Eve
Bring Me The Horizon
Produced by Jordan Fish & Oliver Sykes
Album Post Human
Intro: Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares]
Накривил е калпачето ей така, па така
Нанагоре-нанадоле, ей така, па така
Накривил е калпачето ей така, па така
Нанагоре-нанадоле, ей така, па така
[Verse 1: Oli Sykes]
I've got a fever, don't breathe on me
I'm a believer in nobody
Won't let me leave 'cause I've seen something
Hope I don't sneeze, I don't (sneezes)
Really we just need to fear something
Only pretending to feel something
I know you're dying to run
I wanna turn you around
[Pre-Chorus: Alissa Salls]
Please, remain calm, the end has arrived
We cannot save you, enjoy the ride
This is the moment you've been waiting for
Don't call it a warning, this is a war
[Chorus: Oli Sykes]
It's the Parasite Eve
Got a feeling in your stomach 'cause you know that it's coming for ya
Leave your flowers and grieve
Don't forget what they told ya, eh-eh
When we forget the infection
Will we remember the lesson?
If the suspense doesn't kill you
Something else will, eh-eh
Move
[Verse 2: Oli Sykes]
I heard they need better signal
Put chip and pins in the needles
Quarantine all of those secrets
In that black hole you call a brain before it's too late
Really we just wanna scream something
Only pretend to believe something
I know you're baying for blood
I wanna turn you around
[Pre-Chorus: Alissa Salls with Oli Sykes]
Please, remain calm, the end has arrived
We cannot save you, enjoy the ride
This is the moment you've been waiting for
Don't call it a warning, this is a war
[Chorus: Oli Sykes]
It's the Parasite Eve
Got a feeling in your stomach 'cause you know that it's coming for ya
Leave your flowers and grieve
Don't forget what they told ya, eh-eh
When we forget the infection
Will we remember the lesson?
If the suspense doesn't kill you
Something else will, eh-eh
It's the Parasite Eve
Got a feeling in your stomach 'cause you know that it's coming for ya
Leave your flowers and grieve
Don't forget what they told ya, eh-eh
When we forget the infection
Will we remember the lesson?
If the suspense doesn't kill you
Something else will
[Breakdown: Oli Sykes]
You can board up your windows, you can lock up your doors, yeah
But you can't keep washing your hands of this shit anymore
When all the king's sources and all the king's friends
Don't know their arses from their pathogens
When life is a prison and death is the door
This ain't a warning, this is a war, war
This is a war, eh-eh, oh-oh
[Chorus: Oli Sykes]
It's the Parasite Eve
Got a feeling in your stomach 'cause you know that it's coming for ya
Leave your flowers and grieve
Don't forget what they told ya, eh-eh
When we forget the infection
Will we remember the lesson?
If the suspense doesn't kill you
Something else will, eh-eh
[Post-Chorus: Oli Sykes]
It's the Parasite Eve, eh-eh
It's the Parasite Eve, eh-eh
It's the Parasite Eve (Parasite Eve), eh-eh
Eh-eh, eh-eh
[Outro: Alissa Salls]
We cannot save you
We cannot save you
We cannot save you
We cannot save you
We cannot save you
Foto’s John Kistermann
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