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timepiececlockSo I was randomly looking at the Alabama 3 website (see previous post), and this interview trying to figure out what kind of music this band did besides the Sopranos theme song.
One of the band members had this to say about the song (emphasis mine):
‘Grannies love that tune. It's a new gangster anthem, but we don’t condone that sort of lifestyle. I wrote it about Sarah Thornton, a women who changed the law on domestic violence in this country. It's about a women getting empowered by a gun, not a man. It's a woman saying yeah, I'm gonna shoot him in the head, he's been beating me up and raping me for the last seven years. The court of appeal changed the law, but now it's a gangster anthem.’
A song about fighting back against domestic violence is now associated in tv-pop-culture with a lifestyle that promotes and cultivates violence, domestic and otherwise.
To quote PotC :
"Now that's what I call ironic."
One of the band members had this to say about the song (emphasis mine):
‘Grannies love that tune. It's a new gangster anthem, but we don’t condone that sort of lifestyle. I wrote it about Sarah Thornton, a women who changed the law on domestic violence in this country. It's about a women getting empowered by a gun, not a man. It's a woman saying yeah, I'm gonna shoot him in the head, he's been beating me up and raping me for the last seven years. The court of appeal changed the law, but now it's a gangster anthem.’
A song about fighting back against domestic violence is now associated in tv-pop-culture with a lifestyle that promotes and cultivates violence, domestic and otherwise.
To quote PotC :
"Now that's what I call ironic."
