Remember when the world went crazy for a song about a school shooting?

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El Boot: Mar 18, 2009; Thank Dog It's Friday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqvrdmEZrRc

# ? Jun 22, 2016 22:39

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Lampsacus: Oct 21, 2008

Call me blind but I didn't see it coming.

# ? Jun 22, 2016 22:51

Pvt.Scott: Feb 16, 2007; What God wants, God gets, God help us all

Jeremy Spokane, Washingtooooooon

# ? Jun 22, 2016 22:53

Dandywalken: Feb 11, 2014

God hittttt me with a surprise left! Jaw left hurtin!

# ? Jun 22, 2016 22:55

Harald: Jul 10, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

H.H posted:

pearl jam's Jeremy is better.

he just bit the recess lady's breast, which isn't really a shooting

# ? Jun 23, 2016 00:28

Young Freud: Nov 26, 2006

Harald posted:

he just bit the recess lady's breast, which isn't really a shooting

The gist of "Jeremy" comes from a kid blowing his brains out in his homeroom class in a suburb of Dallas, plus Vedder's experience with a classmate who ended up shooting up an empty classroom in San Diego.

Wikipedia on "Jeremy" posted:

"Jeremy" is based on two different true stories. The song takes its main inspiration from a newspaper article about a 15-year-old boy named Jeremy Wade Delle from Richardson, Texas who shot himself in front of his teacher and his second period English class of 30 students on the morning of January 8, 1991. In a 2009 interview, Vedder said that he felt "the need to take that small article and make something of it�to give that action, to give it reaction, to give it more importance."

Delle was described by schoolmates as "real quiet" and known for "acting sad." After coming in to class late that morning, Delle was told to get an admittance slip from the school office. He left the classroom, and returned with a .357 Magnum revolver. Delle walked to the front of the classroom, announced "Miss, I got what I really went for", put the barrel of the firearm in his mouth, and pulled the trigger before his teacher or classmates could react. Lisa Moore, a schoolmate, knew Jeremy from the in-school suspension program: "He and I would pass notes back and forth and he would talk about life and stuff," she said. "He signed all of his notes, 'Write back.' But on Monday he wrote, 'Later days.' I didn't know what to make of it. But I never thought this would happen."

When asked about the song, Vedder explained:

"It came from a small paragraph in a paper which means you kill yourself and you make a big old sacrifice and try to get your revenge. That all you're gonna end up with is a paragraph in a newspaper. Sixty-four degrees and cloudy in a suburban neighborhood. That's the beginning of the video and that's the same thing in the end; it does nothing � nothing changes. The world goes on and you're gone. The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself. Be stronger than those people. And then you can come back."

The other story that the song is based on involved a student that Vedder knew from his junior high school in San Diego, California. He elaborated further in a 1991 interview:

I actually knew somebody in junior high school, in San Diego, California, that did the same thing, just about, didn't take his life but ended up shooting up an oceanography room. I remember being in the halls and hearing it and I had actually had altercations with this kid in the past. I was kind of a rebellious fifth-grader and I think we got in fights and stuff. So it's a bit about this kid named Jeremy and it's also a bit about a kid named Brian that I knew and I don't know...the song, I think it says a lot. I think it goes somewhere...and a lot of people interpret it different ways and it's just been recently that I've been talking about the true meaning behind it and I hope no one's offended and believe me, I think of Jeremy when I sing it.

Of course, the lesson future school shooters learned was that if you take people with you in your suicidal murder spree, they'll remember you forever. :smith:

# ? Jun 23, 2016 00:38

Al Cowens: Aug 11, 2004; by WE B Bourgeois

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Apparently they're a Christian ska band, which I didn't even know was a genre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGvMmauDubA

# ? Jun 23, 2016 01:19

Mahuum Aqoha: Jan 15, 2004; SHEPARD!
Do it for the universe!; Fun Shoe

There's a Christian shadow music industry that has a carbon copy of just about every popular band/genre you can think of. It would be kind of neat if 99.5% of it wasn't hot garbage.

# ? Jun 23, 2016 02:10

jarofpiss: May 16, 2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cm2Q0zC2Hs

# ? Jun 23, 2016 02:24

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# ? Apr 26, 2024 13:13

Pvt.Scott: Feb 16, 2007; What God wants, God gets, God help us all

Mahuum Aqoha posted:

There's a Christian shadow music industry that has a carbon copy of just about every popular band/genre you can think of. It would be kind of neat if 99.5% of it wasn't hot garbage.

They have a captive, content-starved audience that is often guilted into not listening to what they actually want to jam to. That environment doesn't breed champions, especially in the fringe genres. It's also a great way to turn a few quick bucks I guess.

# ? Jun 23, 2016 09:58

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