According to YouTube, this song has only really achieved a status somewhere between "quietly brilliant" (sorry HTC) and "cult favourite". YouTube commenters (in an extremely rare display of intelligence) beg to differ, saying that the song has been played to bits in the UK. I'd like to think that it's more "quietly brilliant" than anything, because it's such a simple riff (as a lot of songs are, but this is perhaps more simplistic than most) and the lyrics - oh, the lyrics! - such as "living in your dreams and influence speech" reek of metaphors unknown to most, and perhaps a hint of a political message. It's not an obvious one, otherwise it's likely to end up in the same boat as a whole bunch of Lennon-esque music that is probably far too obvious to listen to with any sort of recreation. Or, to put it another way, you wouldn't listen to the music of two of the biggest Dicks in the world, Stallman and Dawkins, if all they had to say was "be left-wing". Not even if it was semi-catchy. Boulet's message is more subtle than that - so subtle that I can't quite pick it up. YMMV.
I love the idea that the video is not Boulet himself singing (bands and artists singing in their videos is poor form, and the entire video being just the band and nothing else is even worse) but it's got a plot, a message, an idea. Dehumanising people who act like they're the Ku Klux Klan or something... or maybe putting a human face on victims? Or both? Either way, quiet brilliance like this should not go unpunished - so to speak - so I'm plugging it. Dig.
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