On the song “Savages”: “I’m not a political person at all, but I am interested in society. And seeing rape culture explode over the past few years and be pretty much in the news every single day is sickening. It’s more about trying to start a conversation on why these things are in our human traits. Because they are natural to us even though it’s really hard to hear. No one wants to say that rape is natural, but it’s something that’s been embedded in us, and it’s horrendous. So that inspired that song.”
There's a song on the album called "Savages" about some particularly heavy subject matter. Where did that one come from?
For me, it's one of the most important songs on the record and the one that doesn't scream radio single, even though I hope it gets its own release. I was reading an article in the newspaper about the Boston bombing. The journalist said, "It's so hard to reconcile how one man can be running a charity race, while another man is building a bomb to blow this person up." That's how it started, and I think it was more a result about how these same kinds of news stories keep coming up day-in and day-out.
For example, the horrendous gang rape of a women in India started an onslaught of other rape stories because it was becoming relevant. Like most of us, I found it so hard to digest and what I wanted to write about in the song isn't condemning these things – even though they have to be condemned – but questioning why these things happen. This is something that is eons old, and it's more about how we deal with the fact that it's a natural, perhaps common trait in man. I think there needs to be another way to approaching this, rather than saying, "Chuck 'em in jail."
Rape is not natural, it is the opposite of natural. I can't believe I used to stan for this girl. Every time she speaks she says something more ignorant.
Rape is not natural, it is the opposite of natural. I can't believe I used to stan for this girl. Every time she speaks she says something more ignorant.
If it was not natural it wouldn't happen.
Just like murder and violence in general.
Rape is not natural, it is the opposite of natural. I can't believe I used to stan for this girl. Every time she speaks she says something more ignorant.
She means natural as an adjective, not a noun. Don't misconstrue the meaning of what she's saying
Stop worshipping this demon controlled woman. Turn that satanic box you call a television off and get on your knees and repent for watching the filth to Jesus Christ. He is the way the truth and the life. This is all mind control/sorcery witchcraft. Don't follow this woman she is on the path to the lake of fire. Turn to Jesus Christ. I love you all in Jesus name.
Trying to act like violence is not natural is cringeworthy.
Rape happens everywhere. In the most civilizated and in the least civilizated areas of the world.
It happens within humans and within animals. So yes, it's natural.
Rape is not natural, it is the opposite of natural. I can't believe I used to stan for this girl. Every time she speaks she says something more ignorant.
Did you read what she said in full?
Quote:
Natural adjectiveˈnatʃ(ə)r(ə)l/
In accordance with the nature of, or circumstances surrounding, someone or something. "sharks have no natural enemies"
Stop worshipping this demon controlled woman. Turn that satanic box you call a television off and get on your knees and repent for watching the filth to Jesus Christ. He is the way the truth and the life. This is all mind control/sorcery witchcraft. Don't follow this woman she is on the path to the lake of fire. Turn to Jesus Christ. I love you all in Jesus name.
She's basically saying it has been going on since the beginning of time, it's primitive. It's not something new, but even if it has been here since the beginning of time, it doesn't mean that doing it is right. It's still atrocious.
