♮♮๐๐The wrecking ball of joy we didn’t realize we were dancing to! Pumped Up Kicks Edition 2025.
♮♮ ๐๐ https://youtube.com/shorts/FEsNgQGpdgc?si=Q3a9uuCCLrRMF_-N The Wrecking Ball of Joy, And The Light House Of Truth ๐
Earth School Archive — September 2025 I keep seeing the song posted everywhere again, and the comments say it all: “How did we not hear it this way back then?” But that’s the paradox of art. When Foster the People wrote the song, it was an anthem for a moment, a beat, a hook, a cultural pulse. Perhaps they even assumed it would stand alone, not echo forward as a prophecy. Yet here it is, resurfacing. And now we hear it differently. The Shift in Hearing At first, it was nostalgia. The melody of kids running, laughing, and playing. Upbeat, carefree. Later, you finally catch the words. Violent. Intrusive. Heart-wrenching. First, you dance to the beat. Then, you can’t unhear the lyrics. That’s what awakening does: Forces you to hold both joy and violence in the same space. Censorship, Truth, and Threat Now, the song itself has been flagged as “explicit.” Not because...