Video Hangover: Papa Roach - "Getting Away With Murder"
Every week, we dig in the archives for videos that we find noteworthy, memorable, or just unbelievably stupid. And then, Jon McMillan breaks 'em down for you. Why Video Hangover? Because when you watch as many videos as we do, you're going to feel it afterwards.
"Getting Away With Murder"
Papa Roach, 2004
I think we all know what's really getting murdered here.
I get it. I really do. Money is so so bad. And the stock market can be super-confusing after like, three Red Bulls. And old men? Fuck old men! Old men are like your Dad, and he definitely DOES NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS YOU ARE SO ANGRY ABOUT. There's plenty to hate about corporate America and its masters, and Papa Roach have a long and well-considered list of grievances, most of which rhyme with either sadness or madness. Or both. How best to visualize this discontent? References to '80s movies! Papa Roach was like: What if Trading Places and War Games were the same movie, and that movie was also a Sprite commercial? Also, lesbians! I can't say I like Papa Roach's music all that much, but I do admire their dogged belief that the world's problems can be solved by some totally hot girl-on-girl action. Take that, capitalism!
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Posted at 10:21 AM by Jon in Video, Video Hangover
Tags: Papa Roach
This shit is indeed terrible, but at least it's better than Black Kids.
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Why make a pretense to address the actual post? Just write "Black Kids suck" instead. You're not fooling anyone.
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We can hate all we want, but deep in our tortured souls we know that we all bought (or at least stole) the first Papa Roach album...right?...just me?...shit.
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Somebody burned it for me. They tried to make "Papa Roach" look all cool on the disc by writing it three times. Didn't it have that song on there where the singer kinda sounds like a monkey with that "Ohhh waaa aaah aaah aaah" scream? Or was that Disturbed? Cuz same dude that gave me that Papa Roach also burned a copy of that Disturbed disc and decorated it the same way.
Thank you, dude who always burned discs of shitty post-metal (is that what this is called?) for me that I never listened to!
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sadly, i was about 13 years old when this came out, and my brother got the CD. and we liked it.
haha :)
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Um yeah i had this album. I hate myself still.
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Isn't this the "Cut My Life Into PIECES!!!" pro-wrestling inspired band? They were allowed to make *more* music after that trash? Who bought this crap... oh... kids who were 13. Thanks a lot children of the 90s...
And by the way, has anyone else noticed that the bands that appear in the Hangover usually shortly release another shitty album? That group Len sticks out the most to me. They had the old video here, and the next week a new album came out. So I guess we can all expect to be ignoring a new Papa Roach album soon.
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Great intro remarks. The random hot lesbians made me laugh. Also how many syllables he tries to cram into one line: "I neverlookedback 'cause I didn'teven want to..." gets me every time!
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"I take a drink when i don't want to... i think my thoughts even when i don't need to... "
Holy crap. HOLY CRAP. There is a God after all. And he loves those lyrics. Thanks, God, for sending me Papa Roach.
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i always, always liked this song.... we need that every now and then.
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are these the dingleberries who vomited bugs while screaming fuck your money?
anyway, what a pathetic excuse to feel up fluffers on their day off from porn.
did they need the cameras? couldn't they just have told the girls who walk around in the bg of friends that they were filming and not actually record?
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