Once again it's Tom MacDonald Friday. This week we finally have a new music video. We will be taking a look at the newest song by Tom MacDonald "Brainwashed". Click below to watch the music video before getting into my thoughts and opinions of the lyrics themselves. As always Tom and Nova are killing it with these phenomenal videos. Nova is a music video making queen.
Alright, did you watch? Yes, good. Now we can get started.
There are two parts to look at in the first verse. Lets begin with the first part. Here we see Tom equating being woke with being asleep. He says that people are so distracted by what is on their TV, and what they are being told that they are missing what is going on right in front of them. And this is so true. All people want to do is yell about mandate this, mandate that, you have to do this, and if you don't do that. They don't care about people having the right to choose for themselves, and make their own decisions. It's only my body my choice if it's part of the left's agenda. If it's in regards to the freedoms of someone who doesn't agree with them than it's no longer a choice, it's just doing the right thing. That's not how freedom works. Either you have it for everything, or nothing.
The second part we see Tom talking about the hypocrisy today of what is considered brave and courageous. I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with being a part of the LGBTQ community, or that it's not brave to stand up for who you are when others want to tear you down, because it is. I also don't think that's what Tom is saying either. The point here is that as a society we no longer celebrate the heroism of the people who have fought and died to protect this country, our freedoms, and our choice to live the lives we want, in the same way that we celebrate Pride month. Nothing wrong with Pride month, but we wouldn't be able to celebrate it if it weren't for the sacrifices of the men and women in uniform. Why do we celebrate, and remember them less? They are the true heroes of our country, because they are willing to give the ultimate sacrifice for it.
"The most dangerous pandemic's propaganda from these clowns." This is true on the next level. The media is the real problem in this country. It's no longer news, it's literally all opinion. When did we get to the point were the new doesn't tell both sides of the story and let the view make up their own minds? Because that's what the news should be. It should only be a vehicle for us to know what is happening in the world. Not for them to tell us what they want you to think. When I see these 10 or 15 second clips of police violence my first thought is, "Ok, can we see the minutes leading up to this confrontation." Without context anything can be construed to look like anything you want. For a little more an this read my Cancel Cancel Culture Post. The point is we need to duct tape the mouths of all the media personalities and just listen to all the facts. Because facts don't care about your feelings.
This section leading up to the chorus is so true it's painful. Society tells people that they can't do one thing because you are stealing someone else's culture, so you do the opposite and now you're a racist and a bigot. It's gotten so that no matter what you do you are wrong. Unless you do exactly what Cancel Culture, and the Woke Mob, tell you to you are wrong. It doesn't matter what you have to say, or what the facts show, they are right which means you have to be wrong.
We now hold everyone to one extreme or the other, and the majority of people on both sides are just normal human beings living in the middle. Society says if you are liberal you are "Dumb" and if you're conservative you are "racist." Yes, there are people on both sides that are these extremes, but most people aren't. It's hard to live in the world right now and have an opinion. Why? Because you will automatically be labeled one of these two things just by what you have to say, and that can't be further from the truth. We need to decide for ourselves what we think and believe and stop letting everyone else tell you what to think despite proof of the opposite.
A lot of people will look at this section and think out that's nothing but a bunch of conspiracy theories, but I think there is a lot of truth underneath the outlandish imagery of it. There are groups of animal activists out there who think that animals should have the same rights as human beings, and we should all go vegan. So, monkeys being people is this idea here, and of course sheep is a metaphor for being a blind follower of the herd and not thinking for yourself. Big Tech wanting to hack your life? Well your phone is a tracking device. Just think about it. You can literally login to the internet and pinpoint your phone to the exact room that it is in if you lose it. To think that there isn't say a hacker out there who can track you like this using your phone is naive. Even like 6 or 7 years ago this technology was amazing. I lost my phone, and I was able to track it to literally the table it was under where I accidently left it after dinner out. Almost a decade later, or course technology will have advanced. Have you ever looked at an item online and suddenly Facebook or Instagram is now showing you adds with those items?
There is a lot going on in this verse. We won't even touch on the subject of Biden. But the fact that Big Tech, the media, and the government all seem to think that mean Tweets from former President Trump are a bigger issue than literally anything else going on in the world is ridiculous. Just the fact that Trump was banned from Twitter, and Facebook, and yet there are Democrats saying the literal same things (and even worse, actual hate speech) but not only haven't been banned but their posts are still up is just disgusting. The hypocrisy of this double standard is just too much to even wrap my mind around.
Now let's get into the part about guns, but first before anyone says anything about how he must be a gun rights activist who just thinks everyone should own a gun. Blah, blah, blah. Stop it. Tom is able to see and talk about all sides of an argument. Don't believe me? I'll link two music videos of Tom's talking about gun violence. Give those a listen, watch, and come back.
How the West Was Won Music Video
Back, good let's talk. Right now everyone is talking about defunding the police because as the song says, "You don't trust the police or government," but than people want to take guns away from the normal citizen. You don't trust the police but you want them to be the only people that have guns? That makes so little sense. If those in authority are so bad why wouldn't you want to be able to defend yourself? it's common sense. But as Tom says in Clown World, "Common sense ain't that common." And that's a fact.
We've already discussed the chorus, so I won't do it again. But I will say that there are going to be lots of people out there that will hear this song and think well obviously you are the brainwashed ones. You of course can't convince them of anything. But I will say this, if you can look at both sides of a story and choose the one that makes the most sense because of the facts, and not just refuse to listen to the other side, than you aren't brainwashed. You can think for yourself.
I think that the key phrase in this song is, "Let's just start the conversation." That is what Tom does in songs like this. He wants to get people talking about the things going on in the world that society doesn't necessarily want to have talked about. Those are the topics that we need to be having conversations about most.
That's it for this post. I hope you enjoyed reading my thoughts and opinions on this song. Let me know what you thought down in the comment section below. If you want to check out some of the other songs I've looked at, by Tom, I have linked those posts just below.
Other Tom MacDonald Song Breakdowns
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