Two years after Foster the People‘s 2010 struck “Pumped Up Kicks” hit a billion streams on Spotify, the track is including yet one more landmark. “Pumped Up Kicks” has actually formally signed up with YouTube‘s Billion Views Club today, greater than 12 years after it was initial shared to the system.
The video clip includes the initial Foster the People schedule — ark Foster, Mark Pontious and Jacob Fink — executing the track cope with a tiny target market present. The video clip likewise includes video footage of the triad taping the track, socializing with each various other around community and searching in full-body wetsuits on a cloudy day.
“Pumped Up Kicks” was launched as the initial solitary from the team’s launching cd, Torches, in 2010. The track, which enters into the mind of a bloodthirsty young people called Robert, is the team’s most effective track to day. It invested a total amount of 40 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2011 and came to a head at No. 3 on the graph, making the team a Grammy election for ideal pop duo/group efficiency.
The track, nonetheless, wasn’t without its conflict. Due to the track’s extreme verses, MTV censored the lines “outrun my gun” and “run faster than my bullet” in the track while playing its video clip on air, and the track later on would certainly be outlawed on specific radio terminals throughout the United States complying with the 2012 college capturing at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Speaking concerning the track’s connections to such an unfortunate occasion, Foster informed Billboard in a 2021 meeting for Torches‘ 10th-anniversary reissue that the track is “always going to mark an ugly truth about our society,” freely contrasting it to “Fortunate Son” by Creedence Clearwater Revival and its organizations with the Vietnam War.
“A few years ago, I was seriously considering not playing it again because I never want to be a vessel that spreads pain, or reminds people of something traumatic. But the song made me realize… if artists stopped talking about ugly societal truths, then that means all those ideas are left to incubate inside people’s heads,” he described, describing when he informed Billboard in 2019 he considered pulling the song from live shows. “It’s important that artist voices aren’t censored. Music, comedy, film, storytelling and dance are all forms of art that help relieve the pressures of society. If we close off pathways for people to be exposed to dark ideas, then we’re in danger of having real life consequences where people act out in a physical way.”
Revisit “Pumped Up Kicks” in the video clip over.
