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♪ (rock music) ♪

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"They're gonna clean up your looks

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with all the lies in the books

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to make a citizen out of you."

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I am confused and intrigued.

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I think I might know what this is.

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It's My Chemical Romance: Teenagers.

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They tryin' to clean you

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and tryin' to make you proper,

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but, nah, you're not about that.

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The person, right, is an outcast [br]or almost a rebel

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and they're gonna make them [br]into a cookie-cutter type of person.

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He or she probably was dressed [br]like a rebel or something

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that doesn't match society, [br]so they're gonna make her look

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something that society would be okay with.

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Sounds like somebody's conforming [br]to the government standard.

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It's already pretty deep[br]from what I can pick up.

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"Because they sleep with a gun

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and keep an eye on you, son,

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so they can watch all the things you do."

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It's kind of reminding [br]me of System of a Down.

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"Keep an eye on you, son."

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I'm assuming they're talking [br]about someone younger.

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"So they can watch all the things you do."

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That kinda reminds me of the NSA.

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I'm pretty sure this talking [br]about America and the government.

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Like Edward watching Bella or something

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when they're sleeping, [br]it sounds that guy's like

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"I'm gonna be watching you, [br]like, all the time!"

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The parents are always, like, [br]watching out for their kids

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and making sure they [br]don't go out and do bad stuff...

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(sarcastically) like all teenagers do.

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"Because the drugs never work,

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they're gonna give you a smirk

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'cause they've got methods [br]of keeping you clean."

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Thinking of a really dark futuristic thing,

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kind of like 1984, George Orwell.

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It sounds like this person's in rehab

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and the medication [br]they're trying to give you

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to control whatever you have, [br]what they think is wrong with you.

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Prescription drugs make you "better".

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This stuff never works, actually.

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It just makes you more depressed.

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The drugs are the lies.

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Like, they have other ways [br]that they can make sure

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that you don't do anything bad[br]that they don't want you to do.

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"They're gonna rip up your heads,

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your aspirations to shreds,

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another cog in the murder machine."

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You're predestined to be [br]how they want you to be

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and anything you want to be,[br]you should just totally forget about it.

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You go into the machine as, [br]maybe, a happy kid with big dreams

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and come out as a dull person[br]who just works a regular job

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during the day.

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I feel like this is just kind of [br]what society does to you.

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It tries to take away everything [br]that makes you unique and cool

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and interesting so you can fit in[br]and be what society thinks is normal.

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You're a machine.

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You're programmed to do this set of things

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because this path is okay with society.

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"The boys and girls in the clique,

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the awful names that they stick,

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you're never gonna fit in much, kid."

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So this is bullying, [br]when people who different,

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and slapping a label on them.

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This is about how the popular people,

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they're always gonna bully you [br]or tease you for not being like them.

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I don't like this song.[br]It's making me feel sad.

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"But if you're troubled and hurt,

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what you got under your shirt

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will make them pay [br]for the things that they did."

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Now it's taking a darker path,

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so I'm assuming that[br]they're talking about guns,

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like what you've got under your shirt.

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Recently, you know, we have [br]all these school shootings

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of people going crazy 'cause of bullying.

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But this guy's kind of taking [br]it to an extreme.

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Deep down inside, you're gonna far in life

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and you're gonna make [br]the kids that bullied you pay

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and you're gonna make them look like fools.

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"All together now, all teenagers scare [br]the living [bleep] out of me.

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They could care less as long [br]as someone will bleed."

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The person singing this song,

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up to now it's him talking [br]about how all teenagers

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who are cliquey and so conformed scare him.

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He himself is now scared of teenagers,[br]not all of society.

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This is the parents beyond teenagers[br]and how parents

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and the authority figures [br]are just scared of all the rebellion.

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The higher power is actually [br]more scared of you, the teenager,

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than you are of it, [br]therefore they're going to

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try to brainwash you-- they don't care[br]how they do it as long as you bleed.

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"So darken your clothes[br]or strike a violent pose.

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Maybe they'll leave you alone, but not me."

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These feelings are really angsty [br]and really betrayed and upset.

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Are we talking about emo people [br]or depressed people

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or suicidal teenagers?

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Maybe those people that are bullying you

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will leave you alone, but not me.

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Maybe the singer's trying [br]to help these teenagers get past it.

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So they're gonna leave you alone [br]'cause, guess what,

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people are gonna forget about you,[br]but the singer, he cares.

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He's gonna reach out to that person[br]and help 'em out.

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At one point I thought it was [br]the government, or the people,

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the teenagers-- this the most [br]confusing song of all time, dude.

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(Finebros) What's this song about?

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How, as a teenager, [br]you should react to bullying.

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School shootings and violence and stuff.

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Someone who puts a façade [br]of being tough and mean,

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but in reality they need help.

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A higher power attempting [br]to brainwash teenagers

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and other people that may [br]seem like a threat

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to their order of the world.

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Authority and society [br]aren't letting teenagers

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make their own decisions for themselves.

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(Finebros) The artists states [br]that this song is a commentary

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on kids being viewed as meat[br]by the government and by society.

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As meat? That doesn't surprise me.

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It conforming teenagers [br]to be the new model of citizens.

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Kids are looked at as-- [br]I wouldn't say meat,

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but blank disks that you can [br]download all your information on.

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We're gonna get these kids.[br]We've got them.

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We're gonna put them through the machine,

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make 'em do whatever you want,[br]conform 'em so they can be

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our 9-to-5 workers [br]for the rest of their life.

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You should just be who you are,

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whether you're the coolest kid on the block

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or that nerdy art kid sitting [br]in the back of the room.

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Everyone should just kind of stop [br]trying to mold these kids

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in a way they don't want to be[br]because, in the long run,

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even if they'll be richer or cooler[br]they're not gonna be happier.

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They're like, "Oh, but you're [br]our future generation.

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You're the one who's gonna be innovative."

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But how do we be innovative [br]if we can't think for ourselves?

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(Finebros) So do you know [br]the song's artist and title?

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I don't know![br]Anyone, really.

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I can guess. Eminem?

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Jay-Z? Kanye West?

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It might Nirvana.

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Someone Will Bleed by Nirvana.

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Teenagers. I don't know.[br]Just throwing that out there.

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Don't think that's right.

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Blink 182? Green Day?

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Fall Out Boy.

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Simple Plan?

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My Chemical Romance?

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It's Teenagers by My Chemical Romance.

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(Finebros) It's called Teenagers [br]by My Chemical Romance.

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Yep, that explains a lot.

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Teenagers totally makes [br]sense as a song title.

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(Finebros) It's called Teenagers [br]by My Chemical Romance.

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(gasps) Oh, it's My Chem--

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(groans)

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Oh my god.[br]I was way off.

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I listened to their stuff [br]in elementary school

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and they would be talking [br]about stuff like this.

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I was never a big My Chemical Romance fan.

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I can appreciate their music.

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I've never heard this song though.

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I've never actually thought [br]about this song.

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I just know it's catchy.[br]I never analyzed it.

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Thanks for watching us break down [br]Teenagers on the React channel.

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Comment what song you [br]want us to break down next.

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