General "Did you Know?"s

[gamemaster1991]

Sometimes, censorship leads to some unexpected results.


Did you watch the 90s music video and get washed over by nostalgia? Good. The video caused a lot of controversy because of the ending where Jeremy comes into class and shoots them all. However, that was the censored version.
The original, uncensored, makes more sense. Jeremy walks into class, pulls out the gun, puts the gun in his mouth and pulls the trigger. The class is left shocked, and the front row is covered in his blood. The blood spray is then left all over his shocked classmates. By censoring the violent shooting and skipping to the shocked, blood covered front row, it made the video appear as he shot the rest of his class.
The song was actually about a real event where a boy named Jeremy Wade Delle shot himself in front of his English class.

I have to say that I do not like songs like this. It's a good song, don't get me wrong, but I just don't like songs that are based on real stories how someone killed themselves or how someone killed another person. Don't get me wrong I love songs like "Who You'd Be Today" by Kenny Chesney, "Lucy" by Skillet, or even "Over You" by Miranda Lambert, as these are about personal stories. Songs like this and "Cassie" by Flyleaf are worse to me knowing that they are based on real stories of other people. For those who have never heard Cassie, it's a song about Cassie Bernall, a student at Columbine High School who was killed in the massacre that occurred there. Before she was killed, she was asked "Do you believe in God?", and when she said yes, she was shot. When I hear that people make these songs, it's does not sound like a tribute to the kid. To me it sounds like they want to tell how the kid died. I would not want to be known as the guy who got shot for believing in god.

On the other hand, It's kinda funny (as well as bleak). You can even see the singer (have no idea who he is or what his name is) put his hand up to his head in a "shot-yourself" motion. I have never seen the video before and I saw that on the first viewing. Some better editing or some re-filmed scenes would have made the video better censor wise.